Gabriela Ojeda is head of the Scientific Culture Unit at IIM-CSIC, PhD in Humanities, MA in Scientific, Medical and Environmental Communication and BSc in Biology. She has experience in European Responsible Research and Innovation projects. She has coordinated online science and art activities (Ilustrar o mar con Lula Goce, 2020) and participated in projects for the promotion of STEM vocations (FameLab Wales, 2018; Incrústate, 2019) and outreach events (Open Science Cambre and Día da Ciencia na Rúa, 2019).

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Department: Scientific Culture Unit

Category: Scientific Culture

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Jaime Amaro is responsible for Communications at the UCC of the IIM-CSIC. Master in Science Communication & Public Engagement, he has collaborated in A Ciencia do Mexillón, Arela de Mar, Ilustrar o mar con Lula Goce, Safaris Submarinos, or Green Science 4 the Ocean. She has experience in planning practical activities (Leith Labs, 2018-2019; Punto Científico San Pedro, 2019), lecture series (Pint of Science - Edinburgh, 2018) and guiding school groups (Parque Nacional Illas Atlánticas).

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Department: Scientific Culture Unit

Category: Scientific Culture

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Susi Piñeiro has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and a Master in Professional Multimedia Journalism. Since April 2021 she work as technical support for audiovisuals at the Scientific Culture Unit of the CSIC Mariñas Research Institute, in Vigo.

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Department: Scientific Culture Unit

Category: Scientific Culture

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Specialist Technician in Analysis and Basic Processes (Chemistry), since 1997 and Senior Technician in Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory (Sanitary) since 2002. In 2001 I joined the Fisheries Ecology team at the CSIC Marine Research Institute in Vigo. Since 2013, I am a Career Civil Servant as a Research Assistant at OPIs. In recent years I have been the Responsible for the determination of microscopic maturity of fish, with special responsibility for cod and redfish in the framework of the Flemish Cap project. In 2020 I joined the UCC+i as Technical Support Staff.

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Department: Scientific Culture Unit

Category: Scientific Culture

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Lucía Sánchez Ruiloba has a Biochemistry and a Science PhD done at the Autonomous Univesity of Madrid. Since 2010 she works as graduate specializing in Optical Microscopy & Image Analyses at Institute of Marine Research-CSIC (IIM-CSIC). She had been head of Optical and Confocal Microscopy Service at Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols" until 2017. Since then, she is head of Optical Microscopy & Image Analyses Service at IIM-CSIC. Her professional development has been directed to scientific and technical problem solving taking microscopy and image analyses as the main tool. Her aims at work are acquire lifelike images and do an accurate analysis of them. She has a background as a professor, imparting specialized courses of Microscopy & Image Analyses around some universities, also in specialized courses for the CSIC staff. She is the Scientific-Technical Support Unit’s coordinator, whose mission is to provide scientific and technical advice and services to the Institute’s research groups. Most of them offer their capabilities to any public and private organizations that request them. She likes to participate in scientific dissemination activities to share her scientific knowledge with society. 

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Department: Optical Microscopy & Image Analyses Service

Category: Optical Microscopy & Image Analyses

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I'm a geneticist and evolutionary biologist, interested in the adaptive potential to global change in marine species. I did my Ph.D. at the Autonomous University of Barcelona researching molecular evolution theories. Then, I had my first post-doctoral experience at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, mainly in comparative genomics in primates. After that, I moved to the Balearic Islands and work in marine conservation, which has become my passion. In 2019 I went to Hong Kong to work in transcriptomics and genetics applied to fish conservation at the Hong Kong University and Swire Institute of Marine Science. Currently, I enjoy a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship with the project FishAdapt to research the adaptive potential of exploited fish species to climate change at IIM-CSIC in Vigo.

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Department: Marine Life & Ecosystems

Category: Marine Life & Ecosystems

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Adrian Martinez Fernandez. Environmentalologist and Oceanographer (Degree in Environmental Sciences at University of León (2014-2018) and Interuniversity Master in Oceanography at the University of Vigo (2018-2019)) enthusiast of scientific dissemination and communication, trained in this field through the Double Course of Educator and Marine Interpreter + Environmental Education Technician (2020). He began his professional career as a technician at the Institute of Marine Research (IIM-CSIC) in the Radar On Raia project carrying out Lagrangian validations of HF Radar measurements, data processing, preparation of oceanographic instruments and conducting experiments, after which he joins his current position within the STRAUSS project where, in addition to developing his work as a technician (data processing, preparation of oceanographic instruments, carrying out experiments...), he directs and carries out the communication of the STRAUSS project and the school workshop participating at Ocean Night project

