The declaration of the state of alarm in May paralyzed practically all university activity. Among the many events that were put on hold was the Café con Sal conference series, the pioneering scientific dissemination proposal launched by the Toralla Marine Science Station exactly ten years ago. Now, after these months of hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic, the tenth edition of the series is being resumed to complete its programming until the end of the year online.
The first event, which was scheduled for today, Tuesday, July 21, had to be suspended at the last minute due to technical problems, but it will be available to view on the CIM_UVigo website and the UVigoTV repository in the near future. The presentation focuses on the management of fishery resources, specifically on the biology of sea cucumbers and razor clams in the Vigo estuary and their application in fishery management, led by researchers Tania Ballesteros and Ana Tubío, from the CIM-UVigo Coastal Ecology group.
Back in September
The cycle will take a summer break and will return with the start of the new 2020-2021 academic year with Alexandre M. Schonemann, a scientist from the Coastal Ecology group at CIM-UVigo, who on September 15 will address the effects of plastic additives on marine fish, providing a proteomic approach. On September 22, it will be the turn of the researcher from the University of Alicante, Pablo Sánchez, who will talk about marine aquaculture processes in a talk entitled Raising fish in the sea: what happens when they escape?
The month of October will include two sessions, the first of which is on the 6th, with Ángel Pérez Diz, researcher in the Population Genetics and Cytogenetics group, CIM-UVigo, who will talk about the biparental inheritance of mtDNA in humans and will focus on what research on mussels can bring. The second appointment of the month will arrive on the 20th, with a session of three lectures: The role of Zostera meadows in the distribution of demersal and benthopelagic marine animals, which will be taught by Marisa Gomes, from the Center of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA), from the University of Minho; The influence of habitat conditions on key ecological processes for marine benthic fauna by Catarina Alves, CBMA, Universidade de Minho and Monitoring macrozoobenthic communities: Artificial Substrates colonization assessment using DNA metabarcoding approaches, with Bárbara Leite, CBMA, Universidade de Minho.
Already in November, on the 3rd, Carlos Canchaya, from the Comparative Genomics group of the CIM-UVigo, will speak about the genomics of the mussel and its microbiota, while on the 17th it will be the turn of Ana Bernabeu, from the Marine and Environmental Geology group, CIM-UVigo, to delve deeper into Open science, a new way of conceiving research work and the dissemination of results. The cycle will close on the 5th of December with two presentations. This tenth edition of Café con Sal will close on the 15th of December with Cristina Fernández, from the Biological Oceanography group of the CIM-UVigo, with a conference entitled Size matters, at least when talking about phytoplankton.
All sessions can be followed virtually through Campus Remoto from 11:00 a.m. to 11:40 a.m.
The Café con Sal conference series is co-financed by the Xunta de Galicia and the European Union thanks to the FEDER/FSE Galicia 2014-2020 Operational Program.
Source: DUVI
