Dr. Brian Dixon

Dr. Brian Dixon

Professor & Canada Research Chair
Department of Biology
University of Waterloo

Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 32665
Email: dixon@uwaterloo.ca
Website: Dixon Research Group

Dr. Dixon is a world leader in fish immunology. He collaborates extensively with the aquaculture industry globally to apply the results of his research to improve fish health.

GEN-FISH funding will allow Dixon and his graduate students to validate eDNA detection with their fish immune functional assays in order to develop tools that will predict the health.

With increasing threats to the aquatic environment, it is essential that we also evolve our technologies to identify issues and potential solutions quickly.

Lester Anoquot & Greg NadjiwonChiefs, Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation

[S]tands out as one of the most exciting and integrated proposals I have read for some time.

Ontario GenomicsReview Panel

One of the first Academic proposals I have seen in a while that could provide really clear benefits for the management of fish in BC

A. ClarkeFreshwater Fisheries Society of BC