Inmunología en peces. Evaluación de eficacia de vacunas. Desarrollo de nanopartículas como inmunoestimulantes. Resistencia genética a patógenos.

PARTICIPATION IN CONGRESSES

Gallardo JA, Figueroa C, Veloso P, Dixon B, Torrealba D, Afonso JM, Soto C, Conejeros P. “Familiar variation explains reduced protection of comercial vaccines against bacterial pathogens in Atlantic Salmon. International congress Aquaculture Europe 19, Berlin, Germany, October 7th to 10th 2019.

Barreda D, Wong M, Haddad F, Thomson C, Torrealba D, Heimroth R, Tierney K. “Fish thermoregulation and the promotion of cellular antimicrobial defenses” ORAL presentation at International Conference of Fish & Shellfish Immunology, Canarias, Spain, June 16th to 20th 2019.

Thwaite R, Jie J, Torrealba D, Puente-Marín S, Lucas E, Ortega-Villaizán M, Roher N. “Immunogenic protein nanopellets a new approach to combat viral diseases in farmed fish” POSTER at Sao Paulo School of Advanced Science on Vaccines. Sao Paulo State, Brazil, November 22nd to December 02nd 2018.

Torrealba D, Thomson C, Barreda D. “Dynamic housing temperature improves the immune response of goldfish to in vivo Aeromonas veronii challenge” ORAL presentation at the 14th Congress of International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 17th to 21st June 2018.

Barreda D, Wong M, Thomson C, Torrealba D, Haddad F. “Contributions of temperature to the efficiency of fish cellular immunity” ORAL presentation at the 14th Congress of International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 17th to 21st June 2018.

Torrealba D, Balasch JC, Tort L, Mackenzie S, Roher N. "The ?7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor modulates the immune response to Poly (I:C) in trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) macrophages". ORAL presentation at the 13th Congress of International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology. Murcia, Spain, 28th May to 3rd June 2015.

Torrealba D, Mackenzie S, Nerea R. "Molecular and functional characterization of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha 7 in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)". ORAL presentation at the 11th International Congress on the Biology of Fish. Edinburgh, Scotland 3-7th Aug. 2014.

ARTICLES AND DIFFUSION

Torrealba D. “Protein Nanoparticles as candidates for Inmmunostimulants in Aquaculture”. ORAL presentation in Webinar. Advances in biotechnology, uses, applications and impacts on society. Red de Investigadores Chilenos en Canadá, REDICEC. 7th July 2017.

Torrealba D. “Molecular characterization of the inflammatory reflex and immune response modulation to fight fish infections” Article in AquacTIC, 2017.

COURSE

Teacher of Practical Course, 2016.
Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Practice course of expression and purification of protein nanoparticles.