Fernando Esperón, DVM, PhD

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Dr. Esperón is a researcher of the Animal Health Research Center (INIA-CISA), belonging to the Public Organisms of Research of the Spanish Government. External advisor of the Spanish National Plan of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment. Affiliate researcher of VISAVET group (University Complutense of Madrid). Affiliate Researcher of the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine (University of Glasgow).

 

Since 2003, he is the responsible for the Wildlife Disease Diagnosis Unit of the Epidemiology and Environmental Health Group (EySA) (INIA-CISA), and currently coordinates the center's level 2 biosafety laboratories. His main research line is to develop diagnostic tools to study the health status in the domestic animal-wildlife interface, covering two fields of action encompassed in the principle of “One Health”: 1- to investigate the spread of antimicrobial resistance genes from humanized areas to natural environments, mainly by wildlife; and 2- elucidate the role of wildlife as potential reservoirs of zoonoses, diseases shared with livestock, emerging diseases and relevant diseases for biodiversity.

 

His technical skills are mainly focused on the detection of infectious agents using molecular techniques (real-time and conventional PCR, molecular epidemiology and microbial taxonomy ...), as well as other laboratory techniques applied to wild species, such as hematology and blood chemistry.

 

He is author of more than 50 peer review articles and more than 100 communications in national and international conferences. It belongs to the WDA, EWDA and LAWDA since 2013.