@asanchez_lab

CSIC Professor and Principal Investigator of the Quantitative Biology Group @ibfg_es. Previously @yale_eeb, @CNB_CSIC.

 Salamanca, León y Castilla, ES
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Joined June 2015
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Marisol Soengas@msmelanomaFeb 15
Replying to @torralba59
@torralba59: Un magnífico análisis del origen e impacto (científico y económico) del programa ICREA. 25 años de visión de futuro y buena gestión. @IdiazAyuso y @ComunidadMadrid: miren las estadísticas 🤦‍♀️ espaciosdeeducacionsuperior.…

25 años del programa ICREA - ES de ES: Aprendemos entre todos

JOSÉ MANUEL TORRALBA En Cataluña se concentra el mayor número de científicos altamente citados de España y lidera el número de ERC Grants en España, así como el número de institutos con el sello...

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Very interesting theoretical paper on BEF and species interactions, presenting an elegant partitioning of species effects on ecosystem function. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Opportunity for scientists considering moving to Spain as tenured scientists. Happy to see openings in microbiology across the country (including @CNB_CSIC, which has incorporated fantastic microbial eco/evo researchers lately) and functional & systems biology (incl @ibfg_es).
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@CienciaGobJan 2
✅ @CienciaGob oferta cerca de 1.900 plazas de acceso libre de las escalas científicas y técnicas de personal de los Organismos Públicos de Investigación. 🗣️ @DianaMorantR: “Es fruto del compromiso del Gobierno con el personal científico y técnico”. ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/2026…
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Importantly, there used to exist additional hurdles for scientists with PhDs from non-spanish institutions, but I believe these no longer exist for scientists with PhDs from the European Higher Education Area. There's still work to do here, but it's a step in the right direction.
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... And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day! Happy Christmas to all of us around the world who celebrate. Feliz Navidad! youtube.com/watch?v=NrAwK9ju…

The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

St.Patrick's Day Live (1988)

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🆕🎙️ El último podcast de 'Ciencia de Cerca' de 2025 llega con un invitado muy especial 🧑‍💻🦠 Álvaro Sánchez (@asanchez_lab), investigador @ERC_Research del @ibfg_es y su novedoso trabajo de "ingeniería" de comunidades microbianas. Escúchalo ya en Ivoox 👉go.ivoox.com/rf/164823351
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Alvaro Sanchez retweeted
Saúl Ares@omeuxeito4 Dec 2025
Ten PhD contracts at CSIC in Synthetic Biology. Passionate about biophysics or computational molecular biology? Join Daniel Lopez and and me at @CNB_CSIC studying bacterial membrane microdomains! lifehub.csic.es/synbio-cofun… (Please spread the word, thanks!)
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José R Penadés@jrpenades2 Dec 2025
Excited to share our latest work with @AlbertoMarina14 and @AvigdorEldar labs, where we decipher the mechanism by which SPβ-like phages sense the SOS response to control the lysis–lysogeny switch. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

An unprecedented DNA recognition–mimicry switch governs induction in arbitrium phages

Temperate phages integrate multiple information sources to regulate lysis-lysogeny transitions. SPBeta-like phages use arbitrium signalling and DNA damage to control repressor activity during lytic...

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Shou Group@ShouGroup17 Sep 2025
Rafting against the evolutionary waterfall! 🚣‍♂️💨 - see our new paper on the challenge of artificial selection of microbial collectives elifesciences.org/articles/9… Thanks to my patient and brilliant collaborators Juhee Lee & Hye Jin Park. #EcoEvo #MicroEcology @CloeFor @UCL

The success of artificial selection for collective composition hinges on initial and target values

Mathematical modeling uncovers how initial and target compositions limit microbial community selection, as inter-community selection clashes with intra-community selection like a rafter battling a...

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Saúl Ares@omeuxeito29 Jul 2025
🚨 Fully funded PhD position available! Come and join the Department of Systems Biology at @CNB_CSIC. The project is genuinely exciting — don’t hesitate to reach out if you have questions! 📎 Full details in the attached file. Help spreading the word is very welcome! #JobAlert
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How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward? At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below
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This piece by Orr, Armitage & @enterthesloth provides a nice & clear introduction to modern coexistence theory for microbiologists, discussing how it can be applied to microbial communities & highlighting its promise, limitations & opportunities. enviromicro-journals.onlinel…

Coexistence Theory for Microbial Ecology, and Vice Versa

Classical models from theoretical ecology are seeing increasing uptake in microbial ecology, but there remains rich potential for closer cross-pollination. Here we explore opportunities for stronger...

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This paper by @nacho_belda et al makes the case for wine fermentation as a model system in microbial ecology and evolution, as it hits a sweet spot between experimental tractability and rich ecological and evolutionary dynamics. enviromicro-journals.onlinel…

Wine Fermentation as a Model System for Microbial Ecology and Evolution

(Belda et al., 2024; Environmental Microbiology): Wine has as much to contribute to ecology and evolution as ecology and evolution have to contribute to wine.

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Alvaro Sanchez retweeted
IRNASA-CSIC@irnasa_csic27 Jun 2025
➡️Seminario de Excelencia en el #IRNASA. 👩‍🔬@Cris_Vieitez, investigadora del @ibfg_es que desarrolla un prestigioso proyecto ERC Starting Grants, ha impartido la charla ‘Cracking the Post-Translational Modification Crosstalk Code in S. cerevisiae’.
Cristina Viéitez Manrique, en el seminario del IRNASA-CSIC.

ALT Cristina Viéitez Manrique, en el seminario del IRNASA-CSIC.

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We (Eli, Rafa, Bo, Carolin, and I) are very happy today..here the reason @fcienciasugr @CanalUGR science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Sunlight drives the abiotic formation of nitrous oxide in fresh and marine waters

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas and the main stratospheric ozone-depleting agent, yet its sources are not well resolved. In this work, we experimentally show a N2O production pathway...

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We are hiring! We are looking forward for candidates to join our Internationalisation Office as a European Research Council - ERC project manager. More information at: lnkd.in/dVT-Wr-s
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José R Penadés@jrpenades20 Feb 2025
With @CostaT_Lab, we challenged AI co-scientist to generate scientific hypotheses. It correctly predicted how cf-PICIs spread between bacterial species, matching our unpublished, experimentally confirmed mechanism! 🤯@imperialcollege @FlemingCentre biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

AI mirrors experimental science to uncover a novel mechanism of gene transfer crucial to bacterial...

AI models have been proposed for hypothesis generation, but testing their ability to drive high-impact research is challenging, since an AI-generated hypothesis can take decades to validate. Here, we...

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Alvaro Sanchez retweeted
IBFG@ibfg_es4 Feb 2025
📢#IBFG_Predoc | Se buscan personas candidatas para solicitar Contrato Predoc PFIS del @SaludISCIII en el Grupo "Neurobiología Molecular" de la Dra. @AngelesAlmeid10. 🔗ibfg.usal-csic.es/empleo.htm… 🗓️Plazo: 15/02/2025 Más información👇
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