Rafa talks at Pint of Science

- May 21st, 2025

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Yesterday, Rafa gave a talk at La Botilleria within the Pint of Science festival 💬​

The title of his talk "Being an archaeum in a bacterionormative world" and was about the ecology, diversity and metabolism of archaea. It was a great night full of fun and science and an excellent opportunity to show the amazing world of archaea! 🔬🦠​

Group day at Parque Regional del Sureste - June 13th, 2025

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Last Friday, the lab members went to the Parque Regional del Sureste for a hike 🏞️​. We went with the members of the MLab, our sibling lab lead by Mireia Mestre. 

It was a great opportunity to spend time together 😂​, create new memories and talk about life, and of course microbiology 🦠  

The day was hot 🔥​, but the hike was great, a circular route bordering the rivers Manzanares and Jarama 💧​, where we could see many birds. 🦆​

XXX SEM Congress

- June 16-19th, 2025

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Alejandro and Rafa participated with members of the MLab in the XXX Congress of the Spanish Society of Microbiology (SEM) celebrated in Jaen 🔬 🦠 .

Both gave oral presentations. Alejandro presented his study on genome size of different taxonomic groups, while Rafa talked about a methanotrophic biofilm.

The congress was an excellent opportunity to make new contacts, talk about future projects and discover hot research topics.

Claudia starts her internship

- August 18th, 2025

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Claudia Baeyens, a Biology student from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, started today her internship with Alejandro. 👩🏻‍🔬

She wants to learn more about bioinformatics and metagenomics. Thus, she will be working with a dataset from the Vigo estuary 🦠🌊. We are looking forward to seeing her discoveries! 🙌