New paper out in PNAS!!! 🎉 Do more plasmid copies mean faster evolution? 🧵 Dive into the story www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very excited to be at my first Gordon Research Conference this week & to give my first international invited talk in the US! Amazing speakers, great discussions, & lots of learning on some of my favourite topics! Bacterial motility & chemotaxis, regulation & secondary messengers or quorum sensing 🤩🦠

Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The ISME Early Career Scientist Committee is glad to begin the year by spotlighting @aroneys.bsky.social, a Postdoctoral Researcher at QUT, and his paper, “Bin Chicken: targeted metagenomic coassembly for the efficient recovery of novel genomes.” doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/2)

PhD & Postdoc positions – Junta de Andalucía Looking for highly motivated candidates to apply with my Microbiomes & Microbial Interactions group at the University of Málaga (IHSM). Interested in joining our team? 📩 [email protected] 🔗 www.carrionlab.com 🔗 www.ihsm.uma-csic.es/investigador...

In @science.org this week: The interaction between flavonoids and rhizobial Nod factors during legume symbiosis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

This more than anything makes an academic career worthwhile - seeing other people achieve their goals

After a few chaotic but exciting months I am now settled in the beautiful university city of #Salamanca, Spain working at @irnasa.bsky.social @csic.es as #TenuredScientist (since Oct) in the Plant–Microbe Interaction Group 🌱🦠 New Year, updated profiles! 🎉 www.irnasa.csic.es/sanchez-canizares-carmen/

Happy New Year!! 🎉 We're pleased to be back with some exciting new opportunities which we will be sharing in the coming weeks. We are again inviting host labs to share their projects for our 2026 BiPS Summer Studentships. Head to our website for more details: buff.ly/g6vAJmM

Ya está abierta la preinscripción de la #MICROCREDENCIAL de competencias básicas en biología computacional del @dpe-csic.bsky.social, impartida por @bombarelya.bsky.social, @eandresleon.bsky.social, @javijevi.bsky.social y #JoséBlanca. Que no se os pase el plazo! 👇🏼

🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

We are starting 2026 by looking for candidates to apply for the Junta de Andalucía PhD fellowship. If you are interested in bacterial secretion systems and molecular biology, get in touch. More info about our work: personal.us.es/pbguzman/ & regarding the call www.investigacion.us.es/convocatoria...

👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬Madrid acoge hoy y mañana #SomosRAICEX2025, el Encuentro de la Red de Asociaciones de Investigadores y Científicos Españoles en el Exterior, con la participación de @carmen-agro.bsky.social, investigadora del #IRNASA-CSIC que fue vicepresidenta de #RAICEX. #LaUnionHaceLaCiencia

My first official PhD student Olivia Tjahjono successfully passed her viva last Thursday!🥂 As part of the @poolelaboxford.bsky.social it's been a pleasure to share projects, lab bench and many science (& life) discussions! A big thank you to the examiners Elena Baena & Ray Dixon for their feedback!

Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security. Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg

🚀 PhD opportunity! Join us (@pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & @chofski.bsky.social) in Bristol 🌱✨ Design, test & model synthetic promoters in Nicotiana benthamiana, focusing on plant immunity. Apply now! 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSci #SyntheticBiology #PhD #PlantBioDesign #BristolUni

Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Together with a team of great colleagues, we edit a collection titled "Harnessing plant microbiomes to improve performance and mechanistic understanding" nature.com/collections/cg… in the journals @natureportfolio.nature.com @microbiomej.bsky.social . It's open for submission till June 2026.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/r... A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social. If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂 #Plantscience #Plantscijobs

Consistently an absolutely fantastic meeting - don’t miss out on an opportunity to interact with an awesome bunch of non-seed enthusiasts 🌱 😃 🧬

Localized glutamine leakage shapes root microbiome @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Spotlight from Zheng Qing Fu/Youxiong Que on the recent publication by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social et al from @nikogeldner.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

One of my first contributions at my new institute for a very cool initiative, to give visibility to every single person behind a successful research project! Da igual dónde esté, siempre acabo en todos los embolados pero rodeada de gente muy guay! 🤩 #inclusion #diversity

Our preprint is finally out 🌿 “𝒑𝒑𝑮𝒑𝒑 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉-𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒅𝒐𝒑𝒔𝒊𝒔” Its been a journey- first spotted by Matteo Sugliani over ten years ago, carried forward by Shanna Romand, and brought to the finish line with help from many collaborators. #PlantScience tinyurl.com/wpf3bp25

Such a team @iandealidbury.bsky.social, more conferences like this! 🙌🏻 @rafamorcillo.bsky.social @iplantmicro.bsky.social @vcarryon.bsky.social And well done the Sheffield group, congrats to Alex on the poster prize! 😉

From science talks to spontaneous laughter — the 6th Plant Microbiome Symposium gave us way more than great research updates! Somewhere between sessions, a new powerhouse (and comedy troupe?) of PIs was born for better future in the area! @itqbnova.bsky.social @microsos.bsky.social

Had such a great time at #PMS2025 🦠🌱 Met some of my favourite UK colleagues & made many new connections, especially in Spain! Huge shoutout to the organisers @vcarryon.bsky.social for putting together such an inspiring programme, creating the perfect atmosphere for networking & showing us Antequera!

