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César Aguilar

Medicine · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2008Rising activity
Microbial Natural Products and BiosynthesisMicrobial Metabolic Engineering and BioproductionPlant biochemistry and biosynthesisGenomics and Phylogenetic StudiesBacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Publications

19

Citations

1,049

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

18

Publishing since 2008

Research summary
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César Aguilar studies how bacteria, especially soil-dwelling Actinomycetota (a group including Streptomyces), produce specialized chemical compounds called natural products, which include many antibiotics and other bioactive molecules. His work combines genome analysis with laboratory experiments to discover new antibiotics, understand how these biosynthetic pathways evolved, and build databases and software tools that help other researchers find and annotate these gene clusters. This research is relevant to students interested in microbiology, genomics, bioinformatics, and drug discovery.

Natural product biosynthesis and genome miningActinomycetota (Streptomyces) bioprospecting for antibioticsEvolution of bacterial metabolic enzymesBioinformatics databases and tools for biosynthetic gene clustersMicrobial and metabolic engineering

Publication output was low or absent in the mid-2010s to early 2020s but has grown noticeably in the last two years (2024-2025), suggesting increasing recent activity.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.2/year recently
172018: 1 publication182019: 2 publications1920212022: 2 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 4 publications4242025: 4 publications42526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Nucleic Acids Research×4
  • Microbial Genomics×3
  • Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology×2
  • Natural Product Reports×1
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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