PhD student stay with Nutrigroup2017-01-09
The PhD student Lourenço Ramos Pinto, from SPAROS Lda. and the Group of Fish Nutrition and Immunobiology (CIIMAR-University of Porto) will conduct a two-month stage with the Nutrigenomics and Fish Growth Endocrinology Group (Institute of Aquaculture Torre la Sal, IATS-CSIC), within the framework of National (ALISSA: Bases para uma alimentação saudável e sustentável para peixes de aquacultura” and EU (MIRACLES:Multi-product integrated biorefinery of algae: from carbon dioxide and light energy to high-value specialties) Projects.
Over his stage the effect of amino acids and algae supplementation on markers of fish growth and health performance will be analyzed using the Sea bream PCR-array platform of Nutrigenomics group.

