• Marine Sciences Programme | PT7 follow-up meeting

    PCCMMG website On Thursday 18 April, the follow-up meeting for PT7 within the Marine Sciences Programme of Galicia (PCCMMG) will take place at CETMAR. The coordination team will include Jose Manuel Fernández Babarro, EsMaBa (IIM-CSIC), and Antonio Villalba García, CIMA-Corón (CIMA) (PTE). Developing tools to improve sustainable shellfish production (PT7) Shellfishing and bivalve-mollusc aquaculture in… 

  • Madagascar biodiversity and opportunities for marine research

    Next Thursday, 25th April, IIM-CSIC will host the seminar: "Madagascar biodiversity and opportunities for marine research" by Dr Fanomezana Ratsoavina from the Université d'Antananarivo, in Madagascar. The part of its joint visit to our country, both Dr Ratsoavina and her colleague, Dr Zafimaheri Rakotomalala, will share the reality of Malagasy research and the opportunities that… 

  • Marine Sciences Programme | PT11 Follow-Up Meeting

    Website of the PCCMMG THE Friday 26 of April, in the venue of the Institute of Research Marine (IIM-CSIC), will take place the meeting of follow-up of the PT11 inside of the Programme of Marine sciences of Galicia (PCCMMG). THE team of coordinación estará formado by Pepe Pintado (IIM-CSIC) and Sunday Antonio García Allut (UDC) Tools of transformación… 

  • Syngnathids Challenge: sightings of seahorses and pipefish

    On 8 May, at 19:00, an open online information session will take place via Zoom to present the Syngnathids Challenge, which seeks citizen collaboration in reporting sightings of seahorses and pipefish in order to complete the Atlas of Syngnathids of the Spanish Coast. Seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) are protected species included in Spain’s List of Wild Species… 

  • Marine Sciences Programme | PT5 follow-up meeting

    IIM-CSIC programme page Tomorrow, 9 May, the follow-up meeting for work package PT5 of the Marine Sciences Programme of Galicia (PCCMMG) will take place online. The coordination team is made up of Eva Balsa-Canto (IIM-CSIC) and Moncho Gómez Gesteira (UVigo). Multiscale and transdisciplinary marine simulator (PT5) This proposal aims to advance the development of a… 

  • School Visits to IIM | Degree in Marine Sciences at UVigo

    It was a pleasure to welcome the Degree in Marine Sciences at UVigo to our facilities at the Institute of Marine Research (IIM-CSIC). Below is the guided visit programme we prepared for them: 10:00 - Reception and Welcome: We began the day with a reception and welcome in the IIM-CSIC Assembly Hall, where staff from the… 

  • Bivalves as providers of ecosystem services

    REGISTRATION On 15 May, the research network BIVALRED: Network for the study and promotion of bivalve ecosystem services will be presented.  Within the activities of the BIVALRED research network (@BivalRed2024) and the “European Maritime Day in your Country”, this workshop aims to integrate scientific knowledge from different disciplines around the study of the ecosystem services… 

  • ASEQURA | “Listeria monocytogenes”: a challenge for food safety

    Access the broadcast EVENT PROGRAMME On 4 June 2024, a technical conference entitled “Listeria monocytogenes: a challenge for food safety” will be held. This event is part of the ASEQURA research project, whose objective is to carry out a quantitative microbiological risk assessment (QMRA) of Listeria monocytogenes in fishery products and meat derivatives, with special… 

  • Lightsheet microscopy: the fine art of slicing a sample without disturbing it

    Event on the Zeiss website Register to attend online On 12th June, Wednesday, at 10 am we will receive representatives of the ZEISS company at the Institute of Marine Research, who will come to present the possibilities of the new fluorescence microscopy equipment at IIM-CSIC, the Lighsheet LS7, managed by our in-house Optical Microscopy and Image Analysis… 

  • The role of statistics in marine research

    FOLLOW IT VIA STREAMING  (link available on the day of the broadcast) The “Encontros Espresso” are a series of talks held at IIM-CSIC with the aim of helping us get to know each other better, learn more about the activity carried out at our centre and explore the world of marine science, encouraging scientific and technical discussion and… 

  • IIM Encounters 2024 | 5th edition

    Here you can see all the works presented What are the Encounters? The Encounters are an annual informal meeting, and this will be the fifth edition. At this meeting, all staff at the centre, including research and technical staff, trainees, temporary staff and permanent staff, can share what they do with the aim of getting…