BIOTOX Lab

Biomonitoring and Ecotoxicology Lab

[one blue eu @one_blue_eu]

🎥 Check out how we decided ONE-BLUE’s steps in 2025 in our meeting in Athens!

🙏Thanks to @ApoloxShow for their excellent work recording our meetings!

❓Do you want to know more about our Annual Meeting?

💻https://t.co/71CX2VYPJw

#HorizonEU #ONEBLUE

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

🚨 Goodbye Twitter, Hello Bluesky! 🚀

After the latest Twitter changes, it’s time to move on. You can now find us on Bluesky. Same vibes, better platform!

👉 Follow: https://t.co/7RSeLdNbto

Let’s keep the conversation going — see you there! 💙

@cienciasulisboa @MAREscience

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

🌊💊 Did you know that propranolol, a β-blocker, has different toxic effects depending on its enantiomer?

R-PROP = Growth inhibition, oxidative stress & DNA damage
S-PROP = Lower toxicity

Enantioselective ecotoxicology!

https://t.co/PlMaZRyR5s

@cienciasulisboa @MAREscience

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

🚀 New Paper 🧬✨ explores how #nanoparticles influence gene regulation in mammals, bacteria & plants! From suppressing tumor growth to inhibiting biofilms & boosting plant stress resistance, the potential is HUGE!

🔗 https://t.co/CyC94aCAS4

@cienciasulisboa @MAREscience

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

New study 🌊📚 reveals how PCB-153 disrupts photosynthesis, inhibits growth & causes oxidative stress in marine diatoms. Key biomarkers identified for future ecotoxicological assessments.

https://t.co/zpHDdMln1C

@cienciasulisboa @MAREscience @BioISI @IPortugues35409

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

Synergies 2015

Meet the speakers!

Registrations open! Hope to see you all on the 26th of February!

@cienciasulisboa
@MAREscience @BioISI @CE3CResearch

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

If life gives you oranges 🍊… trace back their origin 🗺️! Testing our new infrared technology to assess the provenance of orange samples from different provenances! Stay tuned!

@cienciasulisboa @MAREscience

[one blue eu @one_blue_eu]

🔝ONE-BLUE reviewed last 28-29 January the progress made in 2024 in Athens (Greece) and coordinated the next steps for 2025.

✅On January 28th, the work package leaders reviewed the progress made in 2024 and overviewed the next steps in 2025.

💻PR: https://t.co/Z4tbJKsC3b

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

We are thrilled to announce that Synergies Workshop 2025 is officially set!

📅 Date: 26/02/2025
📍 Location: @cienciasulisboa (Building C2, 4th Floor, Room 2.4.16)

ℹ️ Info & registration: https://t.co/eQ0WfYhtTq

@cienciasulisboa @MAREscience @BioISI @CE3CResearch @GPS_Lab

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

Happy World Wetlands Day! A day to remind us how important these ecosystems are!

@MAREscience
@cienciasulisboa

[Convention on Wetlands @RamsarConv]

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay2025!

By conserving the world’s wetlands, we safeguard biodiversity, enhance climate resilience and secure critical ecosystem services that support human health, economic wellbeing and cultural heritage.

Because today and every day is #WorldWetlandsDay.

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

This week we are gathered with our @one_blue_eu project partners in Athens for our Annual Meeting to discuss the project progress and next steps 🌊🧪🧑‍💻

@cienciasulisboa @MAREscience

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

🦪 NEW STUDY ALERT! Using elemental fingerprinting, we achieved 93.2% accuracy in identifying Cerastoderma edule origins along the Portuguese coast.

Ensuring food safety & fighting seafood fraud!

📄 Read more: https://t.co/xcPAKF0l2Y

@cienciasulisboa @MAREscience

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

🎉 New research alert on Diogo Cao Bay in Angola reveals:
🔍Seasonal water quality shifts
⚠️Trace element contamination (Pb, Hg)
🌿Baselines for future conservation

Discover more about this tropical transitional system! 🌍
https://t.co/GxVTScqiiF

@cienciasulisboa @MAREscience

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

Next Tuesday (January 28th) we will participate in the World Wetland Day celebrations in an event organized by Ciência Viva about BLUE CARBON ECOSYSTEMS: DIVERSITY, IMPORTANCE AND SERVICES.

For more information: https://t.co/WpplySxjnP

@cienciasulisboa
@MAREscience

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

New Press Highlight
The work of our student João Carreiras on grapevine🍇 resistance improvement to heatwaves🌡️using marine bacteria🦠, is again in the spotlight this time at @caminteresse.

https://t.co/9fCyUvjBDm

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@MAREscience
@GPS_Lab
@unisevilla

[one blue eu @one_blue_eu]

🔝Only one week left for our 1st Cross Sectorial Technical Open meeting in Athens!

✍️Register here: https://t.co/pc71xytkzn

🤝@HcmrInOcean @VenthicTech @IDAEA_CSIC @CNRsocial_ @tudelft @INLnano #CONTRAST @NIVAforskning @eydapgr @ESYD_Greece @FinnovaEU

#HorizonEU

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

Last week we had the kick-off meeting of the uRESTART project to plan our next steps in this exciting project aiming to improve the efficiency of marsh ecosystem restoration using marine bacteria.

https://t.co/9r6uAmkxeR

@cienciasulisboa @MAREscience @BioISI @CE3CResearch

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

This semester we add the pleasure to have on our group the ERASMUS students Rocco Genovese and Francesca Raspadori doing part of their MSc Projects on the ecotoxicity of nanomaterials and anti-depressants in marine phytoplankton! Great work guys!

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[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

This year, we decided to give Generative AI a try to do our Christmas card asking for Santa in a salt marsh. And here is the result, along with our wishes for a Merry Christmas 🎅and a successful 2025 🎆

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@cienciasulisboa

[BIOTOX Lab @BIOTOXLab]

Check out the new promotional videos of the uRESTART project.

The project uRESTART aims to use microbial biostimulants to boost salt marsh restoration.

EN: https://t.co/Dnmpb1tiyx

PT: https://t.co/ukmCElsNi7

Stay tuned!

@MAREscience @cienciasulisboa @BioISI @CE3CResearch