Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
I am an aquatic epidemiologist who uses statistical and mathematical models to get insight into the interactions between environment, host and pathogen in aquaculture systems, with the goal to deliver evidence based information that can improve health management, mitigate disease and mortality, and improve sustainability of the sector.
Projects
Current
2018 - 2022: SAIC "Gill health in Scottish farmed salmon"
2021 – 2026: H2020 “Data-driven control and prioritisation of non-EU-regulated contagious animal diseases (DECIDE)”
Previous (selected):
2019 – 2020: SG “Understanding the Relative Cost-effectiveness of Sea-lice Treatments for Farmed Salmon Production”
2014 – 2015: CERC & Innov PEI “Description and quantification of mortality in finfish marine aquaculture in Northern Vietnam”
2014 – 2015: CERC “Description and quantification of mortality in red tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) cultured in close proximity to Pangasius (Pangasius hypophthalmus) aquaculture systems in Ben Tre province, Mekong Delta, Vietnam”
Supervision
2020 MSc student. “Satellite Image Classification for Scottish Salmon Farms” with University of Strathclyde, UK.
2020 MSc student. “Time series analysis on the effect of environmental factors on monthly mortality and histology indicators of gill health” with Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
2018 – 2021 PhD student. “Microbiome and gill health” with University of Glasgow, UK.
2018 MSc student. “Text Processing” with University of Stirling, UK.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Transmission and control of fish-born zoonotic trematodes in aquaculture, Wageningen University & Research
10 Jan 2007 → 3 Jul 2013
Award Date: 3 Jul 2013
Master, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Wageningen University & Research
1 Sept 2002 → 31 Aug 2007
Award Date: 31 Aug 2007
Bachelor, Animal Sciences, Wageningen University & Research
1 Sept 2001 → 31 Aug 2002
Award Date: 31 Aug 2002
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Molecular Epidemiology Of Neoparamoeba Perurans, Causative Agent Of Amoebic Gill Disease (agd) In Farmed Salmonids
Boerlage, A. (Supervisor) & Dagen, S. (PhD Student)
1/10/23 → 30/09/27
Project: PhD project
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UK Seafood Fund: Skills and Training Scheme
Thomson, M. (PI), Boerlage, A. (CoI), Humphry, R. (CoI), Lawton, S. (CoI), Landeryou, T. (CoI) & Soutar, R. (CoI)
1/03/23 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
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RESAS 22-27: SRUC-a2-2 Zoonoses And Emerging Diseases.
Lawton, S. (PI), Whyte, F. (CoI), Khattak, F. (CoI), Baughan, J. (CoI), Tongue, S. (CoI), Boerlage, A. (CoI), Galgano, S. (CoI), Rodrigues da Costa, M. (CoI), Khalid, Z. (CoI), Denniston, J. (CoI), Athanasiadou, S. (CoI), Nale, J. (CoI) & Landeryou, T. (CoI)
Scottish Government: Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services
1/04/22 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
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Data-driven control and prioritisation of non-EU-regulated contagious animal diseases (DECIDE)
Boerlage, A. (CoI) & Gunn, G. (PI)
1/04/21 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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Further developing a zooplankton challenge model for Atlantic salmon
Boerlage, A. (PI), Landeryou, T. (Researcher), Thompson, K. (PI), Roy, W. (PI), Pflaum, S. (PI), Rodger, H. (PI) & Modepalli, V. (PI)
1/04/23 → 31/10/24
Project: Research
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Monitoring monthly mortality of maricultured Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in Scotland I. Dynamic linear models at production cycle level
Merca, C., Boerlage, A., Kristensen, A. & Jensen, D., 2024, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 11, 1436755.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Sea lice management measures for farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Scotland: Costs and effectiveness
Boerlage, A., Shrestha, S., Leinonen, I., Jansen, M. D., Revie, C. W., Reeves, A. & Toma, L., 15 Feb 2024, In: Aquaculture. 580, 1, 740274.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile6 Citations (Scopus)103 Downloads (Pure) -
Agile training to help enable standardisation of phytoplankton sampling and gross gill terminology across the Scottish sector
Costa, J., Couto-Phoenix, J., Boerlage, A., Thomson, M. & Soutar, R., 25 Oct 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Open AccessFile25 Downloads (Pure) -
Analysing hyperplasia in Atlantic salmon gills using empirical wavelets
Carmichael, A. F. B., Baily, J. L., Reeves, A., Ochoa, G., Boerlage, A. S., Gunn, G., Allshire, R. & Bhowmik, D., 6 Apr 2023, (First published) Medical Imaging 2023: Digital and Computational Pathology. Tomaszewski, J. E. & Ward, A. D. (eds.). SPIE, 124710I. (Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 12471).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Artificial Intelligence can assist diagnosis of hyperplasia in Atlantic Salmon Gill Histology Images
Carmichael, A., Baily, J., Reeves, A., Ochoa, G., Boerlage, A., Turnbull, J., Gunn, G., Allshire, R. & Bhowmik, D., 28 Nov 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Datasets
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Monitoring Scottish salmon mortality - Production cycle level DLMs
Merca, C. (Creator), Boerlage, A. (Creator), Kristensen, A. (Creator) & Jensen, D. (Creator), Zenodo, 5 Feb 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10617901, https://zenodo.org/records/10617901
Dataset
Activities
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Data tools in Aquaculture
Boerlage, A. (Speaker)
2 Apr 2024 → 3 Apr 2024Activity: Talk, evidence or presentation types › Invited talk
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Using data to support day-to-day health management of farmed Atlantic salmon
Boerlage, A. (Speaker)
5 Mar 2024 → 6 Mar 2024Activity: Talk, evidence or presentation types › Invited talk
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Evidence-based insights into test characteristics of common tests for AGD and CGD
Boerlage, A. (Speaker)
15 Mar 2023 → 16 Mar 2023Activity: Talk, evidence or presentation types › Invited talk
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Gill Health Initiative 2023
Boerlage, A. (Organiser)
25 Oct 2023 → 26 Oct 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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3rd International conference on Aquatic Animal Epidemiology (AquaEpi III)
Boerlage, A. (Organiser)
29 Nov 2023 → 1 Dec 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...