chapter 3 - RiuNet

GENERAL INTRODUCTION
My research career has primarily been supported by, firstly, a 1-year
predoctoral fellowship (Programas de Apoyo a la I+D de la UPV) granted by
the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and secondly, by a 4-years
predoctoral fellowship within the “Formación de Personal Investigador”
programme (FPI; BES-2009-020310) granted by the Spanish Ministry of
Science and Innovation (MICINN, today MINECO) linked to the Project
SELECTBREAM (AGL2007-64040-C03-00) funded by the National Research
Projects Programme of the MICINN.
During my PhD studies, I have been also supported by two fellowships
granted by the Spanish MICINN´s Personnel Research Training Programme
to carry out studies in different research hosting centres. The first training
period, which lasted 4 months in 2011, was done in the Department of
Molecular Biology in the Universidad de León (León, Spain) under the
supervision of Dra. Mª Paz Herraéz (grant reference: EEBB-I-12-05858); and
the second training period, which lasted 5 months during 2012, was done in
the Misaki Marine Biological Station belonging to the University of Tokyo
(Miura, Japan) under the supervision of Dr. Manabu Yoshida (grant
reference: EEBB-I-12-05858).
On the other hand, several National and European projects have helped in
global terms with the costs necessary to carry out the research for this
thesis (animal facilities, equipment, consumables, management costs, staff
employed in the lab, overheads, etc.). In this respect, Chapters 1, 2 and 3
have mainly been funded by the Project PRO-EEL (Reproduction of
European eel towards s self-sustained aquaculture) by the European
Community's 7th Framework Programme under the Theme 2 "Food,
Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology" ( grant agreement n°245257);
and Chapters 3, 4 and 5 have mainly been funded by the Project SPERMOT
(Mecanismos fisiológicos implicados en la espermiación y en la adquisición
de motilidad espermática en la anguila europea (Anguilla anguilla)) funded
by the MICINN (AGL2010-16009). In addition, local support was granted by
the Generalitat Valenciana (ACOMP/2011/229) in Chapter 1; and the
Generalitat Valenciana (ACOMP/2012/086) in Chapter 2.
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