Our research assesses the welfare and health of fish by using non-invasive biomarkers of skin mucus. We are also experts in the general fish metabolism according to their nutrition, environmental conditions and the characteristics of each species. This group belongs to the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology of the University of Barcelona (UB), where we have the adequate facilities for the study of fish biology.
- Skin mucus: Non-invasive bioindicators of the physiological state
- Skin mucus: Biomarkers of the immune and defensive state
- Antimicrobial activity (in vitro non-invasive studies of fish mucus)
- Skin mucus: Characterisation of the skin mucus proteome
- Energy metabolism: metabolic pathways and nutrient oxidation (liver, muscle)
- Protein turnover: tissue proteomics
- Oxidative stress: enzymes and metabolites involved (mucus, plasma, liver, muscle)
- Nutritional metabolism: nutrients use and fate using Stable Isotopes Analysis (13C and 15N)
- Tissue histology: skin, gills, intestine
