MSc, PhD Gema Alama-Bermejo

• Post-doctoral contract (2012) at the Lab of Fish Protistology, Institute of Parasitology of Academic Science of the Czech Republic.
• Research project at Parasitology Research Lab Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK (2009) Conselleria d’Educació i Ciència, Spain.
• PhD entitled: “Parasitological study of cultured and wild sparids in the Mediterranean” (2007-2011). Supervisors: Astrid S. Holzer and Juan Antonio Raga. University of Valencia, Spain.
• Master of Aquaculture (2006-2007) University of Valencia, Polytechnic University of Valencia & Aquaculture Institute of Torre la Sal, CSIC, Spain.
• Biology Degree (2000-2006) at University of Valencia, Spain.

PUBLICATIONS

• Alama-Bermejo, G., Bron J.E., Raga, J. A. and Holzer, A. S. (2012) 3D morphology, ultrastructure and development of Ceratomyxa puntazzi stages: first insights into the mechanisms of motility and budding in the Myxozoa. PLoS ONE 7(2): e32679. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032679
• Alama-Bermejo, G., Raga, J. A. and Holzer, A. S. (2011) Host-parasite relationship of Ceratomyxa puntazzi n. sp. (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) and sharpsnout seabream Diplodus puntazzo (Walbaum, 1792) from the Mediterranean with first data on ceratomyxid host specificity in sparids. Veterinary Parasitology 182, 181-192
• Alama-Bermejo, G., Montero, F.E., Raga, J. A. and Holzer, A. S. (2011) Skoulekia meningialis n. gen., n. sp. (Digenea: Aporocotylidae Odhner, 1912) a parasite surrounding the brain of the Mediterranean common two-banded seabream Diplodus vulgaris (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) (Teleostei: Sparidae): Description, molecular phylogeny, habitat and pathology. Parasitology International 60, 34–44.
• Alama-Bermejo, G., Cuadrado, M., Raga, J. A. and Holzer, A. S. (2009) Morphological and molecular redescription of the myxozoan Unicapsula pflugfelderi from two teleost hosts in the Mediterranean. A review of the genus Unicapsula Davis 1924. Journal of Fish Diseases 32: 335–350.