Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦

Worst person in the world

I finally watched The Worst Person in the World 🙏

We can’t let films about ordinary lives and everyday people disappear. There’s something powerful about stories that feel real, intimate, and imperfect.

Now I’m ready for Sentimental Value and more of Renate 🥹

A bridge over an ice-covered river

Come visit Québec City in winter, if only to see the longest cantilever bridge floating over an iced Fleuve Saint-Laurent

Hahaha just in case hahaha

German

Based on what I saw, I would move anytime 😍 what a beautiful country!

I’ll Continue learning German 😂

Edel with Daniel Croll and team

I couldn’t visit Switzerland without stopping to see Daniel Croll, a colleague I admire and who kindly agreed to meet with me 4 years ago to discuss some “crazy” genomic ideas. Today, those ideas are a reality thanks to @asimjaved.bsky.social work. Can’t wait to share our results with you very soon!

Pectobacterium sinaloense sp. nov., a novel phytopathogenic species isolated from potato plants in Mexico As part of a broader effort to survey and characterize the diversity of pectolytic bacteria affecting potato crops in Mexico, phytopathogenic strains were isolated from soft-rot symptoms on potato pla...

New paper out! 🧬

What started as José Luis’ internship in our lab led to the full characterization of a new Pectobacterium species, combining genomics, microscopy, bio chemistry, and pathogenicity assays across Canada & Mexico.

Now in IJSEM: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Colloquy

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Group picture

This week I had the privilege of participating in the Radical Interdisciplinary Forum on Arctic Horizons 👏

❄️ Warming may open the Arctic to agriculture, but it also invites plant diseases and insect vectors. Plants, and the traditions and communities rooted in them, are at risk.

cover journal

We made it onto the cover of @plos.org Sustainability and Transformation! 🥳

🔗https://journals.plos.org/sustainabilitytransformation/issue

Edel hotel

Mont Blanc view

Visiting Switzerland for the first time.
When I left Cuba in 2013, I never imagined waking up one day with a view of Mont Blanc 🥹

Hahaha exact what I'll do!

The most frustrating thing is reviewing a paper, providing extensive suggestions, and then, a month later, being invited to review the exact same manuscript in another journal. Nothing changes ... what a waste of people time ...

Congratulations 🥳

Also exited to join and to work with a wonderful team! (My name should appear among the associate editors soon 🙃)

I might or might not have suggested your name 🤭

MPMI Editorial Board

Thrilled to announce that I am joining the Editorial Board of Molecular Plant–Microbe Interactions as a Senior Editor! 🌱🦠 Grateful for the opportunity to serve this vibrant research community and help amplify impactful science 👏

🔗 apsjournals.apsnet.org/page/mpmi/ed...

Looking for a place to chill, vent, or hang out with fun queer microbiologists?

Look no further! Join us at one of our virtual Coffee Hour events and make new friends!

🏳️‍🌈 🦠 ☕️

Aster yellows integrated management in Western Canada and the United States Upper Midwest Abstract. The aster leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Macrosteles quadrilineatus Forbes) is considered to be a significant pest in the Western Canadian

Happy to have contributed to this beautiful Pest Profile led by Berenice Romero 👏

Proud to see this work published in @entsocamerica.bsky.social Journal of Integrated Pest Management!

doi.org/10.1093/jipm...

Microbial alternatives for sustainable insecticide use, a Canadian perspective Abstract. This perspective examines the potential of microbial biological control agents (MBCAs) as sustainable tools for managing agricultural insect pest

Microbial alternatives for sustainable insecticide use, a Canadian perspective url: academic.oup.com/sumbio/artic...

Come join our network at prideinmicrobiology.github.io!

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#Pride #STEM #LGBTQ

AI for accurate insect pest monitoring: A path toward resilient agriculture

This paper has received 10k views in a month! 😵

Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Flower

Jordanne

Nicolas

Edel

EdeLab, toujours présent et engagé au service de notre communauté 👏

A mighty wind

Movie night, still devastated for Catherine Anne O'Hara passing 💔

AlphaGenome: the AI decoding our secret code

New episode out in English, French and Spanish! 🚀
In this week’s EdeLab & Science Explained podcast, we break down a groundbreaking study introducing AlphaGenome, a next-generation AI model that transforms how we predict the effects of genetic variants 🧬 🤖

(EN) open.spotify.com/episode/73W1...

Immigration | Des professeurs recrutés laissés de côté par le nouveau système Alejandro Morales a été recruté par l’UQAM à l’issue d’un processus de sélection où plus de 200 candidats étaient en lice. Pourtant, ce professeur de mathématiques de 41 ans, originaire de la Colombie...

"À l’UQAM, 25 professeurs étrangers sont touchés par l’abolition du PEQ, sans mesures transitoires. Ces professeurs étaient venus au Québec avec l’intention de demander la résidence permanente par le PEQ. L’abolition de ce programme, le 19 novembre 2025, a changé les règles en cours de route"

Coffee from Cuba, Costa Rica and Colombia

International coffee lab supply ☕️

Paper accepted!
This preprint is coming out soon :

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

And less remember Ecuador president is in competition with Milei to see who’s the bigger Trump bots licker.

Do you want to help advance the profile of #ecology, #evolution, & #conservation in Canada? Do you want to be part of a team that gets things done on behalf of a broader community? Run for CSEE Council! Nominations due April 26. Learn more here: csee-scee.ca/elections/

I was on the CSEE council a loooong time ago and I really felt like we were doing something useful and worth our time. Try it!

Black Mirror level s**t 🫢