Mariano Higes

My researching profile is aimed to Animal Health focused on Veterinary Parasitology and Bee Pathology especially in honey bee parasites. In the line of Bee Pathology by transmissible diseases I have worked in the most important parasitic and infectious bee diseases mainly in Nosema spp. disease. In this topic I have focused on the development of new treatments for the control of varroosis toxicity assays in honeybees and clinical assays in bee colonies together with the detection of new agents and the studies about the pathogenicity epidemiological related factors response and pathological repercussions of these agents. I have also acquired high experience working in other honey bee diseases as Acarapisosis Tripanosomosis AFB EFB Ascospherosis and those caused by some viruses. I have been the supervisor of 7 PhD students who have developed their researching activities in those pathological agents. I have managed and coordinated several researching projects (more than 35) funded by Spanish or EU governments. My team has developed new techniques for experimental infection histological analysis and quick diagnostic methods based on multiplex PCR to process a high numbers of samples. On the other hand during my professional career I have acquired experience in several laboratory techniques and animal health knowledge and practicing. In this way I have capability for the following lines: – Clinical assays with Apis mellifera. Beekeeping management experimental infections under laboratory conditions in adult bees and brood. – Development of medicines for Apiculture. Elaboration of dossier on the toxicology safety and residues in bee products. Studies on different substances and antibiotics (for oral or topic administration) in laboratory and field assays. – Development of microbiological and parasitic techniques and of molecular biology and serological techniques for the diagnostic and research in transmissible diseases: PCR Q-PCR Gene expression studies. Development of diagnostic tools. – Development of serological techniques for the study of immune response in host and infected animals. Study of lesions and of pathological alterations associated. Immunological studies in insects. – Teaching for graduate and undergraduate students.