Who we are?
SERVICES
Ictiovet offers veterinary consultancy and diagnostic services for aquaculture producers, public aquariums and other fish health activities.
- AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH CONSULTANCY: We provide advice for veterinarians and other fish health personnel.
- HISTOPATHOLOGY AND VETERINARY DIAGNOSTICS: histopathological analysis for diagnostic and R&D purposes. We process tissue samples in our laboratory including routine staining techniques (H&E), as well as, histochemical and specific stains (PAS, GRAM, Giemsa, Z-N, Grocott, Calcofluor). Slide scanning services are available for digital pathology and discussion of clinical cases.
- TRAINNING: we customize training courses from farm-level to specialized lab-based diagnostic training for farm personnel, technicians and researchers.
- R&D projects and IMAGE ANALYSIS: we also provide veterinary surveillance and techniques suitable for R&D projects, such as, image analysis and morphometric analysis for additional relevant data on your trials.
Other diagnostic tools:
- ANIMAL EXAMINATION: Necropsy and subsequent parasitological, cytological, bacteriological and histopathological examination.
- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: Detection of a wide variety of fish pathogens by PCR.
- BACTERIOLOGY: Culture, Identification and screening for antibiotic susceptibility.
- HAEMATOLOGY AND CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY: Detection of biochemical parameters and hormones in serum, mucus and water.
- PHYTOPLANKTON & ZOOPLANKTON ANALYSIS on nets and water samples.
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The team
Albert Girons
Graduated from Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona Veterinary school in 2004. Holds an MSc in Aquatic Veterinary Studies (University of Stirling) during which he completed a project on Red Mark Syndrome in trout. Albert has worked as a field aquatic animal veterinarian and fish pathologist in Ireland alongside Dr. Hamish Rodger (Vet-Aquat International) and in Spain with Dr. Francesc Padrós (SDPP – UAB). His professional experience also includes R&D related activities in the Catalan Aquaculture Network (XRAq).
Glòria Albinyana
Graduated from Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona Veterinary school in 2003. Gloria has a Masters in Veterinary Research which she completed with a project on the sparid fish intestinal parasite Enteromyxum leei. She has worked for private veterinary laboratories as a veterinarian pathologist carrying out a significant amount of work on fish. Her expertise includes a wide variety of diagnostic tools: histopathology, citology, microbiology, mollecular biology and clinical biochemistry. Her professional experience also includes working in the pathology laboratory at Skretting (Spain).
Carles Pueyo
Graduated from Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona Veterinary school in 2004. Holds an MSc in Aquatic Veterinary Studies (University of Stirling) during which he completed a project on Red Mark Syndrome in trout. Albert has worked as a field aquatic animal veterinarian and fish pathologist in Ireland alongside Dr. Hamish Rodger (Vet-Aquat International) and in Spain with Dr. Francesc Padrós (SDPP – UAB). His professional experience also includes R&D related activities in the Catalan Aquaculture Network (XRAq).
Arnau Ciriquian
Arnau holds a degree in Marine Sciences from Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a master’s in Applied Microbiology from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Arnau worked in Life Seacolors project in the Spanish Bank of Algae while doing his degree final thesis and then moved to Ireland to work as a display curator at National Sea Life Bray. Finally, he brough his passion for aquaculture and gardening to life starting an indoor aquaponics project. Arnau is a true oceanholic, lover of scuba diving, underwater photography and sailing.
