Alejandro and Rafa participated with members of the MLab in the XXX Congress of the Spanish Society of Microbiology (SEM) celebrated in Jaen from the 16th to the 19th of June. Over 300 microbiologists took part in this event with several activities and scientific meetings.
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...
Rafa has participated in the X edition of the Pint of Science, a world festival where scientists explain their research in bars to broader audiences. He gave a talk at "La Botillería" with the title "Being an archaeum in a bacterionormative world". During his talk, the audience could learn about the diversity, ecology and evolution of archaea with...
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...