Beatriz Romero Martínez
Appointments:
Unit Chief of MYC. VISAVET Centre. UCM
Subdirector de Gestión, Recursos Humanos y Docencia. VISAVET Centre. UCM
Qualifications:
PhD in Veterinary Sciences
Degree in Biological Sciences
Contact
VISAVET, Health Surveillance Centre
Universidad Complutense
Av. Puerta de Hierro s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain
e-mail:
Telephone: (+34) 91 394 3992
Fax: (+34) 91 394 3795
Biography
Degree in Biology at the Complutense University of Madrid (1996-2001) and PhD from the same University within the Veterinary Sciences program with the thesis entitled "Bovine Tuberculosis: its molecular epidemiology and its implication in Animal Health and Public Health" (2010).
She currently works as deputy director of the European Union Reference Laboratory (EU-RL) for Bovine Tuberculosis, located at the VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre of the UCM and she is also the Head of the Mycobacteria Unit. Her main research activity is related to the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis in animals and molecular epidemiology of this disease. In addition, she is responsible for quality assurance in this area according to the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard for testing laboratories to ensure the technical competence.
Author of more than 90 scientific publications in indexed journals and more than 140 presentations at national and international congresses. Shee has participated in more than 20 national and international projects, as well as in R&D contracts of special relevance with companies and / or administrations. She collaborates as a reviewer for various international journals and has been included among the 20 leading experts on bovine tuberculosis in the world according to the Expertscape web portal. In recent years, she has been involved in the evaluation, improvement and development of new methodologies for laboratory diagnosis and detection of tuberculosis in animals.
She currently works as deputy director of the European Union Reference Laboratory (EU-RL) for Bovine Tuberculosis, located at the VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre of the UCM and she is also the Head of the Mycobacteria Unit. Her main research activity is related to the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis in animals and molecular epidemiology of this disease. In addition, she is responsible for quality assurance in this area according to the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard for testing laboratories to ensure the technical competence.
Author of more than 90 scientific publications in indexed journals and more than 140 presentations at national and international congresses. Shee has participated in more than 20 national and international projects, as well as in R&D contracts of special relevance with companies and / or administrations. She collaborates as a reviewer for various international journals and has been included among the 20 leading experts on bovine tuberculosis in the world according to the Expertscape web portal. In recent years, she has been involved in the evaluation, improvement and development of new methodologies for laboratory diagnosis and detection of tuberculosis in animals.
Investigation
Research lines:
Last scientific publications:
- Pozo P., Lorente-Leal V., Robbe-Austerman S., Hicks J., Stuber T., Bezos J., de Juan L., Saez-Llorente JL., Romero B., Alvarez J. and on behalf of the Spanish Network on Surveillance Monitoring of Animal Tuberculosis.. Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing to Unravel the Genetic Diversity of a Prevalent Mycobacterium bovis Spoligotype in a Multi-Host Scenario in Spain. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13:915843. 2022. (A)
- Ortega J., Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Roy A., de Juan L., Romero B., Moreno I., Dominguez M., Dominguez L. and Bezos J.. Factors affecting the performance of P22 ELISA for the diagnosis of caprine tuberculosis in milk samples. Research in Veterinary Science, 145:40-45. 2022. (A)
- Hoefer A., Herrera-Leon S., Dominguez L., Ordovas-Gavin M., Romero B., Araujo-Piedra XB., Sobrino-Calzada C., Uria-Gonzalez MJ., Herrera-Leon L. and Case Study Investigation Group.. Zoonotic Transmission of Diphtheria from Domestic Animal Reservoir, Spain. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 28(6):1257-1260. 2022. (A)
- Lorente-Leal V., Liandris E., Bezos J., Perez-Sancho M., Romero B. and de Juan L.. MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry as a Rapid Screening Alternative for Non-tuberculous Mycobacterial Species Identification in the Veterinary Laboratory. Frontiers in veterinary science, 9:827702. 2022. (A)
- Ortega J., Roy A., Díaz-Castillo A., de Juan L., Romero B., Saez-Llorente JL., Dominguez L., Regal P., Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Alvarez J. and Bezos J.. Effect of the topical administration of corticosteroids and tuberculin pre-sensitisation on the diagnosis of tuberculosis in goats. BMC Veterinary Research, 18(1):58. 2022. (A)
Last PhD thesis supervised:
- Pilar Pozo Piñol. Use of Epidemiological Analytic Tools and Molecular Characterization Techniques to Inform Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Programs. 2020.(Doctorado Europeo)
Outreach
Last outreach publications:
- de Juan L., Alvarez J., Balseiro A., Bezos J., Bru G., Garrido J., Gonzalez S., Gortazar C., Martinez A., Perez B. and Romero B.. Tuberculosis. Conocida y compartida. Actualidad redrisa.es, Red de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (RISA). 2022.
