Otavio S. Castro to speak at the upcoming Aquatic Asia conference

Otavio Serino Castro is the Global Species Manager –Aquaculture for Phileo by Lesaffre. He has over 15 years of experience in the animal nutrition and aquaculture sector working in technical and marketing positions in different segments such as NGO, academia, feed companies and biotechnological functional additives. 

He obtained a Master of Science degree in Tropical Marine Sciences from the Universidade Federal do Ceará in 2010 and a Master's in Business Administration in Marketing in 2014. On his current role at Phileo, Otavio is in charge of developing the global aquaculture portfolio strategy working in close collaboration with the R&D department for new products and applications development, and also develops programs using functional yeast additives in order to prevent disease, improve gut health in farming conditions, mitigate stress and improve zootechnical performances together with Phileo customers. 

Otavio S. Castro will be speaking about reducing pathogen pressure in the gut in aquaculture: 

• Disease outbreaks are a major concern to the aquaculture industry due to their negative economic and societal impacts.
• Therapeutic interventions using antibiotics and disinfectants are often required as an emergency measure, raising substantially the risks of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) development in microorganisms when proper diagnosis and treatments are not adopted.
• On the other hand, monitoring stress and pathogen pressure in aquaculture farming is a difficult task due to complex dynamics between the aquatic environment and the specificities of each production systems. To safeguard biosecurity, water quality and animal health, the industry has adopted and invested on new technologies such as vaccines, genetics, improved aquaculture practices, and environment remediation with probiotic bacteria. However, environmental microbiome disruptions happen even in relatively well controlled systems, negatively impacting fish and shrimp gut health. In this context, functional feed additives have emerged as an effective tool to further support fish and shrimp producers in their disease prevention strategies by enabling animals to preserve an improved gut structure and a more resilient and stable microbiota. In this session, Mr Otavio S. Castro from Phileo by Lesaffre will present results from research on the application of yeast postbiotics and probiotics as functional feed additives to improve gut functionality and microbiota. The presentation will explore different mode of actions and strategies of supplementation according to product characteristics, downstream processing and target applications in fish and shrimp.

Aquatic Asia is a one-day conference program featuring a variety of industry experts delivering brilliant presentations about the latest updates in both fish and shrimp nutrition. The event is set to take place September 6th, 2022, in Amber 3 Room at IMPACT, Bangkok. The conference will run from 10:00am to 16:00pm, with keynote speakers still to be confirmed.

For more information visit the website, HERE.

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