CSIC pays tribute tomorrow to staff with more than 25 years of service in Galicia
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) will hold the event tomorrow, Thursday
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The CSIC presents this week the results of the iGENTAC, GEOCAP and SICAPTOR 2.0 projects
Santiago de Compostela, 14 December 2021. The Institute of Marine Research (IIM) will present this week the main results achieved in the iGENTAC, GEOCAP and SICAPTOR 2.0 projects, launched a year ago with the collaboration of…
CSIC increases its permanent research staff in Galicia with seven new senior scientists
Santiago de Compostela, 2 December 2021. The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Galicia is incorporating seven new researchers, who join the Scale of Senior Scientists of Public Research Organisations (OPIs) with posts at the Biological…
CSIC joins the “8th Ratoncito Pérez Tooth Collection Campaign” in Galicia
Santiago de Compostela, 23 November 2021. The National Research Centre on Human Evolution (CENIEH) organises an annual campaign to collect children’s baby teeth for scientific purposes ranging from the study of human evolution to forensic and…
CSIC Galicia starts 9 research projects funded by the Spanish State R&D Plan, four of them at IIM-CSIC
Santiago de Compostela, 18 November 2021. The Spanish National Research Council has launched nine new research projects in Galicia funded by the State Research Agency through the 2020 calls for R&D&I projects within the state programmes…
A CSIC thesis identifies new strategies for controlling viral diseases in aquaculture
Santiago de Compostela, 2 November 2021. The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), through the Immunology and Genomics group of the Institute of Marine Research (IIM), has supervised a doctoral thesis whose results make it possible to…
The II International Symposium on Labeling and Authenticity of Seafood Products, ISLAS2021, begins in Vigo
Santiago de Compostela, 20 October 2021. Vigo is hosting today and tomorrow the 2nd International Symposium on the Labelling and Authenticity of Seafood Products, organised by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), through the Food Biochemistry…
Fernando Fraga’s voice launches “Voices of Science”, a project by the Council of Galician Culture and AGCCCT – Divulgacción
Fernando Fraga (Santiago de Compostela, 1922 – Nigrán, 2020) was a chemist who devoted much of his research career to the oceans. In fact, his colleagues used to say that “he had the ocean in…
Tomorrow marks the 70th anniversary of the Institute of Fisheries Research, the origins of the Institute of Marine Research in Vigo
Santiago de Compostela, 30 September 2021. Tomorrow, Friday 1 October, an institutional event will be held in Barcelona to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Institute of Fisheries Research (IIP), whose “Coastal Laboratory…
A study proves the existence of subterranean estuaries in the Ría de Vigo and estimates that 9–23% of the bay’s freshwater comes from groundwater
-The SUBACID project, launched in 2017 and ending in June, is coordinated by Trinity College Dublin, and CSIC participates through the Organic Geochemistry Laboratory of the IIM (Vigo). It is funded by the European Union…
Winners, losers and shifts of the pelagic ecosystem in the western Mediterranean Sea: integrating knowledge and projecting trajectories of change
On the occasion of the UN Decade of Ocean Science (#SDG14), which aims to create a common framework to ensure that marine sciences fully support actions to sustainably manage the world’s oceans and seas and…
Tara Oceans: Eco-Systems Biology at Planetary Scale
On the occasion of the UN Decade of Ocean Science (#SDG14), which aims to generate a common framework to ensure that marine sciences fully support actions to sustainably manage the world’s oceans and seas, and thereby…
CSIC presents the results of the DESTAC project tomorrow in a webinar
Santiago de Compostela, 3 June 2021. The Institute of Marine Research (IIM), through the Fisheries Ecology group and with the support of Fundación Biodiversidad of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, will…
Search for new strategies for controlling viral diseases in aquaculture
Viral encephalopathy and retinopathy (VER) disease caused by the nerve necrosis virus (NNV) or nodavirus, generates up to 100% mortality in juvenile European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), causing significant economic losses. Therefore, it is necessary…
CSIC achieves SARS-CoV-2 virus sequencing in wastewater samples in Galicia
The Immunology and Genomics group at the IIM (Vigo), led by Antonio Figueras and Beatriz Novoa, has detected, after a year of work using massive sequencing techniques, the SARS-CoV-2 mutations circulating in several Galician towns…
2nd Aida Fernández Ríos Lecture Series
The Royal Galician Academy of Sciences (RAGC) and Pontevedra Provincial Council consider it to be of common interest to collaborate on the 2nd edition of the Aida Fernández Ríos Lecture Series in 2021, in order…
The Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT)
On the occasion of the UN Decade of Ocean Science (#SDG14), which aims to create a common framework to ensure that marine sciences fully support actions to sustainably manage the world’s oceans and seas and…
Spain, France and Portugal launch a project to achieve a coordinated strategy for the evaluation, monitoring and mitigation of impacts on cetaceans
Over two years, it will deepen scientific knowledge and analyse the effectiveness of mitigation measures in the Bay of Biscay and on the Iberian coast to help achieve good environmental status. It involves 14 partners…
CSIC, UVigo and Geseco Aguas confirm that analyses carried out this year are representative of the pandemic’s evolution in Galicia
Since July, four other treatment plants have also been monitored. On average, the increase in the concentration of the virus’s genetic material at the inlet of the WWTPs precedes the detection of new infections by…
Reflections on the implications of COVID19 in food security
Seminar “Reflections on the implications of COVID-19 for food safety” The Spanish National Research Council, as the coordinating body of the Galician Network on Emerging Risks in Food Safety (RISEGAL), is holding tomorrow the seminar…
Conference “Reflections on the implications of COVID19 in food security” within the framework of the RISEGAL network
Attendance will be possible either in person or online, with prior registration at https://www.risegal.csic.es/es/seminario-web-a-covid-alimentos-e-galicia The webinar will be opened by Ana Canals (Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition) and will include talks by Rosario…
International Women’s Day!
Students, researchers, technicians… Behind the scientific progress of our society, behind every published article or new technology, there are working women. There are many more of us than you see, and ALL of us…
To drown or not to drown? On the role of ecology in flood defense
On the occasion of the UN Decade of Ocean Science (#SDG14), which aims to create a common framework to ensure that marine sciences fully support actions to sustainably manage the world’s oceans and seas and…