RESEARCH LINES
- Design and validation of new fish feeds based on terrestrial plants and new resources (microalgae, macroalgae, insect proteins, etc)
- Food quality and safety of farmed fish
- Functional foods: Intestinal health and feed efficiency
- Oxidative stress and bioenergetics
- Functional genomics: identification and characterization of key genes related to productive traits (growth, lipid metabolism, diseases and stress resistance)
- Use of biosensors for remote, non-invasive and individual fish monitoring of physical and metabolic activity
- Integrative phenotyping of farmed fish using new biotechnological tools and omic approaches (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics)
MILESTONES
- Expression and production of recombinant proteins of GH/PRL family
- Design and validation of biochemical tools for measuring circulating levels of growth factors (GH, IGFs, IGFPBs, etc)
- New fish feeds based on alternative and sustainable raw material for fast and effcient growth of Mediterranean farmed fish
- Predictive models of fillet fatty acid composition of farmed fish (www.nutrigroup-iats.org/aquafat)
- Genomic (1.4 Gb) and transcriptomic (>18,000 different Swissprot descriptions) databases of gilthead sea bream (www.nutrigroup-iats.org/seabreamdb)
- Transcriptomic database of European sea bass with more than 13,000 different descriptions in Swissprot (www.nutrigroup-iats.org/seabassdb)
- Microarrays and PCR-arrays of sea bream and sea bass for focused pathway-analyses
- Identification and validation of new fish biomarkers of both diagnostic and prognostic value
- Characterization of promoter regions and epigenetic marks of genes related with productive traits of energy and lipid metabolism
- New genomic and bioinformatic tools to unravel and predict the microbiota of farmed fish
