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Molecular endpoints following the seabass experiments João Raio, a MSc student supervised by Patrícia Pereira and Laia Navarro-Martín was at IDAEA-CSIC from March 17th to April 11th 2025 to receive training regarding the assessment of gene expression. in seabass following the exposures carried out with the seabass under the scope of EPIBOOST. Hard work in…

The third edition of the “EPIBOOST Advanced Course on Environmental epigenetics and risk assessment: challenges and perspectives” took place a few weeks ago, on the last week of February and the first two weeks of March. As in the previous editions, the first part was an online short course that provided an introduction to relevant…

From the 3rd to the 14th of February 2025, the EPIBOOST early-career researchers Albano Pinto (PhD student) and Joana Santos, from CESAM-UAVR, and Rita Guimarães, from IBIMED-UAVR, visited UGent to receive hands-on training in the bioinformatic analysis of sequencing data, obtained from Chlorella vulgaris, Daphnia magna and Acartia tonsa within EPIBOOST project. The three UAVR…

epiboost was featured internationaly and nationally On the 18th of November 2024, the EPIBOOST coordinator, Joana Luísa Pereira, was at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland for a seminar on environmental epigenetics. She participated was a main juror in the evaluation committee of the PhD thesis by Floriane Tisserand, an excellent researcher developing her thesis…

And the final exchange of the series where UAVR visited our Advanced partner CSIC (see posts for exchange I and II if you are curious) has come to an end! It happened in the week the 22nd to the 26th of July 2024, dedicated to training in ex-vivo exposure of fish gonads for molecular studies.…

The exchanges from UAVR to our Advanced partner CSIC continue! A second week (see the previous post for the first) happened from the 15th to the 19th of July 2024, dedicated to the work with the seabass. Joana Pereira (EPIBOOST UAVR coordinator) and the early-career researchers João Raio (MSc student) and Fátima Brandão (PhD students)…

Three EPIBOOST early-career researchers – Albano Pinto (PhD student), Joana Santos and João Raio (MSc student) – visited IDAEA-CSIC in Barcelona from the 8th to the 12th of July 2024. The main aim of this visit was to participate in a training course on untargeted methods for gene expression assessment, including theoretical and hands-on training…

The EPIBOOST project manager, Ana Sofia Santiago, was in Barcelona, Spain, during the last week of June 2024 in a staff exchange visiting CSIC – the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Advanced Partners of the project. She had the opportunity to gain diverse professional experience…

The end of May and June were busy to Beatriz, the EPIBOOST MSc student developing research with marine copepods (Acartia tonsa) to understand the effects of cadmium in DNA methylation, gene expression, oxidative stress, DNA damage and behaviour. Beatriz was with our advanced partners at UGent for five weeks. She learned on how to efficiently…

Introducing epigenetics and EPIBOOST to secondary school students and teachers We are aware that epigenetics is a field of science that is largely unknown by non-specialists and that our biology education in schools is still attached to classical views on the deterministic role of genetics in development, local adaptation and evolution. In this way, an…