The main aim and objective of the Action are to organize and coordinate an innovative and dynamic Network, connecting academia, industries and water management authorities to advance and apply knowledge and expertise on zoosporic parasites (i.e. aquatic fungi and fungi-like microorganisms) and the relation with their hosts in natural ecosystems and industrial algal biotech production.
The main aim and objective of the Action are to organize and coordinate an innovative and dynamic Network, connecting academia, industries and water management authorities to advance and apply knowledge and expertise on zoosporic parasites (i.e. aquatic fungi and fungi-like microorganisms) and the relation with their hosts in natural ecosystems and industrial algal biotech production.
Zoosporic parasites cause severe host mortality of aquatic organisms. The economic impacts of parasitic diseases are notable in the microalgae biotech industry, affecting the production of food ingredients, biofuels, pharma- and nutraceuticals. But zoosporic parasites also constitute important drivers of natural populations, potentially influencing aquatic food webs and community dynamics, including maintaining and promoting diversity.
Meet #ParAqua Members : Belen Villarreal Toribio, R&D Manager at AlgaSpring interested in the upstream and downstream of microalgae, aquaculture nutrition and welfare, and microalgae microbiome. #COST #CA20125 #AlgaeBiotech
Meet #ParAqua Members : Petr Znachor, head of the Department of the Aquatic Microbial Ecology (Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre CAS) and lecturer at the University of South Bohemia. #COST #CA20125 #ZoosporicParasites
ParAqua-Newsletter#7 is out on our website
https://paraqua-cost.eu/news/paraqua-newsletter/
Meet #ParAqua Members : Dagmara Sirová, Researcher and PI at Biology Centre CAS with research interest in structure and function of complex microbiomes and interactions with eukaryotic hosts and biogeochemical processes at ecosystem boundaries. #COST #CA20125 #ZoosporicParasites
Meet #ParAqua Members : Caio Cesar Pires de Paula, microbial ecologist with interest in plant-microbe interaction #COST #CA20125 #ZoosporicParasites