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Dr. Aragon is a biologist with extensive experience bacterial pathogenesis. During her scientific career, she has studied different virulence factors of several bacterial species. She completed her PhD at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) working with virulent strains of Brucella, mainly B. melitensis and B. abortus, under the supervision of Dr. I. Moriyón. During her doctoral studies, she purified and characterized native polysaccharides from the surface of these virulent bacteria. Her work provided her with the opportunity to continue her scientific career at three different universities in the USA. During her term at the University of Missouri-Kansas City as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. L. Dreyfus, she worked with the cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) of Escherichia coli. Later she moved to Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. Under the guidance of Dr. N. Cianciotto in Chicago, Dr Aragon worked with Legionella pneumophila and defined several enzymatic activities secreted by the type II secretion system of this bacterium. At the final stage of her stay in the US, Dr Aragon joined the laboratory of Dr. E. Hansen at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas), where she performed site directed mutagenesis of Moraxella catarrhalis adhesin UspA1 and identified essential aminoacids for its function.
Dr Aragon joined the Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Barcelona, in 2003 and established herself as a leading scientist in the research line of respiratory bacterial infections of swine. Dr Aragon has been involved in the genomic and functional characterization of the swine pathogen Glaesserella (Haemophilus) parasuis, with especial research interest in unravelling the molecular mechanisms and components responsible for G. parasuis pathogenesis. Currently, her research focus extended to other endemic pathogens, as Streptococcus suis, and to understanding the role of the nasal microbiota in controlling respiratory disease in swine. Her scientific achievements are published in peer-reviewed international journals in the areas of Microbiology and Veterinary Medicine and are also divulged to clinicians and producers in technical talks. Dr Aragon’s research on G. parasuis is a referent, and besides articles in international journals, she has authored the corresponding chapters in the books Diseases of swine and Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections in Animals, many divulgative publications and several communications in national and international congresses. Her research is mainly funded by competitive grants from the Spanish Government, but also from the EU. She has been the principal investigator in several national projects on G. parasuis and nasal microbiota; and has collaborated in other projects since she joined CReSA. Dr Aragon also participates in educational programs, teaching for Master students and supervising high schoolers through the Argó program (UAB) and supervising graduate students.
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Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) (2024): 93-113
Laura Martino, Barbara Serrano,Jaume Alomar, Lola Perez,Virginia Aragon,Alex Cobos,Maria Lourdes Abarca,Zeinab Yazdi,Esteban Soto,Mariano Domingo
DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS (2024): 31-43
Animal microbiomeno. 1 (2023): 1-17
Vaccine: X (2023): 100330-100330
TRANSLATIONAL ANIMAL SCIENCEno. 1 (2023): txad126-txad126
biorxiv(2023)
Gemma G. R. Murray,A. S. Md. Mukarram Hossain,Eric L. Miller,Sebastian Bruchman,Andrew J. Balmer,Marta Matuszewska,Josephine Herbert,Nazreen F. Hadjirin,Robert Mugabi,Ganwu Li,Maria Laura Ferrando, Isabela Maria Fernandes de Oliveira,
Laura Bonillo-Lopez,Pau Obregon-Gutierrez,Eva Huerta,Florencia Correa-Fiz,Marina Sibila,Virginia Aragon
Veterinary Researchno. 1 (2023): 112-112
The Veterinary recordno. 5 (2023): e3056-e3056
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