The research carried out in the AS@FUN group can be divided into two main axes: (i) Design, Synthesis and Bioapplication of Functional Nanosystems and (ii) Asymmetric synthesis. All these subjects have in common the utilization of carbohydrates either as inexpensive chiral codifying agents or as molecular recognition elements of biological receptors implied in unsolved pathological processes.

The members of the group recover the textual heritage of Spanish, mainly of Medieval and Renaissance periods. Once revalued through its philological editing and linguistic analysis, they make it available to society in general with the help of the Digital Humanities. Keywords: text editing, electronic corpus, history of Spanish language, linguistic variation.

The group undertakes the study of Spanish through the lense of its synchronic and diachronic varieties as well as the novel linguistic technologies useful to their analysis. The variation under scrutiny thus encompasses historical, geographical and social manifestations along with structural features of the language, contemplated also from a comparative interlinguistic perspective. Several lines of research are developed by a lean staff under a number of competitive financed projects. The group has proved able of attracting pre- and postdoctoral students and researchers.

InGenArte tries to research women’s presence and their contributions in the processes of artistic and theatrical creation, production and distribution (texts, staging and management, etc.) and the modernity of their expression languages and techniques. InGenArte also researches into the representations of female and male identity models, paying attention to their reproduction and consolidation of stereotypes. We also propose a new canon of dramatic creations suitable for cultural schedules and educational institutions.

The group was created in 1997 as a Quality Group (Generalitat de Catalunya) and became a CSIC group in 2004. Currently it includes 6 senior scientists, 3 RyC, 7 postdocs, 14 PhD students and 7 technicians. Its main goal is understanding the ecological role of marine microbes. The group applies complementary tools to samples from oceanographic cruises, coastal observatories and lab experiments.

The Physical and Technological Oceanography group is the largest research group at the Institute of Marine Sciences, clearly aiming at a collaborative critical mass. It is also the group with the largest scientific production in physical oceanography in Spain. Its interests focus on the observation and analysis of the ocean physical environment at a broad range of spatio-temporal scales, and on the study of the role of the ocean on the Earth system.

On the basis of a trans-disciplinary approach, combining physical, chemical and biological marine sciences, we will address the observation, experimentation and modelling of both evidence for and impacts of warming, acidification, fertilization and de-oxygenation of the ocean ecosystems in response to global change.

BGQM focuses the research in the biogeochemical ocean cycles and land-ocean exchanges of nutrients and trace elements (REE and PGE mainly) according to the rules proposed by GEOTRACES and Future Earth - Coasts international programs. BGQM scientists have studied Arctic estuaries of the White Sea, temperate Atlantic Galician Rias, Cantabrian Rivers and Tagus estuary, tropical and subtropical Pacific lagoons as Marabasco and Santa Magdalena (California) respectively, Chilean fjords and subtropical Indian estuaries, working in cooperation with other country scientists.

In our research we explore the relations between the biology of microalgae and their production of metabolites (pigments and toxins), paying special attention to the effects of environmental factors (especially the light and those related with global change).