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Nationality: Colombian
Age / status: 33 years / Single
Biologist with experience in aquatic toxicity assays start-up and implementation with
reference species or indigenous species under laboratory conditions. Specialized in
toxicological quality assessment of drinking water and industrial wastewater with a
multitrophic battery of assays.
Education
Academic Degrees
B.S. in Biology
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia 1999
Course “Cabbio 2004: Biological processes for the recovery and removal of
metals”. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Argentina. November 2004
Responsible for management and performing several toxicity assays within projects related
to applications of a multitrophic battery of bioassays for toxicological quality assessment of
drinking water and industrial wastewater.
Expertise in culture, maintenance and performance of toxicity tests using organisms like
Daphnia magna, Daphnia obtusa, Ceriodaphnia dubia, Hydra attenuata, Selenastrum
capricornutum, Lactuca sativa y Salmonella typhimurium.
Projects:
M.Sc. thesis work: “Evaluation of mutagenic activity of industrial effluents using the modified
Ames test (Salmonella typhimurium strains TA98 y TA100)”
Díaz B. Maria C.; Espinosa R. Adriana J.; “Bioassays: a valuable tool for effluents
characterization and the evaluation of its environmental impact”. April 2004. Oral
presentation in VI Week of Environment “Biotechnology: an alternative for the
environment”. Universidad de la Salle. Bogota – Colombia
Díaz B. Maria C.; Espinosa R. Adriana J.; “Toxicological assessment of some water
supply sources for human use using a battery of bioassays”. 2003. Poster
presentation within 5th Iberian Congress and 2nd Iberoamerican Congress of
Environmental contamination and toxicology: Environmental problematic on the
Iberoamerican context. Porto – Portugal.
Publications
Capitulo de libro “The application of hazard assessment schemes using the watertox
toxicity testing battery”. Ronco, A.; Castillo,G.;Díaz MC.;Bulus,G.; Ahumada,I.;
Espinosa, A.; Mendoza,J.; Sobrero,C.; & Apartin, C. En: Small scale fresh water
environment toxicity test methods. C.Blaise and JS Ferard (Eds). Kluwer Academic
Publishers.
Díaz Báez, María Consuelo, Bustos López Martha Cristina y Espinosa Ramírez Adriana
Janneth. Pruebas de Toxicidad Acuática: Fundamentos y métodos. Colección Textos
Universitarios. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. UNIBIBLOS. 2004. 118 p.
López, Camilo; Espinosa Adriana & Alape, Joseph. 1996. Variación en las características
del ciclo de vida en individuos de Daphnia magna provenientes de diferentes camadas.
En: Acta Biológica Colombiana 3 (2):93-104.
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