MARS Travel Fellowships awarded

Year	Name	Sending institute	Receiving institute	Title of research topic	Presented in Newsletter nr.
2017	Angela Bartolo	Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK	Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS – UPMC, Roscoff, France	Elucidating Malta’s seaweed biodiversity using the Germling Emergence Method and DNA Barcoding
2017	Andrey Lavrov	Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia	Mediterranean Institute of marine and terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology, Station Marine d’Endoume, Marseille, France	Comparative investigation of regeneration in sponges (Porifera)
2016	Vasilis Gerovasileiou	Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Crete, Greece	Mediterranean Institute of marine and terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology, Station Marine d’Endoume, Marseille, France	The ecological quality and biodiversity of marine caves in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
2016	Marieke Feis	Alfred Wegener Institute, Wadden Sea Station Sylt, List/Sylt, Germany	Mediterranean Institute of marine and terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology, Station Marine d’Endoume, Marseille, France	Invasion genomics of two congeneric parasites
2014/2015	Valentina Pitacco	Marine Biology Station of Piran, Piran, Slovenia	Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Crete, Greece	The associated fauna of stony coral (C. caespitosa) in the Northern Adriatic and Aegean Sea	2015 04/05; 2015 06/10
2014/2015	Nadezhda Rimskaya‐Korsakova	Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia	Marine Biology Section, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark	The nervous system and sensory organs of adult Osedax priapus and non paedomorphic male Osedax priapus	2015 04/05; 2015 06/10
2012/2013	Alessia Dinoi	University of Salento, Italy	Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement (CRIOBE), Perpignan, France	Genetic connectivity patterns in a bivalve: Donacilla cornea (wedge clam)	2014 01/02 2014 03/04 2014 11/12
2012/2013	Daniel Crespo	University of Coimbra, Portugal	University of Southampton, UK	Impact of the biodiversity compositional changes (due to global ecological changes) in the ecosystem functioning of transitional waters	2014 01/02 2014 09
2010/2011	Inês do Carmo Alves Martins	Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, Horta, Portugal	Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal	Bathymodiolus azoricus physiological adaptations and survival strategies at deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites
2008/2009	Ana Marta Gonçalves	Institute of Marine Research, Coimbra, Portugal	Ghent University, Belgium	The dynamics and structure of zooplankton communities in the Mondego estuary (Portugal): a functional approach
2008/2009	Daria Ezgeta	Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, Croatia	University College, Cork, Ireland	Determination of bivalve diet using stomach contents analysis	9
2006/2007	Nova Mieszkowska	Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK	Station Biologique de Roscoff, France	Archival, resurvey and analysis of long-term data sets to detect climate-driven biogeographic shifts	(8)
2006/2007	Nika Staglicic	Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, Croatia	University of Lecce, Italy	The use of non-destructive techniques for assessing the effectiveness of marine protected areas	8
2006/2007	Mateja Grego	Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia	Ghent University, Belgium	Impact of fish culture on meiofauna in the Bay of Piran – a structural and functional approach	9
2005	Mikhail O. Son	Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol, Ukraine	Estonian Marine Institute	Corridor of molluscs invasion “Black Sea – Baltic Sea”	(8)
2005	Thanos Dailianis	Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Crete, Greece	Centre d’Oceanologie de Marseille, France	Implementation of the study on Mediterranean commercial sponges at a pan-European level: stress markers expression, reproduction and population studies	cancelled
2005	Katya Ivanova	Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol, Ukraine	School of Ocean Sciences University of Wales, UK	Diversity of Meiofauna of Cold Seeps in Shallow Waters of the Black and Irish Seas	8
2005	Jasmin Annica Godbold	Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen, UK	Göteborg University, Kristineberg Marine Research Station, Sweden	Species diversity effects on ecosystem function: niche differentiation through resource partitioning	(8)
2004	Agata Weydmann	Institute of Oceanology, Sopot, Poland	Centre d’Oceanologie de Marseille, France	Does genetic diversity of Arctic fauna depend on the life strategy	8
2004	Ylenia Carotenuto	Statione Zoologica, Naples, Italy	University of Bergen, Norway	Novel molecular methods to quantify selective in-situ feeding by common marine copepods	8
2003	Katerina Sevastou	Institute of Marine Biology of Crete, Greece	Senckenberg, Wilhelmshaven, Germany	Meiofaunal biodiversity in the oligotrophic environment of the Mediterranean Sea	7
2003	Katharina Reichert	Biological Institute at Helgoland, AWI, Germany	University of Amsterdam, Netherlands		8
2003	Oksana Anikyeyeva	Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol, Ukraine	SOC, Southampton, UK	Soft-shelled foraminifera in the Black Sea, with an emphasis on Allogromiina	7
2003	Rogério Ribeiro Ferraz	University of the Azores, Portugal	Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK	Management of limpets in the Azores	7
2002	Piotr Kuklinski	Institute of Oceanology, Sopot, Poland	Centre d’Oceanologie de Marseille, France	Bryozoan taxonomy and ecology	6
2001	Lara Arroyo Hailuoto	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain	AAU, Aland, Finland	Effect of drifting algal mats on meiobenthic communities in the Northern Baltic Sea. Implications on Harpacticoid copepod diversity and dispersal	5
2001	Maria Salomidi	University of the Aegean, Greece	SME / COM-CNRS, Marseille, France	Methods and techniques of hard bottom benthos study for ecological quality evaluation	5