International aquaculture breeding and distribution company GenoMar Genetics has made Thea Luz Pineda its new breeding manager for the Asia Pacific region.
At GenoMar’s breeding centre in the Philippines, she is tasked with ensuring the company’s tilapia strain is developed as planned and that the centre can meet the internal and external demand for fingerlings.
For the past six years, Pineda has been working at GenoMar Supreme Tilapia in the Philippines; first as a research assistant and then as senior research assistant, with the latter giving her responsibility for all laboratory experiments, fish health management, providing technical works and supervising field trials.
“I believe that passion, dedication and hard work are essential to achieve progress in research and development. This is the foundation of the ability to supply high quality fingerlings with the best possible traits to the farmers. Every new generation of tilapia we make in our breeding programme must possess better traits with respect to growth, health, and fillet quality than the previous generation” she said.
Pineda graduated with academic distinction during her bachelor’s degree in biology at Central Luzon State University, Philippines. During that time, her thesis focused on the cytotoxicity and toxicity level of the fungus Chaetomium globosum nanoparticles to Nile tilapia.
She is finalising her master’s degree in aquaculture at the same university.
