Dr. Marianne Alunno-Bruscia is working as an ecophysiologist and is
focusing more specifically on bio-energetics of marine bivalves. She
was a co-promoter of the Van Gogh project DEBIB (Dynamic Energy Budget
in Bivalves, 2004-05) which results have been published in a special
issue of Journal of Sea Research (vol. 56, 2006). She is in charge
of a European Research Group
named AquaDEB (2007-2011); aims of AquaDEB are to analyse the
physiological flexibility of various aquatic animals (fish and
molluscs) by using the DEB model, and to connect physiological
processes (individual scale) with ecological and evolutionary
processes. M. Alunno-Bruscia is co-supervising a PhD student whose
project consists in building up and
validating a DEB model for the Pacific oyster that will explain
and predict accurately the growth and reproduction of oysters in
different ecosystems, i.e. under different environmental
conditions. In early 2008, M. Alunno-Bruscia will also co-supervise a
post-doc project on applying the DEB model on the sea bass to get a
bioenergetic individual growth model for this species.
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