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José Berenguer Department of Molecular Biology, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2 protocols

Adison Wong Singapore Institute of Technology
1 protocol

Alvaro Galvis University of Nevada Las Vegas
3 protocols

Beatrice Li University of Oxford
7 protocols

Changyi Zhang Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
6 protocols

Editor

Alba Blesa

Research scientist, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

Research focus

Microbiology
thermophiles HGT antibiotics molecular biology microorganisms clinical pathogens bacteria yeast

2 Author merit
Reviewer merit
Editor merit

Education

PhD, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2016

Lab information

Biotecnología microbiana UFV
José Berenguer's lab: Biotechnology of thermophilic microorganisms CBMSO
http://www.ufv.es/biotecnologia-microbiana http://web4.cbm.uam.es/joomla-rl/index.php/en/scientific-departments/virology-and-microbiology?id=%20718

Publications

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=fKMxGsYAAAAJ&hl=en

2 Protocols published

Transformation of Thermus Species by Natural Competence

Authors: Alba Blesa and José Berenguer, date: 11/20/2016, view: 7965, Q&A: 0

Many Thermus species harbour genomes scourged with horizontally transferred signatures. Thermus thermophilus (Tth) has been characterized as naturally competent. The transformation protocol described here is based on the ...

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Cell-to-cell DNA Transfer among Thermus Species

Authors: Alba Blesa and José Berenguer, date: 11/20/2016, view: 7739, Q&A: 0

The ability to transfer DNA via direct cell-to-cell contact-dependent process similar to conjugation has been described in Thermus thermophilus (Tth). Here, we detail the mating experiment protocol involving the lateral transfer of ...

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5 Protocols reviewed

Evaluation of Viable Cells in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms by Colony Count and Live/Dead Staining

Authors: Magdalena Pezzoni, Ramón Augusto Pizarro and Cristina Susana Costa, date: 09/20/2020, view: 2344, Q&A: 0

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a human pathogen capable to form robust biofilms. P. aeruginosa biofilms represent a serious problem because of the adverse effects on human health and industry, from sanitary and economic points of view. ...

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Induction of Natural Competence in Genetically-modified Lactococcus lactis

Authors: Joyce Mulder, Michiel Wels, Oscar P. Kuipers, Michiel Kleerebezem and Peter A. Bron, date: 07/05/2018, view: 4899, Q&A: 0

Natural competence can be activated in Lactoccocus lactis subsp lactis and cremoris upon overexpression of ComX, a master regulator of bacterial competence. Herein, we demonstrate a method to activate bacterial competence ...

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24 Protocols edited

An Inexpensive Imaging Platform to Record and Quantitate Bacterial Swarming

Authors: Weijie Chen, Sridhar Mani and Jay X. Tang, date: 09/20/2021, view: 493, Q&A: 0

Bacterial swarming refers to a rapid spread, with coordinated motion, of flagellated bacteria on a semi-solid surface (Harshey, 2003). There has been extensive study on this particular mode of motility because of its interesting biological and

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Isolation and Characterization of Membrane Vesicles from Lactobacillus Species

Authors: Julie C. Caruana, Scott N. Dean and Scott A. Walper, date: 09/05/2021, view: 958, Q&A: 0

Throughout their life cycle, bacteria shed portions of their outermost membrane comprised of proteins, lipids, and a diversity of other biomolecules. These biological nanoparticles have been shown to have a range of highly diverse biological

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