Curriculum vitae Name: Aldo Barreiro Felpeto Date: 22/7/2010
Name: Aldo Barreiro Felpeto Date of birth: 03/05/1979 Nationality: Spanish CURRENT PROFESSIONAL STATUS Position: Postdoctoral researcher Organism: University of Vigo Department: Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal. Address: Facultad de Bioloxía. Campus Vigo. 36310 Vigo (Spain) Telephone: (+34) 986814030 E-mail: aldo@uvigo.es ACADEMIC EDUCATION Degree Center Date Biology University of Vigo June 2001 Ph.D. (Ecology) Universty of Vigo 20 April 2007 Extraordinary award in Biology (University of Vigo 2001) LANGUAGES (scale 1 to 4) (Native: Spanish, Galician) English 3 French 3 Italian 2 FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED Fellowship Institution Dates Training in research grant Spanish Ministry of Education 2000-2001 for undergraduate students Ph.D. Fellowship Spanish Ministry of Education 2003-2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship Spanish Ministry of Education Fulbright commission 2008-2010
RESEARCH INTERESTS Plankton population and community dynamics. Chemical ecology of phytoplankton. COLABORATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS Title: Transfer and Fate of Harmful Algal Bloom Toxins in European Marine Waters (FATE). 2003-2005 Funding Organism: European Commission (contract no EVK3 CT-2000 00055). Title: Definition of optimal windows conditioning egg and larval survival in pelagic fishes (SAVOR). 2002-2004 Funding Organism: Spanish Ministry of Science, Education and Technology. Title: Factors structuring fish community in Amazonas river, an integrative approach of community ecology and phylogeny. 2007-2009 Funding Organism: Spanish Ministry of Science, Education and Technology. PUBLICATIONS Estimation of copepod trophic-niche in the field using amino acids and marker pigments Guisande C, Maneiro I., Riveiro I., Barreiro A. & Pazos Y. Marine Ecology Progress Series 239: 147-156. 2002. Relative importance of the different negative effects of the toxic haptophyte Prymnesium parvum on Rhodomonas salina and Brachionus plicatilis Barreiro A., Guisande C., Maneiro I., Lien T.P., Legrand C., Tamminen T., Sirpa Lehtinen, Uroneen P. & Granéli E. Aquatic Mycrobial Ecology 38: 259-267. 2005. Fate of Domoic acid ingested by the copepod Acartia clausi Maneiro I., Iglesias P., Guisande C., Riveiro I., Barreiro A., Zervoudaki S., & Granéli E. Marine Biology 148: 123-130. 2005. Feeding strategies of the copepod Acartia clausi upon sole and mixed diets of toxic and non-toxic strains of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum Barreiro A., Guisande C., Frangópulos M., González Fernández A., Muñoz S., Pérez D., Magadán S., Maneiro I., Riveiro I. & Iglesias P. Marine Ecology Progress Series 316: 115-125. 2006. Release and Degradation of Amnesic Shellfish Poison from Decaying Pseudonitzschia multiseries in presence of Bacteria and Organic matter Hägstrom J., Granéli E., Maneiro I., Barreiro A., Petermann A. & Svensen C. Harmful algae 6: 175-188. 2006.
Tratamiento de datos (Data analysis). Ed. Díaz de Santos (Madrid) 2006. Guisande C., Barreiro A., Maneiro I., Riveiro I., Vergara A., Vaamonde A. Book. Zooplankton interactions with toxic phytoplankton: some implications for food web studies and algal defences strategies of feeding selectivity behaviour, toxin dilution and phytoplankton populations diversity. Barreiro A., Guisande C., Maneiro I., Vergara A.R., Riveiro I. & Iglesias P. Acta Oecologica 32: 279-290. 2007. Factors responsible for the differences in satellite-based chlorophyll a concentration among the major global upwelling areas. Patti B., Guisande C., Vergara A.R., Riveiro I., Maneiro I., Barreiro, A., Bonanno A., Buscaino G., Cuttitta A., Basilone G., Mazzola S. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 76: 775-786. 2008. Testing of the CHEMTAX program in contrasting Neotropical lakes, lagoons and swamps. Guisande C., Barreiro A., Acuña A., Marciales L.J., Hernández E., Torres A.M., Aranguren N., López W., Duque S.R., Gallo L.G., Aguirre N., Mogollón M., Palacio J., Rueda G. Limnology and Ocenography: Methods 6: 643-652. 2008. Evaluation of the production of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning toxins by extracellular bacteria isolated from the toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum. Prol Garcia M.J., Guisande C., Barreiro A., Miguez B., de la Iglesia P., Villar A., Gago-Martinez A., Combarro M.P. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 55: 943-954. 2009. Generation of monoclonal antibodies for the specific inmunodetection of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum Halim from Spanish waters. Carrera, M., Garet, E., Barreiro, A., Garces, E., Perez, D., Guisande, C., Gonzalez-Fernandez, A. Harmful Algae, 9 (3): 272-280. 2010. PAPERS IN PREPARATION Diatom induction of reproductive failure in copepods: the effect of PUAs versus other toxic oxylipins. Barreiro A., Carotenuto Y., Esposito F., D Ippolito G., Fontana A., Ianora A., Miralto A. & Guisande C. Effects of nutrient conditions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as food for microzooplankton and its allelopathic effects on phytoplankton. Barreiro A. et al. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii - Brachionus calicyflorus interaction as a model of nutrient limitation effects on food quality: the effect of contrasting functional responses on population dynamics. Barreiro A. et al. Toxic and allelopathic effects of Ochromonas sp. on aquatic organisms. Barreiro A., Hiltunen T. et al.
