Julio Álvarez Sánchez
Organization and Human Resources Assistant Director
Associate Professor
Qualifications:
PhD in Veterinary Sciences
Diploma de Estudios Avanzados
Degree in Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
Contact
Management
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
After defending my PhD in 2008, focused on different aspects of the epidemiology of tuberculosis and paratuberculosis in Spain, I served as the head of the unit of neglected and emerging diseases in the VISAVET Health Surveillance Center, Spain, for two years, and then held two post-doctoral positions at the Spanish wildlife research institute (IREC) of Ciudad Real, Spain, and at the Research Institute Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS) focusing on the epidemiology of bacterial zoonotic diseases in wildlife and humans. After this I joined the University of Minnesota in 2014, first as a research associate and then as an assistant professor, and came back to VISAVET in 2018 with a Ramon y Cajal postdoctoral contract. My research is currently focused on the application of quantitative approaches for the study of the epidemiology of infectous diseases in the human-animal-environmental interface.
I have co-authored over 100 papers in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, being first or last author in 36 of them; I have acted as PhD advisor of four students in the last 5 years, and currently act as scientific advisor of the European Laboratory for Bovine Tuberculosis, as well as a scientific reviewer for 12 indexed scientific journals.
I have co-authored over 100 papers in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, being first or last author in 36 of them; I have acted as PhD advisor of four students in the last 5 years, and currently act as scientific advisor of the European Laboratory for Bovine Tuberculosis, as well as a scientific reviewer for 12 indexed scientific journals.
Investigation
Research lines:
- Characterization of the emergence of foodborne pathogens subjected to surveillance and monitoring programs through quantitative epidemiology (EPIQ)
- Evaluation of the performance of diagnostic tests for diseases of importance in animal health and assessment of their application in the frame of control and surveillance programs (EPIQ)
Next scientific publications:
- Polo C., Garcia-Seco T., Garcia N., Fernandez-Benito V., Briones V., Diez-Guerrier A., Alvarez J., Dominguez L. and Perez-Sancho M.. Time, temperature and media: the three keys to improve the recovery of Campylobacter fetus subsp. venerealis from preputial bull samples. Veterinary Research Communications. (A)
Last scientific publications:
- Velasco-Reinaldos C., Ortega J., Gómez-Buendía A., Grau A., Lopez M., Alvarez J., Romero B., de Juan L. and Bezos J.. Evaluation of the Effect of a Recent Comparative Intradermal Tuberculin Test on the Humoral Diagnosis of Paratuberculosis Using Serum and Milk Samples from Goats. Veterinary sciences, 11(3):105. 2024. (A)
- Jacqueline C., Samper-Cativiela C., Monzon S., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Cuesta I., Alvarez J. and Herrera-Leon S.. Phenotypic and genetic characterization of antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella enterica serovar Choleraesuis isolates from humans and animals in Spain from 2006 to 2021. The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 1-11. 2024. (A)
- Velasco-Reinaldos C., Ortega J., Rincón-Fernández de la Puente J., Romero B., de Juan L., Dominguez L., Dominguez M., Moreno I., Alvarez J. and Bezos J.. Effect of a recent intradermal test on the specificity of P22 ELISA for the diagnosis of caprine tuberculosis. Frontiers in veterinary science, 11:1-7. 2024. (A)
- Gómez-Buendía A., Alvarez J., Bezos J., Mourelo J., Amado J., Saez-Llorente JL., de Juan L. and Romero B.. Non-tuberculous mycobacteria: occurrence in skin test cattle reactors from official tuberculosis-free herds. Frontiers in veterinary science, 11:1361788. 2024. (A)
- Sponheim A., Alvarez J., Fano E., Rovira A., MCDowell E., Toohill E., Dalquist L. and Pieters M.. A diagnostic approach to confirm Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Day zero for pathogen eradication. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 221:106057. 2023. (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 Internacional y Doctorado Industrial)
- Mª Luisa de la Cruz Conty. Application of quantitative analytic methods for the epidemiological study of zoonotic diseases. 2018.(Doctorado Europeo)
- María Teresa García-Seco Romero. Epidemiology of Q fever in domestic ruminants in the central zone of the Iberian peninsula. 2017.
- Adriana Cabal Rosel. Distribución, cuantificación y caracterización de genes de virulencia de Escherichia coli en reservorios animales, humanos y medioambientales. 2016.(Doctorado Internacional)
- Carmen Casal Comendador. Diagnosis of tuberculosis in ruminants and camelids: optimization of cell-based and humoral tests. 2016.(Laboratorios Ovejero Award, PhD Extraordinary Award, Doctorado Europeo)
Outreach
Last outreach publications:
- Roy A., Diez-Guerrier A., Perello A. and Alvarez J.. Epizootic hemorrhagic disease: an emerging arbovirosis. Profesión Veterinaria, 101:14-25, Colegio Oficial de Veterinarios de Madrid. 2023.
- Velasco-Reinaldos C., Roy A., Ortega J., Romero B., Alvarez J., Dominguez M., Moreno I., Diez-Guerrier A., de Juan L., Dominguez L. and Bezos J.. Mejorando el diagnóstico para ayudar en la erradicación de la tuberculosis en los rumiantes domésticos: el proyecto internacionalo imdiTBap. Ruminews, Noviembre 2023, Agrinews. 2023.
- Balseiro A. and Alvarez J.. Animal tuberculosis: the (never)ending story?. Albéitar, Grupo Asis. 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.
- Alvarez J.. Emergencia del virus de la viruela del mono: ¿Un problema de sanidad animal?. Profesión Veterinaria, 99:10-21, Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Veterinarios de Madrid. 2023.
Next communications:
- Gómez-Buendía A., Diez-Guerrier A., Munoz M., Saez JL., Romero B. and Alvarez J.. When Is really Specific Enough? Evaluating The Specificity Of Single And Comparative Skin Tests In Tuberculosis-free Herds Using Field And Experimental Data. 17th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE 17). 2024. (Oral communication)
Last communications:
- Alvarez J. and Gómez-Buendía A.. Use of Bayesian latent class models to evaluate performance of TB diagnostic tests. 3rd imdiTBap meeting. 2024. (Oral communication)
- Gómez-Buendía A., Pozo P., Picasso C., Branscum A., Perez A. and Alvarez J.. Rethinking Animal Tuberculosis Diagnostics: Unveiling the power of the Bayesian approach. Society for Bayesian Methods in Epidemiology and Diagnostics Conference. 2024. (Oral communication)
- Vargas-Castro I., Crespo JL., Fayos M., Jimenez-Martinez MA., Torre-Fuentes L., Alvarez J., Moura AE., Hernandez M., Buendia A., Barroso-Arevalo S., Garcia-Seco T., Perez-Sancho M., de Miguel MJ., Andres-Barranco S., Marco-Cabedo V., Penin-Villahoz G., Munoz PM., Dominguez L., Garcia-Parraga D. and Sanchez-Vizcaino JM.. Profundizando en la patogénesis y transmisión de Brucella pinnipedialis en delfines mulares varados. 35ª Conferencia Anual de la Sociedad Europea de Cetáceos. 2024. (Oral communication)
- Alvarez J.. Cómo integrar la secuenciación masiva en el diagnóstico y en la investigación epidemiológica. XXVI Edición del Simposio Nacional AVEDILA. 2023. (Oral communication)
- Alvarez J.. Estudios epidemiológicos en la explotación/zona. Las encuestas epidemiológicas. Curso de formación en los aspectos teóricos, prácticos y de base legal en el diagnóstico de la tuberculosis bovina. 2023. (Oral communication)
