Editorial Board

Dr. Harvey Jian-Min Hou received his BSc degree (1984) in Physical Chemistry from Wuhan University and PhD degree (1993) in Analytical Chemistry from Peking University. In China, he was promoted to the Full Principle Investigator (1998) at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After entering the United States, Dr. Hou joined the Faculty (2002) in the Department of Chemistry at Gonzaga University. After four years, he became an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Currently Dr. Hou is an Associate Professor of Forensic Science at Alabama State University. In addition, he was an Adjunct Faculty (2003-2010) at the Rockefeller University, an Visiting Professor (2008-2011) at Boston College, a Research Affiliate (2009-2011) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Adjunct Associate Professor (2011) at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

Harvey Jian-Min Hou research interest include Forensic Science, Biochemistry, Photosynthesis, Solar Energy Catalysis, Nanotechnology, G Protein-coupled Receptors and Cranberry Plant Biology.

Fernando Santos Beneit studied Biology at University of León (Spain). He spent ten months as a Socrates-Erasmus grant holder at the department of Molecular Cell Physiology of the “Vrije Universiteit” in Amsterdam (Holland), where he worked with the Gram-negative bacterium, Paracoccus denitrificans. He conducted his PhD in molecular biology at University of León, where he was awarded a PhD (cum laude) in 2010, as well as the 2012 University of León Extraordinary Prize for the best thesis in Biology. He dedicated his ten years to studying phosphate regulation in the model actinomycete Streptomyces coelicolor, with particular focus on secondary metabolite regulation and nutrient stress cross-talk. He developed most of my work at the Institute of Biotechnology of León, but He also collaborated with different researches at the department of Molecular Biology in the Faculty of Biology as well as with several biotechnology companies. In 2013, He worked as postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria, where his role encompassed not only my ongoing research responsibilities, but also a range of economic and administrative duties. Since 2014 I am working as Research Associate in the Center for Bacterial Cell Biology at Newcastle University where He his studying distinct aspects of the streptomycetes biology.

Biology of the antibiotic-producers streptomycetes

Dr. Naveen Patil serves the Arkansas Department of Health as the Medical Director for the Infectious Diseases Branch. He is also the Project Director of the Hansen’s Program grant. Dr. Patil serves as the Chairman of the Arkansas AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Formulary Advisory Committee. In his capacity, Dr. Patil works in coordination with the Center of Health Protection at ADH to set policy direction for the department and assure that programmatic responsibilities are met. Dr. Patil has grant funding for these activities from CDC, HRSA and DHHS. He also directs patient care activities for the TB program and also guides clinical personnel at the Local Health Units and other facilities in HIV/STI care. Dr. Patil is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and holds a voluntary faculty position in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine. He also has Master’s degrees in Health Services Administration and Gerontology, besides a Fellowship in Hospital Administration. He is an accomplished speaker and has presented at various regional, national and international meetings. He was awarded the highest honor for TB control efforts in USA in the year 2013. He was also chosen by AAPI USA for the Distinguished Young Physician Award in 2014. He was selected as a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America for excellence and services in the field of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Patil has published several journal articles and presented posters at National and International meetings. He serves as an editor, sub editor and reviewer for over 50 medical journals. He serves on the Board of National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and on Advisory Board Heartland National TB Center. He is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, HIV Medical Association, International AIDS Society, International Society of Infectious Diseases and several other professional organizations.

HIV/STD/Hepatitis,Hansen’s disease,TB,Infectious Diseases

Dr. Edmond Puca is currently working in University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa” in Tirana at Service of Infectious Disease. He has finished his specialization in Infection Disease at University Hospital Center Mother Teresa in Tirana on May 2008. He is an Editorial Board Member of Clinical Microbiology Open Access, Journal of Tropical Diseases and Surgery, Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

Clinical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases

Aslihan Turhan is an immunologist. she is having 15+ years of research experience in the area of translational research in Immunology. Her responsibilities included designing and conducting cell-based assays for the evaluation of targets in the areas of orphan diseases, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

Her areas of expertise include cell trafficking, inflammation and target identification for drug development. Knowledge of cellular immunology and/or epithelial cell biology in the context of sickle cell disease, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases (IBD), immune cell-epithelial cell interactions.

