Currently, I am working as a senior post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Kurt Gamperl at Memorial University, where we are investigating the impact of climate change on salmon aquaculture (project titled “Mitigating the Impact of Climate-Related Challenges on Salmon Aquaculture”). This is a multi-institutional (Memorial, University of Prince Edward Island, University of Waterloo and University of Guelph) research program that is looking at the effects of environmental conditions on the physiology, behavior and immunology of farmed salmon, with the goals of: developing mitigation strategies and tools for better assessing fish health; improving vaccine formulations; and selecting broodstock that are more resistant to both pathogens and environmental stressors. In this research, we have determined the lethal and sublethal environmental limits of current salmon stocks, and are now developing functional and diagnostic assays for assessing fish health and vaccine / treatment efficacy. This project is a highly integrated research program, which uses a variety of different approaches (respirometry, assessments of cardiac function, functional genomics, and metabolic, immune and stress measurements) to identify potential biomarkers of temperature and hypoxia tolerance, and immune function, in salmon, and then develops ELISA assays for functional proteins that would be of use to both aquaculture researchers and the industry itself.