Persistent Digital Identifiers (UIDs)
ORCID :
0000-0001-8084-9159
Job Type
Research
Institutional Management
Subject Area
Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Fisheries, Aquaculture
Marine Biotechnology, Marine Products
Research Support Services
Sea regions of study
Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
Skills
EQUIPMENT:
Pulse Amplitude Modulated fluorometer(PAM); High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC);
Gas Chromatograph (GC); Densitometer; YSI field data collector; Coulter counter; Microtome for histological samples preparation; Flow Cytometry;
Microscopy: inverted, confocal and epifluorescence.
ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES AND DATA COLLECTION:
Hydrophylic marine biotoxins extraction and purification from bivalves and phytoplankton samples; Domoic acid determination by HPLC-UV; PSP toxins determination by HPLC-FLD; Phytoplankton density (direct count or by Coulter counter results); Biometry (length and weight) of: fish eggs, adults and larvae, crustacean larvae, bivalves adults and larvae, rotifers, and Artemia nauplii; Egg quality evaluation by isolation and incubation in EIA plates; Double staining of bones and cartilages (alcian blue and alizarin red) of fish larvae; Microbial analysis: DAPI staining and plate count methods; Lipid analysis: extraction, preparation and purification of FAME, gas-liquid chromatography, estimation of lipid classes by HPTLC; Heat Shock Proteins 60 and 70 analysis by western blot; Carbohydrates and acid stable metabolites analysis; Histological preparations of tissues and double staining with Haematoxiline-Eosine.
Working language(s)
English
Spanish
French
Italian