Fabio Blanco Murillo
Integrative Marine Ecology · Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Biography
My career began at the university of Alicante focusing on the ecological impacts of desalination plants on benthic assemblages. However, seagrasses caught my attention (and passion) and my research has focused mostly on them since then, from gene expression to long-term meadow-scale variation. My interest is to unravel the effects of human (and natural) environmental stressors on marine plants, with the aim of using this knowledge to better preserve this unique marine ecosystems. I am currently working with Dr. Procaccini group on the effects of marine heat waves on Posidonia oceanica rhizosphere.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Marine Sciences and Applied Biology (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) and in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences (Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile) (2020-2024). Project entitled “Desalination discharge effects on seagrasses: unravelling mechanisms and novel biomonitoring tools” (Cum Laude), supervised by Prof. Jose Luis Sánchez Lizaso (UA) and Dr. Claudio A. Sáez (UPLA) and developed in collaboration with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (thesis in http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/140661). - Specialist course in Geoinformation Analyses. Unive...
Recent Scopus Publications
- Male-biased sensitivity to wastewater effluent exposure in Harpagifer antarcticus from Fildes Bay, King George Island
- Evaluating physico-chemical and biological impacts of brine discharges for a sustainable desalination development on South America's Pacific coast
- The evolutive role of shoot apical meristems in the adaptation of angiosperms to life at sea and the jump to potential environmental biotechnology applications
- The halotolerant white sea anemone Anthothoe chilensis, highly abundant in brine discharges zones, as a promising biomonitoring species for evaluating the impacts of desalination plants
- Metabolic responses to desalination brine discharges in field-transplanted Posidonia oceanica: Advances for the development of specific early warning biomarkers
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1759-9075
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=h506mCIAAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57221198321