Beatriz Romero Martínez
Other appointments:
Unit Chief of MYC. VISAVET Centre. UCM
Expert. World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)
Director del Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET)
Qualifications:
PhD in Veterinary Sciences
Degree in Biological Sciences
Contact
Management
VISAVET, Health Surveillance Centre
Universidad Complutense
Av. Puerta de Hierro s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain
e-mail:
Telephone: (+34) 91 394 4033
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:
- Bezos J., Saez-Llorente JL., Alvarez J., Romero B., Diez-Guerrier A., Dominguez L. and de Juan L.. Bovine tuberculosis in Spain, is it really the final countdown?. Irish veterinary journal, 76(Suppl 1):13. 2023. (A)
- Gómez-Buendía A., Romero B., Bezos J., Saez-Llorente JL., Archetti I., Pacciarini M., Boschiroli ML., Girard S., Gutu E., Barbuceanu F., Karaoulani O., Stournara A., de Juan L. and Alvarez J.. Evaluation of the performance of the IFN-y release assay in bovine tuberculosis free herds from five European countries. Veterinary Research, 54(1):55. 2023. (A)
- Ferreras-Colino E., Descalzo E., Romero B., Gortazar C. and Ferreras P.. Mycobacterium bovis in Egyptian mongoose, Spain. Zoonoses and Public Health, 70(4):365-368. 2023. (A)
- Pozo P., Bezos J., Romero B., Grau A., Nacar J., Saez-Llorente JL., Minguez O. and Alvarez J.. Once bitten twice shy: Risk factors associated with bovine tuberculosis recurrence in Castilla y Leon, Spain. Research in Veterinary Science, 159:72-80. 2023. (A)
- Preite L., Barroso P., Romero B., Balseiro A. and Gortazar C.. Struggling to improve farm biosecurity: Do free advice and subsidies hit the target?. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 212:105839. 2023. (A)
Last PhD thesis supervised:
- Víctor Lorente Leal. New Methodologies for the Diagnosis of Bovine Tuberculosis. 2023.
- 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:
- Velasco-Reinaldos C., Ortega J., Lorente-Leal V., Romero B., de Juan L. and Bezos J.. Nuevas metodologías para el diagnóstico ante-mortem de la tuberculosis bovina, ¿tiene futuro?. Tierras Vacuno, 1, Novaágora. 2023.
- Lorente-Leal V., Pozo P., Bezos J., Alvarez J., Perez del Val B., Gortazar C., de Juan L. and Romero B.. La secuenciación masiva al servicio de la Tuberculosis. Actualidad redrisa.es, Red de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (RISA). 2023.
- 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.
Last communications:
- Lorente-Leal V., Sanchez-Martin L., Alende T., Lozano F., Saez-LLorente JL., Bezos J., de Juan L. and Romero B.. Evaluación de la extracción automatizada de ADN del complejo Mycobacterium tuberculosis en muestras de tejidos para su detección mediante PCR a tiempo real. XXVI Edición del Simposio Nacional AVEDILA. 2023. (Oral communication)
- Lorente-Leal V., Pozo P., Gutierrez A., Vinolo C., Saez-LLorente JL., Bezos J., de Juan L., Alvarez J. and Romero B.. Relaciones epidemiológicas y dónde encontrarlas: el uso de la secuenciación masiva de genomas para reforzar los estudios epidemiológicos de la TB animal en la Comunidad de Madrid. XXVI Edición del Simposio Nacional AVEDILA. 2023. (Oral communication)
- Ortega J., Velasco-Reinaldos C., Sanz C., Moreno JC., Dominguez L., Dominguez M., Moreno I., Alvarez J., Romero B. and Bezos J.. ¡El diagnóstico de la tuberculosis caprina puede ser la leche!. XXVI Edición del Simposio Nacional AVEDILA. 2023. (Oral communication)
- Romero B.. Actividades del EU-RL for Bovine Tuberculosis. Curso de formación en los aspectos teóricos, prácticos y de base legal en el diagnóstico de la tuberculosis bovina. 2023. (Oral communication)
- Romero B.. Diagnóstico microbiológico de la tuberculosis. Identificación del agente etiológico. Manual y normativa aplicable. Toma de muestras. Curso de formación en los aspectos teóricos, prácticos y de base legal en el diagnóstico de la tuberculosis bovina. 2023. (Oral communication)
