Animal Anatomy research groups
Mouse-based studies are essential for the Precision Medicine, which aim to transform current medical practice to personalized healthcare. Furthermore, the success of using genetically engineered mice to evaluate genetic disease hypotheses has encouraged the development of large-scale global projects making the mouse the most used animal model. However, the scientific community lacks sufficient expertise in mouse morphological phenotyping to effectively characterize and validate these animal models. MorphoPHEN is a research group focused on mouse and human anatomy, histology, pathology, and imaging devoted to confirming causation of identified human disease variants as pathogenic, in particular in the area of eye diseases.
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Line of research: Biology, conservation and management of wildlife is mainly focused on reproduction, morphology and reproduction in wild mammals, health studies focused on the study of zoonoses and toxicology, One Health, anthropological impact (hunting, logging, oil activities), food security, and sustainable use of resources for the rural Amazon communities.
IP: Joan Villanueva (coordinador)
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Pedro Ginés Mayor AparicioResearch in the evaluation of the physiological changes that animals present in situations of stress, whether acute or chronic, through the study of various biomarkers in little or no invasive matrices (e.g. hair, feathers, feces...) already that stress can end up affecting the health of the animals and compromising their well-being.
Responsible: Manel López Béjar
Research into improving the use and application of reproductive biotechnologies (e.g. cryopreservation of semen, manipulation and transfer of embryos, immunocastration) in wildlife, for animal conservation purposes, and in domestic animals, in order make animal production processes more efficient.
Responsible: Manel López Béjar
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