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Benjamin Piña is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Molecular Biology, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Ecology.

The scientist's work heavily concentrates on topics such as Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, and Vehicle Emissions and Performance.

Benjamin Piña's recent publications include:

  • Occurrence and human health risk assessment of antibiotics and their metabolites in vegetables grown in field-scale agricultural systems, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Toxicity and health effects of ultrafine particles: Towards an understanding of the relative impacts of different transport modes, 2023, Environmental Research
  • Effects of prescription antibiotics on soil- and root-associated microbiomes and resistomes in an agricultural context, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Presence and fate of micropollutants during anaerobic digestion of sewage and their implications for the circular economy: A short review, 2020, Journal of environmental chemical engineering
  • Antibiotic resistance dissemination in wastewater treatment plants: a challenge for the reuse of treated wastewater in agriculture, 2021, Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Benjamin Piña include Marta Casado, Carlos Barata, Maria Vila-Costa, José Portugal, and Josep M. Bayona.

Common publication venues for their work are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Environmental Research

Benjamin Piña has contributed to book publications, most notably the work titled Women in Biogeochemical Dynamics Research: 2022, published by Frontiers Media in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Genetic isolation of ADA2: a potential transcriptional adaptor required for function of certain acidic activation domains.

    Shelley L. Berger;Benjamin Pina;Neal S. Silverman;Gregory A. Marcus

  • Nucleosome positioning modulates accessibility of regulatory proteins to the mouse mammary tumor virus promoter.

    Benjamin Piña;Ulf Brüggemeier;Miguel Beato

  • Integrated procedure for determination of endocrine-disrupting activity in surface waters and sediments by use of the biological technique recombinant yeast assay and chemical analysis by LC-ESI-MS

    Raquel Céspedes;Mira Petrovic;Demetrio Raldúa;Úrsula Saura

  • Ranking of crop plants according to their potential to uptake and accumulate contaminants of emerging concern.

    Anastasis Christou;George C. Papadavid;Panagiotis Dalias;Vasileios Fotopoulos

  • Monitoring of endocrine disruptors in surface waters by the yeast recombinant assay

    Natàlia García-Reyero;Eulàlia Grau;Montserrat Castillo;Maria José López De Alda

  • Attenuation of emerging organic contaminants in a hybrid constructed wetland system under different hydraulic loading rates and their associated toxicological effects in wastewater

    Cristina Ávila;Víctor Matamoros;Carolina Reyes-Contreras;Benjamí Piña

  • Removal of estrogenic activity of natural and synthetic hormones from a municipal wastewater: efficiency of horseradish peroxidase and laccase from Trametes versicolor.

    Muriel Auriol;Youssef Filali-Meknassi;Craig D. Adams;Rajeshwar D. Tyagi

  • Ecological relevance of biomarkers in monitoring studies of macro-invertebrates and fish in Mediterranean rivers

    Nicole Colin;Cinta Porte;Denise Fernandes;Carlos Barata

  • Increasing genomic information in bivalves through new EST collections in four species: Development of new genetic markers for environmental studies and genome evolution

    Arnaud Tanguy;Nicolas Bierne;Carlos Saavedra;Benjamin Pina

  • Changes in histones H2A and H3 variant composition in differentiating and mature rat brain cortical neurons

    B. Piña;P. Suau

  • High atmosphere–ocean exchange of semivolatile aromatic hydrocarbons

    Belén González-Gaya;María-Carmen Fernández-Pinos;Laura Morales;Laurence Méjanelle

  • ADA3: a gene, identified by resistance to GAL4-VP16, with properties similar to and different from those of ADA2.

    Benjamin Pina;Shelley L. Berger;Gregory A. Marcus;Neal S. Silverman

  • ADA1, a novel component of the ADA/GCN5 complex, has broader effects than GCN5, ADA2, or ADA3.

    Junjiro Horiuchi;Neal S. Silverman;Benjamin Pina;Gregory A. Marcus

  • Evaluation of fungal- and photo-degradation as potential treatments for the removal of sunscreens BP3 and BP1

    Pablo Gago-Ferrero;Marina Badia-Fabregat;Alba Olivares;Benjamin Piña

  • On the contribution of reclaimed wastewater irrigation to the potential exposure of humans to antibiotics, antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes – NEREUS COST Action ES1403 position paper

    Benjamin Piña;Josep M. Bayona;Anastasis Christou;Despo Fatta-Kassinos

  • In vivo zebrafish assays for analyzing drug toxicity.

    Demetrio Raldúa;Benjamin Piña

  • Characterization of the multixenobiotic resistance (MXR) mechanism in embryos and larvae of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and studies on its role in tolerance to single and mixture combinations of toxicants

    Melissa Faria;Ana Navarro;Till Luckenbach;Benjamin Piña

  • Assessment of endocrine disruptors effects on zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos by untargeted LC-HRMS metabolomic analysis.

    Elena Ortiz-Villanueva;Joaquim Jaumot;Rubén Martínez;Laia Navarro-Martín

  • Antibiotic resistance gene distribution in agricultural fields and crops. A soil-to-food analysis

    Francisco Cerqueira;Víctor Matamoros;Josep M. Bayona;Thomas U. Berendonk

  • Evaluating the interactions of vertebrate receptors with persistent pollutants and antifouling pesticides using recombinant yeast assays

    Tania-Noelia Noguerol;Susanna Boronat;Marta Casado;Demetrio Raldúa

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Barata
Carlos Barata Spanish National Research Council
Demetrio Raldúa
Demetrio Raldúa Spanish National Research Council
Romà Tauler
Romà Tauler Spanish National Research Council
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Joan O. Grimalt
Joan O. Grimalt Spanish National Research Council
Josep M. Bayona
Josep M. Bayona Spanish National Research Council
Gladys Vidal
Gladys Vidal University of Concepción
Jordi Dachs
Jordi Dachs Spanish National Research Council
Miguel Beato
Miguel Beato Centre for Genomic Regulation
Víctor Matamoros
Víctor Matamoros Spanish National Research Council

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