Global Change, defined as the global impact of local human activities of any kind on the functioning of the biosphere, is driven by a common force: the growth of human population coupled with an increased use of resources (energy, water, land, biodiversity, chemicals and key elements).

The Marine Research in Ecological and Social Systems group (MARES) aims to understand the functioning, structure and dynamics of living marine resources and essential habitats, and assess their stability and resilience to cope with future changes. It also aims to analyse the importance and complex interactions of humans with the marine environment, considering ecological, social, cultural and political dimensions.

The "Environmental microbiology" group works on the study of ecological and autoecological aspects of prokaryotes thriving in natural environments by means of culture independent (metagenomics, clone libraries, fluorescence microscopy...) as well as by culture dependent (isolation, genomics, mass spectroscopy...) methods. The group focuses its work mostly on aquatic habitats, marine and hypersaline environments, and is specialized on bacterial systematics and bioremediation of polluted environments.

This research line is centered on a common core: the study of the physical mechanisms that can explain the dynamics of the coastal ocean system and its interactions with the nearshore and the open ocean, in a global change context. In other words, using a physical, biological and mathematical background, we study the underlying processes and the multidisciplinary effects of a well-defined complex and vulnerable system, the coastal ocean.

The aim of the TCE Group is to provide conceptual advance in ecological theory using as essential tools mathematical and computational techniques. Empowering ecology with fundamental principles of stochastic processes and quantitative methods. We are particularly interested in building a bridge between theory and data. The TCE Group is a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary research group that develops specific research lines and provides general theoretical foundations of observational and empirical research in ecology.

The research group started with the beginning of the research activities at the ICVV in January 2009. At present, three staff scientist are members of the group, in addition to one staff technicians. The rest of the group members is maintained thanks to the public calls for personnel formation, or hired using funds from national and international research project or contracts. Our group uses genetic and genomic tools and resources to study the reproductive development in grapevine, aiming to generate useful information to increase quality in grape production and grapevine breeding.

Our group is focus on precision viticulture and applying new technologies in viticulture

The Vitis CIDA team deals with many aspects related to the viticultural production within the context of Sustainable Agriculture: the effect of both the environmental conditions and the cultivation techniques on the vineyard.

Our group specialises on wine yeast biotechnology. We have experience in genetic engineering, molecular biology, genomics, transcriptomics, and quantitative analysis of wine yeast metabolism. The group was constituted in 2008 when two researchers with a long experience in microbiology and food biotechnology joined the institute (ICVV). In relation with wine biotechnology, the IP has experience in basic and applied studies on yeast autolysis, mannoprotein release, and genetic improvement (both genetic engineering and conventional genetic improvement).

The research work of the group focuses on Molecular Biology of lactic acid bacteria and other microorganisms of oenological relevance, and the overall objective is to generate knowledge as well as obtaining biotechnological applications.