Research lines:

• Application of MALDI-TOF technique in the clinical microbiology and Agri-food field (ICM)
• Clinical diagnosis (ICM)
• Molecular typing (ICM)
• Bacterial taxonomy (ICM)

Last scientific publications:

• Fernandez-Garayzabal JF., LaFrentz S., Casamayor A., Abarca E., Mohammed HH., Cuming RS., Arias CR., Dominguez L. and Vela AI.. Corynebacterium conjunctivae: A New Corynebacterium Species Isolated from the Ocular Surface of Healthy Horses. Animals, 12(14):1827. 2022. (A)
• Maldonado-Barragan A., Alegria-Carrasco E., Blanco MM., Vela AI., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF., Rodriguez JM. and Gibello A.. Garvicins AG1 and AG2: Two Novel Class IId Bacteriocins of Lactococcus garvieae Lg-Granada. International Journal of Molecualr Sciences, 23(9):4685. 2022. (A)
• Colussi S., Pastorino P., Mugetti D., Antuofermo E., Sciuto S., Esposito G., Polinas M., Tomasoni M., Burrai GP., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF., Acutis PL., Pedron C. and Prearo M.. Isolation and Genetic Characterization of Streptococcus iniae Virulence Factors in Adriatic Sturgeon ( Acipenser naccarii). Microorganisms, 10(5):883. 2022. (A)
• Frances-Cuesta C., Ansari I., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF., Gibello A. and Gonzalez-Candelas F.. Comparative genomics and evolutionary analysis of Lactococcus garvieae isolated from human endocarditis. Microbial Genomics, 8(2):000771. 2022. (A)
• Arnal JL., Fernandez A., Vela AI., Sanz C., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF. and Cid D.. Capsular type diversity of Mannheimia haemolytica determined by multiplex real-time PCR and indirect hemagglutination in clinical isolates from cattle, sheep, and goats in Spain. Veterinary Microbiology, 258:109121. 2021. (A)

Last PhD thesis supervised:

• Leydis Zamora Morales. Estudio taxonómico de bacterias relacionadas con el Síndrome del Alevín de la trucha. 2015.(Laboratorios Ovejero Award Microbiology and Microbial Immunology)
• Verónica Sánchez del Rey. Estructura y diversidad de la población de Streptococcus suis presente en el ganado porcino, jabalí y conejo silvestre. 2015.
• María Concepción Porrero Calonge. Detección y caracterización de Staphylococcus aureus procedentes de animales y aguas. 2014.(PhD Extraordinary Award, Doctorado Europeo)
• Monica Aguado Urda. Caracterización y análisis funcional del genoma de Lactococcus garvieae. 2014.
• Verena Blume Serrano. Molecular characterization of Streptococcus suis (serotypes 2 and 9) isolated from swine in Spain. 2010.

Last outreach publications:

• Perez-Sancho M., Vela AI., Garcia-Seco T., Gottschalk M., Dominguez L. and Fernandez-Garayzabal JF.. Assessment of MALDI-TOF MS as alternative tool for Streptococcus suis identification. 113-118, Applications of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) tools in microbiology of infectious diseases. Ed. 1. Frontiers. 2017.
• Lopez-Campos G., Aguado-Urda M., Blanco MM., Gibello A., Cutuli MT., Lopez-Alonso V., Martin-Sanchez F. and Fernandez-Garayzabal JF.. Lactococcus garvieae: a small bacteria and a big data world. Health Information Science and System, 24;3:S5, Universidad Complutense. 2015.
• Barrera R., Cerda P., Dominguez L., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF., Galiana F., Gomez J., Hernandez A., Hernandez JM., Herrero M., Lopez A., Lopez J., Meseguer E., Molina JR., Palacios E., Portela S., Ruiz F., Santiago JM., Seiz R., Tejedor JL., Torrent F., Valles M., Vela AI. and Villarroel M.. Acuicultura en aguas continentales. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino. 2011.
• 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.
• Vela AI., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF. and Dominguez L.. Caracterización de Salmonellosis. Anaporc, IV(36):34-39, Asociacion Nacional de Porcicultura Científica. 2007.

Last communications:

• San Martin E., Perez-Sancho M., Garcia-Seco T., Hernandez M., Quijada NM., Gibello A., Dominguez L., Vela AI. and Fernandez-Garayzabal JF.. Monitoring antimicrobial resistance genes in Lactrococcus garvieae strains obtained from different sources. 1st One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2019. (Poster communication)
• Portillo FA., Bustos CP., Mesplet M., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF. and Vela AI.. Caracterización del gen groEl en Streptococcus equi subsp. equi y su relación con el fenotipo y el genotipo de los aislamientos. IX Jornadas de Jóvenes Investigadores. 2019. (Oral communication)
• San Martin E., Perez-Sancho M., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF., Dominguez L. and Vela AI.. Susceptibilidad de Lactococus garvieae procedente de diferentes orígenes frente distintos antimicrobianos. II Congreso Nacional de Sanidad Animal. 2018. (Poster communication)
• Perez-Sancho M., Calderon M., Camacho-Soguero I., Casamayor A., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF., Dominguez L., Vela AI. and Vadillo S.. Identification of Desulfovibrio fairfieldensis recovered from swine by Maldi Tof mass spectrometry. 7th Congress of European Microbiologist. 26th Congress of the Spanish Society for Microbiology. 2017. (Poster communication)
• Perez-Sancho M., Vela AI., Casamayor A., San Martin E., Pulido E., Romero B., Dominguez L. and Fernandez-Garayzabal JF.. Implementación de la técnica Maldi-Tof para la identificación bacteriana: avanzando hacia in diagnostico más rápido en veterinaria. XXII Simposio AVEDILA 2017. 2017. (Poster communication)