Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms
The Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms Group, whose head is Dr. Rafael Cantón and which is made up of nine other principal investigators as well as numerous pre- and post-doctoral researchers, technicians and other healthcare personnel, has participated in the last 5 years in 17 national and international research projects and in 15 contracts with pharmaceutical companies or companies dedicated to in vitro diagnostics. During this period of time this work has resulted in more than 190 publications in national and international journals with a high impact index and more than 11 doctoral theses. Likewise, more than 400 communications have been presented at numerous national and international congresses. And all this always seeking the highest excellence in the fields of population biology, antibiotic resistance, respiratory infection, microbiota, metagenomics and HIV.
Group leader
Rafael Cantón Moreno
rafael.canton(ELIMINAR)@salud.madrid.org
Tlf.: +34 91 3368832
Principal Investigator
- Rosa María del Campo Moreno
- María Teresa Coque González
- Juan Carlos Galán Montemayor
- África Holguín Fernández
- Patricia Ruiz Garbajosa
- Fernando Baquero Mochales
- Jerónimo Carlos Rodríguez Beltrán
- Juan de Dios Caballero Pérez
- Ana Elena Perez Cobas
- Cristina Herencias Rodríguez
Collaborating Staff
- María Elia Gómez García de la Pedrosa
- Marta Hernández García
- Mario José Rodríguez Domínguez
- Marta Tato Díez
- María del Carmen García Castillo
- Oihane Martín Sainz de la Maza
- Laura Martínez García
- Blanca Pérez Viso
- María Elena Martínez Rodríguez
- Carmen de la Vega Losada
- Concepción Rodríguez Jiménez
- Ana Verónica Halperín
- Desirée Gijón Cordero
- Saioa Vicente Santamaría
- Sonia Aracil Gisbert
- Miguel Díez Fernández de Bobadilla
- Ainhize Maruri Aransolo
- Beatriz Romero Hernández
- Pedro Manuel Ponce Alonso
- Ana Fernández Olmos
- Natalia Guerra Pinto
- Silvia Serrano Calleja
- Paula Ramiro Martinez
- Carolina López López
- Laura Jaraba Soto
- Luna Ballestero García
- Ana Valadés Alcaraz
- Jose Avendaño Ortiz
- Natalia Bastón Paz
- Judit Maria Ventosa Cubillo
- Marina Dominguez Gaitero
- Laura Alvaro Llorente
- Marta Nieto Torres
- Manuel González de Aledo Ferrández
- Paloma Tage Troyano Hernáez
- Roberto Reinosa Fernández
- Ana Moreno Blanco
- Maria Isabel Serrano Tomas
- Mario Herbert Romero Rivera
- María Asunción Garriga García
- Bárbara Catalá Sánchez
- Esther Palacios Gómez
- Ada Muñoz Cazalla
- Ignacio de Quinto Cáceres
- Joao Pedro Alves Gama
- Carlos Medina Sánchez
Principal Investigator
- Rosa María del Campo Moreno
- María Teresa Coque González
- Juan Carlos Galán Montemayor
- África Holguín Fernández
- Patricia Ruiz Garbajosa
- Fernando Baquero Mochales
- Jerónimo Carlos Rodríguez Beltrán
- Juan de Dios Caballero Pérez
- Ana Elena Perez Cobas
- Cristina Herencias Rodríguez
Collaborating Staff
- María Elia Gómez García de la Pedrosa
- Marta Hernández García
- Mario José Rodríguez Domínguez
- Marta Tato Díez
- María del Carmen García Castillo
- Oihane Martín Sainz de la Maza
- Laura Martínez García
- Blanca Pérez Viso
- María Elena Martínez Rodríguez
- Carmen de la Vega Losada
- Concepción Rodríguez Jiménez
- Ana Verónica Halperín
- Desirée Gijón Cordero
- Saioa Vicente Santamaría
- Sonia Aracil Gisbert
- Miguel Díez Fernández de Bobadilla
- Ainhize Maruri Aransolo
- Beatriz Romero Hernández
- Pedro Manuel Ponce Alonso
- Ana Fernández Olmos
- Natalia Guerra Pinto
- Silvia Serrano Calleja
- Paula Ramiro Martinez
- Carolina López López
- Laura Jaraba Soto
- Luna Ballestero García
- Ana Valadés Alcaraz
- Jose Avendaño Ortiz
- Natalia Bastón Paz
- Judit Maria Ventosa Cubillo
- Marina Dominguez Gaitero
- Laura Alvaro Llorente
- Marta Nieto Torres
- Manuel González de Aledo Ferrández
- Paloma Tage Troyano Hernáez
- Roberto Reinosa Fernández
- Ana Moreno Blanco
- Maria Isabel Serrano Tomas
- Mario Herbert Romero Rivera
- María Asunción Garriga García
- Bárbara Catalá Sánchez
- Esther Palacios Gómez
- Ada Muñoz Cazalla
- Ignacio de Quinto Cáceres
- Joao Pedro Alves Gama
- Carlos Medina Sánchez
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
- Innovation and development of translational research in microbiology with an emphasis on the anthropogenic influences on emergencies and the dissemination of pathogen and/or antimicrobial resistance microorganisms, and the potential strategies for its control.
- Consolidation of molecular microbiology techniques, bioinformatics platforms, mathematical and computational modeling for the study of changes in microbial biology and the microbiome with influence on human health, considered at multiple hierarchical levels (from genes to clones to patients and to the built environment)
- Consolidate an innovative and useful microbiology for hospital-based public health, with applications in hospital infection, but also in community infections and in environmental microbial ecosystems.
- Training for Molecular Microbiology and Public Health Microbiology researchers.
RESEARCH LINES
- Evolutionary microbiology, eco-microbiology and modelization of microbial processes with significance in global health (PI: Dr. F. Baquero).
- Epidemiology of antibiotic resistance, clinical trials of diagnostic tests and phage therapy (PI: Dr. R. Cantón, Co-IP: Dra. P. Ruiz)
- Biology of bacterial populations, mobile genetic elements and resistome (PI: Dr. M.T. Coque).
- Metagenomics/Microbiome and disease; host-parasite interaction (PI: Dr. R. del Campo).
- Diagnostic and clinical implications of viral genetic variability in national and international cohorts and development of new nanotechnologies for the early molecular diagnosis of HIV using aptamers (PI: Dr. A. Holguín).
- Strategies for diagnostic improvements and genomic epidemiology of sexually transmitted (HIV/STI/hepatitis) and respiratory viral infections (PI: Dr. J.C. Galán).
- Evolution of antibiotic resistance, mechanisms and new strategies (PI: Dr. J.C. Rodríguez-Beltrán)
- Cystic fibrosis: self-management for the nutritional approach in the search for patient wellbeing (PI: Dr. J.d.D. Caballero and S. Vicente).
Location
Ramón y Cajal University Hospital
Molecular Microbiology Lab. 1st Floor left.
(PI: Cantón; Galán; Ruiz; Caballero).
Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 Lab. -2nd Floor right.
(PI: A. Holguín).
Microbiology Lab. -1st Floor right.
(PI: R. del Campo).
Bacterial Evolution Lab - Teaching Building
(PI: F. Baquero, T. M. Coque, J.C. Rodríguez-Beltrán)
Cystic Fibrosis Unit. 2nd Floor left
(S. Vicente)
Keywords
population biology, antimicrobial resistance, respiratory infection, microbiota, metagenomics, HIV, clinical trials of diagnostic tests