Dr. Joo Chuan Tong is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is also the Director of Social & Cognitive Computing Department, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR & Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum. He is an active Editorial Board Memeber of Clinical Microbiology, Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics, Frontiers in Biosciences and several other journals.

big data analytics, data mining, machine-learning, pattern recognition, biomedical informatics, social computing, business network orchestration, business analytics, urban systems, transportation & logistics, business development, social innovation

Dr. Recep Kesli was born in Konya, Turkey. Between 1988-1994 he survived medical faculty education at Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine. He had microbiolgy specialist title in 2001. Now he is working at Afyon Kocatepe University, School of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology as Chief of Department. Dr. Kesli founded and used different kinds of diagnostic tests based on molecular diagnostic principles such as Real Time-PCR, DNA Reverse-Hybridization, Microarray, Pyro-Sequencing…etc at molecular diagnositc unit of the department. Dr. Kesli attended different applied courses based on molecular diagnostic practices in medicine (Marmara Research Center , The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey-TUBITAK). Dr. Kesli published his first book about anaerobic bacteria and wrote chapters in differenet national and international books. In the latest years, Dr. Kesli focused his investigations based on molecular diagnositc test principles and diagnositc reactives of Hepatitis C virus, and Helicobacter pylori. Dr. Kesli has membershep at different national and international microbiology and clinical microbiology societies. He attended many international and national congress and symposiums (more than thirty) presented many abstracts (more than sixty) and also presented many speeches in international congresses. Dr. Kesli also published articles in international SCI/SCIE and national journals (more than fifty) in Turkish and English and has been cited (more than one hundred and fifty) articles published in national and international journals. Dr Kesli has duties as editor in-chief, associate editor and editorial board member of different international and national journals.

Clinical Microbiology

Prof. Dr. Adel Tanios is a chief Researcher of Microbiology, Animal Health Research institute, Egypt. Over 30 years of experience in Bacteriology especially infectious and zoonotic diseases, he shared and supervised over than 30 Master and Ph.D Thesis in Veterinary Medical sciences and more than 40 scientific publications in animal and public health. Dr. Adel Tanios has shared in national and international programs and projects. He joined many international workshop especially in Africa, in addition to scientific activities with USDA, ARS. In Africa and Egypt, he contributed in community services and cultural development. In the field of epizootic diseases and avian flu, he designed many scientific publications and International presentation. Dr. Adel Tanios acquired an international expertise in Knowledge Management as a Team Leader of Knowledge Management in African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources. He provided strategic management and leadership to ensure high-quality outputs, outcomes and impacts through effective management of diverse, inter-disciplinary teams and partnerships which may be geographically distributed and will invariably involve multiple partner organizations. As a senior member of IBAR, he contributed to the overall management and direction of IBAR operations including Pan African Animal Health. In addition to microbiology, he has a strong academic background in Information Technology including two Masters from Microsoft and official Microsoft Trainer since 2004. He created many centralized Data Base and information systems. He has obtained many scientific awards especially from Minister of Agriculture and African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources as a good scientist and promote Livestock development in the African Continent.

Veterinary Public Health.
Food borne-pathogens.
Special reference to Salmonella, E. coli and Yersinia enterocolitica.
Epizootic diseases and biostatistics.
Microbial Culture Collection.

Francisco Carrau is Professor and head of the Enology Section of the Food Science Department of University of the Republic. He has also a deep relation with the wine industry as a part time R&D director and Head Winemaker of his family owned Winery in Uruguay. Castel Pujol winery is one of the leaders of the emergence of exports of Uruguayan quality wines in the last two decades. He was graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of the Republic Uruguay, Faculty of Sciences, in 1987 (specialized in Fungal Genetics). In 2003 he obtained his PhD in Chemistry in the same University at the School of Chemistry in a joint project with the Head of Wine Microbiology at the Australian Wine Research Institute (Dr. Paul A. Henschke) in a topic related to yeast wine aroma compounds and nitrogen metabolism. He had directed 6 Masters and 3 PhD thesis in Wine Microbiology and Aroma Compounds since 1998. He conducts the first post grade course of Uruguay in Wine Biotechnology in collaboration with invited Professors. Participates or conduct of more than 10 projects about grapes and wine together with the main Institutions of the field in Uruguay (University, LATU, INIA INAVI, IIBCE, etc.). He has more than 40 original articles published and more than 70 research works presented at international meetings about wine. Since April 2011 is leading the Enology and Biotechnology Group of the CSIC I+D programme of University of the Republic, UdelaR, Uruguay (2011-2014).

Francisco Carrau research interest include Yeast fermentation technology related to aroma and polyphenol compounds of grapes. Biodiversity of grape and wine microbiology and its potential application in industrial Food Biotechnology.

