COMMUNICATIONS
A member of IRNAS participates in the multidisciplinary research on Mirasiviene stela (Lora del Río, Seville, Spain)
Iberian ‘warrior’ stelae have captured the imagination of researchers and the public for more than a century. Traditionally, stelae were considered ‘de-contextualised’ monuments, and research typically focused on the study of their iconography, paying little or no...
JOSE JULIO ORTEGA, RE-ELECTED MEMBER OF STAKEHOLDER BUREAU FROM EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY
Jose Julio Ortega-Calvo, researcher at IRNAS-CSIC, has been recently re-elected, through his nomination by SETAC Europe and a vote in his category, as the representative in the academia stakeholder category for the Stakeholder Bureau of the European Food Safety...
Reseachers from IRNAS discover Paracoccus onubensis, a novel alphaproteobacterial species
Last August 13th it was published, in vol. 71 of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, by the Microbiology Society, the paper intitled Paracoccus onubensis sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium isolated from the wall of a show cave,...
Researchers from IRNAS study the biodeterioration of the wall paintings of the Salón de Reinos
The IRNAS researchers Valme Jurado, José Luis González Pimentel, Bernardo Hermosín and Cesáreo Saiz Jiménez have just published the paper Biodeterioration of Salón de Reinos, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain in the scientific journal Applied Sciences. This...
Lignin-like fractions characterized in ancestral plants
An investigation led by Jorge Rencoret (IRNAS) and Angel T. Martínez (CIB) reveals, by using advanced analytical techniques, the composition and structure of lignin-like fractions in primitive plants. In this study, recently published in the journal Frontiers...
A Bronze Age stela, object of a multidisciplinary research with the participation of a member of IRNAS
December 2021 issue of the prestigious Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports publishes in open access the paper The Cañaveral de León stela (Huelva, Spain). A monumental sculpture in a landscape of settlements and pathways. Among the authors of this work is te...
Kick-off meeting of the transcontinental project “SteamBioAfrica” funded by the European Union and coordinated by an IRNAS (CSIC) researcher
On September 29/30 2021, the Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville (IRNAS) from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) hosted a hybrid kick-off meeting for the EU "SteamBioAfrica” project (grant agreement 101036401) “Innovative Large-Scale...
IRNAS’ Research Group Environmental Microbiology and Cultural Heritage studies the microbial communities of El Castillo Cave
Under the title of «Cueva de El Castillo: Estudio de las comunidades microbianas responsables de las manchas verdes que cubren el área de la cueva denominada Panel de las Superposiciones o Panel de Polícromos», the members of Irnas' Research Group Environmental...
Interview with Dr. José Carlos del Río in the journal CSIC Investiga
The scientific informative journal CSIC Investiga publishes an interview with Dr. José Carlos del Río in its special volume dedicated to renewable energies. The group of Dr. Jose Carlos del Río (Plant Biomass - Valorization and Uses) has long expertise in the...
The kick-off meeting of the European project ROBUSTOO
The kick-off meeting of the European project ROBUSTOO "Robust industrial biocatalysts with peroxygenase, phenol-oxidase or furfuryl-oxidase activities from bacterial and fungal hosts" (HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-01-101135119), coordinated by CIB-CSIC, was held at the...
JOSE JULIO ORTEGA, CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM OF THE 34TH ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY IN EUROPE (SETAC EUROPE), SEVILLE May 5-9, 2024
The IRNAS-CSIC researcher, Jose Julio Ortega Calvo, is the chairman of the scientific program of the 34th SETAC Europe congress in FIBES, Seville (May 5-9, 2024). It will be a premier international event, with the participation of approximately 2,500-3,000 delegates...
Characterization of the first lignin peroxidase of a “mushroom” of the Agaricales order
A recent investigation result of the collaboration between the group "Vegetable biomass - Use and valorization" of the Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville (IRNAS) and the groups of "Biotechnology for lignocellulosic biomass" and...