Desiree Henares Bonilla
Investigador pre-doc
Research group
Desirée Henares Bonilla graduated in Biomedical Sciences in 2015 from the University of Barcelona. In 2017, she studied the speciality of Clinical Microbiology of the Master of Clinical Research offered by the University of Barcelona and completed a training stay in the Microbiology service of the Clinical Hospital of Barcelona.
She is currently the recipient of a competitive scholarship from the Carlos III Health Institute (PFIS) to pursue doctoral studies in the line of Pathophysiology of Pediatric Diseases of the Translational Medicine and Research Program of the University of Barcelona. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the study of the microbiota of the upper respiratory tract as a protective or risk factor for the development of respiratory infections.
During her second year of doctoral thesis, she completed a research stay at Teagasc Food Reasearch Center (Ireland), where she acquired training in the bioinformatic and biostatistical analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequencing data that allows characterizing the bacterial microbiota.
Last Publications
- Brotons-de los Reyes P, Cisneros M, Pérez-Argüello A, Henares-Bonilla D, Lluansí A, Fernández de Sevilla-Estrach M, Ciruela P, Blanco-Fuertes M, Launes-Montana C, Jordán-García I, Bassat Q, García-García JJ and Munoz-Almagro C Pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage in children and adults self-confined at home during a COVID-19 national lockdown. PLoS One . 19(12): .
- Henares-Bonilla D, Monsalvez V, Brotons-de los Reyes P, Machado ML, Capilla S, Gomila-Grange A, Bierge P, Cubero M, Q Pich O, Requena-Méndez A, Munoz-Almagro C and Gasch O Human gut microbiota composition associated with international travels. TRAVEL MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE . 61: 102747-102747.
- Henares-Bonilla D, Lo, Stephanie W., Perez-Arguello, Amaresh, Redin, Alba, Ciruela Navas P, García-García JJ, Brotons-de los Reyes P, Yuste, Jose, Sa-Leao, Raquel and Munoz-Almagro C Comparison of next generation technologies and bioinformatics pipelines for capsular typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY . 61(12): .
Projects
- Project name:
- Estudio de la capacidad de resilencia a largo y corto plazo de la microbiota nasofaríngea y su implicación en el paso de la colonización a enfermedad invasiva por bacterias patobiontes
- Leader
- Carmen Muñoz Almagro
- Funding entities:
- Muñoz Almagro, Carmen, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Fundació Privada per a la Recerca i la Docència Sant Joan de Déu - FSJD
- Code
- PI23/00049
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2024 - 2026
- Project name:
- Epidemiología molecular de profagos de neumococo y su potencial impacto en el desarrollo de enfermedad invasiva neumocócica en niños.
- Leader
- Carmen Muñoz Almagro
- Funding entities:
- Societat Catalana de Malalties Infeccioses i Microbiologia
- Code
- PCP00362
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2023 - 2024
- Project name:
- SGR 2022-2024_Enfermedades Infecciosas en la Edad Pediátrica y Microbioma
- Leader
- Carmen Muñoz Almagro
- Funding entities:
- Agaur - Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
- Code
- 2021 SGR 00396
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2022 - 2025
News
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International travel affects gut microbiota
A collaborative study between the Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IRSJD) and the Institut d'Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí (I3PT) demonstrates that traveling and being exposed to new people, traditions, cultures, and unfamiliar foods can change gut microbiota and its diversity.