ResearcherID: B-3241-2016, Scopus Author ID: 52163227200, Loop: 968431, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8661-4211 H10-index: 10 Citations: 559
ISBN: 978-2-8325-8713-3 Diaz, D., Ceapă, C.-D., eds. (2026). (e-book) Confronting antimicrobial resistance: trends, interventions, and socio-economic impacts. Lausanne Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-8325-8713-3.
Diaz D and Ceapǎ CD (2026) Editorial: Confronting antimicrobial resistance: trends, interventions, and socio-economic impacts. Front. Public Health 14:1939391. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1939391.
Enríquez-Ríos, K. D., Pineda-Licona, J. C., & García-Reyes, S. (2026). Liquid-phase milk turbidimetry enables rapid phenotyping of secreted protease activity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa at less than one cent per sample. Microbiology Spectrum, e01271-26. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01271-26.
Chávez Santos, R., Aguilar-Colorado, Á., Villanueva-Enríquez, R., Domínguez-Méndez, V. G., Maravilla-Salcedo, B. G., Campos-Leal, R., Rivera-Chávez, J., Martínez, R., & Ceapă, C.-D. (2026). Solvent-induced activation of cryptic antimicrobial metabolites in Rhodococcus erythropolis MIQD16 revealed through integrated genomics and metabolomics. ACS Omega. Manuscript under review.
Miriam Sarahi Lozano Gamboa, Brian Muñoz Gómez, Andrea Y. Maldonado Gonzaga, Moisés A. Alejo, Adrian Cazares, Daniel Díaz, Anastacio Marmolejo, & Corina Diana Ceapă. (2026). Genomic surveillance uncovers high‑risk resistance profiles in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp. From central Mexico. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. Manuscript accepted.
Brian Muñoz Gómez, Miriam Sarahí Lozano Gamboa, Anastasio Palacios Marmolejo and Corina Diana Ceapa (2026). Mortality-associated SARS-CoV-2 genomic variants from patients hospitalized for severe pneumonia in Aguascalientes, Mexico from 2020 to 2023. Access Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.001269.v1. Manuscript under review.
Martínez-Rosales, E., Coria-Jiménez, R., Gerónimo-Gallegos, A., Cuevas-Schacht, F., Lozano Gamboa, M. S., López-López, M., García-Contreras, R., & Ceapă, C. D. (2026). Comparative genomics of clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from cystic fibrosis patients in Mexico. Manuscript submitted for publication. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.28.747926
García-Reyes S. A decade of insight into ExlA toxin research and the biotechnological potential of non-virulent Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. J Bacteriol. 2026;208(3):e0049625. doi:10.1128/jb.00496-25.
García-Reyes S, Cocotl-Yáñez M, García-Contreras R, Castillo-Juárez I, González-Pedrajo B. (2026) Role of PsrA in physiology and virulence regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other bacterial species. J Bacteriol. 208(4):e0047025. doi:10.1128/jb.00470-25.
Moisés A. Alejo, Miriam Sarahi Lozano Gamboa, Muñoz Gomez B, Brian Muñoz Gomez, Karla G. Hernández Magro Gil, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Rachel Whitaker, Anastasio Palacios Marmolejo and Corina-Diana Ceapă (2026) Resistome, Virulome, Mobilome, And Biosynthetic Gene Clusters Adaptations of Acinetobacter baumannii Mexican Strains Before And During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Whole-Genome Sequencing. Front. Public Health 14:1830880. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1830880.
Ortiz-Flores, C. G., Romero-Rodríguez, A., Villanueva-Enríquez, R., Ceapă, C.-D., Gómez-Rivera, N., Velázquez-Romero, M., Arenas-Hernández, M. M. de la P., and Martinez de la Peña, C. F. (2026) Comparative Genomic Analysis of Clostridioides difficile Strains in Mexico: Insights into Virulence and Resistance. Access Microbiology. doi:10.1099/acmi.0.001132.v3.
Katya Dafne Guadarrama-Orozco, Diego Armando Esquivel-Hernández, Miguel Ángel Islas-Tolentino, … Selene García-Reyes, ... Corina Diana Ceapă, Joy Kirigo, Thomas Wood, Rodolfo García-Contreras (2025). Challenging the paradigm: non-canonical exoprotease cheating in clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 101, Issue 11, November 2025, fiaf106, DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaf106
García-Reyes S, Rusniok C, Robert-Genthon M, Faudry E, Gomez-Valero L, Chenal-Francisque V, Guyon L, Caspar Y, Soberón Chávez G, Buchrieser C, Attrée I. (2025) Avirulent Pseudomonas aeruginosa T3SS-negative strains belonging to Clade 5 produce variable quantities of secondary metabolites. doi: 10.1093/femsml/uqaf019. Microlife. 13;6:uqaf031. PMID: 40900944; PMCID: PMC12400803.
