Women in BioCop - Biographies

Mar�a Luisa Rodr�guez-Velasco

Position: Management and Research
Organisation: EU-Community Reference Laboratory on Marine Biotoxins (CRLMB)
Country: Spain

Qualifications:

Ph. D. Chemist

Previous Experience:

Management of the European Community Reference Laboratory of Marine Biotoxins (research work, coordination of interlaboratory exercises, working groups).

Development and Validation of methods for determination of shellfish biotoxins.

Lipophilic toxins analysis in shellfish by LC-MS.

Organisation of Interlaboratory Exercises on PSP toxins for the EU National Reference Laboratories network and Official Control Laboratories.

Role:

Management of the BioCop project at the CRLMB.

To provide analytical support during purification of the toxins. Preliminary evaluation of prototype assay kits and demonstration to end-users (official and national reference laboratories).