Associate ProfessorLuis Afonso

Research interest. Stress physiology: impacts of long-term exposure to abiotic
and biotic stressors, with a focus on developing reliable molecular biomarkers
of stress. Reproductive physiology: understanding molecular mechanism involved
in sex differentiation and sex reversal in fish.

Knowledge Areas
fish physiology, endocrinology, stress, health, welfare, reproduction, sex
reversal, sex control, smoltification, aquaculture, and molecular biology

Projects
2023. Deakin LES Multidisciplinary Fund - Irresistible or Simply
Indigestible: tracking the passage and fate of microplastics through the gut
of the aquatic host. Oxley A., Schultz, A., Afonso, L.O.B., Sutti, A. (AU$
11,000)
2023. Deakin LES Blue Sky Fund - Does exposure to micro and/or nanoplastics
have an impact on human health? Poudel, K., Schultz, A., Afonso, L.O.B. (AU$
5,000).
2022. Deakin LES Blue Sky Fund - Does exposure to micro and/or nanoplastics
have an impact on human health? Poudel, K., Schultz, A., Afonso, L.O.B. (AU$
4,600).
2022. SEBE Minor equipment grant - Schultz, A.G., McKenzie, M., Ujvari, B.,
Cahill, D., Afonso, L.O.B. (AU$ 16,815).
2020. LES Blue Sky Innovation Fund - Safer by design - are biologically
synthesised nanoagriinputs environmentally safer than chemically synthesised
nanoagri inputs. Priyam, A., Gehlout, S., Schultz, A., Afonso, L.O.B. AU$
4,800).