The Plentzia Marine Station (PiE-UPV/EHU) is the University of the Basque Country´s (UPV/EHU) marine research infrastructure, established in July 2012. It is located in a refurbished building constructed one century ago to fight against tuberculosis and bone disease, 15 km away from the main Campus. Participation of PiE-UPV/EHU in EMBRC is subsidised by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the Basque Country Regional Goverment. PiE-UPV/EHU is a centre for promoting research, education and dissemination for the protection of ocean and human health and wealth, and for promoting environmental science, technology and awareness. PiE-UPV/EHU houses 10 research groups. Its research is focused on: 1) conducting high-quality experimentation under controlled laboratory and field conditions; 2) studying phenomena in the areas of cell and molecular biology, genetics, physiology, toxicology, stress biology and systems biology; 3) applying advanced methodologies of experimentation with marine organisms, in vitro assays, omics, cryotechnology, spectroscopy, microscopy, image analysis and data treatment.
Ecosystems
- Intertidal rocky shores
- Intertidal sandy shores
- Mudflats Estuaries
- Natura 2000 site