Research lines:

• Modification of intestinal microbiota, Healthy Gut (ZTA)
• Genetic characterization of Campylobacter (ZTA)
• Molecular characterization of human reservoirs potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli, animal and environmental (ZTA)
• Genetic characterization of antimicrobial resistance (ZTA)
• Genetic characterization of microorganisms populations (ZTA)
• Foodborne zoonoses in animals and meat, eggs and other products from animal origin intended for human consumption, mainly Salmonella spp. Campylobacter spp., Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Yersinia enterocolitica (ZTA)
• Antimicrobial resistances in pathogens, food-borne zoonotic agents and indicators (ZTA)

Last scientific publications:

• Hadziabdic S., Fischer J., Borowiak M., Malorny B., Juraschek K., Kasbohrer A., Guerra B., Deneke C., Gonzalez-Zorn B. and Szabo I.. The bla NDM-1 carrying IncA/C2 plasmid underlies structural alterations and co-integrate formation in vivo. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 63(8). 2019. (A)
• Bado I., Papa-Ezdra R., Delgado-Blas JF., Gaudio M., Gutierrez C., Cordeiro NF., Garcia-Fulgueiras V., Pirez LA., Seija V., Medina JC., Rieppi G., Gonzalez-Zorn B. and Vignoli R.. Molecular Characterization of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in the Intensive Care Unit of Uruguays University Hospital Identifies the First rmtC Gene in the Species. Microbial Drug Resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.), 24(7):1012-1019. 2018. (A)
• Rahman M., Prasad KN., Gupta S., Singh S., Singh A., Pathak A., Gupta KK., Ahmad S. and Gonzalez-Zorn B.. Prevalence and Molecular Characterization of New Delhi Metallo-Beta-Lactamases in Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii from India. Microbial Drug Resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.), 24(6):792-798. 2018. (A)
• Valderrama MJ., Gonzalez-Zorn B., Calvo de Pablo P., Diez Orejas R., Fernandez Acero T., Gil Serna J., de Juan L., Martin H., Molina M., Navarro Garcia F., Patino B., Pla J., Prieto D., Rodriguez C., Roman E., Sanz Santamaría AB., de Siloniz MI., Suarez M., Vazquez C. and Cid VJ.. Educating in antimicrobial resistance awareness: adaptation of the Small World Initiative program to service-learning. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 365(17):1-22. 2018. (A)
• Rozwandowicz M., Brouwer MSM., Fischer J., Wagenaar J., Gonzalez-Zorn B., Guerra B., Mevius DJ. and Hordijk J.. Plasmids carrying antimicrobial resistance genes in Enterobacteriaceae. The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 73(5):1121-1137. 2018. (A)

Last PhD thesis supervised:

• Cristina Martínez Ovejero. Mecanismos emergentes de resistencia a antibióticos en enterobacterias de origen humano, animal y ambiental. 2017.(Internacional)
• Andreas Hoefer. Regulation of the 16S rRNA resistance methyltransferases: A functional and mutational analysis of the armA 5´ UTR. 2017.
• Daniel Thomas López. Enterococcus, Salmonella y H2S: Control Remoto de la Resistencia a Antibioticos. 2017.
• Laura Carrilero Aguado. Resistance to cephalosporins in Enterococcus spp.. 2016.(Europea)
• Belén Gutiérrez Soriano. Aminoglycoside resistance 16s rRNA methyltransferases: Mechanism of action, biological cost and interference with intrinsic methylations. 2014.(PhD Extraordinary Award, Mención Europea)

Last outreach publications:

• Delgado-Blas JF., Matamoros BR. and Gonzalez-Zorn B.. Ecology of blaNDM and mcr-1. Journal of Laboratory and Precision Medicine, AME Publishing Company. 2017.
• Gonzalez-Zorn B. and Moyano G.. Resistencia a los antibióticos: preguntas frecuentes. 3tres3.com, no. 2017.
• Gonzalez-Zorn B.. Antibióticos: tiempo de actuar. Suis, 134 pp. 3, Asís. 2017.
• Gonzalez-Zorn B., Cordero R. and San Millan A.. Resistencia a antibióticos en bacterias humanas y animales. Unidad de Información Científica y Divulgación de la Investigación. OTRI, Universidad Complutense. 2010.
• Aranaz A., Blanco JL., Cutuli MT., Dominguez L., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF., Garcia ME., Gibello A., Gomez-Lucia E., Gonzalez-Zorn B., Goyache J., Mateos A., Moreno MA., Paya MJ. and Vela AI.. Microbiología. Compañía Española de Reprografía y Servicios S.A. (CERSA). 2010.

Next communications:

• Bernabe-Balas C., Ares M., Santos-Lopez A., Hoefer A., Delgado-Blas JF., Matamoros BR., Serna-Bernaldo C., Montero N., Mazel D. and Gonzalez-Zorn B.. Las secuencias de inserción como mecanismo evolutivo de adaptación plasmídica a nuevas familias bacterianas. XII Reunión del Grupo de Microbiología Molecular. 2019. (Poster communication)

Last communications:

• Gonzalez-Zorn B.. Resistencia a antibióticos. Una amenaza global. Seminario Resistencia Antibióticos. 2019. (Oral communication)
• Gonzalez-Zorn B.. Resistencia Antibióticos. Fundación Quaes. 2019. (Web interview)
• Delgado-Blas JF., Valenzuela C., Herrera-Leon S., Saba C. and Gonzalez-Zorn B.. Understanding the dissemination of Salmonella enterica in food and waste water in Ghana. 29th ECCMID. 2019. (Poster communication)
• Gonzalez-Zorn B.. La bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae. Telediario RTVE. 2019. (TV interview)
• Gonzalez-Zorn B.. Antibióticos. Programa Buenos Días Madrid. 2019. (TV interview)