The MaHeWa team in French Polynesia is growing: Justine Gamet has joined us as a VSC.

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A molecular biology technician, she has also been serving as a VSC at Ifremer Tahiti since October 2024. She contributes to projects focused on the physiology, toxicology, and immunology of marine organisms. She performs molecular biology procedures (DNA/RNA extractions and gene detection) as well as biochemical analyses (enzymatic and immunological tests) to study how organisms respond to their environment, toxins, or pathogens.

As part of the MAHEWA project, she has participated in several stages of the experimental monitoring for WP2.3. During sampling operations (blood/hypothalamus), she was responsible for centrifuging blood samples to collect plasma. She also carried out water filtrations approximately every three days in tanks exposed to different temperature conditions, in order to concentrate the cortisol released by Platax. Finally, she began performing ELISA immunological tests on both plasma and filtrates to measure cortisol levels.