Victor Carrion Bravo
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. V.J. Carrion Bravo
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 4384
- v.j.carrion.bravo@biology.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4093-0355
Our main research interest is to understand the underlying mechanisms of plant protection against (a)biotic stresses mediated by microorganisms. Our group is specialized in the development of new multidisciplinary approaches to systematically correlate microbial genes and biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) to their functions in plants under stress. In addition, in our research programs also focus on the diversity, dynamics and beneficial functions of microorganisms associated with plants. In our team we study the functions and mechanisms of these microbes for plant protection to (a)biotic stresses, such as fungal pathogens or drought. Our main research interest is to understand the underlying mechanisms of plant protection against (a)biotic stresses mediated by microorganisms. Our group is specialized in the development of new multidisciplinary approaches to systematically correlate microbial genes and biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) to their functions in plants under stress. In addition, in our research programs also focus on the diversity, dynamics and beneficial functions of microorganisms associated with plants. In our team we study the functions and mechanisms of these microbes for plant protection to (a)biotic stresses, such as fungal pathogens or drought.
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Current positions
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biology (IBL), Leiden University, The Netherlands.
- Project: The lugdunomycins: a new class of polyketide antibiotics with unique chemical scaffold.
Guest researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW, Royal Academy).
For more information about current research, please look at the Carrion lab website.
Past positions
2015 - 2018 Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Postdoc in the laboratory of Prof. Jos M. Raaijmakers, Microbial Ecology department.
Project: Back to the roots.
2013 - 2015 Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Postdoc in the laboratory of Prof. Jos M. Raaijmakers, Microbial Ecology department.
Project: Genome mining of beneficial soil bacteria for novel traits and natural functions.
2012 - 2013 Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Visiting research fellow (Plan Propio of the University of Málaga, Junta de Andalucía; 12 months).
Host: Prof. Jos M. Raaijmakers, Phytopathology department.
2011 Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Visiting research fellow (Plan Propio of the University of Málaga and Junta de Andalucía; 6 months).
Host: Prof. Jos M. Raaijmakers, Phytopathology department.
2010 Universidad Publica de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Visiting research fellow (Plan Propio of the University of Málaga; 6 months).
Host: Prof. Jesús Murillo, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos.
2008 - 2012 PhD, University of Málaga.
Title thesis: Biosynthesis and regulation of mangotoxin in Pseudomonas syringae.
Part of the research was carried out in Pamplona (Spain) and Wageningen (The Netherlands).
Promotors: Profs. Antonio de Vicente and Francisco M. Cazorla.
2007 - 2009 MSc Molecular and cellular biology at University of Málaga.
2002 - 2007 BSc in Biology at University of Málaga.
Assistant professor
- Science
- Instituut Biologie Leiden
- IBL Microbial Sciences
- Guerrero Egio G., Pintado A., Bretscher K.M., Arias-Giraldo L.M., Paulson J.N., Spaink H.P., Claessen D., Ramos C., Cazorla F.M., Medema M.H., Raaijmakers J.M. & Carrion Bravo V.J. (2024), bacLIFE: a user-friendly computational workflow for genome analysis and prediction of lifestyle-associated genes in bacteria, Nature Communications 15: 2072.
- Terlouw B.R., Blin K., Navarr-Munoz J.C., Avalon N.E., Chevrette M.G., Egbert S., Lee S., Meijer D., Recchia M.J.J., Reitz Z.L., Santen J.A. van, Selem-Mojica N., Torring T., Zaroubi L., Alaniary M., Aleti G., Aguilar C., Al-Salihi S.A.A., Augustijn H.E., Avalar-Rivas J.A., Avitia Dominguez L.A., Barona Gomez F., Bernaldo-Agüero J., Bielinski V.A., Biermann F., Booth T.J., Carrion Bravo V.J., Castelo-Branco R., Chagas F.O., Cruz-Moreles P., Du C., Duncan K.R., Gavriilidou A., Gayrard D., Gutiérez-Garcia K., Haslinger K., Helfrich E.J.N., Hooft J.J.J. van der, Jati A.P., Kalkreuter E., Kalyvas N., Kang K.B., Kautsar S., Kim. W., Kunjapur A.M., Li Y.X., Lin G., Loureiro C., Louwen J.J.R., Louwen N.L.L., Lung G., Parra J., Philmus B., Purmohsenin B., Prong L.J.U., Rego A., Rex D.A.B., Robinson S., Rosas Becerra L.R., Roxborough E.T., Schorn M.A., Scobie D.J., Singh K.S., Sokolova N., Tang X., Udwary D., Vigneshwari A., Vind K., Vromans S.P.J.M., Waschulin V., Williams S.E., Winter J.M., Witte T.E., Xie H., Yang D., Yu J., Zdouc M., Zhong Z., Collemare J., Linington R.G., Weber T. & Medema M.H. (2023), MIBiG 3.0: a community-driven effort to annotate experimentally validated biosynthetic gene clusters, Nucleic Acids Research 51(D1): D603-D610.
- Bergeijk D.A. van, Elsayed S.S.M.A., Du C., Nuñez Santiago I., Roseboom A.M., Zhang L., Carrion Bravo V.J., Spaink H.P. & Wezel G.P. van (2022), The ubiquitous catechol moiety elicits siderophore and angucycline production in Streptomyces, Communications Chemistry 5: 14.
- Du C., Willemse J.J., Erkelens A.M., Carrion Bravo V.J., Dame R.T. & Wezel G.P. van (2022), System-wide analysis of the GATC-binding nucleoid-associated protein Gbn and its impact on Streptomyces development, mSystems 7(3): e00061-22.
- Oyserman B.O., Flores S.S., Griffioen T., Pan X., Wijk E. van der, Pronk L., Lokhorst W., Nurfikari A., Paulson J.N., Movassagh M., Stopnisek N., Kupczok A., Cordovez V., Carrión V.J., Ligterink W., Snoek B.L., Medema M.H. & Raaijmakers J.M. (2022), Disentangling the genetic basis of rhizosphere microbiome assembly in tomato, Nature Communications 13: 3228.
- Zhang L., Ramijan K., Carrion Bravo V.J., Aart L.T. van der, Willemse J.J., Wezel G.P. van & Claessen D. (2021), An alternative and conserved cell wall enzyme that can substitute for the lipid II synthase MurG, mBio 12(2): e03381.
- Sieber S., Mathew A.J.C., Kohler T., Bar M., Carrion Bravo V.J., Cazorla F.M., Stalder U., Hsieh Y.C., Bigler L., Eberl L. & Gademann K. (2021), Mitigation of Pseudomonas syringae virulence by signal inactivation, Science Advances 7(37): eabg2293.
- Elsayed S.S., Genta-Jouve G., Carrion V.J., Nibbering P.H., Siegler M.A., Boer W., Hankemeier T. & Wezel G.P. van (2020), Atypical spirotetronate polyketides identified in the underexplored genus streptacidiphilus, Journal of Organic Chemistry (JOC) 85(16): 10648-10657.
- Carrión V.J., Perez-Jaramillo J., Cordovez V., Tracanna V., Hollander M. de, Ruiz-Buck D., Mendes L.W., Ijcken W.F.J. van, Gomez-Exposito R., Elsayed S.S., Mohanraju P., Arifah A., Oost J. van der, Paulson J.N., Mendes R., Wezel G.P. van, Medema M.H. & Raaijmakers J.M. (2019), Pathogen-induced activation of disease-suppressive functions in the endophytic root microbiome, Science 366(6465): 606-612.