Editorial Board for section 'Marine and Freshwater Toxins'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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1. Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
2. CIIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research of the University of Porto, 4450-208 Porto, Portugal
Interests: cyanobacteria; toxins; cyanotoxins; marine biotechnology; secondary metabolites; cyanobacterial blooms; ecotoxicology; environmental contamination
* Section: Marine and Freshwater Toxins
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Laboratoire Phycotoxines, Ifremer, Nantes, France
Interests: marine algal; bacterial and cyanobacterial toxins; mass spectrometric analysis of and biological assays for toxins and related metabolites; ecophysiology of toxin production and biosynthesis; HABs and climate change; reference materials; monitoring and risk evaluation
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Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel
Interests: venom evolution; Cnidaria; sea anemones; post-transcriptional regulation; microRNA
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Biotoxin Metrology, Measurement Science and Standards, National Research Council, Halifax, NS B3H 3Z1, Canada
Interests: shellfish toxins; freshwater toxins; algal toxins; analytical chemistry; chromatography; mass spectrometry; metrology
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Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth Laboratory, Lowestoft, UK
Interests: assessment of new marine toxin threats; cyanobacterial toxins; method development; reference materials; rapid testing methods; one health impacts
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University (FIU), 354/332 Marine Science, Biscayne Bay Campus, 3000 NE 151st St., North Miami, FL 33181, USA
Interests: cyanobacteria; toxins; bioactive compounds; zebrafish embryo model; natural products
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Marine Research Centre (CIMA), Pedras de Corón s/n, Aptdo. 13, Vilanova de Arousa, 36620 Pontevedra, Spain
Interests: harmful algal blooms; toxin accumulation in shellfish; physiology; biotransformation; modeling
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Faculty of Chemistry, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Interests: chemistry / ecology of marine and freshwater harmful algal blooms; rapid detection methods for toxic cyanobacteria and paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins; large scale algal culture facilities for bioproducts productions; biochemistry of iron in forest and aquatic (marine and freshwater) ecosystems

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Department of Food Science, Toxicology and Legal Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: toxicology; risk assessment; food safety; cyanotoxins; microcystins; cylindrospermopsin
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Alfred-Wegner-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Interests: chemical and molecular ecology of protists; genetics of toxin biosynthesis; toxinology and ecotoxicology of harmful microalgae; harmful algal blooms and marine food webs; marine phycotoxin dynamics and diversity; marine microbial biotechnology
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Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan 430072, China
Interests: microcystins; ecotoxicology; reproductive toxicology; hepatotoxicity; nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; glutathione detoxification; metabolites; human health
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Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China
Interests: microcystin; cyanotoxin; Microcystis; cyanobacteria; toxic mechanisms; reproductive toxicity; developmental toxicity; hepatotoxicity; carcinogenicity; endocrine-disrupting effects; toxicogenomics
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Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, UMR 7035 ECOSEAS, Nice, France
Interests: food safety; food security; sustainable development; harmful algal blooms; contaminants; risk management; capacity building; marine biotoxins
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Independent Researcher, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Interests: phytoplankton; harmful algal blooms; aquatic toxicology; biotoxins; detection methods; seafood safety
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Robert Gordon University, Garthdee House, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen AB10 7QB, Scotland, UK
Interests: cyanotoxins; bioremediation; nature-based water treatment; advanced oxidation processes; bioactive peptides; purification and analysis
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Area of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad de Sevilla, C/ Profesor García González 2, 41012 Seville, Spain
Interests: toxicology; food safety; cyanotoxins; microcystins; cylindrospermopsin; UPLC-MS/MS analyses; method validation; neurotoxicity; bioaccessibility
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Department of Marine Resource and Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China
Interests: marine bioactive natural products; marine toxins; marine microbiota; rapid detection methods; bioactive materials; anti-allergic natural products
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1. Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
2. Department of Aquatic Health Sciences, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA 23062, USA
Interests: chemistry and biology of HABs and algal toxins; NMR and other spectroscopic methods for structure determination; synthesis and biosynthesis of natural products; drug/toxin-receptor interactions; chemical carcinogenesis; mechanisms of reactions of carcinogens with DNA; structural bases of mutations; immunochemical methods for detection of toxins, drugs and pollutants

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Department of Food Science, Toxicology and Legal Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: toxicology; risk assessment; food safety; cyanotoxins; microcystins; cylindrospermopsin
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Athens Water Supply & Sewerage Company, EYDAP SA, 11146 Athens, Greece
Interests: Cyanotoxins; cyanobacterial metabolites; cyanobacterial blooms; detection/determination of cyanotoxins; mass spectrometry; water treatment; advanced oxidation processes; environmental chemistry
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Hellenic Agricultural Organization—DIMITRA, Veterinary Research Institute of Thessaloniki, Department of Hy-giene and Technology of Food of Animal Origin and Toxicology, 57001 Thermi, Greece
Interests: marine biotoxins; phycotoxins; harmful algal blooms; toxic pufferfish; emerging marine toxins; tetrodotoxins; ciguatoxins; lipophilic toxins; toxic episodes management; phycotoxins regulatory monitoring; marine toxins analysis; mouse bioassay; liquid chromatography mass spectrometry
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Department of Biotechnology, Sangmyung University, Seoul 03016, Republic of Korea
Interests: toxic phytoplankton; saxitoxin; toxicogenomics; algal genomics; molecular adaptation
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Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Interests: mass spectroscopy and novel bioassays to characterise conotoxins; small venom peptides; marine snails; drug development
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Immunoregulation Unit of the Laboratory of Applied Toxinology (CeTICs/FAPESP), Butantan Institute, São Paulo 05503900, Brazil
Interests: identification of mechanistic biomarkers of metabolic processes and pathways of venomous fish toxins and drugs, using zebrafish embryos as a preclinical pharmacotoxicology model organism
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Natural History Museum of Denmark University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: microalgal toxinology; toxic phytoplankton; marine chemical ecology; environmental effects on toxin-production; toxic phytoplankton interactions

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Aquatic Ecology & Water Quality Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: controlling cyanobacteria blooms; cyanobacteria ecology; cyanobacteria toxins; managing eutrophication; plankton interactions
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Department of Biological Sciences, Director Water-Omics Facility, Institute of Environment, an FIU Preeminent Program, Florida International University, Biscayne Bay Campus, 3000 NE 151st Street, MSB 250B/212, North Miami, FL 33181, USA
Interests: harmful algal blooms and proliferations; metabolomics; metagenetics; molecular biology; natural products chemistry
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1. Brain Chemistry Labs, Institute for Ethnomedicine, Jackson, WY 83001, USA
2. Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
Interests: cyanobacteria; toxins; analysis; toxicology; toxin discovery
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National Oceanic Atmospheric Admin (NOAA), Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring and Reference Branch, Charleston, SC, USA
Interests: Harmful Algal Blooms; phytoplankton taxonomy; marine toxins; monitoring; citizen science
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Faculty of Environment, Earth & Resources, University of Manitoba, Wallace Bldg, 125 Dysart Rd, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
Interests: cyanobacteria; cyanobacterial toxins; biotransformation; oxidative stress and antioxidative defense systems; toxin transfer in human food plants; aquatic plants; invertebrates; microplastic; concrete add mixtures
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