Lucas Domínguez Rodríguez
Appointments:
Miembro del Consejo Asesor Externo del CEIGRAM. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
Académico Correspondiente (Sección de Ciencias Básicas). Academia de Ciencias Veterinarias de Castilla y León
Tutor de Doctorado en Ciencias en el Programa de Maestría y Doctorado en Ciencias de la Producción y de la Salud Animal. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Comité Asesor para el acceso a instalaciones del CISA. Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA)
Representante de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid para formar parte del Patronato de la Fundación IMDEA Alimentación. Universidad Complutense (UCM)
Miembro del panel de evaluadores externos del Programa Manuel Colmeiro. Xunta de Galicia
Coordinador del Cluster de Agroalimentación y Salud. CEI Campus Moncloa
Miembro. Plataforma Tecnológica Española de Sanidad Animal (Vet+i)
Académico de Número de la Real Academia de Doctores de España. Real Academia de Doctores de España (RADE)
Full Professor (UCM)
Qualifications:
PhD in Veterinary Sciences
Degree in Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
Contact
VISAVET, Health Surveillance Centre
Universidad Complutense
Av. Puerta de Hierro s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain
e-mail:
Telephone: (+34) 91 394 3721
Fax: (+34) 91 394 3795
Biography
Professor Lucas Domínguez was born in 1955 in Cabezuela del Valle (Cáceres). He has a degree and a PhD in Veterinary Medicine from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid (Extraordinary PhD Award 1983-1984). He has carried out postdoctoral stays at the Universities of Leicester and Reading (United Kingdom). He has obtained the position of Full Professor in the area of Animal Pathology I (currently Animal Health) in 1988. He obtained the I Jacumar Award for Research in Aquaculture 2001 and the ANAPORC Prize 2001.
He has held the position of Director of the Department of Animal Health of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCM) and Director of the VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre (UCM) for 13 and 9 consecutive years, respectively. Under his direction the center has specialized in the surveillance of the main zoonotic and epizootic diseases of interest in Spain. Currently, VISAVET hosts the European Reference Laboratory for Bovine Tuberculosis (EU-RL), the Reference Laboratories for African Equine Pest and African Swine Fever of the OIE and the Veterinary Surveillance Network for Resistance to Antibiotics (VAV). Under his direction, VISAVET has participated in the creation of the Food Institute (Food Safety) of the IMDEA and, together with the Agri-Food and Health Cluster, has participated in the Campus of International Excellence (CEI Moncloa) project developed by both the Universidad Complutense and the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Professor Lucas Domínguez has also participated in the creation of the Spanish Network of Biological Alert Laboratories (RELAB).
Throughout his career he has directed numerous research projects with public and private funding and has directed 37 doctoral theses (12 of them have awards).
He has collaborated in the publication of more than 350 research works, most of them in journals with the highest impact in the area, mainly in the field of diagnosis, detection, classification, characterization, epidemiology, control and eradication of facultative intracellular pathogenic zoonotic bacteria (Listeria, Salmonella, Mycobacterium). He has also been a co-author in several books, monographs and articles on issues of Animal Health and Public Health and also authored several microbiological manuals. He has been part and is currently part of several Task Commissions of different national and international Agencies related to Animal Health, Public Health, Microbial Taxonomy, Veterinary Drugs and Food Safety and Nutrition. He is an advisor for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the Area of Environment, Land Planning and Health of the Community of Madrid and the Area of Agriculture and Livestock of Castilla y Leon.
He has held the position of Director of the Department of Animal Health of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCM) and Director of the VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre (UCM) for 13 and 9 consecutive years, respectively. Under his direction the center has specialized in the surveillance of the main zoonotic and epizootic diseases of interest in Spain. Currently, VISAVET hosts the European Reference Laboratory for Bovine Tuberculosis (EU-RL), the Reference Laboratories for African Equine Pest and African Swine Fever of the OIE and the Veterinary Surveillance Network for Resistance to Antibiotics (VAV). Under his direction, VISAVET has participated in the creation of the Food Institute (Food Safety) of the IMDEA and, together with the Agri-Food and Health Cluster, has participated in the Campus of International Excellence (CEI Moncloa) project developed by both the Universidad Complutense and the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Professor Lucas Domínguez has also participated in the creation of the Spanish Network of Biological Alert Laboratories (RELAB).
