Spanish National Research Council

Jaume Pérez Sánchez (PI1)

Institution: CSIC

Category: Research Professor

Mail: jaime.perez.sanchez@csic.es

Josep Calduch Giner (PI2)

Institution: CSIC

Category: Full Scientist

Mail: j.calduch@csic.es

Álvaro Belenguer Ferrando

Institution: CSIC

Category: Full Scientist

Mail: a.belenguer@csic.es

Federico Moroni

Institution: CSIC

Category: Contract Postdoc

Mail: federico.moroni@csic.es

Fernando Naya Catalá

Institution: CSIC

Category: Biotechnology PhD Candidate

Mail: fernando.naya@iats.csic.es

Ricardo Domingo Bretón

Institution: CSIC

Category: Biotechnology PhD Candidate

Mail: ricardo.domingo@csic.es

Paul George Holhorea

Institution: CSIC

Category: Graduate in Marine Sciences

Mail: paul.holhorea@csic.es

Mª Angeles González Albaladejo

Institution: CSIC

Category: Laboratory technician

María Hernández Marín

Institution: CSIC

Category: ThinkInAzul Manager

Mail: gestion.thinkinazul@csic.es

Jaime Nàcher Mestre

Institución: EDEM
Categoría: Associate lecturer
Mail: jnacher@edem.es

Carlos Llorens

Institución: Biotechvana
Categoría: CEO
Mail: carlos.llorens@biotechvana.com

Ahmed Hafez

Institución: Biotechvana
Categoría: PhD
Mail: ahmed.hafez@biotechvana.com

Aya Allah Ali Elsayed

Institución: Biotechvana
Categoría: Predoctoral Fellow
Mail: ayoya.ali@biotechvana.com

Beatriz Soriano Salvador

Institución: Biotechvana

Categoría: Predoctoral Fellow
Mail: beatriz.soriano@biotechvana.com

José María Sempere Luna

Institución: Universitat Politècnica de València

Categoría: Senior Lecturer
Mail: jsempere@dsic.upv.es

Tasks responsible for WP3:

• Task 3.1.1: Biosensors.
• Task 3.1.4: Computational analysis and omics integration tools.
• Task 3.1.5: Integrated use of cultured fish welfare assessment platforms.
• Task 3.2.1: New feed formulations for sea bream.

Tasks WP3 participant:

• Task 3.1.3: Monitoring of fatty acid profile.
• Task 3.2.3: Lipid metabolism.
• Task 3.3.1: Valorize discards and by-products from fish and meat industries.
• Task 3.3.3: Inclusion of functionalized ingredients in feed.
• Task 6.2.2: Environmental and socioeconomic interactions: prevention, contingency and mitigation.

Naya-Català, F., Piazzon, M. C., Torrecillas, S., Toxqui-Rodríguez, S., Calduch-Giner, J. A., Fontanillas, R., Sitjà-Bobadilla, A., Montero, D., & Pérez-Sánchez, J. (2022b). Genetics and Nutrition Drive the Gut Microbiota Succession and Host-Transcriptome Interactions through the Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata) Production Cycle. Biology, 11(12), 1744.

Naya-Català, F., Pereira, G. D. V., Piazzon, M. C., Fernandes, A. F. C., Calduch-Giner, J. A., Sitjà-Bobadilla, A., Conceição, L. E., & Pérez-Sánchez, J. (2021). Cross-Talk Between Intestinal Microbiota and Host Gene Expression in Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata) Juveniles: Insights in Fish Feeds for Increased Circularity and Resource Utilization. Frontiers in Physiology, 12

Piazzon, M. C., Naya-Català, F., Perera, E., Palenzuela, O., Sitjà-Bobadilla, A., & Pérez-Sánchez, J. (2020). Genetic selection for growth drives differences in intestinal microbiota composition and parasite disease resistance in gilthead sea bream. Microbiome, 8(1).

Pérez-Sánchez, J., Naya-Català, F., Soriano, B., Piazzon, M. C., Hafez, A. I., Gabaldón, T., Llorens, C., Sitjà-Bobadilla, A., & Calduch-Giner, J. A. (2019). Genome Sequencing and Transcriptome Analysis Reveal Recent Species-Specific Gene Duplications in the Plastic Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata). Frontiers in Marine Science, 6.

Pérez-Sánchez, J., Simó-Mirabet, P., Naya-Català, F., Perera, E., Bermejo-Nogales, A., Benedito-Palos, L., & Calduch-Giner, J. A. (2018). Somatotropic Axis Regulation Unravels the Differential Effects of Nutritional and Environmental Factors in Growth Performance of Marine Farmed Fishes. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 9.

