IFOP Outstanding Biochemist Luis Norambuena accomplished an internship at Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany
November 6th, 2022
The visit was possible thanks to CORFO contributions in strengthening IFOP scientific capacities which are part of that institution performance agreement yearly signed with that institution.
During April 18th and May 13th, Biochemist Luis Norambuena, semi-senior researcher at (CREAN) Harmful Algae Studies Center belonging to Fisheries Development Institute Aquaculture Research Division carried out an internship in Germany at Alfred Wegener renowned Institut (AWI) acting as Dr. Bernd Krock guest.
Luis Norambuena referred to his internship “My internship’s main objective was to strengthen knowledge in toxins detection mainly phycotoxins new variants. During my stay we carried out extractions of culture strains and phytoplankton samples, with their extraction protocols Later we measured these extracts with SRM method (Selected Reaction Monitoring) to monitor main classes of phycotoxins in them. We carry out specific tests for each class of toxins. Finally, we performed CID (Collision Induced Dissociation) experiments on found masses and analyzed obtained spectra”
“The internship’s main achievements were knowing and learning this prestigious center work methodology which will be adapted to our laboratory, which will allow us to make a qualitative change in CREAN’s capacities to detect phycotoxins variants without commercial standard available. This is very important, as commercially available standard toxins are a small fraction of all existing toxins.
Another internship’s achievement was the strengthening of cooperative ties with Dr. Krock and his team. Dr. Krock is a world leader in marine toxins detection and discovery ” concluded the researcher.
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