Priadi is working as a sandwich PhD student at the Animal Breeding and Genetics group. His research is focused around the tilapia breeding program. He works as a researcher in Research Institute for Fish Breeding (RIFB), Indonesia. His responsibilities as a researcher in RIFB is to develop a novel breeding strategy that could be applied to produce salinity tolerant tilapia for brackish water ponds

Project: Development of an improved breeding scheme to increase salinity tolerance in Tilapia

WUR and RIFB (Research Institute for Fish Breeding) are conducting fish breeding program for salinity tolerant tilapia in Indonesia. The objective of this project is to develop an optimised breeding strategy to improve growth rate and survival of tilapia in brackish water ponds under fluctuating and unpredictable salinities and also to assess the economic contribution of genetically improved tilapia. The bio-economic model will be used to calculate economic values for genetic gain in growth rate and survival for tilapia in brackish water environments.