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Speaker: Martin Grosell, Danish Professor in physiology and toxicology at University of Miami

Abstract

An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil rig in 2010 lead to the largest marine oil spill to occur in US history, resulting in significant impacts to the ecosystems and organisms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. A decade of research has revealed that oil toxicity in fish is a multi-organ syndrome impacting cardiac function, cholesterol biosynthesis, peripheral and central nervous system function, the stress response and osmoregulatory and acid-base balance processes. Detailed understanding of oil impacts from molecular responses to affected physiological processes are emerging, but their combined effects on fish in natural habitats are largely lacking and impose a challenge for impact assessment and strategies for response to future spills.

Short bio

Martin Grosell received his training at the August Krogh Institute at the University of Copenhagen and did postdoctoral work in Canada and the US. Martin Grosell is a professor and holds a Maytag Chair of Ichthyology at the University of Miami, Florida, USA where he is focused on physiological responses to environmental stressors, natural and anthropogenic.

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