Predator-prey dynamics driven by the interaction between stoichiometry and inducible defenses in the prey. Barreiro A. et al. STAYS IN OTHER INSTITUTIONS Tvärminne Zoological Station. Hanko (Finland). 2002. Duration: 0.5 months. Research performed: Interactions Prymesium parvum - microzooplankton. Supervisor: Timmo Tamminen. Kalmar University. Kalmar (Sweden). 2002. Duration: 0.5 months. Reseach performed: Interactions toxic cyanobacteria - mesozooplankton. Supervisor: Edna Granéli. Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn. Laboratory of Ecophysiology. Napoli (Italy). 2005 Duration: 3 months. Research performed: Effects of diatom inhibitory compounds on copepod reproduction. Supervisor: Adrianna Ianora. Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics. University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam (the Netherlands). 2006. Duration: 3 months. Research performed: Interespecific competition for nutrients and light between phytoplankton species in chemostats experiments. Supervisor: Jef Huisman. Cornell University. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. 2008-2010 Ithaca, New York. USA. Duration: 24 months. Research performed: Population dynamics of phytoplankton zooplankton interaction in continuous culture systems (chemostats). Supervisor: Nelson G. Hairston Jr. CONTRIBUTIONS IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND CONGRESSES Direct and indirect effects of the haptophyte Prymnesium parvum on zooplankton Barreiro A., Guisande C., Maneiro I., Lien T.P., Legrand C., Tamminen T. & E. Granéli E. Congress: EuroHAB 2003 Place: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Date: March 2003
Presence of Coccomyxa parasitica (Chlorophyta: Chlorococcales) in mussels (Mytilus galloprovincilais) of Vigo estuary (Galicia, NW Spain) Crespo González C., Barreiro A., Guisande C., Iglesias R., Estévez J.M. Congress: IX European Multicolloquium of Parasitology Place: Valencia, Spain. Date: July 2004 Kin selection in endotoxin producers Guisande C., Barreiro A., Frangopoulos M., Maneiro I., Riveiro I. & Iglesias P. Congress: IX HAB 2004 Place: Cape Town, South Africa. Date: October 2004 Domoic acid detection in various functional groups of the benthic food web in Ría de Vigo, Spain. Reizopoulou S., Strogyloudi E., Giannakourou A., Varkitzi I., Petermann A., Ramil F., Barreiro A., Graneli E. & K. Pagou Congress: ASLO Summer Meeting 2005 Place: Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Date: June 2005 SAVOR project: Definition of the optimal environmental windows that limit egg and larval survival of pelagic fish species in spawning areas with highly contrasted habitat conditions in the Iberian Peninsula. Álvarez P., Cotano U., Valencia V., Aguilera B., Moli B., Olivar M.P., Palomera I., Rubiés P., Sabatés A., Salat J., Rodríguez J.M., González-Pola C., Cortés D., García A., Giráldez A., Ramírez T., Alemany F., Álvarez F., Álvarez I., Villate F., Intxausti L., Guisande C., Riveiro I., Maneiro I., Vergara A.R., Barreiro A. Congress: 29 th Annual larval fish conference Place: Barcelona, Spain. Date: July 2005 Correlation between the lipoxygenase activity of diatoms and the reproductive failure of their grazers. Lamari N., Barreiro A., d Ippolito G., Cutignano A., Romano G., Ianora A., Miralto A., Cimino G. and Fontana A. Congress: 5 th European Congress on Marine Natural Products Place: Ischia, Italy. Date: September 2007 OTHER MERITS Courses: Applications of Flow cytometry to Marine Biology. University of Vigo. November 2002. Modelling for Ecology and Natural Resources Management. Politechnic University of Catalunya. 2006/07. Introducttion to the use and programming in statistics with R.
University of Vigo. September 2007. Avanced course on System dynamics. Politechnic University of Catalunya. 2008. R as a programming language for statistics. III i-math Intensive Course on open source software. University of Vigo. 2010. Revision of scientific publications: Lymnology & Oceanography, Biogeochemistry, Marine Ecology Progress Series. Teaching experience: General Ecology (practical lessons). 2004-2005, 2005 2006, 2006-2007. University of Vigo.