A presentation by Dr Acacia Warren RC of Southborough, Massachusetts D7910 Environmental Genomics, Inc. President Dr Acacia Alcivar Warren was born in Chone, Ecuador, and is looking for help to begin replanting mangroves at the Chone River Estuary of Ecuador. She was invited to talk about "Shrimp Farming and Mangroves of Ecuador" in the past meeting ( Wednesday, May 11 ) for ESRAG Projects Division Seminar Series. The presentation covered from the status of shrimp farming in Ecuador, its impact on mangroves deforestation, carbon emissions, and contaminants like endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in mangroves, shrimp, and people from the mangroves, and future sustainability and food security issues. Ecuador is the major shrimp producer in the Western Hemisphere. Dr Acacia Alcivar Warren has a PhD in Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics from the University of Guayaquil, Ecuador, a MS in Reproductive Physiology and Endocrinology and a PhD degree on Immunobiology from Iowa State University (ISU). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Biology Department at Tufts University, Medford, MA, a Research Associate at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in New Jersey, Nutley, USA, and visiting scientist at Boston College, MA. Acacia has worked at educational and non-governmental organizations, and private industry. She directs the global ‘ONE HEALTH Epigenomics Educational Initiative' and ‘Shrimp Scampi: A Citizens Science Project’ started by high school students to examine the levels of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) like metals, glyphosate, and bisphenol A (BPA) in shrimp sold in MA supermarkets. She also coordinates the holistic program ‘UNA SALUD / ONE HEALTH Epigenomics & Microbiomes: Somos lo que comemos / We are what we eat’, monitoring EDCs in mangrove sediment, shrimp and oysters, and people from the mangroves.
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