Alvaro Sanchez

@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.es/14/02/2026/25-…

Very interesting theoretical paper on BEF and species interactions, presenting an elegant partitioning of species effects on ecosystem function. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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.

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).

... 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=NrAwK9…

🆕🎙️ 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

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-cofund/ (Please spread the word, thanks!)

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/10.110…

Rafting against the evolutionary waterfall! 🚣‍♂️💨 - see our new paper on the challenge of artificial selection of microbial collectives elifesciences.org/articles/97461 Thanks to my patient and brilliant collaborators Juhee Lee & Hye Jin Park. #EcoEvo #MicroEcology @CloeFor @UCL

🚨 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

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. …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

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. …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

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

➡️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’.

@lopesrra @ERC_Research Enhorabuena Dani! Muchisimas felicidades y, obvia decirlo, merecidísimo!

Thrilled that our lab has been awarded with an ERC Advanced grant. We will study the molecular mechanisms that lead bacteria to acquire antibiotic resistance. Exciting science ahead!!! #ERCAdG @ERC_Research

@isabel_reche_c @fcienciasugr @CanalUGR Congratulations!!!

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

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