Claudia Drago [PhD student]

Scientific career

Since 2018          PhD student at the University of Potsdam supervised by PD Dr. Guntram Weithoff and PD Dr. Katrin Wendt-Potthoff, project :
                                MikroPlaTas (Plastik in der Umwelt, BMBF)

2017                      Master’s thesis : “ Absorption and effect of microplastics in Mullus barbatus” (ENG)

2017                      Traineeship in Ecotoxicology in the University of Exeter (UK)

2015 - 2017        Master’s Degree in Coastal and Marine Biology and Ecology (ENG) in the University of Salento (Italy)

2014                      Bachelor’s thesis: “Methodology of Stratigraphic analysis of benthic foraminifera’s Tanathocenosis in Sicilian Channel” (ITA)

2014                      Four months Traineeship at Italian National Research Council; Institute for Coastal Marine Environment; Unit of Capo Granitola (CNR)
                                (Italy)

2013                      Two semesters abroad in the faculty of Biology at the University of Oviedo (Spain)

2009-2014          Bachelor’s study in Natural Science (ITA) at the University of Palermo (Italy)

Publications

Seta Noventa, Christian Hacker, Ana Correia, Claudia Drago & Tamara Galloway (2018) Gold nanoparticles ingested by oyster larvae are internalized by cells through an alimentary endocytic pathway, Nanotoxicology, 12:8, 901-913, DOI: 10.1080/17435390.2018.1487601

Matthew Cole, Corin Liddle, Giulia Consolandi, Claudia Drago, Cameron Hird, Penelope K. Lindeque, Tamara S. Galloway (2020) Microplastics, microfibres and nanoplastics cause variable sub-lethal responses in mussels (Mytilus spp.), Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 160, 111552, ISSN 0025-326X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111552