Dr Katheline Hua ~ Associate Professor/ Principal Research Fellow Aquaculture

Associate Professor Katheline Hua is an expert in aquaculture nutrition. She has extensive research experience in working with both warmwater and coldwater fish species.

Associate Professor Hua holds a PhD in Fish Nutrition from the University of Guelph, Canada. She worked at the University of Guelph as a Postdoc fellow and adjunct professor. Afterwards she worked as a Junior Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany before joining JCU. Her primary research interests are nutrient requirement and utilization of fish, optimal feed formulation, alternative sources to replace fish meal and fish oil, functional ingredients and feed additives. One of her expertise areas is nutritional modelling, exploring the synergy of empirical and modelling approaches to integrate and synthesize information related to optimal aquaculture feeds.

Associate Professor Hua has a solid track record of securing research funding to carry out basic and applied research. During her junior professorship at the Humboldt University of Berlin she was awarded research grants from two prestigious granting agencies in Germany: German Research Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

With her strong research interest in fostering sustainable aquaculture feeds to solve real world problems, Associate Professor Hua has also been leading a number of industry co-funded projects. She has been collaborating with several key players in global aquaculture feeds industry, which include top aquaculture feed producers, multinational feed additives and agri-food companies.

Associate Professor Hua is the lead PI of the red snapper nutrition project ($1.36 million) and a Co-PI of the feed supplement project ($1.33 million) under the Singapore Food Story (SFS) R&D Programme.

Areas of interest for prospective PhD students

Aquaculture Nutrition

Nutrigenomics 

Enquiries are welcome. Please submit a short cover (1 page max.) letter detailing your suitability and interest, academic transcript and a CV with contact details for two referees by email. 

 

Interests

Research

• Aquaculture, feeds, alternative ingredients, fish meal replacement, functional ingredients, feed additives, bioenergetics, nutrient management, nutritional modeling, digestibility, growth, nutrient deposition and partitioning

Research Disciplines

• Fisheries sciences (3005)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Hua K (2021) A meta-analysis of the effects of replacing fish meals with insect meals on growth performance of fish. Aquaculture, 530.
• Mangott A, Nappi J, Delli Paoli Carini A, Goncalves P, Hua K, Domingos J, de Nys R and Thomas T (2020) Ulva lactuca as a functional ingredient and water bioremediator positively influences the hepatopancreas and water microbiota in the rearing of Litopenaeus vannamei. Algal Research, 51.
• Hua K, Cobcroft J, Cole A, Condon K, Jerry D, Mangott A, Praeger C, Vucko M, Zeng C, Zenger K and Strugnell J (2019) The future of aquatic protein: implications for protein sources in aquaculture diets. One Earth, 1 (3). pp. 316-329
• Hua K and Bureau D (2019) Estimating changes in essential amino acid requirements of rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon as a function of body weight or diet composition using a novel factorial requirement model. Aquaculture, 513.
• Hua K, Suwendi E and Bureau D (2019) Effect of body weight on lysine utilization efficiency in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Aquaculture, 505. pp. 47-53
• Hua K, Koppe W and Fontanillas R (2019) Effects of dietary protein and lipid levels on growth, body composition and nutrient utilization of Channa striata. Aquaculture, 501. pp. 368-373
• Chowdhury M, Siddiqui S, Hua K and Bureau D (2013) Bioenergetics-based factorial model to determine feed requirement and waste output of tilapia produced under commercial conditions. Aquaculture, 410-411. pp. 138-147
• Hua K (2013) Estimating maintenance amino acids requirements of fish through a nonlinear mixed modelling approach. Aquaculture Research, 44 (4). pp. 542-553
• Hua K (2013) Investigating the appropriate mode of expressing lysine requirement of fish through non-linear mixed model analysis and multilevel analysis. British Journal of Nutrition, 109. pp. 1013-1021
• Sarker P, Bureau D, Hua K, Drew M, Forster I, Were K, Hicks B and Vandenberg G (2013) Sustainability issues related to feeding salmonids: a Canadian perspective. Reviews in Aquaculture, 5 (4). pp. 199-219
• Hua K and Bureau D (2012) Exploring the possibility of quantifying the effects of plant protein ingredients in fish feeds using meta-analysis and nutritional model simulation-based approaches. Aquaculture, 356-357. pp. 284-301
• Poppi D, Quinton V, Hua K and Bureau D (2011) Development of a test diet for assessing the bioavailability of arginine in feather meal fed to rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Aquaculture, 314 (1-4). pp. 100-109

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 23+ research outputs authored by Dr Katheline Hua from 2005 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Nutritional Requirement Study and Optimised Feed Development for Red Snapper (PhD , Primary Advisor)

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