Throughout his career he has directed numerous research projects with public and private funding and has directed 37 doctoral theses (12 of them have awards).
He has collaborated in the publication of more than 350 research works, most of them in journals with the highest impact in the area, mainly in the field of diagnosis, detection, classification, characterization, epidemiology, control and eradication of facultative intracellular pathogenic zoonotic bacteria (Listeria, Salmonella, Mycobacterium). He has also been a co-author in several books, monographs and articles on issues of Animal Health and Public Health and also authored several microbiological manuals. He has been part and is currently part of several Task Commissions of different national and international Agencies related to Animal Health, Public Health, Microbial Taxonomy, Veterinary Drugs and Food Safety and Nutrition. He is an advisor for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the Area of Environment, Land Planning and Health of the Community of Madrid and the Area of Agriculture and Livestock of Castilla y Leon.
Investigation
Research lines:
- Integrated monitoring and control of Toxoplasma gondii and Hepatitis E virus in food supply chains (NED)
- Modification of intestinal microbiota, Healthy Gut (ZTA)
- Genetic characterization of Campylobacter (ZTA)
- Application of MALDI-TOF technique in the clinical microbiology and Agri-food field (ICM)
- Diagnosis of leishmaniasis in the animal reservoir (NED)
- Molecular characterization of human reservoirs potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli, animal and environmental (ZTA)
- Diagnosis of Q fever in livestock and wildlife using direct and indirect tests. (NED)
- Diagnosis of swine brucellosis (NED)
- New strategies for diagnosis and control of bovine, ovine and caprine brucellosis (NED)
- Epidemiological surveillance of zoonotic tick-borne pathogens (NED)
- Tuberculosis control (MYC)
- 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)
- Molecular characterizacion studies of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MYC)
- Clinical diagnosis (ICM)
- Tuberculosis diagnosis (MYC)
- Molecular epidemiology of tubeculosis (MYC)
- Molecular typing (ICM)
- Antimicrobial resistances in pathogens, food-borne zoonotic agents and indicators (ZTA)
- Diagnosis of other mycobacteriosis (MYC)
- Design of methods for detection of biological threat agents (NED)
- Bacterial taxonomy (ICM)
Next scientific publications:
- Camino E., Buendia A., Dorrego A., Pozo P., de Juan L., Dominguez L. and Cruz F.. Sero-molecular survey and risk factors of equine piroplasmosis in horses in Spain. Equine veterinary journal. (A)
- Garcia-Seco T., Montbrau C., Fontseca M., March R., Sitja M., Dominguez L. and Bezos J.. Efficacy of a Salmonella enterica serovar Abortusovis (S. Abortusovis) inactivated vaccine in experimentally infected gestating ewes. Research in Veterinary Science. (A)
Last scientific publications:
- Lorente-Leal V., Liandris E., Pacciarini M., Botelho A., Kenny K., Loyo B., Fernandez R., Bezos J., Dominguez L., de Juan L. and Romero B.. Direct PCR on tissue samples to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: an alternative to the bacteriological culture. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 01404-20. 2020. (A)
- Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Romero B., Rodriguez-Bertos A., Roy A., Ortega Martín J., de Juan L., Moreno I., Dominguez M., Dominguez L. and Bezos J.. Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium caprae in a camel (Camelus dromedarius). BMC Veterinary Research, 16:435. 2020. (A)
- Miguela-Villoldo P., Moreno MA., Hernandez M., Rodriguez-Lazaro D., Gallardo A., Borge C., Quesada A., Dominguez L. and Ugarte-Ruiz M.. Complementarity of selective culture and qPCR for colistin resistance screening in fresh and frozen pig caecum samples. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11:572712. 2020. (A)
- Rebollada A., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Hernandez M., Miguela-Villoldo P., Abad D., Cuesta-Alvaro P., Rodriguez-Lazaro D., de Juan L., Dominguez L. and Rodriguez-Bertos A.. Dietary Supplementation with Fermented Defatted Alperujo Induces Modifications of the Intestinal Mucosa and Cecal Microbiota of Broiler Chickens. Poultry science, 99(11):5308-5315. 2020. (A)
- Camino E., Cruz F., de Juan L., Dominguez L., Shiels B. and Coultous RM.. Phylogenetic analysis and geographical distribution of Theileria equi and Babesia caballi sequences from horses residing in Spain. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, 11(6):101521. 2020. (A)
Last PhD thesis supervised:
- Álvaro Roy Cordero. Evaluation of new vaccines against tuberculosis in goats and advances in their immunological diagnosis. 2020.
