Jose Roberto (Beto) Bermudez-Barrientos

2021-Present Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Infection and Immunology Research, The University of Edinburgh
Project: Defining the host targets of an Argonaute protein secreted from Heligmosomoides bakeri

2016-2021 PhD in Integrative Biology, The National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO), CINVESTAV, Mexico
Project: Disentangling sRNA-Seq data to study RNA communication between species

2013-2016 MSc in Integrative Biology, The National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO), CINVESTAV, Mexico
Project: Exploring the molecular mechanisms maintaining the Rhizopus microsporus – Burkholderia rhizoxinica symbiosis.

2007-2012 BSc in Genomics Sciences , Center for Genomics Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
Project: Glycolipids studies in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Research Interests

I am interested in species interactions, specially those mediated by small RNAs. My current research focuses on determining the host targets of sRNAs secreted by a parasitic nematode and their possible role in immune suppression.

Publications

Bermúdez-Barrientos, J. R., Ramírez-Sánchez, O., Chow, F. W., Buck, A. H., & Abreu-Goodger, C. (2020). Disentangling sRNA-Seq data to study RNA communication between species. Nucleic acids research, 48(4), e21. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz1198

Espino-Vázquez, A. N., Bermúdez-Barrientos, J. R., Cabrera-Rangel, J. F., Córdova-López, G., Cardoso-Martínez, F., Martínez-Vázquez, A., Camarena-Pozos, D. A., Mondo, S. J., Pawlowska, T. E., Abreu-Goodger, C., & Partida-Martínez, L. P. (2020). Narnaviruses: novel players in fungal-bacterial symbioses. The ISME journal, 14(7), 1743–1754. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0638-y

Chow, F. W., Koutsovoulos, G., Ovando-Vázquez, C., Neophytou, K., Bermúdez-Barrientos, J. R., Laetsch, D. R., Robertson, E., Kumar, S., Claycomb, J. M., Blaxter, M., Abreu-Goodger, C., & Buck, A. H. (2019). Secretion of an Argonaute protein by a parasitic nematode and the evolution of its siRNA guides. Nucleic acids research, 47(7), 3594–3606. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz142

Rougon-Cardoso, A., Flores-Ponce, M., Ramos-Aboites, H. E., Martínez-Guerrero, C. E., Hao, Y. J., Cunha, L., Rodríguez-Martínez, J. A., Ovando-Vázquez, C., Bermúdez-Barrientos, J. R., Abreu-Goodger, C., Chavarría-Hernández, N., Simões, N., & Montiel, R. (2016). The genome, transcriptome, and proteome of the nematode Steinernema carpocapsae: evolutionary signatures of a pathogenic lifestyle. Scientific reports, 6, 37536. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37536

Vences-Guzmán, M. Á., Guan, Z., Escobedo-Hinojosa, W. I., Bermúdez-Barrientos, J. R., Geiger, O., & Sohlenkamp, C. (2015). Discovery of a bifunctional acyltransferase responsible for ornithine lipid synthesis in Serratia proteamaculans. Environmental microbiology, 17(5), 1487–1496. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12562

Vences-Guzmán, M. Á., Guan, Z., Bermúdez-Barrientos, J. R., Geiger, O., & Sohlenkamp, C. (2013). Agrobacteria lacking ornithine lipids induce more rapid tumour formation. Environmental microbiology, 15(3), 895–906. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02867.x