Teaching staff

URTZI IZAGUIRRE ARAMAYONA

Lecturer at the UPV/EHU in the Cell Biology Area of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology Dpt. (2008-).

Member of the Cell Biology and Environmental Toxicology Consolidated research group of the UPV/EHU (2001-).

In charge of the experimental aquatic unit of the Research Centre for Experimental Marine Biology and Biotechnology (Plentzia Marine Station) since its creation in 2012.

Coordinator of Comparative Histology course in the Biology Degree of UPV/EHU, and the course Fish and Shellfish Reproduction in the Erasmus Mundus MSc in Marine Environment and Resources (MER; MEC Quality Award, 2008-2012).

European PhD Thesis with extraordinary award 'Contribution to the interpretation of lysosomal biomarkers in marine organisms based on the mechanistic understanding of the lysosomal responses to pollutants' at the University of the Basque Country (2008).

Pre-doctoral studies at the Bioimaging Laboratory of the University of Wales (Aberystwyth) in electron microscopy.

Expertise: Toxicology, Pollution monitoring, Biomarkers in fish and molluscs, Natural variability, lysosomal biomarkers, Immuno-histology and histopathology, tissue-arrays.

Supervised 5 PhD Thesis. Published >50 articles. Participated in >45 projects.

Member of Scientific societies: SICTA, ESCPB, SETAC.