Host-microbiome Interactions Along the Gut-Brain Axis

My group focuses on understanding the role that bacterial amyloids produced by the gut microbiome play in promoting neurodegeneration to help develop…

Molecular treatments against cardiac fibrosis (FIBROHEART)

The research group led by Associate Professor Dr. Ana V. Villar studies the molecular mechanisms related to the role of the chaperone Hsp90 and the…

Structure and Function of Bacterial Secretion Systems

The focus of our research in the last years has been on the molecular motors involved in pilus biogenesis and substrate transport in bacterial Type…

Functional genomics of tumor development

Our research group takes advantage of the use of molecular and cellular technologies as well as next-generation and single-cell sequencing…

Molecular Mechanisms of Coordination between Cellular Growth and Proliferation in Eukaryotes

Investigating the molecular role of the TORC1 complex in the regulatory mechanisms coordinating cellular growth and proliferation in eukaryotes

Subcellular architecture and Neurodegeneration

Our group is interested in the study of subcellular architecture and in exploring the structural alterations that occur in pathological conditions in…

Regulation of gene expression and metabolism in bacteria

Our work is aimed at identifying and characterizing the global regulatory networks that allow bacteria to modulate the expression of their genes in…

Intracellular bacterial pathogens

Our group is interested in deciphering at a molecular and cellular level the mechanisms involved in infectious processes caused by intracellular…

Bacterial engineering for biomedical applications

Our research is aimed to engineer E. coli bacteria for biomedical applications, including the selection of small recombinant antibodies and the…

Genetic Stability

The goals of the research group are to characterize the role of the repair (which are required for error-free DNA repair), and genetic recombination…