Marina Sibila i Vidal

Marina Sibila i Vidal was born in Navàs (Barcelona) in 1975. In 1999, she obtained the bachelor’s in Science at the Biological Science Faculty of the Barcelona University (UB). In 2004, she obtained the PhD for the work entitled “Epidemiological features of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyopneumoniae) natural infection in pigs in Spain” at the Veterinary Faculty of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Since then, she is working at Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA) from the Agrifood Research and Technology Institute (IRTA) as a researcher. Her research line is centered on different aspects of infection, including pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology, establishment of animal models, diagnostic tool development and control strategies assessment mainly on Mycoplasma (M) hyopneumoniae, M. hyorhinis, porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) and PCV-3 associated diseases. In the last years, she has expanded her research to study the role of the nasal microbiota on the diseases caused by pathogens that enters through the respiratory tract. As a result of these investigations, she is the author or co-author of more than 95 scientific papers published in international scientific journals and co-author of different book chapters and co-editor of a book entitled Mycoplasmas in Swine.  Dr Sibila also participates in the “Master universitario en sanidad y producción porcina” given by Universidad de Lleida, Complutense de Madrid and de Zaragoza and as a co-advisor of several PhD thesis focused mainly on PCV-2, PCV-3, M. hyopneumoniae and on the role of the nasal microbiota on polyserositis problems.

Updated CV 19-May-2023