Dr. Nogueras carried her PhD studies at Barcelona University-UB. Her did research into virulence factors of K. pneumoniae and Aeromonas hydrophila She carried out part of her research at University of Valencia (Department of Microbiology and Ecology, 1999). She was involved in teaching activities at UB (General Microbiology, Industrial and food Microbiology, and Clinical Microbiology, 1997-2000). She received the Ph.D. degree in 2001.
Nowadays, she has been working at Corporacio Sanitaria Taulí Parc - CSPT. She is the main investigator of two research lines into the diagnosis of fastidious microorganisms and HIV in elderly. In 2011, she studied a postgraduate in Bioinformatics. She did a research stage at WHO Collaborative Center for Rickettsial Reference & Research of Université de la Méditerranée.
She was a researcher of the Spanish Network of Research on Infectious Diseases. She is a membership of the Spanish Network of Research on HIV/AIDS. She was the secretary of the Spanish Study Group of Special Pathogens. She is involved in a couple of European projects related to Public Health and taeniosis/cysticercosis. She is involved in teaching activities at Autonomous University of Barcelona (Microbiology, since 2008).

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Zoonoses, molecular biology applied to diagnosis of microorganisms, bioinformatics, HIV/AIDS

Gloria M. Molina-Salinas is Researcher Associate Level D at Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico. She has completed Master in Science, Analytical Chemistry, UANL and Bachelors at Clinical Chemistry, Medicine Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), Monterrey México

Bioguided isolation of natural products with pharmacological activity (mainly antituberculosis) . Search and development of anti-tuberculosis drugs with activity on TB MDR and XDR . Epidemiology and Molecular Biology of Tuberculosis. Development and validation of bioanalytical methods to quantify drugs and their metabolites in biological samples.

Dr.-Ing. Johannes Bader was born in Regensburg, Germany in 1976.After the completion of the study of Biotechnology in 2004 he achieved the degree Master of Science in Biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin in 2006. In 2008 he obtained his PhD degree at the TechnischeUniversitätBerlin, Germany.He is teaching students of the subjects biotechnology, brewing technology and food technology at the University of Technology Berlin. Furthermore, he is deputy head of the Research Institute for Microbiology at the Versuchs- und LehranstaltfürBrauerei in Berlin (VLB) E.V. In 2010 he worked as a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. His research topics comprise up- and downstream processing of microorganisms in food biotechnology and white biotechnology.

Johannes Bader research interest include up- and downstream processing of microorganisms in food biotechnology and white biotechnology.

Dr. Joachim Wink has Long time experience in building up an maintenance of a microbial strain collection in the pharmaceutical industry with the priorities in strain characterization, development of new conservation technologies, creation of a strain collection database, integration of external collections. Special project experience in the creation of a external back up collection, development of a process for the production of creative extracts in a natural product screening process, development of a medium throughput DNA extraction process for Actinobacteria and management of projects together with external partners.

Actinobacteria, Myxobacteria and secondary metabolites

Haider Abdul-Lateef Mousa is a Specialist Physician with over 27 years of substantial experience leading providers of superior patient care. Obtaining Bachelor degree in Medicine and Surgery on 1987 in which the rank of graduation was within the top ten out of the 138 graduated students of the Medical College, Basrah, Iraq. House Officer for 15 months at Babylon Teaching Hospitals, Ministry of Health, Iraq. Lecturer at the college of Medicine, University of Basrah, Iraq, for 10 years. Specialist physician of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Ministry of Health, Tripoli, Libya, for two years. Specialist physician of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Waha oil company clinics for 15 years. Having good grasp of knowledge in regard to internal medicine, infectious diseases, medical microbiology, surgery, emergency medicine, and occupational medicine. Having twenty-five scientific medical publications which were published at different countries. Assigned as Editor, Guest Chief Editor, Member of Editorial Board, and Reviewer at several international medical journals.

Internal medicine, Infectious diseases, Medical Microbiology, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, and Occupational Medicine.

Shingo IZAWA is Assistant professor of the Research Institute of Food Science, Kyoto University. In April 2001, Assistant professor of the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University. In February 2009, Associate professor of the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology. In March 1992, Bachelor of Agriculture, Kyoto University. In March in 1994. Master of Agriculture, Kyoto University. In July 1999, PhD, Kyoto University.

hingo Izawa research Interest include Alcoholic fermentation, Yeast biology, Brewing of sake, wine, and beer.

