Department: FÍSICA MATEMÁTICA Y DE FLUÍDOS

Center: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS

Area: Cell Biology

Research group: ENTOMOLOGÍA MOLECULAR, BIOMARCADORES Y ESTRES AMBIENTAL

Email: oscar.herrero@ccia.uned.es

Personal web: https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/ciencias/oscar-h...

Doctor by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with the thesis Efectos citotóxicos de ftalatos Identificación de biomarcadores moleculares de ecotoxicidad en larvas acuáticas de chironomus riparius (diptera) 2013. Supervised by Dr. Rosario Planelló Carro, Dr. Gloria Morcillo Ortega.

My current research focuses on the study of toxic and genotoxic effects of environmental stressors (e.g. pollutants) in invertebrates by analysing cellular/physiological/developmental/reproductive parameters, metabolic pathways of detoxification and adaptation, and the transcriptional activity of biomarker genes involved in hormone signalling, cell stress response and metabolism, protein synthesis, and DNA damage/repair.