Andrea Miccoli

Researcher

Andrea is a marine ecologist whose research addresses the impacts of environmental, biological and anthropogenic stressors on animal physiology. He put particular emphasis on the study of the reproductive physiology, the hormonal cascade of stress and the immune response in teleost fishes using transcriptomics, molecular and biochemical techniques. The experimental models he mainly uses are teleost fish (Dicentrarchus labrax, Sparus aurata, Seriola dumerili, Diplodus sargus, Mullus barbatus, Merluccius merluccius) for in vivo and ex vivo experimental designs, and cell cultures, both continuous and primary, for in vitro assays, in line with the 3Rs principle in animal experimentation and the New Methodological Approaches strongly sponsored by the European Union and regulatory toxicology roadmaps. After receiving his PhD in 2017, he worked on a short-term basis in the European project DIVERSIFY focused on aquaculture and spent a year at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences as Research Associate II during which he participated in several oceanographic cruises funded by NASA (EXPORTS) and NSF (BIOS-SCOPE, OFP). Andrea held the position of fixed-term researcher at University of Tuscia between 2019 and 2023. Within that period, he coordinated the EU H2020 project “ALPHEUS”, two FEAMP 2014-2020 projects “PISCES” and “NANOPISCES” and one dissemination-based project to schools. In 2021-2022 he participated to the 5th cohort of the European Food Safety EU-FORA fellowship and implemented the work programme “The use of NAM and omics data in risk assessment” at the Bundesinstitut fur Risikobewertung (BfR), Berlin (Germany) under the shared supervision of Prof. Dr. Albert Braeuning and Dr. Philip Marx-Stölting.

 

Educational background

– Polytechnic University of Marche, 2013-2017 – PhD in Life and Environmental Sciences, curriculum of Marine Biology and Ecology

– Polytechnic University of Marche, 2010-2013 – MSc in Marine Biology

– University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 2007-2010 – BSc in Ecology

 

Expertise:

Fish physiology; Aquaculture; NAMs; RNA sequencing

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The research activities of the Institute are carried out in the context of research, development and innovation projects, both national and international, based on regional funding programs (POR FEAMPA - Regional Operational Program of the European Maritime Affairs Fisheries Fund and Aquaculture and POR FESR - Regional Operational Program of the European Regional Development Fund) or ministerial (PRIN - Projects of relevant national interest, PNRA - National Research Program in Antarctica, PO FEAMPA - National Operational Program European Maritime Affairs Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund) , programs for European Territorial Cooperation (Interreg), direct funding programs of the European Commission (Horizon2020 and Horizon Europe, Life, JPI - Joint Programming Initiatives, ERA-NET Cofund) and thematic collaboration initiatives managed by international organizations such as, for example , the FAO - GFCM (General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean). The Institute also develops funded projects in the context of collaborations with private companies in the sectors of the blue economy as well as technology transfer and research results. Research projects, mainly of a collaborative nature, are developed through a wide network of partners that include major Italian and foreign research institutions and universities.

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