GELP has been awarded with a Project from the prestigious ”la Caixa” Foundation Health Call. Within the Health Research Call, it is one of 34 biomedical research projects selected from more than 700 proposals submitted in this edition. This project funded with almost one million euros is based on a consortium of four groups:  Hospital del Mar Research Institute (Research group of Dr. Alex Calon); Universidad de Granda (Research group of Dr Daniele Lo Re;  Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG) (Research group of Dr. Holger Heyn); and Universidad de Oviedo (GELP Group).  

Giulia has joined our research group for the weeks to work on LA-ICP-MS!! Giulia Terlecki is a PhD candidate in Biological Oceanography at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG, Brazil), where she investigates trophic and population structure of fish, with a focus on stock definition. She has previous experience with population structure using genetic approaches and is currently working to understand the ecology, ontogenetic movements and individual specialization of Prionace glauca and Isurus oxyrinchus through isotopic and microchemical analyses of vertebrae. This stage of the study is being developed in collaboration with the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and…