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Department: Oceanic Processes in Global Change

Category: Oceanic & Coastal Systems

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Miguel Gil Coto, is an oceanographer (Graduate in 1996, and Doctor in 2004, in Sea Science) who carries out his research work as Senior Scientist at the IIM-CSIC (2009). His curriculum is mainly focused on physical oceanography with a multidisciplinary approach that he began, during his PhD, using inverse methods to combine physical and biogeochemical observations to study the estuary dynamics of the Ría de Vigo and its forcing by coastal upwelling. He currently continues to investigate both physical oceanographic processes and their coupling with biogeochemical processes, as well as the techniques and technologies necessary to carry out these studies.

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Department: Oceanic Processes in Global Change

Category: Oceanic & Coastal Systems

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Elsa Silva Caride (Higher Technician in Analysis and Control and Environmental Chemistry) works as a technician at the Marine Research Institute. She began her professional career at the Seafood Chemistry and Seafood Technology groups with participation in various projects related to the seafood food industry. Subsequently, she joined the group of Ecophysiology, biomarkers and sustainable management of bivalves (EsMaBa) where she specialized in working with mussels with participation in various projects such as STRAUSS, where she is currently working on the implementation of non-invasive high-frequency technology for the characterization of mussel valvometry. Enthusiast of scientific communication, she participates in the school workshops framed in the STRAUSS project and carries out her own with her puppet "Don Mussel".

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Department: Oceanic Processes in Global Change

Category: Oceanic & Coastal Systems

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Marine Science student at the University of Vigo. Having grown up in a coastal town and belonging to a family of fishermen led him to strengthen very strong ties from an early age with the sea and the mountains. His passion for the sea, developed through the practice of diving (Advanced Open Water Diver) and apnea led him to take a degree in Marine Sciences and later also to train as a recreational boat skipper (PER). In his desire to transmit his interest and raise awareness among the youngest through environmental education, he carries out his professional practices at the Institute of Marine Research (IIM-CSIC) with the aim of training in this field. During these practices he develops  of the STRAUSS research project school workshop, with which he collaborates in this project.

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Department: Oceanic Processes in Global Change

Category: Oceanic & Coastal Systems

Alejandro Romero has PhD in Marine Biology by the University of Santiago de Compostela and nowadays he balance his PostDoc research with his work as Research Support Technician in Inmunology & Genomics Group at IIM-CSIC. 

His background as a scientific includes trainings at Norwegian School of Veterinary Medicine (Oslo) and UAB University (Barcelona). He is author of 43 journal articles at SCI Journals which have a 23 h-index. He directed 2 Doctoral Thesis and 6 final Degree, Master and Internships’ Thesis. He participated in 17 statal research projects and 7 European projects involved in fishes and molluscs’ innate immunity. He currently collaborate as a reviewer with some international journals and he also is a ‘ISJ’, ‘MDPI-Life’ and ‘Frontieres in Cellular and Infection Microbiology’ editor member. His main interests are focused on the comparative study of bacterial and viral infections’ fishes and molluscs innate immunity responses against to understand the immunity mechanisms that participates on this response. He is working on this aim using an multidisciplinar approach using mollecular biology technics, flow cytometry and microscopy mixed with transcriptomic analysys.

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Department: Immunology & Genomics

Category: Marine Life & Ecosystems

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María Blanco Comesaña’s work is approach to the study of some marine biomass primary materies expoitation and valorization wasted or used to obtain little valued commercial products, as discards and subproducts from fisheries activity. Her work is focused on collagen extraction, isolation and biochemistry characterization. She is interested on the study of the collagen biomolecule main differences present in distinct species and raw material biochemistry and structural to develop specific application on diverse fields as tissue regeneration or cosmetic. She also works studying other marine biomass components that includes bioactives, chitin, pigments or digestive enzymes.