Katia Pamela Villavicencio Sánchez, Rosa María Chávez Santos, Selene García Reyes, Corina Diana Ceapă (2025) “Avances en la epidemiología molecular de patógenos multirresistentes en México y soluciones basadas en la exploración de datos genómicos”, Mens. BioquÌm. 49 (2025) 19-33, ISSN-0188-137X. http://biosensor.facmed.unam.mx/mensajebioquimico/index.php/mensaje-bioquimico-2025/
Sorescu, J. M., González-Montalvo, M. A., Yuan, M., De Paolo-Boisvert, J., Ceapă, C. D., Garcia-Contreras, R., … Juárez, O. X. (2025) Breakthroughs in the development of antibiotics, antifungals and antiparasitics targeting the pathogens’ respiratory chain. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1–34. DOI: 10.1080/10409238.2025.2545785
Tuz, K., Juárez, O. X., & Ceapă, C. D. (2025) Editorial: Exploring novel targets and therapies to combat antimicrobial resistance. Frontiers in Microbiology, 16, 1642199. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1642199
PÉPTIDOS ANTIMICROBIANOS CLOSTRISINA Y CELULOSINA PARA USARSE EN LA INHIBICIÓN DE PATÓGENOS RESISTENTES A MÚLTIPLES FÁRMACOS Patent Application. Inventors: Moises Alejandro Alejo Hernandez, Katia Pamela Villavicencio Sanchez, Mario Alberto Figueroa Saldivar, Corina Diana Ceapa, Submission date: 2025/3/31. Patent office: MX. Application number MX/a/2025/003840. Published in the IMPI gazette: PA_SO_2026_09_001, Oct. 2, 2026.
Díaz-Guerrero, M. Á., Castillo-Juárez, I., Zurabian, R., Valdez, A., Kota, K., Hoshiko, Y., ...Ceapă CD, ...García-Contreras, R. (2025). Reviving the past for a healthier future: ancient molecules and remedies as a solution to the antibiotic crisis. Future Microbiology, 20(5), 429–441. DOI: 10.1080/17460913.2025.2476290
Domínguez-Méndez, V. G., Chávez-Santos, R. M., Carrillo-Jaimes, K., Hernández-Santoyo, A., Ramírez-Carreto, S., Hernandez-Garcia, A., Aguayo-Ortiz, R., Ceapă, C.-D., Rivera-Chavéz, J., and Martínez, R. (2025) Rational design of indolyl acrylamides as antibacterial agents targeting multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains. RSC Med. Chem. 16, 3567–3581, https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MD00145E.
Salas-Ambrosio, Pedro; [] Villavicencio, Katia Pamela; [] Ceapa, Corina-Diana; Vera-Graziano, Ricardo; Bonduelle, Colin (2024) Electrospinning Lysine-Polypeptide Copolymers: Creating Microfiber Meshes for Biomedical Applications, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 6, 15, 8733–8744, DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.4c00344.
Alejo Hernandez, M. A.; Villavicencio Sánchez, K. P.; Sánchez Morales, R.; Hernández-Magro Gil, K. G.; Moreno-Gutiérrez, D. S.; Sanchez- Rueda, E. G.; Teresa-Cruz, Y.; Hernández Garcia, A.; Romero-Rodríguez, A.; Juárez, O.; Martínez-Caballero, S.; Figueroa, M.; Ceapa, C. D. (2024) Discovery of antimicrobial peptides clostrisin and cellulosin from Clostridium: insights into their structures, co-localized biosynthetic gene clusters, and antibiotic activity, Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 20, 1800–1816. DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.20.159.
Juan Carlos García-Cruz, [...] Corina-Diana Ceapă, [...] and Rodolfo García-Contreras (2023) Resistance against two lytic phage variants attenuates virulence and antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., Volume 13, DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1280265.
