Dr Jose Luis Balcazar

Dr Jose L. Balcazar is a Senior Scientist at the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA-CERCA), Spain. His research focuses on the link between clinical and environmental antibiotic resistance and the role of phages in bacterial evolution and ecology. His team applies culturomics, metagenomics, and bioinformatics to study the microbiome, resistome, and mobilome in laboratory and field settings, with the goal of understanding how anthropogenic pollution contributes to the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance, a growing global health concern.