Participation of David Polo in the CICA «Happy Hour»

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Our RyC researcher, David Polo, presented the talk entitled “Pathogenic viruses and bivalve mollusks. A One Health perspective” at the latest CICA Happy Hour session held last week. He explained how fecal pollution in marine environments influences the accumulation and transmission of enteric viruses through bivalve mollusks, posing a threat to public health. He also underscored the …

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PARC Project Meeting on Training Needs in Porto

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In March 2025, the PARC project’s Working Group 9.4 on «Training» convened in Porto, Portugal for a key meeting hosted by the Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge. Dr. Valdiglesias participated in discussions focused on identifying training needs in the field of chemical risk assessment and outlining initiatives and training plans to be implemented …

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NanoToxGen members visit High Schools and Vocational Training Centres

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Over the past two months, Vanessa Valdiglesias and Natalia Fernández from NanoToxGen visited several high schools and vocational training centres as part of the UDC’s scientific outreach program (Divulgación Científica UDC). During these visits, a diverse group of students had the opportunity to attend an informative talk on toxicology, the science of poisons. This initiative …

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Members of the NanoToxGen group are involved in the “Atrévete a pescudar con elas!” program, 2025.

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«Dare to Research with Them!» («Atrévete a pescudar con elas!») is an initiative of the Scientific and Cultural Outreach Unit of the University of A Coruña (UDC) to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (February 11th). Researchers from the NanoToxGen group enjoyed participating in several videos to present their scientific and …

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Participation in the PARC Consortium Meeting in Nantes

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Dr. Valdiglesias attended the Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) meeting held in Nantes, France on February 3rd and 4th. The meeting, organized by Wageningen Food Safety Research and Oniris, brought together members of Working Group 9.3 titled «Towards Harmonized QA/QC in Laboratory Testing.» During the session, attendees reviewed the latest developments …

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New NanoToxGen researcher

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We are very happy to announce the incorporation of a new NanoToxGen member, Dr. David Polo, who joined our group in January 2025 as Ramon y Cajal researcher. Dr. Polo is a PhD researcher with several years of experience in the field of environmental virology. His previous research has focused on surveillance, diversity, transmission, and …

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Attendance to the “XXVIII Galician-Portuguese Chemistry International Meeting” 2024

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Our colleague Dr. Fernando Avecilla has recently attended the XXVIII Galician-Portuguese Chemistry Meeting held from November 13th to 15th in Vigo, Spain. Dr. Avecilla participated in the congress by presenting two poster communications with some of our latest results, namely: “Study of the influence of hydrogen bonds in the interaction of copper complexes with DNA” …

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Several NanoToxGen group members participate in the II Total Nanosafe International Conference 2024

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Past November, 2024, several NanoToxGen group members attended the II TOTAL-NANOSAFE International Conference, held at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Braga, Portugal). Our predoctoral researchers, Lucía Ramos and Assia Touzani, performed two oral communications during the afternoon session. Lucía Ramos presented “In vitro evaluation of differently charged gold nanoparticles in neuronal cells: analysis of cell …

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Thesis Ainhoa Garayo Larrea at University of Navarra

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Last October 30th, our group coordinator Dr. Valdiglesias visited the University of Navarra (Spain) to participate as jury in the Doctoral Thesis defense of Ainhoa Garayo Larrea entitled “Epigenetic, neuroplasticity and inflammatory biomarkers of major depression and treatment response in immune cells”. After an excellent dissertation, she finally obtained her PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology …

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New NanoToxGen publication on zinc oxide nanoparticles

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Happy to share that our paper Toxicity of zinc oxide nanoparticles: Cellular and behavioural effects has been accepted for publication in Chemosphere. In this last work, the effects of zinc oxide nanoparticles on glial cells and zebrafish individuals, particularly at cytogenetic and behavioural levels, are investigated. The involvement of the Zn2+ ions released from the NP …

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