Rodriguez Casariego, Javier

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biography

  • Dr. Javier Rodriguez-Casariego is a research assistant professor in the Institiute of Environment at Florida International University (Miami, FL). He is also the Director of the CREST Metabolomics Facility and associated faculty of the Water-omics lab. His research integrates multiple omics datasets to dissect how experience translate into persistent changes in cellular function, organismal physiology and behavior.

research interests

  • The principal aim of my research group is to understand how stress shapes organism's physiological and behavioral resilience. We utilize marine organisms as models to investigate cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the establishment and maintenance of cellular memory, including both cognitive and environmental memory. Our work includes diverse environmental stressors, focusing on their integrated effects from molecules to ecosystems within and across individual generations. Most recently, our work has been focused on characterizing molecular mechanisms involved in intergenerational hypoxia preconditioning (HP) in the nervous system of the sea hare Aplysia californica, the thermal preconditioning and epigenetic regulation in stony corals, and in the development of nutri-epigenetic interventions to enhance fish productivity in aquaculture.

selected scholarly works & creative activities

full name

  • Javier Rodriguez Casariego

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