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8618
National Ranking
3872

Overview

Alex Mira is affiliated with the Foundation Center in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and dentistry, with a particular emphasis on periodontics and molecular biology. Their work spans various subfields including physiology, epidemiology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their main research topics reflect a focus on oral microbiology and periodontitis, gut microbiota and health, as well as salivary gland disorders and functions. Additional subjects of study include dental health and care utilization, oral health pathology and treatment, infective endocarditis diagnosis and management, and streptococcal infections and treatments.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Miguel Carda-Diéguez
  • Bob T. Rosier
  • Alejandro Artacho
  • María D. Ferrer
  • Elena Buetas

They have published multiple papers in notable venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Journal of Oral Microbiology
  • npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Alex Mira are:

  • "Nitrate as a potential prebiotic for the oral microbiome," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "The Importance of Nitrate Reduction for Oral Health," 2022, Journal of Dental Research
  • "Isolation and Characterization of Nitrate-Reducing Bacteria as Potential Probiotics for Oral and Systemic Health," 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing by PacBio improves taxonomic resolution in human microbiome samples," 2024, BMC Genomics
  • "Antibiofilm activity of flavonoids on staphylococcal biofilms through targeting BAP amyloids," 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • The human milk microbiome changes over lactation and is shaped by maternal weight and mode of delivery

    Raul Cabrera-Rubio;M Carmen Collado;Kirsi Laitinen;Seppo Salminen

  • Deletional bias and the evolution of bacterial genomes

    Alex Mira;Howard Ochman;Nancy A. Moran

  • Explaining microbial population genomics through phage predation

    Francisco Rodriguez-Valera;Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado;Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Lejla Pašić

  • Solving the etiology of dental caries

    Aurea Simón-Soro;Alex Mira

  • The oral metagenome in health and disease

    Pedro Belda-Ferre;Luis David Alcaraz;Raúl Cabrera-Rubio;Héctor Romero

  • Viral and microbial community dynamics in four aquatic environments.

    Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Lin Lin Li;Linda Wegley;Mike Furlan

  • Resilience of the Oral Microbiota in Health: Mechanisms That Prevent Dysbiosis:

    B T Rosier;P D Marsh;A Mira

  • Role of microbial biofilms in the maintenance of oral health and in the development of dental caries and periodontal diseases. Consensus report of group 1 of the joint efp/orca workshop on the boundaries between caries and periodontal disease

    Mariano Sanz;David Beighton;Michael A. Curtis;Jaime A. Cury

  • Dental caries from a molecular microbiological perspective

    B. Nyvad;W. Crielaard;A. Mira;N. Takahashi

  • The process of genome shrinkage in the obligate symbiont Buchnera aphidicola.

    Nancy A Moran;Alex Mira

  • Role of microbial communities in the pathogenesis of periodontal diseases and caries.

    Alex Mira;A. Simon-Soro;M. A. Curtis

  • Microbial Geography of the Oral Cavity

    Á. Simón-Soro;I. Tomás;R. Cabrera-Rubio;M.D. Catalan

  • Oral microbiome development during childhood: an ecological succession influenced by postnatal factors and associated with tooth decay.

    Majda Dzidic;Majda Dzidic;Maria C. Collado;Thomas Abrahamsson;Alejandro Artacho

  • Microbial mucosal colonic shifts associated with the development of colorectal cancer reveal the presence of different bacterial and archaeal biomarkers.

    L. Mira-Pascual;R. Cabrera-Rubio;S. Ocon;P. Costales

  • Relationship between Milk Microbiota, Bacterial Load, Macronutrients, and Human Cells during Lactation.

    Alba Boix-Amorós;María Carmen Collado;Alex Mira

  • Estimating population size and transmission bottlenecks in maternally transmitted endosymbiotic bacteria.

    A. Mira;N.A. Moran

  • Comparative genomics of two ecotypes of the marine planktonic copiotroph Alteromonas macleodii suggests alternative lifestyles associated with different kinds of particulate organic matter.

    Elena Ivars-Martinez;Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado;Giuseppe D'Auria;Alex Mira

  • Microbiological Survey of the Human Gastric Ecosystem Using Culturing and Pyrosequencing Methods

    Susana Delgado;Raúl Cabrera-Rubio;Alex Mira;Adolfo Suárez

  • The bacterial pan-genome: a new paradigm in microbiology

    Alex Mira;Ana B. Martín-Cuadrado;Giuseppe D’Auria;Francisco Rodríguez-Valera

  • Microbiome Diversity in the Bronchial Tracts of Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    Raúl Cabrera-Rubio;Marian Garcia-Núñez;Laia Setó;Josep M. Antó

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
Francisco Rodriguez-Valera Miguel Hernandez University
Maria Carmen Collado
Maria Carmen Collado Spanish National Research Council
Siv G. E. Andersson
Siv G. E. Andersson Uppsala University
Maria C. Jenmalm
Maria C. Jenmalm Linköping University
Forest Rohwer
Forest Rohwer San Diego State University
Susana Delgado
Susana Delgado Spanish National Research Council
Juan M. Rodríguez
Juan M. Rodríguez Complutense University of Madrid
Nancy A. Moran
Nancy A. Moran The University of Texas at Austin
Andrés Moya
Andrés Moya University of Valencia
Howard Ochman
Howard Ochman The University of Texas at Austin

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