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The lab has participated in the launching of Conexión Microbioma, a new platform of CSIC to facilitate the connection of teams working on Microbiome research. The event was held on the press room of CSIC headquarters. Here, many scientists from the whole CSIC discuss how to improve the microbial research, and their impact on the society. In the...

Yesterday, we sadly had to say goodbye to Elena. After 7 months, her JAE-Intro scholarship is over. During this time, she has shown what a great researcher and co-worker she is. We will miss her during our lunch break, but we are sure her career is just starting.

On April 1sr, Víctor has joined the team with a research assistant contract from the region of Madrid (PEJ-2024-AI/ECO-31856). He holds a MSc degree in Biodiversity: Conservation and Evolution from the University of Valencia (UV). He will participate in the ARGOS project, where he will be in charge of most of the laboratory work, as well as some...

The last two days the Museum held its VIII Scientific Workshop. There were up to 50 presentations from the different departments. Alejandro and Elena were the representatives of the lab. Both presented their research work. Elena did a marvellous job explaining her results on the analysis of Arctic Poseidionales genomes. She showed how these archaea...

Alejandro Rodriguez Gijón is the new member of the lab. Last January, he defended his PhD at the group of Sarahi García (Stockholm University). During his doctoral thesis, he has researched on the ecological meaning of genome size in aquatic prokaryotes by using metagenomics.

Since the 1st of October, Elena Mauricio Sánchez has joined the team after being awarded a 7-months JAE intro scholarship from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the biggest research institution from Spain.

On September 27th the European Researcher's Night aims to take science closer to the big public. Rafa participated this year with other colleagues from the Department of Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology organizing one of the stations for the scientific gymkhana held at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Up to 500 children participated...

From August 18 to August 23, the ISME19, the conference of the International Society of Microbial Ecology, was held in Cape Town, South Africa. This was the first time that this event took place in the African continent.

The Spanish national network of extremophiles held its annual meeting at the University of Alicante from 10th to 12th of July. Rafa participated in the meeting and gave an oral presentation on the metagenomic libraries from a methanotrophic slime. This work included some of the results obtained by Pedro and Cleo during their Master Thesis. This...

Today, Pedro and Cleo defended their Master Thesis at the Universidad Autonóma de Madrid. They presented the results of their hard work during the last months. Both thesis focused on the same two metagenomics libraries. Cleo studied organisms related to anaerobic methane oxidation, while Pedro investigated the metabolic potential of a Lokiarchaeia....