Ms. Lovelyn Marie N. Naluaran bagged the Best Oral Presentation award at the 13th Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum (AFAF), held virtually from May 31 to June 2, 2022. A graduating student in MS in Fisheries major in Aquaculture of the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UP Visayas (UPV-CFOS), Naluaran’s paper entitled “Inhibitory Effects Against Luminous Vibrio, Vibrio harveyi of Predatory Bacteria, Bacteriovorax sp. In the Early Stages of Pacific Whiteleg Shrimp (Penaeus vannamei)” bested 35 other papers from around the globe in the Student Competition category. Her paper aims to isolate and utilize Bacteriovorax sp. as a biocontrol agent to inhibit Vibrio harveyi and total Vibrio in the larval stages of Pacific Whiteleg Shrimp, Penaeus vannamei. Mentored by Prof. Rex Ferdinand M. Traifalgar, Naularan said, “Bacteriovorax sp. are predatory bacteria under the Bdellovibrio and the like organisms (BALOs) group. These are predators of gram-negative bacteria whose mode of action was the direct killing of the pathogen by attaching and forming bdelloplasts.”

CFOS grad student bags Best Oral Presentation Award. (2022, June 21). Daily Guardian, p. 8.