Overview

We´re presently interested in these lines of research:

1) The study of phage-bacteria biology in the rhizosphere.

2) The development of tools to monitor and dissect biotic interactions in the rhizosphere.

3) The robotization of highthrouput culturomics and NGS pipelines.

5) The development of Oxford Nanopore-based approaches in microbial and environmental genomics.

Selected recent publications:

Cabodevilla X, Malo JE, Aguirre de Cárcer D, Zurdo J, Chaboy-Cansado R, Rastrojo A, García FJ, Traba J (2024) Zoonotic potential of urban wildlife faeces, assessed through metabarcoding. Sci Tot Environ: 952, 175866.

Talavera-Marcos S, Parras-Moltó M, Aguirre de Cárcer D (2023) Leverageing phylogenetic signal to unravel microbiome function and assembly rules. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 21, 5165-5173.

Gallego R, Jacobs-Palmer E, Cribari K, Kelly RP (2020). Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals winners and losers of global change in coastal waters. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1940), 20202424.

Kelly RP, Shelton AO & Gallego R (2019). Understanding PCR processes to draw meaningful conclusions from environmental DNA studies. Scientific reports, 9(1), 1-14.

Aguirre de Cárcer D (2020) Experimental and computational approaches to unravel community assembly. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 18, 4071-4081.

Aguirre de Cárcer D (2019) A conceptual framework for the phylogenetically-constrained assembly of microbial communities. Microbiome. 7, 142.

Grants:

-ConsolidateME_GENOMICS. AEI: CNS2022-135371 01/07/2023 - 30/06/2025 [PI:DAC]

-TopDownMicrobiomes. AEI: TED2021-130616B-100. 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2024 [PI:DAC]

-NANOBARCODING. UAM: BIOUAM03-2033. 28/10/2022 - 27/10/2023 [PI: RG]

-RIZOVIR. UAM: BIOUAM01-2021. 21/10/2021 - 20/10/2022 [PI: AR]

-PHYLOASSEMBLY. AEI: PID2019-108797RB-I00. 06/01/2020 - 05/31/2023 [PI: DAC]

-SHORTCUT. AEI: EIN2019-103289. 01/01/2019 - 02/04/2020 [PI: DAC]

-PANMICROBIOMA. MINECO: BIO2016-80101-R 30/12/2016 - 12/31/2020 [PI: DAC]

-IDMS. MINECO: BFU2013-50537-EXP. 09/01/2014 - 08/30/2015 [PI: DAC]

-COOLVIROMES. EU-FP7: PIIF-GA-2012-328287. 07/01/2013 - 09/08/2015 [PI: DAC]