Junior Editorial Board

Silvia Arboleya is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Dairy Research Institute of Asturias of the Spanish National Research Council (IPLA-CSIC), Spain. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Oviedo in 2014, after a visit stays in 2012 to the University of Dundee (Scotland, UK). She carried out her postdoctoral work (2014-2017) at Teagasc Food Research Centre Moorepark associated with the world leader center on nutrition and gastrointestinal health research, APC Microbiome Institute (Cork, Ireland). In 2017, Dr. Arboleya joined back to IPLA-CSIC with a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions individual fellowship and she was later awarded a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporation Spanish postdoctoral fellowship. During these years, her research career has focused on the interaction between human intestinal microbiota and health, with an emphasis on nutritional strategies for modulation of the gut microbiota in a health-promoting direction in early life and affecting the gut-brain axis. She was involved in different national and international projects, also with industry and private entities, mainly focused on (a) unveiling the effect of different perinatal factors (prematurity, antibiotics, delivery mode, feeding and weaning, vaccines, antioxidants, , etc.) on the gut microbiome establishment and later health, with the objective to identify specific microbial alterations to be corrected through the development of nutritional intervention strategies. Moreover, she is involved in projects focused on (b) the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, investigating the relationship between the gut microbiota and diet with certain neurodevelopment and metabolic disorders both in animal models and human trials and longitudinal studies. Dr. Arboleya has also strong expertise in (c) isolation and characterization of potential novel probiotics, both classical and next-generation microbes and she was involved in (d) the study of mechanisms of interaction between Bifidobacterium species and other gut microbes and, in projects focused on (e) the relationship between the intestinal microbiome and aging or autoimmune diseases. She has published over 50 articles, including papers in high-impact journals, and several book chapters, and presented her research work at over 50 scientific national and international conferences. She serves as Guest Editor and Reviewer in different journals in the field of food, nutrition, microbiota, pediatrics, and neurosciences. Silvia Arboleya is actively a science divulgator and mentor of several undergraduate and postgraduate fellows, plus supervisor of Master and Ph.D. students.

Gut microbiota, Early life, Microbiota-gut-brain axis, Bifidobacterium, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Diet, Antibiotics