MARIA BEGOÑA AYO MILLAN
- Knowledge area
- Microbiology
- Department
- Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology
- Centre
- Faculty of Science and Technology
- Electronic mail
- begona.ayo@ehu.eus
Begoña Ayo finished her degree in Biology in 1987, became PhD in Science (Biology) at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1995 (awarded with a “Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado” in1998), and won a postdoctoral grant to develope the Quality Control system in Microbiology at the industry Faes Farma SA (1997-98).
She has developed her teaching activity mainly at the Science and Technology Faculty of the UPV/EHU (awarded with the “Diploma de Excelencia en Actividad Docente” in 2012). She teaches courses on Microbiology, Applied Microbiology and Microbial Ecology at the graduate level of Grades of Biology, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and postgraduate level of Masters “Biodiversidad, Funcionamiento y Gestión de Ecosistemas”, “Microbiología y Salud” and “Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Marine Environment.
She works on marine microbial ecology, specifically on the acquisition of predictive power about the functioning of the microbial communities in future scenarios of global warming. Additionally, she is analyzing the field data obtained in the research project 'Malaspina Circumnavigation Expedition 2010: Global Change and Exploration of the Biodiversity Global Ocean , in which she participated in the thematic block Microbiological Biodiversity and Ecological Function.
She has participated in 21 competitive research projects funded by the UPV/EHU, the Basque Government