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Gaybrielle A Smith, Doctoral Student/Researcher
Consolidated Research Group “Cell Biology in Environmental Toxicology CBET”
Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology
Faculty of Science and Technology
University of the Basque Country (EHU)
Sarriena Auzoa z/g, E-48940 Leioa, Basque Country (Spain)

Oceanic and Continental Environments and Paleoenvironments group EPOC
Faculty of Biological Sciences
University of Bordeaux (UB)
Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire,
33600, Pessac, France

ORCID code: 0009-0005-5291-7261
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaybrielleasmith/ 
Research Group (EHU): https://www.ehu.eus/web/cellbiologyinenvironmentaltoxicology
Research Group (UB): https://epoc-umr.fr/

Biography

Gaybrielle A Smith is a current doctoral student and researcher at the University of The Basque Country (EHU) as part of the Cellular Biology in Environmental Toxicology+ One Health consolidated research group as well as the University of Bordeaux (UB) in the Oceanic and Continental Environments and Paleoenvironments working group.  She studies the effect of novel partially biobased nanoplastics on aquatic organisms through in vitro techniques in mussel hemocytes and fish cell lines and toxicity assays in zebrafish adults and larvae. She obtained her joint master’s degree in Marine and Environmental Resources from the EHU, UB, and University of Liége. She has participated in several projects including the collaborative research project "Evaluating the impacts of Ocean acidification on Seafood- A Global Approach" (2021-2023 ref: CRP41018) and more recently the ENSURE2 (“ENvironmental Safety of polyUrethanes from REnewable sources and from REcycled plastics: hazard assessment based on a battery of alternative methods”; 2022-2025 ref: TED2021- 131147B-I00”) , FIERA (“Fate and Impact of Environmentally ReAlistic nanoplastics and of novel bioplastics in the aquatic environment”; 2022-2025 ref: PID2021-128600OB-I00) and Laboratory for Transborder Collaboration (LTC) AquEus funded by Euskampus and the Basque Government.

List of selected ongoing projects:

• “Fate and Impact of Environmentally ReAlistic nanoplastics and of novel bioplastics in the aquatic environment (FIERA)”.
  Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities
  Reference: PID2021-128600OB-I00.
  Researcher
  Duration: 01-01-2022/31-12-2026

• “Synthesis, fate, and impact of novel fluorescent biobased nanoplastics and of biobased microplastics in aquatic organisms (FLUOBIOPLAST2)”
  University of the Basque Country Leioa, Basque Country, Spain.
  Reference: PID2021-128600OB-I00
  Researcher
  Duration Start date: 01-01-2025/ 31/12/2026