My scientific interests are mainly in the field of Aquatic Ecophysiology. Specifically, I am interested in aquatic (marine and freshwater) fish and invertebrates. These include fish swimming energetics and kinematics, salinity tolerance and osmoregulation and the relationship between genetic and physiological variability. Lately I began to study physiological effects of non-ionic surfactant pollutants on marine organisms.
Several research projects are being held in my laboratory:

1. Swimming energetics of fishes with small body size.

2. the effects of genetic variability on physiological variability in zebrafish, Danio rerio.

3. Salinity tolerance and osmoregulation in two blenny species from different habitats.

See the poster1998 presented in the VIII International Symposium on Fish Physiology, 15-18 August  1998, Uppsala, Swedwen: Effects of fin size on swimming performance and
routine activity in zebrafish, Danio rerio

See the poster1999 presented in the Fifth International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, August 23-28, 1999, Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Effects of salinity on swimming performance, routine activity and resting metabolic rate on the euryhaline killifish, Aphanius dispar.

See the poster2000 presented in the the 21st Congress of ESCPB, LIEGE - BELGIUM JULY 24-28, 2000, and Society of Experimental Biolgy (SEB), Cambridge 2000 Symposium, July 30th - August 3rd 2000, Queens College Cambridge UK: Critical swimming speed: its ecological relevance.
 

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