IOCAG: Biological Oceanography and Applied Algology

Affiliated Research areas

• Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution

Scientific Areas

• not available

Keywords

• Marine Biotechnology
• Biological Oceanography
• Climate Change
• Ocean-based Solutions
• Marine Biogeochemistry

Summary

- Phytoplankton Ecophysiology and Marine Bacteria: Phytoplankton and microbial ecophysiology. Phylogenetic and functional diversity
- Biological Oceanography and Climate Change: Biological oceanography: linking organic matter dynamics to plankton community structure, function and diversity.
- Algae Biotechnology: Through a wide experience in laboratory and pilot-scale cultivation of marine macroalgae, microalgae and cyanobacteria, research objectives include: (1) development of biodiversity conservation techniques for microalgae and cyanobacteria including an authorized Culture Collection (the Spanish Bank of Algae - BEA); (2) strains identification combining morphological features, chemotaxonomy, phylogeny and metagenomics; (3) development of biomarkers for biochemistry, molecular biology and flow cytometry; (4) technological developments for the production and identification of bioactive compounds; and (5) biotechnological characterization of strains for industrial applications.