Dr. Sireesh Babu Maddinedi is currently working as Post-doctoral fellow in Southwest University Chongqing, China. He completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in the Analytical Chemistry Division in field on the thesis entitled “Green synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles, graphene composites and their applications” from VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India in 2015. His areas of Interests include Colorimetric sensing of metal ions using functionalized gold and silver nanoparticles, synthesis of graphene, graphene composites, functionalization- Applications, and Carbon dots based fluorescent sensors for metal ions detection

Colorimetric sensing of metal ions using functionalized gold and silver nanoparticles
Synthesis of graphene, graphene composites, functionalization- Applications 
Carbon dots based fluorescent sensors for metal ions detection

Dr. Alireza Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees form California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management and also in Nanochemistry and Molecular Structure Theory. His research interests are Biophysical Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Biomolecular and Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modeling and Structure, Theoretical, Computational and Mathematical Chemistry, Ab initio and Density Functional Methods. He has participated at more than fifty reputed international conferences, seminars, congresses, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Indexing (ISI) Journals. It should be noted that he has visited many universities or scientific and academic research institutes in different countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Russia, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Taiwan, South Korea, China, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor heretofore.

Biophysical Chemistry, Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry, Nanochemistry,Computational Chemistry

Maulin P. Shah, currently Chief Scientist & Head – Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, received his Ph.D. (2002-2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He has served as an Assistant Professor at Godhra, Gujarat University in 2001.Maulin P. Shah, currently Chief Scientist & Head – Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, received his Ph.D. (2002-2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He has served as an Assistant Professor at Godhra, Gujarat University in 2001. He has more than 160 research publication in highly reputed national and international journals.He is an active Editorial Board Member in 75 highly reputed Journal’s in the field of Environmental & Biological Sciences. ”. He has been appointed as an Editor-in-Chief in two journals viz. (1) Research Journal of Microbiology & (2) Journal of Biotechnology and Biomaterials.

Applied Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation, and Industrial Liquid Waste Management to solid state fermentation.

I have done my Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Microbiology Division, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow (V.B.S Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, U.P.) India in 2012. I was in Europe from 2012 to 2016 as an as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Presently I am working as a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, McGovern Medical School, UTHealth, Houston, Texas, USA.

Biology, Biotechnology, Microbiology

SAFDER GANAIE is a Research Associate in the Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University, School of Medicine. He did Master of Science (MS) in Biotechnology, The University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K, India. Presently, pursuing PhD with Honors at The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA. He has many research publications in highly reputed national and international journals and received many awards and achievements in this field.

Biotechnology, Microbiology

Dr. Robert FH Dekker is Director of the Biorefining Research Institute at Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada), and Senior Ontario Research Chair in Biorefining Research. He holds Adjunct Professorships at Lakehead University in the Dept. of Biology and Dept. of Chemistry (Faculty of Science) and Faculty of Natural Resource Management. Dr. Dekker graduated with Honours in Biochemistry in 1969 from the University of Western Australia (Perth). He then moved to the tropical city of Townsville (Queensland, Australia), where he graduated with a Masters (1972) and PhD (1975) degrees in Microbial Biochemistry/Enzymology/Carbohydrate Chemistry from James Cook University. A two-year post-doctoral term was spent at Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg in Germany (1975-76) where he studied the biosynthesis of bacterial cell-wall polysaccharides. In 1976, he worked in academia at the University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) teaching Biochemistry, and returned to Australia in 1980, where he worked with Australian industry (Sydney) in Biotechnology (1980-81). In 1982, Dr. Dekker joined the CSIRO of Australia (Melbourne) to develop a program of research on plant biomass conversion (now referred to as biorefining). It was at the CSIRO that he developed the steam explosion technology as pretreatment for the enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic materials. Upon termination of the program in 1990, Dr. Dekker worked at various academic centers around the world (Murdoch University, 1993-96; Universidade Estadual de Londrina (Brazil), 1999-2002 and 2004-2006; Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Ciudad Real, Spain), 2006-2008) before taking up his present position at Lakehead University in Canada. Dr. Dekker has spent more than 40 years in research (academia, government and industry). He has held Visiting Professorships in Australia, Brasil, Chile, France, Spain and Turkey, has consulted for Australian industry on biotechnology and the United Nations (United Nations Development Fund in Chile, 1982). He is the author of 100 research and review publications, has presented 200 research papers at scientific meetings; national and international, and holds 3 patents on botryosphaeran.

