Microorganisms publication links culture density and oxygen availability to gilthad sea bream microbiome diversity

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A recent work published in the journal Microorganims, first authored by Socorro Toxqui-Rodríguez, ITN student from IATS Nutrigenomics and Fish Pathology groups, reflects the effect of culture density and oxygen availability on the composition of gilthead sea bream skin and gut microbiota, as well as the expression of host marker genes of immune and stress response. These results are of great importance to define new indicators of well-being and resistance to stress. These results will serve to infer new welfare indicators for increased stress resilience.

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Concluye el segundo meeting del GVA-Thinkinazul

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Esta segunda reunión ha congregado del 11 al 13 de Junio a más de 150 científicos en el Campus San Vicente de Raspeig de la Universidad de Alicante. Además de sesiones en las que se han expuesto y discutido sobre los avances y el grado de cumplimiento de las tareas de sus diferentes Workpackages, el evento ha contado con una sesión de Radar de Innovación en el que mostraron a los agentes de transferencia y al sector productivo un total de 20 hitos de productos transferibles derivados de los resultados de este Programa en la Comunidad Valenciana.

El Programa Thinkinazul en la Comunidad Valenciana está coordinado por Jaume Pérez, del IATS, y Carlos Valle, de la Universidad de Alicante. Participan en el mismo 39 grupos de investigación, 5 de los cuales pertenecen al IATS.

El evento ha tenido una amplia cobertura informativa, con diferentes noticias y un reportaje en mispeces.com, y una nota de prensa de la delegación del CSIC en la Comunidad Valenciana.

AEFishBIT at the GVA-Thinkinazul Innovation Radar

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The device for monitoring fish behavior has been one of the 20 transferable products presented to aquaculture industry and transfer agents during the Innovation Radar session of the second GVA-Thinkinazul annual congress.

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Official presentation of the EAS conference Aquaculture Europe 2025

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Prof. Jaume Pérez Sánchez, from the Nutrigenomics group of IATS, representing the local committee, has officially presented at the XIX National Aquaculture Congress the next European Aquaculture Congress, Aquaculture Europe 2025, which will be held in Valencia, September 22-25, 2025.

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Fernando Naya doctorates

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Fernando Naya successfully presented his doctoral thesis at ICTA building of Polytechnic University of Valencia on June 4.

His work, entitled “The Two Genomes of Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata): A Multi-Omics and Holobiont Approach” was co-directed by Jaume Pérez-Sánchez (IATS Nutrigenomics Group) and Carla Piazzon (IATS Fish Pathology Group).

The Thesis defense was awarded with the highest distinction, Sobresaliente cum laude. Congratulations to Fernando for his excellent work.

Erasmus+ students stay at IATS

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Isa Boelens and Stefanie van Es, Dutch students of the Erasmus+ program, will complete a 4-month training stay, from February to June, in the Nutrigenomics and Fish Growth Endocrinology Group and the Fish Neurobehavior Laboratory, respectively. Both come from the Noorderpoort center (Groningen, Netherlands), where they are training to become laboratory technicians. On May 29, professors Kim Fränkel, Renella Herder and Harold C. Tammeling and the head of the department J. Kooistra-de Vries visited the IATS to evaluate their work at our Center, together with Elisa Beltrán and Ana de Juan, from the company managing this program, My Spanish spot, My Spanish Spot.

Student stay at IATS Nutrigroup

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Raquel Minai Valero Martínez, 4th year student of double degree in Marine Sciences and Biotechnology at Universidad Católica de Valencia, has completed a two month (April-June 2024) external academic internship in the Nutrigenomics and Fish Growth Endocrinology group of IATS. Minai has collaborated in tasks related to the study of the microbiota in feces, a non-invasive procedure, as an indicator of changes in the adherent intestinal microbiota in gilthead sea bream.

CSIC Mobility: Training stay at IATS

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Technician Daniel Hernández Peraza, from the Canary Islands Oceanographic Center, has finished a 9-day stay with the IATS Nutrigenomics Group, within the framework of CSIC Training Stays of Technical and Management Staff (MOV-GEST/TEC 2023). During this stay, he visited IATS infrastructures, research groups, and its diverse scientific-technological catalogue. We hope that this stay had been productive.

PhD student stay

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Cristina Moreno Mariscal, PhD student at the IATA Food Sciences Laboratory, has completed a one-week training stay with the IATS Nutrigenomics group. Within the framework of his doctoral thesis co-directed by Drs. Federico Moroni (IATS) and Leticia Mora (IATA), she analyzed microbiota samples to determine the effects of a dietary additive, based on a porcine blood hydrolyzate, on the gut microbiome of gilthead sea bream. Tasks carried out by Cristina comprised learning of sampling, bacterial DNA extraction, sequencing and bioinformatic and statistical analysis of results.

AQUASERV Kickoff meeting

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The kickoff meeting of the European Project AQUASERV was held April 9-10 at Faro, Portugal. This 2024-2029 project will contribute to significantly further scientific advance and promote and facilitate the implementation of European Common Fisheries Policy, the Farm to Fork Strategy, the Sustainable Blue Economy and the European Green Deal through the provision of transnational access (TA) to top research infrastructures. CSIC participation in AQUASERV is led by IATS Nutrigenomics Prof. Jaume Pérez-Sánchez. CSIC will offer access to the experimental and analytical infrastructures at IATS in Castellón, and those at Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia. Call for TAs will be open at late 2024.