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New Zealand
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R&D Aquaculture Scientist | Fish Health | Physiology | Immunology | Scientific & Academic Writting.

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing
Research Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection
Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization
Work Experience

Aquatic Animal Health Graduate Researcher

Auckland University of Technology

April 2017 - September 2022

Research Officer

National Agricultural Research Organisation

March 2015 - April 2021

Expert Aquatic Sciences Trainer

University of Rwanda

December 2012 - December 2014

Expert Aquaculture Trainer and Research Supervisor

Mountains of the Moon University

February 2011 - November 2011

Education

PhD (School of Science, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences)

Aukland University of Technology

April 2017 - September 2022

Masters Degree, Aquaculture (Animal Production)

Ghent University

October 2008 - October 2010

Msc. Aquaculture (Animal Production)

Universiteit Gent

September 2008 - September 2010

Bachelors Degree, Fisheries and Aquaculture (Zoology)

Makerere University

September 2001 - April 2005

Certifications
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ronald Lulijwa, Andrea C. Alfaro, Tim Young(2022). Metabolomics in salmonid aquaculture research: Applications and future perspectives . Reviews in Aquaculture. Wiley
Lulijwa, R., Andrea C. Alfaro, Tim Young (2022). Metabolomics in salmonid aquaculture research: Applications and future perspectives . Reviews in Aquaculture.
Ronald Lulijwa, Andrea C. Alfaro, Leonie Venter, Tim Young, Paul Decker, Fabrice Merien, Jill Meyer (2022). Haematological and metabolic profiles of brooder giant kokopu, Galaxias argenteus (Gmelin 1789) based on sex and temperature . Aquaculture Research.
Ronald Lulijwa, Andrea C. Alfaro, Tim Young, Leonie Venter, Paul Decker, Fabrice Merien, Jill Meyer (2021). Effect of anticoagulants on farmed giant kokopu, Galaxias argenteus (Gmelin 1789) haematological parameters and erythrocyte fragility . Journal of Fish Biology.
Ronald Lulijwa, Andrea C. Alfaro, Leonie Venter, Tim Young, Paul Decker, Fabrice Merien, Jill Meyer (2021). Haematological and metabolic profiles associated with age and sex in giant kokopu (Galaxias argenteus) (Gmelin 1789) broodstock . Journal of Fish Biology.
Ronald Lulijwa, Andrea C. Alfaro, Fabrice Merien, Mark Burdass, Jill Meyer, Leonie Venter, Tim Young (2020). Polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid in vivo enhances Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) immunity and alters the fish metabolome . Aquaculture International.
Siming Li, Andrea C. Alfaro, Thao V. Nguyen, Tim Young, Ronald Lulijwa (2020). An integrated omics approach to investigate summer mortality of New Zealand Greenshell™ mussels . Metabolomics.
Ronald Lulijwa, Emmanuel Joseph Rupia, Andrea C. Alfaro (2020). Antibiotic use in aquaculture, policies and regulation, health and environmental risks: a review of the top 15 major producers . Reviews in Aquaculture.
Ronald Lulijwa, Andrea C. Alfaro, Fabrice Merien, Mark Burdass, Jill Meyer, Leonie Venter, Tim Young (2020). Metabolic and immune responses of Chinook salmon (<scp><i>Oncorhynchus tshawytscha</i></scp>) smolts to a short‐term poly (I:C) challenge . Journal of Fish Biology.
Ronald Lulijwa, Andrea C. Alfaro, Fabrice Merien, Jill Meyer, Tim Young (2019). Advances in salmonid fish immunology: A review of methods and techniques for lymphoid tissue and peripheral blood leucocyte isolation and application . Fish & Shellfish Immunology.
Ronald Lulijwa, Andrea C. Alfaro, Fabrice Merien, Mark Burdass, Leonie Venter, Tim Young (2019). In vitro immune response of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) peripheral blood mononuclear cells stimulated by bacterial lipopolysaccharide . Fish & Shellfish Immunology.
Tim Young, Seumas P. Walker, Andrea C. Alfaro, Lauren M. Fletcher, J. Sam Murray, Ronald Lulijwa, Jane Symonds (2019). Impact of acute handling stress, anaesthesia, and euthanasia on fish plasma biochemistry: implications for veterinary screening and metabolomic sampling . Fish Physiology and Biochemistry.
Ronald Lulijwa, Andrea C. Alfaro, Fabrice Merien, Mark Burdass, Tim Young, Jill Meyer, Thao V. Nguyen, Caroline Trembath (2019). Characterisation of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) blood and validation of flow cytometry cell count and viability assay kit . Fish & Shellfish Immunology.
Thao V. Nguyen, Andrea C. Alfaro, Fabrice Merien, Ronald Lulijwa, Tim Young(2018). Copper-induced immunomodulation in mussel (Perna canaliculus) haemocytes . Metallomics. 10. (7). p. 965--978. Royal Society of Chemistry ({RSC})
Lulijwa, R. (2018). Aquaculture production and its contribution to development in the Rwenzori region Uganda . African Journal of Tropical Hydrobiology and Fisheries.
Lulijwa Ronald, Gilbert Van Stappen, Nguyen Van Hoa, Patrick Sorgeloos (2014). Effect of carbon/nitrogen ratio manipulation in feed supplements on Artemia production and water quality in solar salt ponds in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam . Aquaculture Research.