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Piero Calosi Dr Piero Calosi - ()
Role Qualifications & background since 2007 Research Councils UK Research Fellow University of Plymouth (UK)2006-2007 Leverhulme Trust Post
Doctoral Research Fellow in Physiological Ecology 'What determines a species’ geographic range?
Physiology and range size relationships in European diving beetles'. Dr DT Bilton & Prof JI Spicer, University of Plymouth
(UK)
2005-2006 Postdoctoral Research Assistant 'Population
genetic, social structure and phylogeny of South Hemisphere Long- Finned Pilot
Whales'. Dr. Paul Shaw, Royal Holloway – Professional membership Member of the: Marine Biological Association of the U.K. Society for Experimental Biology Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology British Ecological Society UK Carbon Capture and Storage Community Reviewer for: Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Proceeding of the Royal Society of London - B, Journal of Animal Ecology, Functional Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Marine Ecology progress series, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Marine Biology, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Journal of Zoology London, Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Journal of Crustacean Biology, Zoologia, High Pressure Research, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Toxicology. Teaching interests Research interests
My main research focus is investigating invertebrates' responses to the synergistic action of multiple global environmental drivers (e.g. warming, ocean acidity, salinity, hypoxia) in the near and less near future. I work at different levels of biological complexity (larvae to adult) and compare populations and species living along environmental gradients. I integrate ecophysiology, ecology and behaviour, and more recently transcriptomic and metabolomic techniques, to broaden our understanding of the implication of current levels of adaptation in defining taxa vulnerability to a changing environment. Further I am interested in determining whether species possess scope for further adaptation to rapid environmental changes and whether there are fitness consequences, investigating the responses of clonal strains, using laboratory natural selection experiments and carrying out translocation experiments to compare populations inhabiting contrasting environments. Main Research Lines: Macrophysiology of Marine Invertebrates Aquatic Invertebrates Experimental Evolutionary Physiology Ecophysiological Implication of Ocean Acidification, Hypoxia and Global Warming in Marine Invertebrates People Dr Samuel Rastrick - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Animal Ecophysiology. UK OA Research Programme 'Identify the physiological responses that underpin changes in organism performance and function'. Funding NERC-Defra. Dr Manuela Truebano - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Animal Developmental and Molecular Ecophysiology. Ms Marie Hawkins - Technician in Aquatic Animal Culture. UK OA Research Programme 'Identify the potential for organisms resistance and adaptation to prolonged CO2 exposure'. Funding NERC-Defra. Mr Daniel Small - PhD candidate. Project: Investigation of the combined impact of elevated CO2 and temperature on the developmental biology and functional physiology of crustaceans. Marine Institute, University of Plymouth. In collaboration with the National Lobster Hatchery and PML. Ms Nadja Christen - Master Research Project Student. Project: Effect of CO2 induced ocean acidification on physiological functions of macro-invertebrates rocky shore communities. Ms Heather Exley - Undergraduate Project Student. Project: The effect of long-term exposure to elevated CO2 on the survival and physiology of coastal shrimps. Mr Thomas Greenwood - Undergraduate Project Student. Project: The effect of CO2 induced ocean acidification on the feeding, growth and shell morphology of barnacles. Ms Sara Marshall - Undergraduate Project Student. Project: TBC. Mr Seth Thomas - Undergraduate Project Student. Project: TBC. People who passed by here! Prof Jonathon Stillman - visiting Research. Dr Nathan Miller - visiting Postdoctoral Researcher. Ms Sofia Ferreira - visiting Master Research Student. Ms Cristina Coccia - visiting PhD candidate. Ms Ines Le Fur - visiting Master Research Student. Ms Elena Aloisio - visiting Master Research Project Student. Dr Gloria Massamba-N'Siala - visiting Postdoctoral Researcher. Ms Paula Arribas Blazquez - visiting PhD candidate. Ms Anneli Stroble - visiting PhD candidate. Dr Felix Mark - visiting Postdoctoral Researcher. Ms Jennifer Pistevos - Master Research Project Student. Ms Rachel Hale - Master Science Project Student. Ms Penelope Donohue - Undergraduate Project Student. Mr David Griffith - Undergraduate Project Student. Mr Daniel Small - Undergraduate Project Student. Mr David Sanchez - visiting PhD candidate. UoP Research group membership Marine Biology & Ecology Research Centre (MBERC)Other research ACTIVE COLLABORATIONS
2011 – Present Prof J Stillman ‘Thermal tolerance and functional genomics of larval stage porcelain crabs’ Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon (USA). 2010 – Present Dr P Ouellet and D Chabot ‘Assessing the
response of Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) populations to climate change
and variability’ Institut Maurice Lamontagn - Pêches et Océans Canada (Canada). 2009 – Present Dr S Morley and L Peck ‘Thermal tolerance and biogeography of Antarctic species’ British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge (UK). 2009 – Present Dr S Widdicombe and H Findlay ‘The effect of ocean acidification and global warming on marine macro-benthos and macro-benthos assemblages ecophysiological responses’ Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). 2009 – Present Dr. J Bishop ' Plasticity and heritability to elevated temperature and CO2in the bryozoan Celleporella hyalina'. MBA (UK). 2011 – Present Dr G Massamba-N’Siala ‘Integrative thermal biology of the polychaetes Ophryotrocha labronica’ University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena (Italy). 2008 – Present Prof. T. Garland ‘The investigation of the thermal biology traits in aquatic ectotherms using a phylogenetic approach’ University of California Riverside, Riverside (USA). 2007 – Present Prof H-O Pörtner ‘Thermal vulnerability of marine invertebrates: mechanistic basis for species biogeography and vulnerability to GCC’ Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research , Bremerhaven (Germany). 2003 – Present Dr N Kamenos 'Habitat-mediated physiological and behavioural responses of juveniles of the Queen scallop Aequipecten opercularis'. Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow (UK).
Grants & contracts RECENT AWARDS 2011 Association
of European Marine Biological Laboratories - Access Fund ‘In-situ comparative
physiology of marine invertebrates vulnerable and tolerant to high-CO2
conditions’ 2010-2011 NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility Grant #475 - 'Does elevated [CO2] compromise thermal safety margins of marine organisms? A metabolomic approach' £15,000 2010-2011 UK-USA Collaboration Development Award Programme £1,700 2010-2013 UK OA Research Programme ‘Impacts of ocean acidification on key benthic ecosystems, communities, habitats, species and life cycles’ £200,000 2010 Marine Biology Research Experience Scheme UoP £450 Conferences organised 2009 Co-organiser for symposium on General Thermal Biology at the Annual Meeting of the Society
for Experimental Biology (28th June – 1st July Glasgow,
UK) 2008 Chairman for symposium
on Insects and Climate Change at the
2008 Royal Entomological Society Annual
Meeting (Plymouth, UK)
2008 Conference Coordinator: organisation for the “Macrophysiology Meeting” with Prof SL Chown, Prof H-O Pörtner, Prof JI Spicer, Dr JS Stillman, Dr John Terblanche - Dartington Hall, UK. Sponsored by Society for Experimental Biology, Marine Institute of Plymouth, Marine Biological Association of the UK, Fisheries Society of the British Isles. 2007 Co-Chairman for symposium on General Thermal Biology at the Annual Meeting of the Society
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