Lucia Chesta is completing her Oceanography degree at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). From a young age, she felt a deep curiosity for the sea and its mysteries, which led her to discover her vocation for studying and understanding the physical processes that occur in the oceans and their connection with marine life. Her … Continued
Juliana Giménez, Ph.D. (University of Buenos Aires), is an Independent Researcher at CONICET and Full Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. She teaches at both the Ciclo Básico Común and the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, contributing to undergraduate and postgraduate education. As head of the Laboratory of Marine Invertebrate Biology at IBBEA … Continued
Gino Zamborlini was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is currently completing his Bachelor’s degree in Geological Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, and this expedition forms part of his undergraduate thesis project. Since childhood, he has been curious about how things around him work. Over time, that curiosity developed into a … Continued
Doctoral student Maialen G. Ardusso is developing her doctoral project at the Argentine Institute of Oceanography (IADO), Bahía Blanca (Argentina), as a member of the Transition Environments Chemistry Research Group (GIQAT), with a doctoral scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). Her work focuses on studying microplastic dynamics in coastal environments, … Continued
Andrea Natalia Alvarez is currently a Ph.D. fellow at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), working in the Marine Zooplankton Laboratory under the Department of Biodiversity and Experimental Biology (DBBE) and the Institute of Biodiversity and Applied Experimental Biology (IBBEA, CONICET). Her doctoral research focuses on the early larval stages of Patagonotothen spp., a genus … Continued
Luana Yazmin Acosta is currently a PhD student in the department of Geological Sciences, supported by a scholarship from the National Scientific and Technical a Research Council (CONICET). She is working in the Institute of Basic, Applied and Environmental Geosciences of Buenos Aires (IGeBA, CONICET-UBA). Her doctoral research focuses on understanding the seafloor morphology and … Continued
Robert Sutak is a biochemist and eukaryotic microbiologist who leads the Biometals and Drug Discovery Laboratory at the Biocev Centre, which is affiliated with Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His main area of expertise is iron homeostasis in organisms including yeasts, human disease models, and parasitic protozoa. He has a longstanding interest in understanding … Continued
Pavel Doležal, Ph.D., is a Czech molecular parasitologist and group leader at the Department of Parasitology, BIOCEV, Faculty of Science, Charles University. His research explores how protein transport systems and mitochondria have evolved, particularly in relation to parasitism and the transition to anaerobic lifestyles. He has collaborated internationally with research teams in Australia and the … Continued
Daniel is a Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry PhD candidate in the Budin lab at the University of California – San Diego. Daniel holds a B.S. in Biomolecular Engineering from UC Santa Cruz and a M.S. in Chemistry from UC San Diego. His research focuses on how organisms optimize the lipid composition of their cellular membranes … Continued
Buzz Baum is a cell biologist. Buzz studied Biochemistry at Oxford University, obtained his PhD studying the cell division cycle in yeast with Sir Paul Nurse in London, and was a postdoctoral researcher studying cell shape and tissue organisation in fruit flies at Harvard Medical School with Norbert Perrimon. Since 2001, when Buzz returned to … Continued
