Bianco, Karina Alesia

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Posdoctoral Fellow CONICET.

kbianco@unsam.edu.ar

 

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Professional resume + Expertise

Posdoctoral fellow CONICET with work place at IIIA. Member of the Ecotoxicology group-UNSAM. She has a degree in Biological Sciences-UBA and a PhD in Biological Chemistry-UBA. She is a professor in Toxicology in the Chemistry and Biology programs, the Professorship, and postgraduate courses in UBA.

She has experience in bioassays to evaluate the toxicity of pesticides and water bodies affected by several human activities using aquatic gastropods species. She is currently part of a research focused on evaluating heavy metal toxicity and the toxicological efficiency of its removal processes in Rhinella arenarum.

 

Research topic

Ecotoxicological evaluation of chromium and a low-cost, environmentally friendly removal process through bioassays with Rhinella arenarum (Anura: Bufonidae).

 

Director: Dr. Swartz, Gabriela.
Co-director: Dr. Marco Brown, José Luis.

 

Keywords
Rhinella arenarum, Toxicity, Chromium, Bioassays.

 

Most recent publications

  • Tejedor, M.J., Saffi, D., Paredes, M.G., Bianco, K.A., Vojnov, A.D., Martini, C.N., Kristoff, G., 2025. Toxicidad aguda comparativa de insecticidas anticolinesterásicos. Química Viva, 24(1). ISBN: 1666-7948. http://www.quimicaviva.qb.fcen.uba.ar/v24n1/E0290.html
  • Bianco, K.A., Martini, C. N., Tejedor, M. J., Paredes, M. G., Kristoff, G., 2024. Multi-biomarker approach to evaluate the responses of the snail Biomphalaria straminea at environmentally relevant concentrations of chlorpyrifos (active ingredient and commercial formulation). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C: Toxicology and Pharmacology, 281, 109923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpc.2024.109923
  • Bianco, K.A., Bernal-Rey D.L., Menendez-Helman, R.J., Kristoff, G., 2023. Lethality and acetylcholinesterase inhibition in a native invertebrate species exposed to water samples of an impact stream (Reconquista River basin, Argentina). Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 110, 108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-023-03742-4