The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) will award a lifetime achievement award to shrimp pathologist Donald Lightner at the upcoming GOAL conference in Paris, France.
He will accept the award on Wednesday, Oct. 9.
Lightner is a shrimp and finfish pathologist in the University of Arizona’s School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, and he directs the Aquaculture Pathology Diagnostic Laboratory, a World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)-reference laboratory for shrimp diseases.
His research deals with virology, histology, toxicology, electron microscopy and other tools for use in disease diagnosis, pathogen characterization and treatment.
