Feijoo

GROUP LEADER NAME (as it appears in publications):

Carmen G Feijoo

AFFILIATION:

Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Andres Bello, Republica 217, tercer piso, Santiago, Chile

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56-2-7703225

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EMAIL:*

cfeijoo@unab.cl

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GROUP NAME / RESEARCH INTEREST IN FEW WORDS:

Feijoo Lab/ We are Interested in the fish innate immune system and inflammatory response.

SHORT SUMMARY OF RESEARCH INTEREST (MAX. 200 WORDS):

Our lab is interested in the fish innate immune system. We are focused in two different aspects; first we are analyzing the effect of chronic exposure to chemical contaminants, like antibiotics, present in fish farms in the innate immune response. On the other hand and due to the need to replace, at least in part, the fishmeal from fish food, we are standarising a method to measure the inflammatory effect of different of vegetable origin proteins, such as soya, in the zebrafish intestine.

LIST OF UP TO FIVE RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS:

                1- Feijóo CG., Oñate M., Milla LA., Palma V. (2011) Sonic Hedgehog (Shh)-Gli signaling controls neural progenitor cell division in the developing tectum in zebrafish. Eur J Neurosci. 33:589-98.

               2.-Feijoo CG., Pistocchi A, Cabrera P, Cotelli F, Allende ML. (2009) The zebrafish prospero homolog prox1 is required for mechanosensory hair cell differentiation and functionality in the lateral line. BMC Dev Biol. 9: 58.

               3.-Feijoo CG., Sarrazin A., Allende ML and Glavic A. (2009) Cystein-serine-rich nuclear protein 1, Axud1/Csrnp1, is essential for cephalic neural progenitor proliferation and survival in zebrafish.. Developmental Dynamics, 238:2034-43.

 4.-Feijóo, CG., Saldia M., de la Paz J., Gomez-Skarmeta J.L., Allende M.L. (2009) Formation of hindbrain placode derivatives requires the neural pre-pattern gene irx4a, a member of the Iroquois family of homeobox transcription factors. Mol Cell Neurosci. 40, 328-337.

 5.-De la Calle-Mustienes E., Feijóo CG, Manzanares M., Rodríguez-Seguel E., Tena J., Letizia A., Allende M.L., Gómez-Skarmeta J.L. (2005). A functional survey of conserved non-coding sequences from vertebrate Iroquois cluster gene deserts. Genome Res. 15, 1061-1072.

GROUP MEMBERS (NAME, POSITION, EMAIL):*

                1-Francisco Barros-Becker, graduate student, fbarros86@gmail.com

                2-Kamila Solis, graduate student, kamila.solis@gmail.com

                3-Jaime Espina, graduate student, jaime.espina2501@gmail.com

                4-Manuel Hedrera, graduate student, mhedrera88@gmail.com

5.-Emilio Vergara, Technical asisteant

FISH FACILITIES (TYPE OF FISH SYSTEM/TANKS, CAPACITY, ETC.)*

3 Aquatic Habitats Stand-Alone  (70 10L tanks and 30 3L tanks)

FISH LINES KEPT IN STOCK:*

TAB5, New WT, Cornell, BacMpo::GFP, Lyz::DsRed, SqET1, SqET20, SqET4, Brn3c::GFP, Brn3a::GFP, GFI::GFP, Fli::GFP, Sox10::GFP, mpeg1::cherry, hsp70::GFP, Shh::GFP, Cldb::GFP, Huc::GFP, Foxd3::GFP, islet1::GFP

OTHER EQUIPMENT RELATED TO ZEBRAFISH RESEARCH*

LAB EXPERTISE AND TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES (RELATED TO ZEBRAFISH RESEARCH)

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