AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching will provide knowledge on the interactions between animals and the abiotic components of marine ad transition environments that can represent a source of environmental stress. The mechanisms involved in the biological response to environmental stressors at different levels of organization (form molecular to individual) and the parameters that can measure the stress response (biomarkers) will be defined. The main standard methods to quantify changes in different biomarkers in different sentinel organisms will be illustrated.

TEACHING METHODS

In presence. Practical lab. activities will be carried  out in groups, organized according to the number of studies.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Poli, Fabbri : Physiology of Marine organisms - Zanichelli

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LAURA CANESI (President)

ILARIA DEMORI

TERESA BALBI (President Substitute)

LESSONS

Class schedule

BIOMARKERS OF MARINE POLLUTION

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

oral

FURTHER INFORMATION

Attendance to 75% of pratical laboratory activities is mandatory. Students should be provided with a lab. coat.

Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities on file with the University and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the instructor and with Professor Sara Ferrando (sara.ferrando@unige.it), the Department’s disability liaison