Department: Department of Microbiology and Parasitology

Faculty: Faculty of Veterinary Science

Institute: Aquatic Environment Research Institute for Global Health (iARCUS)

Strategic R&D&I cluster: Agrupación Estratégica en Gestión y Producción sostenible de Biorrecursos (BioReDes)

Area: Microbiology

Research group: Escherichia coli Reference Laboratory (LREC)

Email: azucena.mora@usc.es

Doctor by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela with the thesis Escherichia coli verotoxigénicos (ECVT) O157-H7 y no O157 Prevalencia, serotipos, fagotipos, genes de virulencia, tipos de intiminas, perfiles de PFGE y resistencias a antibióticos de ECVT de origen humano y animal 2002. Supervised by Dr. Jorge Blanco Álvarez, Dr. Miguel Blanco Álvarez.

Full Professor of Microbiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). Scientific Manager of the Biomedicine and Veterinary Research Center (CEBIOVET), and member of the Spanish Reference Laboratory for the Detection of E. coli (LREC) in Food included in the EU-NRLs for VTEC. She is currently a member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) and a collaborator of the Spanish National AMR Plan promoted by the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS). Educator officer of the ESCMID Food- and Water-borne Infections Study Group (EFWISG) (2024-2026). Previous coordinator of a TST on sustainable animal production of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (2021-2023). With more than 25 years’ of experience in E. coli pathogenic for humans and animals, her research interest is currently focused on antibiotic resistance “from Farm to Fork” under a One-Health perspective. Besides, she coordinates the Diagnosis service based on microbiological techniques for genotyping pathogenic E. coli strains.