- Cruz F., Gonzalez S., Barcena C., Bezos J., Buendia A., Briones V., Camino E., Fores P., Garcia N., Mazariegos M., Perez-Sancho M., Romero B. and de Juan L.. Infequus: Plataforma de enfermedades infecciosas equinas. Jornada Aprendizaje Eficaz con TIC en la UCM. Ed. 1. Ediciones Complutense. 2022.
- Romero B., Bezos J., de Juan L., Lozano F., Gonzalez S., Perales A. and Saez JL.. Toma y envío de muestras para diagnóstico mediante PCR directa y cultivo microbiológico en infecciones por miembros del Complejo Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación (MAPA) y Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET). UCM.. 2021.
- Gonzalez S., Lozano F., Alvarez J., Romero B., Bezos J. and de Juan L.. Tuberculosis in the new Animal Health Law. VISAVET Outreach Journal, VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre (U.C.M.). 2021.
- Lorente-Leal V., Pozo P., Alvarez J., Romero B. and de Juan L.. Avances en investigación. Epidemiología. Caracterización molecular y secuenciación masiva. 4.1.1:54-57, Tuberculosis animal: una aproximación desde la perspectiva de la Ciencia y la Administración. Ed. 1. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación. 2020.
Next communications:
- de Juan L., Mazariegos M. and Romero B.. Centros de investigación de alta seguridad biológica. Máster Universitario en Biología Sanitaria. 2022. (Oral communication)
- Romero B.. Bioseguridad en laboratorio de contención bilógica. Máster Universitario en Virología. 2022. (Oral communication)
- Romero B.. Visita al Centro VISAVET. Máster Universitario en Virología. 2022. (Oral communication)
- Romero B.. Diagnosis of animal tuberculosis: what do we need?. 6th Congress of the European Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians. 2022. (Oral communication)
Last communications:
- Ortega J., Roy A., Romero B., de Juan L., Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Dominguez M., Dominguez L. and Bezos J.. Advances in the antibody-based diagnosis of caprine tuberculosis: Milk as an alternative sample. Seventh International Conference on Mycobacterium bovis. 2022. (Oral communication)
- Romero B.. De la facultad a un Laboratorio de referencia de microbiología. Master universitario en Microbiología y Parasitología: Investigación y Desarrollo. 2022. (Oral communication)
- Pozo P., Bezos J., Romero B., Grau A., Nacar J., Saez JL., Minguez O. and Alvarez J.. The minority report: Foreknowledge of the risk of bovine tuberculosis persistence in an endemic region. 16th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE 16). 2022. (Oral communication)
- Ortega J., Romero B., de Juan L., Moreno I., Dominguez L., Dominguez M., Infantes-Lorenzo JA. and Bezos J.. Detección de anticuerpos frente al complejo M. tuberculosis empleando el ELISA-P22 en muestras de heces caprinas. I Congreso Internacional de Sanidad y Bienestar Animal. 2022. (Poster communication)
- Ortega J., Roy A., Romero B., de Juan L., Grau A., Nacar J., Minguez O., Alvarez J. and Bezos J.. Análisis longitudinal del programa de erradicación de tuberculosis caprina en Castilla y León: cerca del objetivo. I Congreso Internacional de Sanidad y Bienestar Animal. 2022. (Poster communication)
