On Thursday, October 19th at 11:00 am we continue with the 7th edition of the Café con Sal Program. On this occasion, it will be Monserrat López, research technician in the pathology laboratory of the Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA – Centro Auga del Pino), who will present the most important results of her doctoral thesis with the talk entitled “Molecular characterization and pathologies of oysters from the Andalusian Atlantic coast“.
Following the 2011 reopening of commercial exploitation of natural oyster beds along the Huelva coast, after 24 years of closure, it became necessary to determine the presence and distribution of the different oyster species and to establish an initial assessment of the health status of the natural oyster beds. This was especially urgent because the OsHV-1 µVar virus variant was spreading throughout Europe, and there was significant importation and movement of oyster spat within Andalusia.
In this context, Monserrat López, directed by José Ignacio Navas Triano, expert pathologist of bivalve mollusc diseases at IFAPA, and Dr. Roberto da Herrán, from the Department of Genetics at the University of Granada, developed his doctoral thesis, with the main objective of evaluating and characterizing the oyster populations of the Andalusian Atlantic coast and studying their pathologies using histological and molecular techniques. Funded by IFAPA, the AGR-247 research group (Centro IFAPA Auga do Piñeiro, Huelva) and the HERPEMOL (financed by JACUMAR-MAGRAMA) and BONAQUA (FEDER) projects, Monserrat also studied the prevalence and distribution of the protozoan Marteilia refringens, and the prevalence, distribution and genetic variability of the Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) virus in Andalusian natural banks.
During the conference, the speaker will present the most important results obtained in her thesis and present the work she is currently developing to complete the thesis studies.
The conference will take place in the auditorium of the Faculty of Marine Sciences of the University of Vigo at 11:00 am and will be broadcast live at http://tv.uvigo.es/es/directo/1.html and later available on our websites and social networks.
https://tv.campusdomar.es/
https://tv.uvigo.es/
https://ecimat.uvigo.es/gl/ciclo-conferencias-cafe-con-sal.html
See poster of Monserrat López’s presentation.
