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Dr. Luis Pérez García-Estañ

Professor of Biochemistry, Universidad Miguel Hernandez

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Unit
Molecular Diagnostics and Therapies

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Subunit
Antiviral Strategies

Group
Fish Viruses

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@LuisPerezMU

RESEARCH FIELDS 

  • Viral diseases of fish.
  • Development of antivirals.
  • Improved antiviral vaccines for aquaculture.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

  • Previous positions: Laboratory of Viral Fish Diseases. Dr. Julio Coll. Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal. INIA. Madrid
  • Postdoctoral position: Department of Microbiology. Oregon State University. Prof Jo-Ann Leong.
  • PhD in Molecular Biology. Centro de Biología Molecular S.O., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 1992.
  • Degree in Biology

FUNDING

  PÉREZ, L.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Ortega-Villaizán, M.M., et al. (2022)

Viruses, DOI: 10.3390/v14071546

Fish Innate Immune Response to Viral Infection—An Overview of Five Major Antiviral Genes

Rojas-Peña, M. et al. (2022)

Fish & Shellfish Immunology, DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2022.10.067

How modular protein nanoparticles may expand the ability of subunit anti-viral vaccines: The spring viremia carp virus (SVCV) case

BELLO-PÉREZ m., et al. (2019)

Aquaculture, DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2018.00648

Viral interference between infectious pancreatic necrosis virus and spring viremia of carp virus in zebrafish.

Medina-Gali R., et al. (2018)

Fish Shellfish Immunol., DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2018.12.035

Plasma proteomic analysis of zebrafish following spring viremia of carp virus infection.

MEDINA-GALI R., ET AL. (2018)

Fish Shellfish Immunol., DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2018.08.056

Chromatin immunoprecipitation and high throughput sequencing of SVCV-infected zebrafish reveals novel epigenetic histone methylation patterns involved in antiviral immune response.

Bello-Pérez M., et al. (2017)

Molecular Immunology, DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2017.09.005

Neutralization of viral infectivity by zebrafish c-reactive protein isoforms.

GArcía-Valtanen P., et al. (2014)

Autophagy, DOI: 10.4161/auto.29557

Autophagy-inducing peptides from mammalian VSV and fish VHSV rhabdoviral G glycoproteins (G) as models for the development of new therapeutic molecules.

Jurado M.T., et al. (2013)

Veterinary Microbiology, DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2018.00648

Antiviral activity produced by an IPNV-carrier EPC cell culture confers resistance to VHSV infection.