Gaspar Perez Martinez PhD

Gaspar Perez Martinez is a Scientific Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and Bachelor of Science at The University of Valencia. His Clinical interests are Probiotics, Prebiotics, Fermentation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Molecular Phylogenetics, Immune Response, Cytokines, Adaptive Immunity, Evolution, and Inflammation. Since 1990, he has focused on the fermentative metabolism of Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) in food fermentations and their probiotic activity. After postdoctoral periods in The Netherlands (1989) and Germany (1995), he joined successful applications in the Biotechnology Action Program of the EU. Between 1992-2004 he filled in 5 successful European project proposals and 4 from the CICYT (Spanish Government). Expertise in Molecular methodologies and Genomics of Food Microorganisms allowed the smooth transition to the field of gut microbiota massive sequencing analysis, but without giving up their background in Biotechnology and microbial metabolism.