Position / Posición /Afiliación
Director, Aquaculture Engineering, UTN
Homepage/ Página web
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nelson-Pena-2
Topics/ Temas
- Aquaculture: shrimps, fishes and oysters
- Disease diagnosis using molecular biology tools
- Tropical Disease
- Education
Methods/ Métodos
- Polymeresa chain reaction, PCR
- Aquaculture systems and species
Current research projects/ Proyectos de investigación actuales
- Phytobiotics for the improvement of health, productive performance, and the prevention of AHPND in farmed shrimp
- Detection of the protozoan Perkinsus sp. in Japanese oyster cultures (Crassostrea gigas).
- Introspection and identification of inland water bodies of the Caribbean and the southern Costa Rican zone aimed to the social development of their communities and the promotion of aquaculture
- Genetic of populations of Snapper from Gulf of Nicoya and Gulf Dulce