We are a dynamic and ever-growing team comprised of diverse individuals with unique educational backgrounds, research interests and project goals.
Antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance. Quick and inexpensive methods to track relevant bacteria. Human urinary microbiota.
Research interests: Enterococcus spp. Antimicrobial resistance. Metal and biocide tolerance. Horizontal Gene Transfer.
Foodborne pathogens (mainly Salmonella). Salmonella clonal dynamics. Antibiotic resistance. Metal and biocide tolerance. High-throughput techniques (WGS, MALDI-TOF MS and FTIR).
Research interests: Enterococcus spp. Antimicrobial resistance. Horizontal Gene Transfer. Virulence. High-throughput techniques (WGS, MALDI-TOF MS, FTIR-ATR).
Clinical Microbiology, Antimicrobial Resistance, Enterobacteriaceae, Horizontal Gene Transfer, Genomics, Metabolomics and Proteomics of multidrug resistant bacteria.
Acinetobacter spp. Antimicrobial resistance. Horizontal Gene Transfer, Biofilms, Genomics, FTIR-ATR.
Salmonella spp. Antibiotic resistance. Metal and biocide tolerance. Horizontal Gene Transfer. Virulence. High-throughput techniques (WGS, MALDI-TOF MS).
Human Urinary Microbiota. Dysbiosis. Metagenomics. Improved culturing techniques.
Human Urinary Microbiota. Dysbiosis. Improved culturing techniques. Metagenomics. Heme uptake in bacterial pathogens.
Enterobacteriaceae, Citrobacter spp. (new species and phylogenetic analysis of intrinsic genes confering resistance to antibiotics), Antibiotic resistance mechanisms, molecular epidemiology, High-throughput techniques (WGS).
Research interests: Enterobacteriaceae (mainly Klebsiella pneumoniae). Antimicrobial resistance. Horizontal Gene Transfer. Virulence. High-throughput techniques (WGS, MALDI-TOF MS, FTIR-ATR).
Salmonella. Antimicrobial resistance. MALDI-TOF and FTIR.
Antimicrobial resistance. Genomics. MALDI-TOF and FTIR.
Acinetobacter spp. Antimicrobial resistance. Horizontal Gene Transfer. High-throughput techniques (WGS, MALDI-TOF MS, FTIR-ATR).
Clinical microbiology. Human Urinary Microbiota. Culturing. Antimicrobial resistance.