04-07-16

First video conference of the project held at 0900 UK (BST), 1330 India, 1400 Bangladesh where the following details were discussed:

1) Introduction, welcome, confirmation of connections

2) Status of Consortium agreement

3) Confirmation of target species:

4) Growing season to target for fish and crustaceans in India and Bangladesh?

What can be done in farms this year?

When do we need to be in India/Bangladesh? Who needs to be in country?

5) Overview of initial tasks – with the aim to establish direct links between work groups to take forward.

Task 1 – farmer surveys in Bangladesh and India;

Task 2 – epidemiology;

Task 3 – transcriptome and environment outcome infections;

6) Face to face meeting of whole network– India – when? VISAs

7) Website