People behind the research

A multidisciplinary team working on coeliac disease and gastrointestinal disorders, antimicrobial resistance, prenatal exposures and early-life host-microbe interactions.

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Research team

Profiles summarise public researcher information from the University of Seville and La Noche Europea de los Investigadores. Follow the profile links for the complete biographies.

Carolina Sousa Martín
Full Professor of Microbiology · Group PI

Carolina Sousa Martín

Coeliac disease · intestinal permeability · translational biomarkers

Full Professor of Microbiology and a senior researcher in digestive disorders and coeliac disease. Her work connects gluten-related disease mechanisms with diagnostic and monitoring tools and intestinal barrier research.

María Encarnación Mellado Durán
Full Professor of Microbiology

María Encarnación Mellado Durán

Microbiology · gastrointestinal disorders

Full Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology at the University of Seville and member of the CTS-995 research group.

María Antonia Sánchez Romero
Full Professor of Microbiology

María Antonia Sánchez Romero

Bacterial epigenetics · single-cell analysis · antimicrobial resistance

Microbiologist studying how bacterial populations adapt to environmental changes and antibiotic pressure. Her research combines single-cell approaches, genomics and epigenomics to investigate non-genetic mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance.

María de Lourdes Moreno Amador
Associate Professor

María de Lourdes Moreno Amador

Prenatal exposome · amniotic fluid · food sensitivities

Pharmacist and microbiologist whose current research addresses how the prenatal environment may shape later food sensitivities. Her line integrates chemical, metabolic, microbial and immune information from amniotic fluid.

Isabel María Comino Montilla
Associate Professor

Isabel María Comino Montilla

Coeliac disease · microbiota · maternal-infant immunity

Microbiology researcher focused on coeliac disease and other gastrointestinal disorders. Her work includes gluten-immune interactions, microbiota, human milk, early-life immunity and food allergy.

Luis Alejandro Rodríguez Foley
Postdoctoral Researcher · MSCA Fellow

Luis Alejandro Rodríguez Foley

Chemical biology · bioanalysis · molecular coeliac disease

Multidisciplinary researcher with international academic and biotechnology-industry experience in chemical biology, bioanalysis and translational biomedicine. At Seville, his MSCA work applies molecular tools to gluten immunogenic peptides and coeliac disease.

Ángela Ruiz Carnicer
Postdoctoral Researcher

Ángela Ruiz Carnicer

Food safety · coeliac disease · gluten biomarkers

Researcher developing tools aimed at improving food safety and clinical monitoring in coeliac disease and other gastrointestinal disorders. Her work includes multicentre clinical studies and technology transfer around gluten immunogenic peptide biomarkers.

Verónica Segura Montero
Postdoctoral Researcher

Verónica Segura Montero

Coeliac disease · gluten exposure · non-invasive biomarkers

Her research centres on coeliac disease, including food toxicity assessment, gluten peptide behaviour, therapeutic strategies and non-invasive biomarkers for monitoring gluten exposure and adherence to the gluten-free diet.

Rocío de la Encarnación Fernández
Postdoctoral Researcher

Rocío Fernández Fernández

DNA methylation · bacterial adaptation · antimicrobial resistance

Biochemist and postdoctoral researcher studying epigenetic regulation and phenotypic heterogeneity in bacteria, with particular emphasis on how DNA methylation contributes to adaptation and antibiotic resistance.

María González Rovira
Predoctoral Researcher

María González Rovira

Prenatal exposome · amniotic fluid · food sensitivities

Biologist with training in molecular genetics and biotechnology. Her doctoral research focuses on characterising prenatal exposures and the metabolic footprint of amniotic fluid in relation to food sensitivities.

Abel Heredia Barroso
Predoctoral Researcher

Abel Heredia Barroso

Diet · gut microbiota · mucosal immunity

Fourth-year predoctoral researcher studying interactions between diet, intestinal microbiota and mucosal immunity, with particular interest in coeliac disease, food safety and food allergy in early life.

Rocío Carvajal Holguera
Predoctoral Researcher

Rocío Carvajal Holguera

Single-cell microbiology · phenotypic heterogeneity · antibiotic resistance

Biologist and doctoral researcher studying phenotypic heterogeneity in antibiotic resistance at single-cell resolution, using approaches including encapsulation, microscopy and flow cytometry.

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