- Ruth García Gómez. Evaluation of the health status of the main aquaculture species in Papua New Guinea. 2019.
- Mª Luisa de la Cruz Conty. Application of quantitative analytic methods for the epidemiological study of zoonotic diseases. 2018.
- Jose Antonio Infantes Lorenzo. Immunoproteomic characterization of protein derivatives from Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium avium (subspecies avium and paratuberculosis) and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. Application in diagnosis. 2018.(PhD Extraordinary Award)
- Diego Flórez Cuadrado. Genomic characterization and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter. 2017.(Mención Europea)
Outreach
Last outreach publications:
- Ugarte-Ruiz M., Alvarez J., Escudero JA., Gonzalez-Zorn B., Miguela-Villoldo P., Moreno MA., Rebollada A., Rodriguez-Bertos A. and Dominguez L.. Resistencias antimicrobianas y One Health. REDRISA, Vetdivulga. 2020.
- Gortazar C., de la Fuente J. and Dominguez L.. Cinco medidas para mejorar la gestión del coronavirus en España y evitar más daño. Tibuna. El Confidencial, El Confidencial. 2020.
- Perez-Sancho M., Cruz F., Briones V., Alvarez J., Gonzalez S., Goyache J. and Dominguez L.. Coronavirus: el salto interespecie como mecanismo de diseminación. Profesión Veterinaria, 94:14-24, Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Veterinarios de Madrid. 2020.
- Camino E., Carvajal KA., Lozano F., Vinolo C., Dominguez L. and Cruz F.. Equine piroplasmosis seroprevalence in spanish horses prior to exportation. VISAVET Outreach Journal, VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre (U.C.M.). 2020.
- Alvarez J. and Dominguez L.. COVID-19: lo más importante es lo que está por venir. The Conversation, The Conversation Media Group. 2020.
Last communications:
- Miguela-Villoldo P., Rebollada A., Rodriguez-Bertos A., Moreno MA., Dominguez L. and Ugarte-Ruiz M.. Effect of colistin on the selection of mcr-1 in bacteria in broiler chicken gut. One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2020. (Oral communication)
- Dominguez L.. El actual triángulo clave del sector pecuario: SARS-CoV-2 - Seguridad Alimentaria - Implicaciones económicas. Jornadas Top Gan 2020. 2020. (Online communication)
- Camino E., Dorrego Rodríguez A., Gago-Munoz P., de Juan L., Dominguez L. and Cruz F.. Haematological findings related to acute and chronic (asymptomatic) equine piroplasmosis. 22nd Annual Congress for ESVCP&ACCP. 2020. (Oral communication)
- Cruz F., Cabanes D., Camino E., Perez-Sancho M., Rodriguez-Bertos A., Barcena C. and Dominguez L.. Effects of an antioxidant diet on the oxidative stress biomakers on sheltered dogs. 22nd Annual Congress for ESVCP&ACCP. 2020. (Oral communication)
- de Juan L., Dominguez L., Sanchez-Vizcaino JM. and Barasona JA.. Presentación y Visita al centro VISAVET. Trabajos en marcha. Master en Sanidad y producción porcina. 2020. (Oral communication)
