The visit, coordinated by the center's Scientific and Innovation Culture Unit (UCC+i) with the collaboration of research staff, began with an introductory talk by the Director and Research Professor, Ariadna Sitjà Bobadilla. Subsequently, Mar Navarro Llombart and Millán Mozota Holgueras, from the UCC+i, guided the students through the facilities.
The students had the opportunity to visit two experimental rooms. In Experimental Room C, Álvaro Belenguer Ferrando, from the Fish Nutrigenomics and Integrative Biology group, explained his team's studies on fish nutrition, welfare, and growth, showcasing feed examples and detailing the digitalization of facilities and monitoring systems like microchips and biosensors.
In Experimental Room D, David Cordero Otero, from the Global Change, Conservation, and Genetics of Marine Species group, presented research on the genetics of commercially important bivalve mollusks, highlighting their benefits for natural population recovery and product quality improvement. He also discussed studies on the impacts of global change on vulnerable marine species such as the Mediterranean coral Cladocora caespitosa or the noble pen shell (Pinna nobilis), and the cultivation of phytoplankton and zooplankton.
