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Board of Directors
Vice
President
Middle School/High School Curriculum Reform
Marta Gomez-Chiarri,
Ph. D.
Dept. of Fisheries, Animal & Vet Science
University of Rhode Island
Woodward Hall
Kingston, RI 02881
Ph: 401.874.2917 Fax: 401.874.7575
e-mail: gomezchi@uri.edu
EDUCATION
• 1988 Universidad Complutense Madrid, B.S. Chemical Sciences
• 1992 Universidad Complutense Madrid, Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
• 1997-Present Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island.
• 1993-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford
University.
• 1988-1992 Predoctoral Fellow, Fundación Jiménez
Díaz, UAM, Spain
GRANT AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
• 5/1/01-4/30/02 RI DEM (Carrington, Rice, Oviatt, co-PIs) ($39,321)
• 10/1/01-9/30/05 USDA-Multicultural Scholars • Program Grant
($100,000)(co-PI)
• 1/1/01-12/31/01 NRAC (Nelson and Smolowitz, co-Pis) ($54,000)
• 9/1/00-8/30/02 USDA-NRICGP Seed grant (Martin co-PI) ($71,355)
• 5/1/00-4/31/01 RI DEM (Carrington, Rice Co-PIs) ($38,476)
• 10/1/99-9/30/01 National Sea Grant Oyster Disease Research Program
($186,000)
• 10/1/99-9/30/03 USDA-Multicultural Scholars Program Grant (co-PI)
($100,000)
• 5/1/99-9/30/00 Aquatic Animal Health Division, Alpharma Inc (Nelson,
co-PI) ($80,000)
• 5/1/99-4/30/00 Rhode Island Department Environmental Management
($24,500)
• 1998-1999 USDA-NRICGP Strengthening Award ($8,257)
• 1998-1999 Rhode Island Department Environmental Management, ($16,432)
• 1998-1999 Aquatic Animal Health Division, Alpharma Inc. ($8,000)
• 1997-1999 Rhode Island Agricultural Experimental Station ($45,000)
• 1996-1997 Aquatic Animal Health Division, Alpharma Inc. Award
($36,000)
• 1994-1995 Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (Spain) Postdoctoral
Fellow
• 1993-1994 NATO Postdoctoral Junior Fellow
• 1990, 1991 Cilag, Hospal and IZASA Awards in Nephrology Research,
Spain
PATENTS
• Isolation and characterization of an actin gene from abalone.
Dennis A. Powers, Lynna Hereford, Marta Gómez-Chiarri. US Patent
No: 5,675,061. Date: Oct 7, 1997.
• Delivery of DNA vaccines into fish by immersion. Gómez-Chiarri
and Nelson (patent application filed on July 2001).
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
• Muñoz Ruiz, P, Gómez-Chiarri M. Time course of protease
production in the Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica after experimental
infection with the protozoan parasite Perkinsus marinus. (in preparation)
• Chiaverini L, Gómez-Chiarri M. Immersion in transformed
bacteria as a route for the delivery of DNA to fish. (in preparation)
Gauger E, Gomez-Chiarri M. 16S rDNA Sequencing and Biochemical Profiles
of Vibrio harveyi (Baumann et al. 1981) and Vibrio carchariae (Grimes
et al. 1984) (submitted)
• Soffientino B, Gwaltney T, Nelson DR, Specker JL, Mauel M, Gómez-Chiarri
M. Infectious necrotizing enteritis and mortality caused by Vibrio carchariae
in summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) during intensive culture. Dis
Aquat Org (1999) 38:201-210
Gómez-Chiarri M, Chiaverini L. Evaluation of promoters for the
construction of DNA vaccines for aquaculture. Genet Anal (1999) 15:121-124
Gómez-Chiarri M, Kirby V.L, Hereford L, Powers D. A. Isolation
and characterization of an actin promoter from the red abalone (Haliotis
rufescens). Marine Biotechnology (1999) 1:269-278
• Gómez-Chiarri M, Smith GJ, de la Fuente J, Powers DA. Gene
transfer in shellfish and algae. In: Gene transfer in aquatic Organisms.
De la Fuente and Castro, ed. R G Landes Co, Houston (1997). (Book chapter).
• Schulte T, Gómez-Chiarri M, Powers DA. Variation in the
structure and function of the promoter and 5' flanking region of the LDH-B
locus between populations of the teleost Fundulus heteroclitus. Genetics
(1997) 145:759-769
• Gómez-Chiarri M, Livingston S, Muro-Cacho M, Sanders S,
Levine R.P. Introduction of foreign genes into the tissue of living fish
by direct injection and particle bombardment. Diseases of aquat org (1996)
27:5-12.
• Bernardi G, Fernández-Delgado C, Gómez-Chiarri M,
Powers DA. Origin of a Spanish population of Fundulus heteroclitus inferred
by Cytochrome b sequence analysis. J Fish Biology (1995) 47:737-40. (Refereed
Article).
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