🌱🧫🔬This week, three researchers from #IRNASA_CSIC are participating in the 6th Plant Microbiome Symposium in Antequera (Málaga, Spain). This conference brings together scientists working on the plant microbiome from different angles. #PMS2025 #PlantMicrobiome #PlantScience @microsos.bsky.social 🧵

Carmen Sanchez-Cañizares @carmen-agro.bsky.social from whole plant to single cell: why terminally differentiated bacteroids are more efficient nitrogen fixers in legume nodules #PMS2025

Bacteroids versus nodules @carmen-agro.bsky.social #PMS2025

Great to see that @courtneyherms.bsky.social is back in action at a microbiome conference here in Málaga for the #PMS2025, do follow her for the best and most interesting & fun live posting at a conference! She did such an amazing job at the #Rhizosphere6 conference in Edinburgh! 😉 🦠🌱🔬

Final countdown before the start of the #PMS2025!!! 🪴 Looking forward to seeing you in Antequera (Malaga) on 3-7 November! Final program at: 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com/programme/ #Plantscience #MicrobiomeResearch #Bioinformatics

1️⃣ Bacterias beneficiosas para las plantas (22/09/2025) Con Carmen Sánchez (@irnasa.bsky.social) que investiga bacterias beneficiosas para las leguminosas, con el objetivo de reducir el uso de fertilizantes químicos en la #agricultura 👉 www.ivoox.com/bacterias-be...

Just last week we wrapped up this incredible training & support programme for #women in research by @acmedsci.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @raeng.org.uk. Thrilled to have been part of #SUSTAIN Round 11 and to have learnt so much from all the great workshops & this inspirational group of scientists!

📰La portada y el tema de apertura de La Gaceta de Salamanca están dedicados hoy a la nueva sede del #IRNASA-CSIC. 👏👏👏

What a privilege attending yesterday the 30th Norman Heatley lecture hosted by @dunnschool.bsky.social to listen in person to my favourite scientist and role model Bonnie Bassler talking about the wonders of #quorumsensing, the topic I started working on as a PhD student and future microbiologist!

📢 A toda la comunidad trabajando en interacciones beneficiosas planta-microorganismo, ¡reservad la fecha de nuestro próximo encuentro! El XX Congreso de la SEFIN y III BeMiPlant tendrá lugar en Cádiz entre el 26-28 mayo 2026. ¡Iremos compartiendo las novedades próximamente! 🌱🧫🔬

We’re looking for an enthusiastic postdoc to join our team. 😊 The project focuses on protein design and cryo-EM applied to cancer research. 🔬🧪 The position is fully funded for 3 years. Please share 🙏 Job description and application details (deadline: October 11th): www.cnio.es/en/empleo/po...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫 Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all! Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

👩‍🔬 La investigadora @carmen-escudero.bsky.social se incorpora al #IRNASA-CSIC gracias al Programa de Atracción del Talento del Ayuntamiento de #Salamanca. Esta mañana, ha sido recibida por el alcalde. ➡️ www.irnasa.csic.es/carmen-escud...

Este lunes tuve la suerte de asistir en persona por 1a vez a un estudio de radio para abrir la sección de ciencia en #HoyPorHoySalamanca de #LaCadenaSER y disfrutar hablando de ciencia, mi nueva aventura profesional en @irnasa.bsky.social y #SRUK/CERU y atracción de talento! Gracias por invitarme! ☺️

👩‍🔬👨‍🔬Fabulosa Jornada de Atracción de #Talento "La carrera investigadora en el #IRNASA-CSIC". Estudiantes universitarios y de enseñanzas medias han conocido la #ciencia que hacemos. #NocheEuropeadelosInvestigadores

Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Excited to share that I’ll soon be joining @irnasa.bsky.social as #newPI! And I couldn’t imagine a better start than with a project that has just been selected for funding by @ageinves.bsky.social @ageinves.bsky.social Very grateful for the support to keep working on #bacterialregulation! 🌱🦠

📣 Are you a creative and articulate plant scientist looking to connect with other like-minded folks? Application is now open for the 2025-2026 Plantae Fellows program!🌱 👉 Learn more and apply by August 31! buff.ly/JqoDSHq #plantscience

Only a few days left to apply for one of three Lead Editor roles at the Journal of Applied Microbiology - a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of applied microbiology publishing. Deadline: this Thursday! ⏳

GROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

I am looking for a (bio)chemist to join the lab and help us making affinity-based probes for proteases! The project is truly interdisciplinary with a strong computational chemistry component, peptide synthesis and plant biochemistry! Text me if interested and please spread the word!

Enhorabuenísima!! Más qué merecido!! 💜👏🏻👏🏻

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...