César Sánchez

Any recommendations for books / vids for little ones interested to learn about microbiology?

My 5yo has picked up on work chatter and keeps asking “Tell me about Klebsiella?” and I am running out of ideas! 😂

#MicroSky

YouTube video by UEC Nakane Lab Bacteria use wrapping flagella to tunnel through microscopic passages

How a tiny bacterium 🦠 turns itself into a “tunneling machine”

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Some symbiotic bacteria can invade micron-scale host passages by wrapping their flagella around themselves and moving like a tunneling machine

youtu.be/0Og4p0xUtzc

Research Fellow at University of St Andrews Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

🚨 We’re hiring – MRC-funded Postdoc (3 yrs)

Research Fellow to investigate how mobile genetic elements interact in Staphylococcus aureus and shape gene transfer and pathogenicity.

University of St Andrews
Closes 31 March 2026

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR250/r...

Enquiries: afh22@st-andrews.ac.uk

Hey #Microsky, time to celebrate your amazing female colleagues, students and mentors for #IWD2026! Nominate an inspiring woman whose research, teaching, innovation, or community leadership deserves recognition! @femsmicro.org crm.fems-microbiology.org/ssp/internat...

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

"As Jad lay collapsed in an alley, the soldiers created a cordon around him and blocked two Palestinian ambulances from reaching him"

"the Israeli military has refused to return his body to the family and declined to answer any questions about his injuries"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And The Microbes

OH MY GOSH I JUST FOUND THIS 😃

www.andthemicrobes.org

#comic #bacteria #phage #plasmids 🦠

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DAY 265
SPECIES 265 - Acidilobus saccharovorans
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper, Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen

A. Saccharovorans is an archaeon isolated from acidic hot springs in Kamchatka Russia. It's coccoid shaped with a bundle of archaella for mobility

#sciart #watercolor #art

youtu.be/0Og4p0xUtzc?...

How a tiny bacterium turns itself into a “tunneling machine” Some symbiotic bacteria can invade micron-scale host passages by wrapping their flagella around themselves and moving like a tunneling machine. Our study reveals how this clever motion enables them to...

"many bacteria spend their lives navigating spaces so small that even a human hair looks gigantic in comparison..."

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communities.springernature.com/posts/how-a-...

U2 publica por sorpresa un disco para atacar a ICE y a los fundamentalismos religiosos El EP, de seis piezas, es el primer conjunto de canciones nuevas de los irlandeses en nueve años

#U2 #DaysOfAsh

"a pesar de toda la atrocidad que vemos normalizada a diario en nuestras pequeñas pantallas, no hay nada normal en estos tiempos locos y enloquecedores, y tenemos que plantarles cara antes de poder volver a tener fe en el futuro. Y los unos en los otros”

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Viruses aren’t all bad: In the ocean, some help fuel the food web – a new study shows how Marine viruses attack cells, but the material that spills out helps fuels marine life around the world.

Viruses aren’t all bad: In the ocean, some help fuel the food web

@negilbert.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social

If you are interested in investigating horizontal gene transfer by phages and virus-like particles using computational approaches, this postdoc position in the Callahan Lab could be for you

jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/226...

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A short research stay in 2019 (back in the pre-COVID era) at José R. Penadés lab turned into the third chapter of my PhD and today it finally sees the light.

Monday

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How specific are heritable symbioses?

And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?

We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!

1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The paradox of immune systems conservation between prokaryotes and eukaryotes - Nature Reviews Microbiology The widespread prokaryotic immune systems, in particular restriction–modification, CRISPR–Cas and defensive toxin–antitoxin systems, are absent in eukaryotes, whereas relatively rare ones, such as Arg...

The immune systems paradox

Some widespread prokaryotic immune systems are absent in eukaryotes, whereas relatively rare ones became central to eukaryotic innate immunity

@audeber.bsky.social & E. Koonin hypothesize the answer is #HGT

shareable link: rdcu.be/e2EmD

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Illustration of gene flow along the succession of events leading from a simple archaeal ancestor through the more complex Asgard intermediate capturing the proto-mitochondrial alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont to the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA). Image taken from the article entitled "Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis" by Victor Tobiasson, Jacob Luo, Yuri I. Wolf & Eugene V. Koonin. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Hypothetical scenario of eukaryogenesis

Image taken from "Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis" www.nature.com/articles/s41... (open access)

Genomic clues to the origin of eukaryotic cells How did eukaryotic cells with complex architecture evolve from simpler prokaryotic cells? DNA analyses offer possible answers.

Genomic clues to the origin of eukaryotic cells www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Coming from where it's coming, I'd take that as a compliment

Vacunas y responsabilidad ciudadana La OMS alerta de que ha resurgido el sarampión en España porque se ha relajado la inmunización tras la pandemia

Editorial @elpais.com

Vacunas y responsabilidad ciudadana

La OMS alerta de que ha resurgido el sarampión en España porque se ha relajado la inmunización tras la pandemia

elpais.com/opinion/2026...

Volver a comenzar

#LuzCasal 🎵🎶

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The impact of phenotypic heterogeneity on fungal pathogenicity and drug resistance This review discusses the contribution of phenotypic heterogeneity in fungi to pathogenesis and antifungal drug resistance.

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The impact of phenotypic heterogeneity on fungal pathogenicity and drug resistance

#fungi #mycology #DrugResistance #pathogens

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#ConciertoDeAñoNuevo