Cultural heritage is a fundamental sector for Spanish and European economy and society. CAPAC is an interdisciplinary group devoted to the study of corrosion and protection systems for metallic materials used in this field. Nowadays, it is a consolidated group, that has continued the research activities in these field that have been carried out in the CENIM since many years ago. With a focus on applied research and the transfer to the society and industry of the scientific and technical advances in this research line.

The activity of this group is focused, through an agroecological and multidisciplinary approach, to optimize the integrated management of crop pests and diseases, deepening the study of compatible and incompatible interactions of plants with pests and plant-parasitic organisms (with special interest in the different types of plant resistance and the biotic and abiotic factors that affect them) and contributing to conservation of beneficial insects.

We are a team of Biologists, Bioinformaticians, and Engineers using computational methods, aiming to understand the emergence and evolution of diverse biological processes.

Our laboratory is interested in understanding the molecular basis behind the generation of new neurons both during the development of the nervous system and in the adult brain. The generation of new neurons is retained to some extent in niches in the adult nervous system throughout lifetime under physiological conditions and constitutes an important source of neural plasticity. However, adult neurogenesis is very restricted, both in number and subtypes of neural cells generated.

Our group studies the mutualistic relationships between cyanobacteria and crop plants, with the aim of obtaining new biofertilizers for crop production. Some cyanobacteria, able to fix atmospheric nitrogen (N2), use photosynthesis as the primary source of energy to assimilate this element, and are known for their enormous contribution to nitrogen and carbon cycles in the biosphere. Some cyanobacteria genera live in symbiosis with plants, providing nitrogen to the host.

The MEDES group focuses its research activity on the development of sustainable materials through the efficient use of resources; paying special attention to the use of non-conventional raw materials, such as industrial waste, as well as the application of concentrated solar energy to the synthesis and transformation of materials.

Study of genetic variation and the response to selection in important characters for the adaptation of crops to the environment such as early vigor, flowering and senescence and in characters of relevance in sustainable cultivation such as the efficient use of nitrogen , the yield, humidity and quality of the residual biomass. Recovery, conservation and pre-breeding of traditional varieties and crops of the Atlantic area of the Iberian Peninsula, such as oats, rye, millets

In the PBE lab we are interested in the evolutionary forces that drive plasmid dynamics in bacterial populations. Plasmids play a crucial role in bacterial ecology and evolution because they can transfer genes horizontally between different bacteria. The most striking example of how plasmids drive bacterial evolution is the global spread of plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance over the last few decades.

The main interest of our group is to uncover the role of distal enhancers in the deployment of developmental gene expression programs as well as in the etiology of human congenital disorders.

The group has a multidisciplinary approach with a strong background in microbiology and quality of fruit and vegetables, from an overall quality perspective. Several aspects of microbial and chemical food safety, fresh produce self-life, physiological characteristics, and organoleptic quality are included. The research topics deal with fundamental and applied aspects of pre-harvest and post-harvest factors affecting the quality and safety of fruit and vegetables.