Santiago Elena

SFI External Professor Santiago Elena elected to the American Academy of Microbiology SFI External Professor Santiago Elena has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, joining 62 other fellows in the class of 2026, each selected for their contributions in the ...

SFI’s Santiago Elena has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

He joins 62 fellows in the 2026 class. His work explores how RNA viruses adapt to hosts and manipulate cellular resources. Since joining SFI in 2008, he has organized several working groups on virus evolution.

Professor Carl Bergstrom: Living with AI Internationally acclaimed scientist Carl Bergstrom on why humans are so psychologically wired for online and whether we are living with "modern-day oracles or bullsh*t machines."

"Nothing like this has existed before, and we don't quite know what it does to people."

@carlbergstrom.com spoke to Mihingarangi Forbes about living with AI on Saturday Morning this morning → www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

#cccss26 🧪

Honored to be elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology! I look forward to working alongside my colleagues to advance microbial science for the benefit of society. Learn more about the 2026 Fellowship Class: press release link

More than 70 people attend the 2nd Public-Private Collaboration Workshop organised by I2SysBio <p><strong>The Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint centre of the CSIC and the University of Valencia, held its Second Public-Private Collaboration Workshop under the title &#3...

More than 70 people attend the 2nd Public-Private Collaboration Workshop organised by I2SysBio www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio...

The 14th edition of the Master's Degree in Bioinformatics begins. With many teachers from the @i2sysbio.es and the @cipfvalencia.bsky.social

Troben en cucs un mecanisme que ‘recorda’ la resposta immunitària davant d’un virus per a defensar-se enfront de reinfeccions Un estudi de l’Institut de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemes (I2SysBio), centre mixt del Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (CSIC) i la Universitat de València (UV), mostra que el virus Ors...

@i2sysbio.es @uv.es @sfelena.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es ‬

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More than 70 people attend the 2nd Public-Private Collaboration Workshop organised by I2SysBio <p><strong>The Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint centre of the CSIC and the University of Valencia, held its Second Public-Private Collaboration Workshop under the title &#3...

Tuesday was an amazing day.
The @i2sysbio.es organized the II Jornada de Colaboración Público-privada. We could meet the private sector and share our dreams and concerns with them.

www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio...

How to deal with the multiscale nature of evolution, which displays different time scales of change? We need to replace classic genotype spaces with multiscapes. Here's a great paper by my friend Susanna Manrubia and coworkers @mncn-csic.bsky.social rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royo... …

Evolutionary features in a minimal physical system: Diversity, selection, growth, inheritance, and adaptation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Latent infection of Caenorhabditis elegans by Orsay virus induces age-dependent immunity and cross-protection Nature Communications - Orsay virus establishes a latent infection in C. elegans, triggering age-dependent immunity and RNAi based cross-protection that limits secondary infections and reveals...

Check the latest publication from our group!
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@i2sysbio.es @csic.es

Fantástica jornada "¿Cómo tu ciencia puede ayudar a la sostenibilidad?" organizada por @iatacsic.bsky.social y el @i2sysbio.bsky.social. Conocimos la ciencia en sostenibilidad de @dicv.csic.es y nos inspiramos para aplicar nuestros conocimientos a este problema. Pensando ya en futuras actividades!

Con las prisas, se me olvidaron otras JAE Intros disponibles en otros labs del @i2sysbio.bsky.social: @sfelena.bsky.social, @rafa-sanjuan.bsky.social, @rongellerlab.bsky.social y Carlos Garcia y Gustavo Gomez.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

#ESTALMAT ha visitado nuestro instituto en su proyecto para la detección, orientación y estímulo del talento matemático de estudiantes escolares
@raciencias.bsky.social #matemáticas #divulgación #OVS #FECYT @javierbuceta.bsky.social @pathogenomics.bsky.social 💻🧬

Experimental evolution of evolvability Evolvability—the capacity to generate adaptive variation—is a trait that can itself evolve through natural selection. However, the idea that mutation can become biased toward adaptive outcomes remains...

Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Predicted infections with phage/host mutation models

Delighted to share this paper out via Virus Evolution:

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in which we develop and assess a quantitative method to infer phage and bacterial mutations driving changes in infection phenotypes arising in coevolutionary dynamics.

a 🧵 about people (and some science)

La Santa Vaquilla vs. los ultras de Torquemada Otra imagen satírica relacionada con la religión provoca amenazas de querellas de organizaciones ultraderechistas mientras la jerarquía católica vuelve a reaccionar con una rapidez que no acostumbra c...

"“Una vez más, la banalidad nos rodea”, lamenta pesaroso el arzobispo Luis Argüello. La misma banalidad que reacciona con más dolor y rapidez ante una estampita satírica que ante el escándalo de la pedofilia en la Iglesia"

La Santa Vaquilla vs. los ultras de Torquemada ✍️ Por Iñigo Sáenz de Ugarte

Population dynamics of defective viral genomes of tomato black ring virus during host-to-host transmission | Journal of Virology Defective viral genomes (DVGs) have been identified in vivo and in vitro for different virus species infecting humans, animals, and plants. The ability to form DVGs during the passaging of virus in on...

Investigating tomato black ring virus DVGs! This study uncovers the impact of host-to-host transmission on viral evolution, with deletions dominating in diverse host species.
#VirusBioinformatics #DVGs #PlantVirology

📄 doi.org/10.1128/jvi....
EVBC👤: @sfelena.bsky.social

A reminder for any academics who needs to hear it: there are SO many ways to serve the scientific community. Choose the ones that fulfill you, bring you joy (even if they are hard), and are in line with your values.

It’s okay to say no/ resign/change tracks! And put your efforts/energy elsewhere.

Policy makers, journalists, and the public should consider what it means if the incoming head of NIH failed to design, execute, interpret, and communicate a public health study in a critical moment in the pandemic, and continued to double-down on the interpretation.

Diverse species of Drosophilidae

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

Early Abstract closes on Dec. 3, and Regular Abstract submission closes on Jan. 22, 2025, so get your microbiome data analysis abstracts ready, remember to submit, and join us to talk all about data management best practices and how to make the most out of your microbiome data !

Ecologist Statistician (Interdisciplinary) <p>The Smithsonian Institution is the world&rsquo;s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. The mission of the National Zoo and Conservation&nbsp;Biology...

FANTASTIC PERMANENT RESEARCH POSITION for Ecologist/Statistician (Interdisciplinary) focused on conservation at Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute (Front Royal, VA)! www.usajobs.gov/job/819535900.

Come be my colleague!

Please repost/ send to qualified candidates.

Open position: young group leader in the infection area preferably in virology for the Nordic EMBL node MIMS (Laboratory for Molecular Infection Sweden) in Umea, Sweden
See also www.umu.se/en/mims/ or the QR code provided below

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Entrevista a Fernando Valladares - Revista Mètode Des de la DANA, científics com Fernando Valladares han sigut el blanc d'un assetjament creixent en xarxes socials per part de grups que promouen l'escepticisme climàtic.

«Les teories conspiratives proliferen sempre en moments d'incertesa»

Des de la DANA, científics com @fernadovalladares.bsky.social han sigut el blanc d'un assetjament creixent en xarxes socials per part de grups que promouen l'escepticisme climàtic.

✍️ @anacamps25.bsky.social

Our research institute I2SysBio🇪🇸 has created a starter pack for researchers in systems biology, everybody is welcome, write us if you want to be added 🔬🧫🧬🖥🦑🦠🌱🦟🪳🪸🌾

How to write an excellent Review article @natrevbioeng.bsky.social #scisky #Science #REVIEW

Open Access
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Research on cultural and technological evolution is thriving at our Institute of Evolutionary Biology, which makes me very happy. It is an exciting time for multidisciplinary approaches to biological evolution! #CultEvo

Are the major evolutionary transitions describable as phase transitions, as in statistical physics? A great example of this is the transition to eukaryotic cells, as shown by this excellent paper by Jordi Bascompte and co-workers europepmc.org/api/fulltext...