Antoni Bennasar-Figueras
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Biography
Antoni Bennasar-Figueras completed his PhD at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB, Spain) and postdoctoral research at the Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung (GBF, Germany). He is Profesor of Microbiology and member of the Microbiology Research Group at the UIB. Nowadays, he has specialized in the application of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies to the genome and comparative analysis of several microorganisms (Pseudomonas, Mycobacterium and Streptococcus). He has published more than 30 articles in well-known journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of recognized journals like Environmental Microbiology, Systematic and Applied Microbiology, The ISME Journal or PLoS One.
Abstract
Abstract : Comparative genomics of non-tuberculous mycobacteria: ecological and clinical implications