Maria Vila Costa
Ramon y Cajal fellow
934006169 or 934006100 Ext 4155
maria.vila@idaea.csic.es
ORCID:
0000-0003-1730-8418
Research group: Global Change and Genomic Biogeochemistry
Genomics biogeochemistry of organic pollutants. I’m interested on studying the interactions between organic pollutants and microorganisms in the oceans. I study the biogeochemical cycle of some families of organic pollutants and their influence on microbial activities and diversities in the coastal marine environment and the open ocean.
COPEPOBIOME
Effect of pollution on marine environmental DNA and copepod-associated microbiome
The aim of this project is to study the effects of environmental relevant concentrations of pollutants on marine environmental DNA (eDNA) and copepod-associated microbiome composition across a longitudinal and latitudinal oceanic transect.The field work will be performed taking advantage of the trans-oceanic surveillance project to study the concentrations, dynamics and effects of contaminants present in the upper ocean (atmosphere-surface water and plankton).
Start Date: 01/06/2020 – End Date: 31/05/2021
Project Leader: Carlos Barata Martí , Maria Vila Costa , Claudia Sanz Lanzas
Funding: National Project
Linkages
Understanding the role of dissolved organic carbon in modulating marine microbiome
Marine microbiomes are the main engines driving the main global biogeochemical cycles, today under threat by global change. Our understanding on the role played by dissolved organic carbon, both biogenic and specially anthropogenic, modulating microbiome functioning, has been hampered by limited analytical techniques.
This project aims to apply meta-omic approaches to disentangle the linkage between chemical, functional and taxonomical diversities in the upper ocean.