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2026

• Tea Movsesijan, Alejandro J Alcañiz, Franz-Ferdinand Roch, Muhammad Sharjeel Chaughtai, Monika Dzieciol, Beatrix Stessl, Sarah Thalguter, Cameron R Strachan, Markus Raindl, Martin Wagner, Evelyne Selberherr*, Narciso M Quijada*.
  Biofilm capacity of the psychrophilic bacteria triggers their persistence in the equipment and their spread to beef products throughout processing.
  Food Research International. DOI10.1016/j.foodres.2026.118808

• Viktoria Neubauer*, Siska Aditya, Narciso M. Quijada, Stefanie Urimare Wetzels, Monika Dzieciol, Poulad Pourazad, Qendrim Zebeli, Evelyne Selberherr. Dynamics of the milk microbial community during subacute ruminal acidosis with or without intramammary lipopolysaccharide challenge in dairy cows.
  Animal Microbiome. DOI: 10.1186/s42523-025-00499-5

• Moritz Hartmann, Monika Dzieciol, Cameron R Strachan, Narciso M Quijada*, Evelyne Selberherr*.
  Cold storage, hot spots: Household refrigerators as under-recognized hubs of microbial diversity.
  LWT. DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2026.119119

2025

• Bédard, C., Pageau, A., Fijarczyk, A., Mendoza-Salido, D., Alcañiz, A.J., Després, P.C., Durand, R., Plante, S., Alexander, E.M.M., Rouleau, F.D., Jordan, D.F., Jay, A., Giguère, M., Bernier, M., Sharma, J., Maroc, L., Gervais, N.C., Menon, A.C.T., Gagnon-Arsenault, I., Bakker, S., Rhodes, J., Dufresne, P.J., Bharat, A., Sellam, A., De Luca, D.G., Gerstein, A., Shapiro, R.S., Quijada, N.M.*, Landry, C.R.*
  FungAMR: a comprehensive database for investigating fungal mutations associated with antimicrobial resistance.
  Nature Microbiology. DOI: 10.1038/S41564-025-02084-7

• Quijada, N.M., Cobo-Díaz, J.F., Valentino, V., Barcenilla, C., De Filippis, F., Cabrera-Rubio, R., Carlino, N., Pinto, F., Dzieciol, M., Calvete-Torre, I., Sabater, C., Rubino, F., Knobloch, S., Skirnisdottir, S., Ruiz, L., López, M., Prieto, M., Marteinsson, V.T., Margolles, A., Segata, N., Cotter, P.D., Wagner, M., Ercolini, D., Alvarez-Ordóñez, A.*
  The food-associated resistome is shaped by processing and production environments.
  Nature Microbiology. DOI: 10.1038/S41564-025-02059-8

• Samarra, A., Alcañiz, A.J., Martínez-Costa, C., Marina, A., Comas, I., Segata, N., Quijada, N.M.*, Collado, M.C.*
  Breastfeeding and early Bifidobacterium-driven microbial colonization shape the infant gut resistome.
  Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-61154-W

• Roch, F.-F., Dzieciol, M., Strachan, C.R., Chaughtai, M.S., Quijada, N.M., Movsesijan, T., Selberherr, E.* Microbial succession and interaction in vacuum-packed beef: a longitudinal study of bacterial and fungal dynamics.
  npj Science of Food. DOI: 10.1038/s41538-025-00479-8

• Pracser, N., Zaiser, N., Ciolacu, L., Roch, F.-F., Quijada, N.M., Thalguter, S., Dzieciol, M., Conrady, B., Wagner, M., Rychli, K.
  The type of food influences the behaviour of Listeria monocytogenes in a food-gastrointestinal-infection model
  npj Science of Food. DOI: 10.1038/s41538-025-00436-5

• Julio Ascaso, David Mendoza-Salido (co-first author), Alberto Pedrero-Méndez, Enrique Monte, Narciso M Quijada, Rosa Hermosa.
  Transcriptomic and biochemical analyses reveal wheat drought mitigation by Trichoderma simmonsii and reduced demand for canonical plant stress responses.
  *Frontiers in Plant Science. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1716657