Short Description (Company/ Institute)

The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) has its main campus located in Florianópolis, capital of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Founded on 18 December 1960 with the goal of promoting teaching, research and outreach, UFSC delivers free and public education and is placed among the best universities in Brazil and in Latin America.
UFSC’s mission is to produce, systematize, and socialize philosophical, scientific, artistic, and technological knowledge, broadening and deepening students’ education for the professional practice, critical thinking, and national and international solidarity with a view to building a just and democratic society and also guaranteeing quality of life.

Fields of activity, fields of research and development:

Reproduction and Larviculture

Production Technologies and Systems

Management and Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems

Nutrition and Feeding

Pathology and Health

The fields of research are related to basically all aquatic organisms (fresh water and marine fishes, ornamental marine fishes, seaweeds, microalgae, aquatic plants, marine shrimps, marine mollusks) in monoculture or in integrated muti-trofic aquaculture.

Main competences for international cooperation:

Cooperative research and development of products

Innovative process and products
Exchange of researchers and students

Promotion of courses and capacitation

Main fields of interest for international cooperation:

Integrated muti-trofic aquaculture: fishes, seaweeds, shrimp and aquatic plants

Aquaponics
Probiotics

Prebiotics

New ingredients for aquatic feed

References / examples of most relevant products and services:

POLI, MOISÉS ANGEL ; LEGARDA, Esmeralda Chamorro ; DE LORENZO, MARCO ANTÔNIO ; MARTINS, MATEUS ARANHA ; DO NASCIMENTO VIEIRA, FELIPE . Pacific white shrimp and Nile tilapia integrated in a biofloc system under different fish-stocking densities. AQUACULTURE, v. 498, p. 83-89, 2019.

RODRIGUES, MARYSOL SANTOS ; BOLÍVAR, NORHA ; LEGARDA, ESMERALDA CHAMORRO ; GUIMARÃES, ARIANE MARTINS ; GUERTLER, CRISTHIANE ; DO ESPÍRITO SANTO, CARLOS MANOEL ; MOURIÑO, José Luiz Pedreira ; SEIFFERT, Walter Quadros ; FRACALOSSI, DÉBORA MACHADO ; DO NASCIMENTO VIEIRA, FELIPE . Mannoprotein dietary supplementation for Pacific white shrimp raised in biofloc systems. AQUACULTURE, v. 488, p. 90-95, 2018.

CASTILHO-BARROS, LEONARDO ; ALMEIDA, FÁBIO H. ; HENRIQUES, MARCELO B. ; SEIFFERT, WALTER Q. . Economic evaluation of the commercial production between Brazilian samphire and whiteleg shrimp in an aquaponics system. AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL, v. 2, p. 1-10, 2018.

LEGARDA, ESMERALDA CHAMORRO ; BARCELOS, SUHELLEN SANTOS ; REDIG, JOSELLE CURSINO ; RAMÍREZ, NORHA CONSTANZA BOLÍVAR ; GUIMARÃES, ARIANE MARTINS ; SANTO, CARLOS MANOEL DO ESPÍRITO ; SEIFFERT, Walter Quadros ; VIEIRA, FELIPE DO NASCIMENTO . Effects of stocking density and artificial substrates on yield and water quality in a biofloc shrimp nursery culture. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ZOOTECNIA-BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE, v. 47, p. 1-7, 2018.

BOLIVAR, Norha Constanza ; LEGARDA, Esmeralda Chamorro ; SEIFFERT, Walter Quadros ; ANDREATTA, Edemar Roberto ; NASCIMENTO VIEIRA, FELIPE DO . Combining a probiotic with organic salts presents synergistic in vitro inhibition against aquaculture bacterial pathogens. BRAZILIAN ARCHIVES OF BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY, v. 61, p. 1-12, 2018.

SCHLEDER, DELANO DIAS ; PERUCH, LUIZ GUILHERME BUGLIONE ; POLI, MOISÉS ANGEL ; FERREIRA, TAMIRIS HENRIQUE ; SILVA, CARLOS PERES ; ANDREATTA, EDEMAR ROBERTO ; Hayashi, Leila ; DO NASCIMENTO VIEIRA, FELIPE . Effect of brown seaweeds on Pacific white shrimp growth performance, gut morphology, digestive enzymes activity and resistance to white spot virus. AQUACULTURE, v. 495, p. 359-365, 2018.

PINHEIRO, I. C. ; Arantes, R. ; Lapa, K. R. ; VIERA, F. N. ; BARCELOS, J. ; FETT, Roseane ; GONZAGA, L. ; SEIFFERT, W. Q. . Production of the halophyte Sarcocornia ambigua and Pacific white shrimp in an aquaponic system with biofloc technology. Ecological Engineering, v. 100, p. 261-267, 2017

Schleder, Delano Dias ; DA ROSA, JULIANA RIBEIRO ; GUIMARÃES, ARIANE MARTINS ; RAMLOV, FERNANDA ; MARASCHIN, MARCELO ; SEIFFERT, Walter Quadros ; DO NASCIMENTO VIEIRA, FELIPE ; HAYASHI, LEILA ; ANDREATTA, Edemar Roberto . Brown seaweeds as feed additive for white-leg shrimp: effects on thermal stress resistance, midgut microbiology, and immunology. Journal of Applied Phycology, v. 1, p. 1-7, 2017.

LA MACCHIA PEDRA, ANNA GABRIELLE ; RAMLOV, FERNANDA ; MARASCHIN, MARCELO ; Hayashi, Leila . Cultivation of the red seaweed Kappaphycus alvarezii with effluents from shrimp cultivation and brown seaweed extract: Effects on growth and secondary metabolism. AQUACULTURE, v. 479, p. 297-303, 2017.

PALLAORO, MARIANE FONTOURA ; DO NASCIMENTO VIEIRA, FELIPE ; Hayashi, Leila . Ulva lactuca (Chlorophyta Ulvales) as co-feed for Pacific white shrimp. Journal of Applied Phycology, v. 28, p. 3659-3665, 2016.