The 4th newsletter of the European Project AQUAEXCEL3.0 has been made public. It highlights the validity of the microbiome sequence protocol and analysis developed at IATS analytical infrastructure using Nanopore technology, through the success of several Transnational Acesses (TNAs). You can find it here.
AQUASERV announces the launch of a Transnational Access Call to support researchers from academia and industry, from Europe and around the World, to develop research projects in leading European research facilities, have access to cutting-edge technologies and services in marine and freshwater sustainable aquaculture, fisheries, ecological restoration, blue biotechnology and related fields.
The program spans 16 European countries, offering state-of-the-art facilities across over 40 institutions covering environmental sciences applied to marine and freshwater environments, with specialized resources available throughout the Baltic, Northeast Atlantic, and Mediterranean seas, as well as inland waters. Services provided by AQUASERV include access to laboratories, state-of-the-art experimental facilities and technological platforms, ecosystems, and a wide variety of marine biological resources, biobanks and databases. This initiative marks a significant step forward in fostering groundbreaking scientific collaborations and advancements in the fields of sustainable aquaculture, fisheries, biotechnology and ecological restoration.
Analytical and experimental facilities of Institute of Aquaculture Torre de la Sal are part of the wide AQUASERV offer. Check it in the AQUASERV website.
KEY DETAILS
Call Duration: Continuously open after 15 November 2024 until December 2028
Access Types: On-site and remote
Impact Areas: Basic and applied research that promotes, contributes, and facilitates the implementation of The European Common Fisheries Policy,
The Farm to Fork Strategy, The Sustainable Blue Economy,,The European Green Deal and the EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030.
For more detailed information, please visit the AQUASERV website.
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.
More info at mispeces.com.
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.
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.
More information can be found at mispeces.com.
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.
More information can be found at mispeces.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