Huelgas-Méndez D, Cazares D, Alcaraz LD, Ceapă CD, Cocotl-Yañez M, Shotaro T, Maeda T, Fernández-Presas AM, Tostado-Islas O, González- Vadillo AL, Limones-Martínez A, Hernandez-Cuevas CE, González-García K, Jiménez-García LF, Martínez RL, Santos-López CS, Husain FM, Khan A, Arshad M, Kokila K, Wood TK, García-Contreras R. (2023) Exoprotease exploitation and social cheating in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa environmental lysogenic strain with a noncanonical quorum sensing system. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. Aug 22;99(9):fiad086. DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiad086. PMID: 37496200.
Rivera-Chávez J, Ceapă CD, Figueroa M. (2022) Biological Dark Matter Exploration using Data Mining for the Discovery of Antimicrobial Natural Products. Planta Med. 88(9-10):702-720. DOI:10.1055/a-1795-0562.
Maldonado-Carmona N, Vazquez-Hernandez M, Patirio Chavez OJ, Daniela Rodriguez-Luna S, Jimenez Rodriguez O, Sanchez S, Ceapă CD Impact of omics in the detection and validation of potential anti-infective drugs. CURRENT OPINION IN PHARMACOLOGY. 2019 Oct;48:1–7.
Diana Ceapa C, Vazquez-Hernandez M, Daniela Rodriguez-Luna S, Cruz Vazquez AP, Jimenez Suarez V, Rodriguez-Sanoja R, et al. Genome mining of Streptomyces scabrisporus NF3 reveals symbiotic features, including genes related to plant interactions. PLOS ONE. 2018 Feb 15;13(2).
Vazquez-Hernandez M, Diana Ceapa C, Daniela Rodriguez-Luna S, Rodriguez-Sanoja R, Sanchez S. Draft Genome Sequence of Streptomyces scabrisporus NF3, an Endophyte Isolated from Amphipterygium adstringens (vol 5, e00267-17, 2017). GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS. 2017 Jun;5(24).
Guzman-Trampe S, Ceapa CD, Manzo-Ruiz M, Sanchez S. Synthetic biology era: Improving antibiotic’s world. BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY. 2017 Jun 15;134(SI):99–113.
Ceapa C, Davids M, Ritari J, Lambert J, Wels M, Douillard FP, et al. The Variable Regions of Lactobacillus rhamnosus Genomes Reveal the Dynamic Evolution of Metabolic and Host-Adaptation Repertoires. GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 2016 Jun;8(6):1889–905.
Ceapa C, Lambert J, van Limpt K, Wels M, Smokvina T, Knol J, et al. Correlation of Lactobacillus rhamnosus Genotypes and Carbohydrate Utilization Signatures Determined by Phenotype Profiling. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY. 2015 Aug;81(16):5458–70.
Ceapa C, Wopereis H, Rezaiki L, Kleerebezem M, Knol J, Oozeer R. Influence of fermented milk products, prebiotics and probiotics on microbiota composition and health. BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2013 Feb;27(1):139–55.
Dinu D, Bodea GO, Ceapa CD, Munteanu MC, Roming FI, Serban AI, et al. Adapted response of the antioxidant defense system to oxidative stress induced by deoxynivalenol in Hek-293 cells. TOXICON. 2011 Jun;57(7–8):1023–32.
G Dragomir, R Huculeci, C Munteanu, C Ceapa, Bodea L., Dinischiotu A.The effect of deoxynivalenol on hepatic cell line HepG2, Biotechnology in Animal Husbandry, 2007.
Patent: WO/2017/050980 and US PCT/EP2016/072715- LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS AND SUPERNATANTS THEREOF FOR INHIBITION OF PATHOGENS. Inventors: Corina Diana Ceapa. Office: Worldwide.
ISBN: 9789462576285 Phenotypic and genetic diversity of the species Lactobacillus rhamnosus (Book). Author: Corina Diana Ceapa.
ISBN: 9780429506987 Microbial Synthesis of Secondary Metabolites and Strain Improvement: Current Trends and Future Prospects (Book Chapter). Authors: Sergio Sánchez, Beatriz Ruiz-Villafán, Corina D. Ceapa, A.L. Demain.
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González-Serrano F, Romero-Contreras YJ, Orta AH, Basanta MD, Morales H, Sandoval García G, Bello-López E, Escobedo-Muñoz AS, Bustamante VH, Ávila-Akerberg V, Cevallos MÁ, Serrano M, Rebollar EA. Amphibian skin bacteria contain a wide repertoire of genes linked to their antifungal capacities. World J Microbiol Biotechnol. 2025 Feb 27;41(3):78. doi: 10.1007/s11274-025-04292-z. PMID: 40011297; PMCID: PMC11865118.