About Us

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sitti Raehanah Binti Muhamad Shaleh

sittirae@ums.edu.my

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sitti Raehanah Binti Muhamad Shaleh is currently the Deputy Director (Research & Innovation) at the Borneo Marine Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. She obtained her PhD from UPM, Serdang and joined UMS as a lecturer in 2005. Her research interest is sustainable aquaculture and microalgae propagation.

Ms. Fadzillah Abd Razak

fadzillah.upm@gmail.com

Ms. Fadzillah is currently a Science Officer in the Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Her duties mainly focusing on management of research laboratories and organising various seminars related to marine science and aquaculture. She obtained her degree from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Conservation Biology and Ecology.

Mr. Lim Soom Mong

soom_mong@hotmail.com

Graduated from Laurentian University with B.A major in EconomicS in 1985. His involvement in aquaculture began in 1986 when he was hatchery supervisor with Lion-LKIM Aquafarms Sdn.Bhd. Two years later he established his own company, King’s Aquaculture Products, supplying various aquaculture products to government, university and the private sector.

Dr. Mazuki Hashim

mazuki@dof.gov.my

Dr Mazuki Hashim is formerly the Senior Director of Fisheries Biosecurity Division, Department of Fisheries Malaysia. Preveiously he was the Director of Aquaculture Development Division in the same department. He obtained his PhD from the National University of Malaysia and specialized his career in aquaculture development and planning, aquaculture program design and aquaculture development impact analysis and valuation. He has a number of published articles focusing on the policies and status of aquaculture development in Malaysia. He is now serving as the director and advisor to numbers of companies involves in aquaculture, fishing and fish processing. Due to his large connection with local industry, he would be pivotal in extending his expertice, knowladge and experience to benifit the society.

Dr. Natrah Fatin Mohd Ikhsan

natrah.ikhsan@gmail.com

Dr. Natrah is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She obtained her PhD from University of Ghent, Belgium, in Applied Biological Sciences (Aquaculture) where she was attached to Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center. Her research interests are in the areas of microbial ecology particularly on quorum sensing, microalgae and bacteria interaction in larviculture.

Dr. Low Chen Fei

low@ukm.edu.my

Dr. Low Chen-Fei is currently a Senior Lecturer/Research Felo in the Institute of Systems Biology (INBIOSIS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He obtained his PhD from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2015, studied on immunesurveillance of grouper fish using transcriptomic and proteomic approaches. His current research team focuses in marine bacterium, particularly Vibrio sp. as well as fish and shrimp nodaviruses as model pathogen. He is currently utilizing synthetic biology approach in virus functional genomic study, to manipulate virus genome for vaccine development. He is also working on synthetic biocompounds as prophylactic and therapeutic agents for virus infection in marine fish and freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii.

Dr. Chong Chou Min

choumin@upm.edu.my

Dr. Chong Chou Min was born in Pagoh, Muar. He obtained his PhD from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2014. Since then, he is pursuing his passion in research and teaching in Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia as a senior lecturer. His current research activities concern fish and shellfish immunology.

Mr. Abdullah bin Abd Rahim

coolprawn@gmail.com

Mr. Abdullah bin Abd Rahim is currently a Lecturer in the Aquaculture Department, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) since 2008. He has a BSc. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and M.Sc. in Fisheries from Auburn University, Alabama. Prior to this, Abdullah was trainer and aquaculture consultant. In 1986, Abdullah joined a shrimp farm in Johore as technician and from then on developed and managed several marine shrimp farms and a hatchery in the state of Selangor in the 1990s.

Dr. Mohd.Fariduddin Bin Othman

fariduddin@dof.gov.my

Dr. Mohd.Fariduddin Bin Othman has served with Department of Fisheries Malaysia for more than 30 years in aquaculture research. He is currently Director of Freshwater Aquaculture Research Division. He graduated with Bac.of Science (Fisheries) from University of Agricultural (UPM), Malaysia and obtained his Master and PhD from University of Science Malaysia (USM). He specialized in shrimp and prawns breeding and farming. He also master in aquaculture live food production and biotechnology related works. He leads and involved in several aquaculture task forces such as brood stock development program, aquaculture site study and system development and climate change impact study on aquaculture. He is currently a member of MARDI science council, FAO focal point on genetic aquatic resources, NCER aquaculture adviser and ABI-MOSTI referee. He is also a council member of Malaysia Fisheries Society and actively involved as aquaculture adviser, co-supervisor to post graduate students and provide talk on his major subject to aquaculture stake holders and target group as well as general public and graduate students.

Dr. Zuridah Merican

zuridah@aquaasiapac.com

Is the Editor/Publisher for the AquaCulture Asia Pacific Magazine since September 2004. Prior to this, she was editor of Asian Aquaculture and International Aquafeed Magazine, UK. She obtained her Ph.D. in shrimp nutrition from the National University of Singapore and M.Sc. aquaculture from Stirling University, Scotland. She was with the Malaysian Fisheries Department from 1977-1995.

Dr. Mohammad Noor Amal Azmai

mnamal@upm.edu.my

Dr. Mohammad Noor Amal Azmai was born in Kangar, Perlis. He obtained his PhD from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2012. Since then, he is pursuing his passion in research and teaching in Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia as a senior lecturer. His current research activities concern on epidemiology of streptococcosis and vibriosis in cultured fishes industry in Malaysia.

Prof. Najiah Binti Musa

najiah@umt.edu.my

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