Xavier Roca Gerones

Lecturer Professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-3983-489X
Scopus Author ID: 57194385102
Knowledge area: Parasitologia

Contact Information
Department of Biology, Healthcare and the Environment


xavierroca(a)ub.edu

Academic training

Caracterizació morfolňgica i molecular i estudi epidemiolňgic d'Anisakis i Hysterothylacium
Farmŕcia

Projects

PAHrasite in polluted waters: assessing the effects of PAHs on host-parasite interactions . 2022 - 2023 . Ref.4395/2022 . Universitŕ della Tuscia . PI: Marialetizia Palomba
Advancing vaccine development and immunotherapy in canine L. infantum infection (STOPLEISH) . 2021 - 2025 . Ref.PID2020-113267RB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Laia Solano Gallego; M. Magdalena Alcover Amengual
Ayuda Margarita Salas para la formación de jóvenes doctores . 2022 - 2024 . Ref.MS047 . Ministerio de Universidades . PI: Francesc Xavier Roca Gerones

Relevant publications

Roca-Gerončs, X.; Alcover,M.M.; Godínez-González, C.; González-Moreno, O.; Masachs, M.; Fisa, R.; Montoliu, I. First Molecular Diagnosis of Clinical Cases of Gastric Anisakiosis in Spain. In Genes. Volume 11. Number 452. 2020 . Institutional Repository
Roca-Gerončs, X.; Alcover,MM.; Godínez-González, C.; Montoliu, I.; Fisa, R. Hybrid Genotype of Anisakis simplex (s.s.) and A. pegreffii Identified in Third- and Fourth-Stage Larvae from Sympatric and Allopatric Spanish Marine Waters. In Animals. 2021 . Institutional Repository
Roca-Gerončs, X.; Montoliu, I.; Godínez-González, C.; Fisa, R.; Shamsi, S. Morphological and genetic characterization of Hysterothylacium Ward & Magath, 1917 (Nematoda: Raphidascarididae) larvae in horse mackerel, blue whiting and anchovy from Spanish Atlantic and Mediterranean waters. In Journal of Fish Diseases. Volume 41. Number 10. 2018 . https://doi.org/10.1111/jfd.12825
Roca-Gerončs, X., Segovia, M.; Godínez-González, C.; Fisa, R.; Montoliu, I. Anisakis and Hysterothylacium species in Mediterranean and North-East Atlantic fishes commonly consumed in Spain: Epidemiological, molecular and morphometric discriminant analysis. In International Journal of Food Microbiology. Volume 325. 2020 . Institutional Repository
Roca-Gerončs, X.; Fisa, R.; Montoliu, I.; Casadevall, M.; Tobella, C.; Bas, J.M.; Palomba, M.; Mattiucci, S. Genetic diversity of Contracaecum rudolphii sp. A (Nematoda: Anisakidae) parasitizing the European Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii from the Spanish Mediterranean coast. In Frontiers In Veterinary Science. Volume 10. 2023 . Institutional Repository
Roca-Gerončs, X.; Sarrŕ-Alarcón, L.; Delgado, E.; Alcover, M.M.; Casadevall, M.; Fisa, R. Anisakid Presence in the European Conger, Conger conger, from Spanish Mediterranean Waters. In Pathogens. Volume 12. 2023 . Institutional Repository
Marialetizia Palomba; Pietro Libro; Jessica Di Martino; Xavier Roca-Gerončs; Armando Macali; Tiziana Castrignanň; Daniele Canestrelli; Simonetta Mattiucci. De novo transcriptome assembly of an Antarctic nematode for the study of thermal adaptation in marine parasites. In Scientific Data. Volume 720. 2023 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02591-4
Godínez-González, C.; Roca-Gerončs, X.; Montoliu, I.; Fisa, R. Estimation of the number of Anisakis larvae in commercial fish using a descriptive model based on real-time PCR. In Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 2020 . Institutional Repository
Godínez-González, C.; Roca-Gerončs, X.; Montoliu, I.; Fisa, R. Anisakis larvae quantification in commercial fish and fish-derived food using a molecular approach. In Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 2018 . https://doi.org/10.1159/000490752
Godínez-González, C.; Roca-Gerončs, X.; Montoliu, I.; Fisa, R. Importance of using complex matrices in the standardization of molecular techniques for the control of foodborne parasites. In Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Volume 67. 2019 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.9b05700