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PhD Candidate The Norwegian College of Fishery Science ying.wang@uit.no Tromsø You can find me here

Ying Wang

Job description

My research project mainly focuses on analyzing the nutrient content of marine low-trophic level species, like micro- and macro-algae, copepods (e.g. Calanus finmarchicus) and mesopelagic fish, and try to discover any bioactive component they contain. 

  • Ying Wang, Karl-Erik Eilertsen, Edel O. Elvevoll, Mari Johannessen Walquist :
    Assessing the efficiency of ethyl acetate for lipid extraction as an alternative to the Folch method in selected marine low-trophic species
    Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society 2025 DOI

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    Research interests

    • nutrient content (protein - amino acids, lipid - free fatty acids, water and ash)
    • bioactive component and bioactivity analyses (cell-based assays)
    • in vitro assay 
    • isolation of bioactive components
    • optimization of lipid extraction protocols aimed for different sample raw materials
    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7606-5095

    Member of research group

    Seafood Science   Norsk innhold

    Member of project

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