Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Research Unit: Instituto de Biotecnología y Salud (IDiBE)

Web page: 

https://www.umh.es/contenido/Universidad/:persona_3728/datos_es.html

https://ibmc.umh.es/luisperez.asp

Research Fields:

-Fish virology, aquaculture, vaccines, antivirals

Representative Publications:

• Ortega-Villaizan MDM, Chico V, Perez L. Fish Innate Immune Response to Viral Infection-An Overview of Five Major Antiviral Genes. Viruses. 2022 Jul 15;14(7):1546. doi: 10.3390/v14071546.
• Ortega-Villaizan MDM, Chico V, Perez L. Fish Innate Immune Response to Viral Infection-An Overview of Five Major Antiviral Genes. Viruses. 2022 Jul 15;14(7):1546. doi: 10.3390/v14071546.
• Melissa Bello-Perez, Regla Medina-Gali, Julio Coll, Luis Perez, Viral interference between infectious pancreatic necrosis virus and spring viremia of carp virus in zebrafish, Aquaculture, Volume 500, 2019, 370-377, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.10.039.
• Medina-Gali R, Belló-Pérez M, Martínez-López A, Falcó A, Ortega-Villaizan MM, Encinar JA, Novoa B, Coll J, Perez L. Chromatin immunoprecipitation and high throughput sequencing of SVCV-infected zebrafish reveals novel epigenetic histone methylation patterns involved in antiviral immune response. Fish Shellfish Immunol. 2018 Nov;82:514-521. doi: 10.1016/j.fsi.2018.08.056.