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Daniel Plaza Sáez

@dplazasaez.bsky.social
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Passionate Microbiologist 🦠🔬 | PhD @Cambridge_Uni | ex member Molecular Microbiology (Salmond Lab) at @Cambiochem.bsky.social | Enthusiastic drummer 🥁 and keyboardist 🎹

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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
All good thanks! I’m also excited for your work!
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Congrats Andrew! All the best to this big step! 👏😊
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Well I hope to see you in another meeting
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m fine thanks, and you? Noo sadly didn’t get a grant, did you?
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hey Kiseok! This is amazing news! Congrats and all the best on this big step my friend! 👏
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Lee Henry @henrylabsymbio.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Evolution of Host–Microbe Symbioses - QMUL Jobs
ID: 10612. Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Evolution of Host–Microbe Symbioses. Application Deadline:
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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Excited to share that I've been awarded a 5-year NIH MIRA (R35) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences! The lab is growing! We're recruiting postdocs and research techs interested in microbial ecology, quantitative microscopy, microfluidics, and molecular biology. Please share!
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
After a wonderful #ASMicrobe I’m now enjoying more great science at #SynByss ! @taeseokmoon.bsky.social 🧬🦠
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I know it’s big, no worries, I hope there is another time 😄
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It’s sad I could not meet you (neither Vivek)
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Tiago Costa @tcostalab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
📢 We are recruiting! I’m looking for a Research Associate in Structural Biology to join my lab at Imperial College London to study horizontal gene transfer using cryo-EM, biochemistry and microbiology. Please share with interested candidates! Apply: shorturl.at/gmJGS
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Oh too late for me
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Great talk
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Congrats Daniel!! 🎉
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Great, what about today after the phage mechanism session (12.30)?
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Looking forward to meeting you
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Hey! See you there!
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Sunny DC! 🇺🇸☀️ Getting ready for the exciting days ahead at #ASMicrobe as an #ASM Future Leaders Mentorship Fellow! Looking forward to the amazing 2026 program! @asm.org 🦠🔬🧬
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Congrats on your new lab Caro! All the best!
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Caro Kobras 🐍 @carokobras.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Super exciting news 🚨 I am hiring a technician to join my brand new lab at the University of Birmingham! @imibirmingham.bsky.social Come and support my BBSRC-funded research on understanding how staphylococci survive antibiotics. Please share! 🧫🧪 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH271/a...
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Assistant Technical Specialist at University of Birmingham
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Congrats Lilly!! 👏 Added to my reading list 🤓
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Lilly Cummins @lillycummins.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past two years thinking about genome evolution and how recent research revealing complex gene-gene interactions has complicated traditional ‘gene-centric’ genomic approaches to evolution. So here is a review that consolidates these thoughts! rdcu.be/e6pHY
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Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution
Nature Reviews Genetics - Bacterial genome evolution is shaped by epistasis, which can constrain or promote specific evolutionary paths. The authors review how integrating the effects of epistatic...
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#SynBYSS conference is scheduled on Jun 8-11, 2026 in Barcelona. Given the 100-year celebration of Architect Gaudi in Barcelona, we suggest early booking of hotels. Details can be found: www.jcvi.org/events/synbyss (speakers, abstract submission & registration) @jcvi.org @marcguellc.bsky.social
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SynBYSS
The International SynBYSS Conference is focused on bringing together the synthetic biology community with the explicit goal of developing young...
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is a great work!! Congratulations!! 🎉 it was great to meet you at Spetses 😊
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Exciting talk about LIN code system by @kasiamparfitt.bsky.social 🦠🧬
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"
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James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Amazing news dear Carlotta!! All the best for your exciting research!! 🤗
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Exciting!
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Great time at The New Microbiology @embo.org | FEBS course at Spetses! 🇬🇷 Truly thankful to attend and meet amazing researchers that shared their great stories and advice! One of the best courses I have ever participated! 😄 Lots of new insights, connections, and inspiration! 🦠 🧬 Thanks @AMI 🙏
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Great talks in today’s session at GRC on Microbial Transcription 2025 by Gene-Wei Li and Celeste DiGennaro! 🦠🧬 #MoMT2025 #microbiology #microsky
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The GRS on Microbial Transcription 2025 is now over! Amazon science and people! 🦠🧬 Great experience to have served as a chair of this meeting along with @npokorzynski.bsky.social Passing the power now to Celeste and Caroline for #MoMT2027 !! #microbiology #microsky
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Hahaha good to know! 🤣
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Absolutely
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is mine at the same venue
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hello sunny #Boston !! ☀️ All set for my first time co-chairing the GRS (Gordon Research Conferences) on Mechanisms of Microbial Transcription 2025!! #MoMT2025 🧬🦠 Truly excited to welcome you all tomorrow on our first day!! 😊 See you!! #microbiology #microsky
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
In case you missed this: We got some grants to cover some expenses of the Mechanisms of Microbial Transcription GRC/GRS attendees! Hope to see some of you in the US (June)! 😃 #Microbio25 #Microbiology #microsky
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#Microbio25 is now over This special @microbiologysociety.org anniversary (80th!!) conference was great!! 👏 🦠 Wonderful time in Liverpool to learn, present my work, reconnect with old friends, and make new ones!! (including @sheppardlab.bsky.social) 😊
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thank you very much! ☺️ it was a real privilege to work with him! 😃
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Wenlong Zhu @hiltior.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Amazing talk from George Salmond. Really informative for people interested in quorum sensing #Microbio25
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Martin Thanbichler @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
#Postdoc position - at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" Focus: CTP-dependent molecular switches as a new principle of cellular regulation in bacteria (including bacteriophages) Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...
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Antoine Hocher @ahocher.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The MIMIC lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join my team at @Cambridge_Uni! Exploration and engineering DNA-mimicking proteins (wet-lab position.) 🧬 Details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50652/ Please get in touch / circulate !
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Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Will visit her poster
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Exciting!
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
See you! 😊
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It was great to finally meet you, Jay! thanks for your kind wishes! Best of luck in your amazing projects, keep rocking! 😃
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Richly deserved the Marjory Stephenson Prize lecture to George Salmond at #Microbio25 👏 @microbiologysociety.org Truly lucky to be part of his last generation of PhD students at University of Cambridge 🙏 This was a life-changing experience where I met fantastic people along the way! 😃 #Microsky
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Will have a look 😊
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Curious about antibiotic biosynthesis regulation in an atypical producer? 👀 Come and find me at Poster A106 for a chat! 🦠🧫🧬😊 #Microbio25
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I was at the wrong hall and came too late 😞 but will go to your poster 😊
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Daniel Plaza Sáez @dplazasaez.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I will be there 😊
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