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Overview

Fernando Rojo is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and is active in research areas related to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. Their work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, genetics, ecology, microbiology, and biochemistry.

The research topics Fernando Rojo focuses on include:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Alexander von Humboldt Studies
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization

They have published in several frequent venues, including:

  • Microbial Biotechnology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Fernando Rojo include:

  • A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society, 2024, Microbial Biotechnology
  • Multiple Layered Control of the Conjugation Process of the Bacillus subtilis Plasmid pLS20, 2021, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • The importance of understanding the regulation of bacterial metabolism, 2022, Environmental Microbiology
  • What are the signals that control catabolite repression in Pseudomonas?, 2024, Microbial Biotechnology
  • A new global regulator that facilitates the co-metabolization of polyaromatic hydrocarbons and other nutrients in Novosphingobium, 2021, Environmental Microbiology

Frequent collaborators in Fernando Rojo's research include:

  • Renata Moreno
  • Luís Yuste
  • Wilfried J. J. Meijer
  • Ling Juan Wu
  • Elena Parés-Guillén

Best Publications

  • Degradation of alkanes by bacteria

    Fernando Rojo

  • Carbon catabolite repression in Pseudomonas : optimizing metabolic versatility and interactions with the environment

    Fernando Rojo

  • Promoters responsive to DNA bending: a common theme in prokaryotic gene expression.

    J Pérez-Martín;F Rojo;V de Lorenzo

  • Metabolic regulation of antibiotic resistance.

    José L. Martínez;Fernando Rojo

  • Assemblage of ortho cleavage route for simultaneous degradation of chloro- and methylaromatics

    Fernando Rojo;Dietmar H. Pieper;Karl-Heinrich Engesser;Hans-Joachim Knackmuss

  • Environmental and clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa show pathogenic and biodegradative properties irrespective of their origin.

    Ana Alonso;Fernando Rojo;José L. Martínez

  • Overexpression of the Multidrug Efflux Pumps MexCD-OprJ and MexEF-OprN Is Associated with a Reduction of Type III Secretion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Juan F. Linares;Juan A. López;Emilio Camafeita;Juan P. Albar

  • Bacteria Incorporation in Deep-eutectic Solvents through Freeze-Drying†

    María C. Gutiérrez;María L. Ferrer;Luís Yuste;Fernando Rojo

  • The global regulator Crc modulates metabolism, susceptibility to antibiotics and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    Juan F. Linares;Renata Moreno;Alicia Fajardo;Laura Martínez-Solano

  • Population structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from five Mediterranean countries: evidence for frequent recombination and epidemic occurrence of CC235.

    Makaoui Maatallah;Jihane Cheriaa;Amina Backhrouf;Aina Iversen

  • Characterization of bacterial strains able to grow on high molecular mass residues from crude oil processing.

    Luis Yuste;Marı́a Eugenia Corbella;Marı́a Jesús Turiégano;Ulrich Karlson

  • The Pseudomonas putida Crc global regulator controls the expression of genes from several chromosomal catabolic pathways for aromatic compounds.

    Gracia Morales;Juan Francisco Linares;Ana Beloso;Juan Pablo Albar

  • The Pseudomonas putida Crc global regulator controls the hierarchical assimilation of amino acids in a complete medium: evidence from proteomic and genomic analyses.

    Renata Moreno;Montserrat Martínez-Gomariz;Luis Yuste;Concha Gil

  • Growth phase-dependent expression of the Pseudomonas putida KT2440 transcriptional machinery analysed with a genome-wide DNA microarray.

    Luis Yuste;Ana B. Hervás;Inés Canosa;Raquel Tobes

  • Overproduction of the multidrug efflux pump MexEF-OprN does not impair Pseudomonas aeruginosa fitness in competition tests, but produces specific changes in bacterial regulatory networks

    Jorge Olivares;Carolina Alvarez-Ortega;Juan F. Linares;Fernando Rojo

  • Complex regulation of the synthesis of the compatible solute ectoine in the halophilic bacterium Chromohalobacter salexigens DSM 3043T.

    M. Isabel Calderón;Carmen Vargas;Fernando Rojo;Fernando Iglesias-Guerra

  • Characterization of two alkane hydroxylase genes from the marine hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis

    Jan B. Van Beilen;Mercedes M. Marín;Theo H. M. Smits;Martina Röthlisberger

  • Biocompatible Sol−Gel Route for Encapsulation of Living Bacteria in Organically Modified Silica Matrixes

    Maria L. Ferrer;Luis Yuste;Fernando Rojo;Francisco Del Monte

  • Signal-regulator interactions. Genetic analysis of the effector binding site of xylS, the benzoate-activated positive regulator of Pseudomonas TOL plasmid meta-cleavage pathway operon.

    Juan L. Ramos;Carmen Michan;Fernando Rojo;Daryl Dwyer

  • Repression of Transcription Initiation in Bacteria

    Fernando Rojo

Frequent Co-Authors

Margarita Salas
Margarita Salas Spanish National Research Council
Juan C. Alonso
Juan C. Alonso Spanish National Research Council
José L. Martínez
José L. Martínez Spanish National Research Council
María C. Gutiérrez
María C. Gutiérrez Spanish National Research Council
Francisco del Monte
Francisco del Monte Spanish National Research Council
David Vazquez
David Vazquez Autonomous University of Madrid
Kenneth N. Timmis
Kenneth N. Timmis Technische Universität Braunschweig
Antonio Bernad
Antonio Bernad Spanish National Research Council
Miguel A. de Pedro
Miguel A. de Pedro University of Parma
Ramón Torrecillas
Ramón Torrecillas University of Oviedo

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