Marta Gomez-Chiarri She/Her
Professor, Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science
Marta is an aquatic pathologist. She coordinates the interdisciplinary Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems undergraduate program, a major that explores the food chain, from farm to plate to waste and back, emphasizing sustainability, impacts on human health, and resilience from economic, environmental, and societal viewpoints. She is also the coordinator of graduate programs in the department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science. Marta’s research interests include the use of multidisciplinary approaches to the prevention and management of diseases in marine organisms, from probiotics and microbial-microbial interactions to genomics and comparative immunology. Her collaborative national and international research on marine diseases is driven by a desire to ensure equitable access to healthy food that is sustainably produced.
“I am interested in how exposure to microplastics affects the physiology and susceptibility to disease of aquatic organisms. I am also interested in how microplastics may change the composition of microbial communities in marine environments.”
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