Robert Dekker research interests include enzyme and fermentation technology, microbial physiology, biorefining process development, lignin modification by enzymes, bioremediation, carbohydrate chemistry and biotechnology.

Dr. Alan D. Olstein is a Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Paradigm Diagnostics, Inc, USA. He has also worked as Senior Scientist, Optical Sensors, Inc. and as Senior Chemist in HB Fuller Company. He obtained his Ph.d in Biochemistry from University of Minnesota.

Protein biochemistry, Bacterial physiology, Bacterial diagnostics, Food safety.

Raghavendra Amachawadi, assistant professor of food animal therapeutics in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and Travis Haug, program/project administrator in the kinesiology department in the College of Health and Human Sciences, were recognized as Professor and Professional Staff of the Week at the Nov. 4 men's home basketball game. Faculty Senate, the Office of the President, K-State Athletics and the Division of Communications and Marketing wish to recognize their contributions to K-State. Amachawadi started his professional academic career as a research assistant professor in the diagnostic medicine/pathobiology department in the College of Veterinary Medicine at K-State in July 2015. In 2017, he joined the clinical sciences department, in the position he currently holds.

Raghavendra Amachawadi research interests are in the area of antimicrobial resistance in gut commensals and foodborne pathogens of swine and cattle production systems. Specifically, He has focused on understanding the mechanisms involved in the propagation and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance and on the role of non-antibiotic alternatives in contribution and mitigation of antimicrobial resistance in gut bacteria of cattle and swine. This involves both phenotypic and genotypic characterization of existing as well as novel resistance determinants. His research interests also include investigating both aerobic and or anaerobic bacterial flora of liver abscesses of feedlot cattle. These studies involve applications of microbiology, molecular epidemiology, and field based nutrition experiments.

Ming-Lung Yu, MD, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor at the College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan. Professor Yu, a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist, is currently teaching at the Kaohsiung Medical University and Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital. Currently, he is also a Adjunct Professor at College of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, and at Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Professor Yu’s research interests in epidemiology and natural history of viral hepatitis have led him to publish more than 280 journal and review articles. Professor Yu has won numerous awards over his career in recognition of his research. In addition to his academic and clinical achievements, Professor Yu also holds various editorial roles with several scientific journals some of which include PLoS ONE, World Journal of Gastroenterology, and Korean Journal of Hepatology. He also frequently serves as a reviewer for major international journals in medicine, gastroenterology and hepatology, such as The Lancet, Gastroeneterology, Hepatology, Gut, Journal of Hepatology, Clinical Infectious Disease, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Thorax, Ontotarget, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Scientific Reports and Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Molecular epidemiology of viral hepatitis, HBV/HCV virology, viral kinetics,Translational research of antiviral treatment for HBV and HCV, NAFLD/NASH,Hepatocellular carcinoma

M. P. Francino studied Biology at the National University of Mexico and then pursued graduate studies at the University of Rochester (New York), where she obtained her Ph.D. with her research on analyses of rates and patterns of DNA sequence evolution in bacteria and primates. Next, she conducted postdoctoral research in bacterial genetics as an EMBO Fellow at the University of Paris. She served as Research Scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute for five years, and was Head of their Evolutionary Genomics Program from 2007 to 2009. Since 2009, she is a Senior Scientist at the Genomics and Health Department of FISABIO-Public Health in Valencia, and has been Head of the Department since 2012. Her current research focuses on the metagenomic analysis of human microbiome communities, in particular on understanding the development of the gut microbiota. Work in her research group studies this process by analyzing the taxonomic composition, coding capabilities and gene expression patterns of the gut microbial community at different life stages, as well as the relationships of these features with diet and health. 

she is also broadly interested in understanding the forces that shape the structure, organization and evolution of genomes.

with her research on analyses of rates and patterns of DNA sequence evolution in bacteria and primates. Next, she conducted postdoctoral research in bacterial genetics as an EMBO Fellow at the University of Paris. She served as Research Scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute for five years, and was Head of their Evolutionary Genomics Program from 2007 to 2009. Since 2009, she is a Senior Scientist at the Genomics and Health Department of FISABIO-Public Health in Valencia, and has been Head of the Department since 2012. Her current research focuses on the metagenomic analysis of human microbiome communities, in particular on understanding the development of the gut microbiota. Work in her research group studies this process by analyzing the taxonomic composition, coding capabilities and gene expression patterns of the gut microbial community at different life stages, as well as the relationships of these features with diet and health.

In addition, she is also broadly interested in understanding the forces that shape the structure, organization and evolution of genomes.