The Mer-Club Annual General Meeting took place last September in AZTI’s headquarters in Sukarrieta, Biscay. For the first time since the pandemic, consortium members had the opportunity to meet face to face and discuss important matters related to the project. During the two-day meeting, partners gave updates on the advances in the molecular and physiological […]
Three women scientists from the Mer-Club consortium are among the top 5,000 women working in Spanish institutions. This is according to the study carried out by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in its first ranking of the 5,000 Spanish and foreign women scientists doing research in Spanish organisations. This ranking has been carried out […]
Mersorcium is an international network of researchers specialized or interested in research related to mercury cycling in the environment. A platform for researchers interested in mercury research to share information, communicate and harness potential collaborations. The Mersorcium website offer the most useful tool which is the literature survey with more than 200 papers related to mercury […]
Last December, Olga Sánchez, professor at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) participated on the event “Ús de bacteris i virus per al servei de la comunitat” («Use of bacteria and viruses to serve the community») organised by Societat Catalana de Biologia (Catalan Biology Society) and Institut d’Estudis […]
February 24, 2021 was a big day for Isabel Sanz, who had the defense of her PhD thesis. Part of the thesis entitled “Contribution of marine heterotrophic bacteria to microbial diversity and mercury detoxification”, has set the basis for developing isolation strategies and identification of bacteria encoding the mercury detoxification system (mer operon). Her work […]
Mer-Club has been featured at the the European Commission Maritime Affairs & Fisheries DG MARE newsletter As the commission is almost going live with the much-anticipated new EU approach to a sustainable blue economy, MER-CLUB is presented as a prime example of how the blue economy can provide innovative solutions and help the EU reach […]
We want to make Mer-Club as open and understandable as possible and in order to do so, we are making efforts to help the public understand what we do and how it. Following that idea, we have presented the first of what we expect to be a series of videos about Mer-Club, showing the insights […]
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we wanted to pay a small tribute to all the women who do science. This small video is our small contribution to aknowledge women in science and support the girls who want to join a scientific career.
Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA)/CNRS Senior Scientist and Mer-Club partner David Amoroux took part in the GMOS-TRAIN event held between 6-7 December. He works on capacity building projects for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) at the GMOS-Train programme, as supervisor for the «MMHg sources in coastal ecosystem: new molecular and isotopic experimental […]
The 2nd of May, Dr Andrea G. Bravo (PhD in Environmental Sciences, specialized in mercury biogeochemistry and currently workin at ICM-CSIC), involved in WP2 and WP4 gave an interview in “A hombros de gigantes” a science radio show broadcasted on the Spanish public radio service (Radio Nacional de España). “The aim is to reduce the […]