The next webinar in the series of WebCEPD will be given by Dr Nicky Buller who is the senior microbiologist at the Animal Health Laboratories, Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia where she has worked for over 20 years. She is the author of "Bacteria and Fungi from Fish and Other Aquatic Animals; A Practical Identification Manual."
This presentation will cover culture techniques and identification of bacteria from fish and other aquatic animals. Topics covered include collection of samples, collection and transport with an emphasis for remote areas; culture requirements for bacteria from freshwater, brackish and marine sources including use of NaCl, sea salts and incubation temperature; the advantages and disadvantages of different bacterial identification systems including conventional biochemical identification methods, use of the API systems and Vitek from Biomerieux, Biolog, and MALDI-TOF (matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation time of flight mass spectrometry. Molecular techniques for identification of particular bacteria will be discussed briefly.
You can register for this webinar by clicking on this link. Once registered you will receive email reminders for the time and date. As usual the webinar will be recorded and if registered you will receive an email informing you of this once the recording is available - usually a few days after the webinar. For those of you wishing to gain CEPD credits by completing the Knowledge Skills Assessment (KSA) there will be a charge. There is a substantial discount for this if you are a WAVMA member.