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Department: Food Biochemistry

Category: Biological Systems & Processes

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I’m a marine biologist curious about animal behaviour and biodiversity. My research focuses on understanding how animal behaviour mediates ecological and evolutionary processes in wild marine populations, through three research lines: 1. Individual variation in behaviour and conservation: most of my research in the last years has focused on understanding the differences in life-history and behavioural traits among individuals of a population. For instance, I have investigated the life-history differences between colour morphs in the ballan wrasse, Labrus bergylta. This is a very interesting case study, as in part of the distribution area of the species, plain and spotted individuals live in sympatry but display strikingly different reproductive and growth strategies. I have been also interested in differences in behaviour of fish in the wild. Why do some individuals consistently move more than others? I have been investigating this aspects in a Norwegian fjord where many individuals of cod, pollach and seatrout have been tracked for years now. 2. Marine reserves science: marine reserves are places where fishing is regulated or forbidden (non-take areas), so they represent islands where individuals are subject to reduced or no fishing mortality. Intuitively, individuals living inside marine reserves will experience increased fitness as compared to individuals living outside them. I’m interested in understanding how animal behaviour influences protection: do individuals or species that move more get less protection? Can we use information on the spatial ecology to improve the design of marine reserves?. I’m also interested in how protection influences animal behaviour through selection and evolutionary processes. Can marine reserves increase the fitness of lazy individuals?. 3. Marine biodiversity and speciation: I’m curious about biodiversity, and how species emerge in the ocean, where few absolute barriers exist. Using the ballan wrasse case study, I’m investigating the role of body colour in sympatric speciation processes. I combine genomics with field observations to understand if the two morphotypes mate assortatively and what is the genetic footprint. Do they represent two incipient species?

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Department: Marine Ecology & Resources

Category: Marine Life & Ecosystems

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One of my main lines of research is focused on investigating how some environmental parameters, mainly derived from climate change, can affect the immune response of mollusc species of high interest for Galician aquaculture. I am also interested in the identification, characterization and functional analysis of the molecular bases (genes and proteins) involved in the immune response to stressors (biotic, abiotic and xenobiotic) in mollusk culture, both from established and new species.

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Department: Marine Molecular Pathobiology

Category: Oceanic & Coastal systems, Marine Life & Ecosystems and Biological Systems & Processes

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Research Assistant in the group of Oceanic Processes on Global Change of the IIM-CSIC. PhD in Marine Sciences and Superior Technician in Education and Environmental Control. She has worked in the Marine Geochemistry group of the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Vigo and since 2009 at the IIM-CSIC. She collaborates on environmental awareness activities through the "Manifiesto Océano" initiative and has participated in dissemination events promoted by the IIM-CSIC ("Feira do Océano" fair, "De Bouzas a Ríos", Exper-i- science and "Son Oceanógraf@" workshops, etc.).

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Department: Ocean Processes in Global Change

Category: Oceanic & Coastal Systems

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Higher Technician in Technical and Professional Activities in the Marine Products Microbiology and Technology group (MICROTEC) since 2007.

I work on research projects with the aim of improving the quality and food safety of fish and shellfish, ensuring sustainability and mitigating the impacts of climate change and other drivers, such as population migration and excessive growth.

My work in food security is currently focused on the sociobiology of the biofilms that harbor Listeria monocytogenes and deals with aspects related to genetics, microscopy and the ecology of these communities. In addition, I study the interactions within these mixed communities, both within and between species, to contribute to the design of effective, goal-specific, environmentally friendly protocols for antibiofilm sanitation.

I have participated in outreach activities such as Kleid@labs, Exper-i-Ciencia, Oceans Day and the Day of Women and Girls in Science.

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Department: Microbiology & Technology of Marine Products and Biological Systems & Processes

Category: Oceanic & Coastal Systems

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Degree in Biology from the University of Vigo and MSc in Nutrition from the Faculty of Sciences of Ourense. In 2008, she began working at ICTAN-CSIC as technical service and research support staff. Since 2010, she has been part of the Marine Ecology and Resources Group, working as a Specialized Technician in the study of the microbiota associated with marine cultures, with special interest in the isolation, selection and identification of probiotic bacteria through the application of advanced techniques in microbiology and molecular biology.

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Department: Marine Ecology & Resources

Category: Oceanic & Coastal Systems

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My research interest is mainly focused on different activities to advance in the science-based fisheries management for cephalopod species addressing key ecological traits, such as spatial ecology (species distribution models), trophic relationships (stable isotopes analysis, molecular techniques) and behaviour in wild (in situ observations by scuba diving). Such research key points will allow to estimate essential life-history traits (trophic ecology, movement, abundance, mortality, habitat preference, predation) of cephalopods, improving the understanding of factors that affects the long-term sustainability of these socioeconomic important resources. This research will allow solving some of the main ecological unknowns in cephalopods of commercial interest in the wild to advance towards an ecosystem approach for the management of these resources, as well as using the acquired knowledge to enhance the aquaculture of these species.

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Department: Marine Ecology & Resources

Category: Oceanic & Coastal Systems

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