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Institution: EEZ
Research Groups: Microbiology of Agroforestry Ecosystems
Position: Postdoctoral (contrato Momentum)
Contact email: ana.lasa@eez.csic.es
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BCB Services: Computational Biology Unit at EEZ
Research topics: Microbial Communities, Sequence analysis, Machine Learning in Biology, Data Visualization, Statistical Methods for Biology, Genome Assembly, Genome Sequencing, Genomic Annotation, Biological interpretation, Metabolome profiling, Microbial communities, Proteomics, Transcriptomics, Biological Databases, Analysis packages (R, Python, etc.), Workflow managers, Cloud Computing, High-performance Computing, Parallel Computing
Biography: I am expert on microbial communities (microbiota) associated to plants.
Publications
Lasa, A. V., López-Hinojosa, M., Villadas, P. J., Fernández-González, A. J., Cervera, M. T., & Fernández-López, M. (2025). Unraveling the shifts in the belowground microbiota and metabolome of Pinus pinaster trees affected by forest decline. Science of The Total Environment, 963, 178486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178486
Wentzien, N. M., Fernández-González, A. J., Valverde-Corredor, A., Lasa, A. V., Villadas, P. J., Wicaksono, W. A., Cernava, T., Berg, G., Fernández-López, M., & Mercado-Blanco, J. (2024). Pitting the olive seed microbiome. Environmental Microbiome, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-024-00560-x
Lasa, A. V., Fernández-González, A. J., Villadas, P. J., Mercado-Blanco, J., Pérez-Luque, A. J., & Fernández-López, M. (2024). Mediterranean pine forest decline: A matter of root-associated microbiota and climate change. Science of The Total Environment, 926, 171858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171858
Lasa, A. V., Guevara, M. Á., Villadas, P. J., Fernández-González, A. J., Cervera, M. T., & Fernández-López, M. (2023). Bacteriome dataset from the rhizosphere of trees in a Pinus pinaster and Pinus halepensis dominated forest subjected to drought conditions. Data in Brief, 46, 108805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108805
Lasa, A. V., Fernández‐González, A. J., Villadas, P. J., Cobo‐Díaz, J. F., & Fernández‐López, M. (2023). Bacterial inoculation ofQuercus pyrenaicatrees alters co‐occurrence patterns but not the composition of the rhizosphere bacteriome in wild conditions. Environmental Microbiology, 25(9), 1747–1761. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16388
Iniesta-Pallarés, M., Brenes-Álvarez, M., Lasa, A. V., Fernández-López, M., Álvarez, C., Molina-Heredia, F. P., & Mariscal, V. (2023). Changes in rice rhizosphere and bulk soil bacterial communities in the Doñana wetlands at different growth stages. Applied Soil Ecology, 190, 105013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.105013
Tortosa, G., Fernández-González, A. J., Lasa, A. V., Aranda, E., Torralbo, F., González-Murua, C., Fernández-López, M., Benítez, E., & Bedmar, E. J. (2021). Involvement of the metabolically active bacteria in the organic matter degradation during olive mill waste composting. Science of The Total Environment, 789, 147975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147975
Fernández-González, A. J., Wentzien, N. M., Villadas, P. J., Valverde-Corredor, A., Lasa, A. V., Gómez-Lama Cabanás, C., Mercado-Blanco, J., & Fernández-López, M. (2020). Comparative study of neighboring Holm oak and olive trees-belowground microbial communities subjected to different soil management. PLOS ONE, 15(8), e0236796. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236796
Lasa, A. V., Fernández-González, A. J., Villadas, P. J., Toro, N., & Fernández-López, M. (2019). Metabarcoding reveals that rhizospheric microbiota of Quercus pyrenaica is composed by a relatively small number of bacterial taxa highly abundant. Scientific Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-38123-z
Lasa, A. V., Mašínová, T., Baldrian, P., & Fernández-López, M. (2019). Bacteria from the endosphere and rhizosphere of Quercus spp. use mainly cell wall-associated enzymes to decompose organic matter. PLOS ONE, 14(3), e0214422. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214422
Fernández-González, A. J., Lasa, A. V., & Fernández-López, M. (2018). Whole-Genome Sequences of Two Arthrobacter Strains Isolated from a Holm Oak Rhizosphere Affected by Wildfire. Genome Announcements, 6(11). https://doi.org/10.1128/genomea.00071-18
Villadas, P. J., Lasa, A. V., Martínez-Hidalgo, P., Flores-Félix, J. D., Martínez-Molina, E., Toro, N., Velázquez, E., & Fernández-López, M. (2017). Analysis of rhizobial endosymbionts of Vicia, Lathyrus and Trifolium species used to maintain mountain firewalls in Sierra Nevada National Park (South Spain). Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 40(2), 92–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2016.11.008
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