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 functions (which are required to adquire genetic material through horizontal gene transfer); and their contribution to chromosomal segregation. We are studying these function that are essential to promote genetic stability and the relationship among them and the role that they play in the reversion of the resistance and/or persistence to antibiotics in bacteria of the Firmicutes phylum. Done of the objectives of our group is to design and apply new strategies to enhance death of pathogenic bacteria and ti reduce antibiotic persistence using as a model Bacillus subtilis and plasmids.