Holhorea, P. G., Naya-Català, F., Domingo-Bretón, R., Moroni, F., Belenguer, Á., Calduch-Giner, J. À., & Pérez-Sánchez, J. (2024). Behavioural monitoring underlines habituation to repeated stressor stimuli in farmed gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) reared at a high stocking density. Biology, 13(11), 879. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13110879

França, T.S., González-López, W.A., Sanchez, M.P., Ferrão, L., Fernández-García, F., Borges,L.P., Belenguer, A., Holhorea, P.G., Calduch-Giner, J.C., Felip, A., Gómez, A., Pérez-Sánchez, J., Streit, D.P., Asturiano, J.F. (2024) Successful cryopreservation in biodegradable containers of sperm from aquaculture Mediterranean fishes. Theriogenology, 216, 53-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2023.12.016.

Belenguer, Á., Naya-Català, F., Calduch-Giner, J. À., & Pérez-Sánchez, J. (2024). Exploring multifunctional markers of biological age in farmed gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata): A transcriptomic and epigenetic interplay for an improved fish welfare assessment approach. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(18), 9836. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25189836

Simó-Mirabet, P., Naya-Català, F., Calduch-Giner, J. A., & Pérez-Sánchez, J. (2024). The expansion of Sirtuin gene family in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata)—phylogenetic, syntenic, and functional insights across the vertebrate/fish lineage. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(11), 6273. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25116273

Naya-Català, F., Torrecillas, S., Piazzon, M. C., Sarih, S., Calduch-Giner, J. À., Fontanillas, R., Hostins, B., Sitjà‐Bobadilla, A., Acosta, F., Pérez‐Sánchez, J., & Montero, D. (2024). Can the genetic background modulate the effects of feed additives? Answers from gut microbiome and transcriptome interactions in farmed gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) fed with a mix of phytogenics, organic acids or probiotics. Aquaculture, 740770. 

Naya-Català, F., Belenguer, Á., Montero, D., Torrecillas, S., Soriano, B., Calduch-Giner, J. À., Lloréns, C., Fontanillas, R., Sarih, S., Zamorano, M. J., Izquierdo, M., & Pérez‐Sánchez, J. (2023). Broodstock nutritional programming differentially affects the hepatic transcriptome and genome-wide DNA methylome of farmed gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) depending on genetic background. BMC Genomics, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-023-09759-7

Holhorea, P. G., Naya-Català, F., Belenguer, Á., Calduch-Giner, J. À., & Pérez‐Sánchez, J. (2023). Understanding how high stocking densities and concurrent limited oxygen availability drive social cohesion and adaptive features in regulatory growth, antioxidant defense and lipid metabolism In farmed gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata). Frontiers in Physiology, 14.

Soriano, B., Hafez, A. I., Naya-Català, F., Moroni, F., Moldovan, R. A., Toxqui-Rodríguez, S., Piazzon, M. C., Arnau, V., Llorens, C., & Pérez-Sánchez, J. (2023). SAMBA: Structure-Learning of Aquaculture Microbiomes using a Bayesian approach. Genes, 14(8), 1650.

Hafez, A. I., Soriano, B., Elsayed, A. A., Futami, R., Ceprian, R., Ramos-Ruiz, R., Martinez, G., Roig, F. J. A., Torres-Font, M. A., Naya-Català, F., Calduch-Giner, J. A., Trilla-Fuertes, L., Gámez-Pozo, A., Arnau, V., Sempere, J. M., Pérez-Sánchez, J., Gabaldon, T., & Llorens, C. (2023). Client Applications and Server-Side Docker for Management of RNASeq and/or VariantSeq Workflows and Pipelines of the GPRO Suite. Genes, 14(2), 267.

Calduch-Giner, J. A., Holhorea, P. G., Ferrer, M., Naya-Català, F., Rosell-Moll, E., García, C. M., Prunet, P., Espmark, Å. M. O., Leguen, I., Kolarevic, J., Vega, A., Kerneis, T., Goardon, L., Afonso, J. C., & Pérez-Sánchez, J. (2022). Revising the Impact and Prospects of Activity and Ventilation Rate Bio-Loggers for Tracking Welfare and Fish-Environment Interactions in Salmonids and Mediterranean Farmed Fish. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9.

Holhorea, P. G., Felip, A., Calduch-Giner, J. A., Afonso, J. C., & Pérez-Sánchez, J. (2023). Use of male-to-female sex reversal as a welfare scoring system in the protandrous farmed gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata). Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9.