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Kjersti T. Fjalestad (47) is employed as a Research Geneticist in Aqua Gen from February 1. 2008.

Kjersti has her education and doctorate from University of Life Sciences (UMB) and comes from a position as research scientist in the Fishery Association. She was involved there in building up the national cod selective breeding program and in the research activity related to that. She has a wide experience with genetics and selective breeding in fish. She was employed 15 years at Akvaforsk where she did her doctorate in selective breeding in order to increase disease resistance in salmon. Later she was Project Leader for several Norwegian and international research projects in this discipline, and also in at the beginning of the selective breeding program for different aquaculture species.

Kjersti will be located at Hamar together with Aqua Gen's other research scientists. Much of her activity will be directly related to selective breeding in salmon and rainbow trout, but she will also be engaged in Aqua Gen's many research projects.