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Maria Dzunkova

@dzunkovam.bsky.social
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Microbial Single-Cell Genomics group leader at the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology #I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es, University of Valencia @uv.es, interested in unknown microbes 🇸🇰🇨🇿🇪🇦🇦🇺🇺🇲🇪🇦 i2sysbio.es/groups/19 #single-cell #metagenomics

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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This week I presented the same phylogenetic tree to two different audiences. On Tuesday night I talked in a pub about "Microbial Dark Matter" within Brewing Minds, and today I spoke at the scientific meeting of Spanish Society of Microbiology. I only have picture from the pub @i2sysbio.es #microsky
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My colleagues from @i2sysbio.es published a paper showing that host age is the major driver of virulence evolution #viruses #microsky
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today, our institute @i2sysbio.es has kicked off the 3 days symposium on #systemsbiology
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 09/09/2026
We are officially kicking off the I2SysBio Symposium 2026! The opening ceremony is led by @javierbuceta.bsky.social , Deputy Director of the #I2SysBio, setting the stage for three days of cutting‑edge science and collaboration. 🎥Follow the symposium live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@i2sysbio
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 09/09/2026
The #I2SysBio international conference begins this afternoon, launching three days of scientific discussion and exchange! 🎥If you can’t join us onsite, enjoy every session live: www.youtube.com/@i2sysbio/st... 📆Check out the full programme here: i2sysbio10.eu
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🎉 New paper from our lab in Nature Comms! We compare 2 strategies—Join & Call vs Call & Join—across PacBio and ONT data, tissues, and 6 lrRNAseq transcript reconstruction tools. Take away: 👉Join & Call 4 novel isoforms 👉Call & Join 4 2 obtain highly replicated signals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Handling biological replicates in long-read RNA sequencing data by joining or not joining - Nature Communications
When combining long-read RNA sequencing data from multiple samples, transcripts can be identified either before or after merging. This study shows that neither approach is universally optimal and prov...
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My colleague from @i2sysbio.es got his #ERC starting grant! Big congratulations!!! #microsky #virus
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#ISME20 in Auckland 🇳🇿! Our single-cell genomics group from @i2sysbio.es at @uv.es could not miss it. The ISME congresses always make me feel overwhelmed by the amazing science and networking opportunities #microsky
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Which country is the exact antipode of New Zealand? Spain 🇪🇸! Meet the most exotic team at #ISME20 congress in Auckland: microbial #single-cell genomics lab from @i2sysbio.es in Valencia! Check out our posters PS2.13.166, PS.1.06.296 and PS3.16.112 #microsky
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I passed my birthday sightseeing in Shanghai, where I had a long layover. On board of my Shanghai - Sydney flight, the flight attendants gave me this birthday surprise! So unexpected! So cute! Heading to New Zealand, where I'll attend the #ISME20 @isme-microbes.bsky.social congress. #ISME20
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🚨 Want to do your PhD or postdoc with us? Taking candidates for @GVA APOSTD (postdoc) & CIACIF (predoc) applications 🧬 long reads · single-cell & spatial · multi-omics · AI for biology 🧑‍⚕️🐭🐙🌍 human disease · model & non-model species · One Health 📩 conesalab@gmail.com, don't wait until the deadline!
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Communications paper about mixotropy in the Black Sea picocyanobacteria assessed by very cool methods #microsky #bioinformatics 🦑🪸🧪🧬🖥🧫🦠
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Josep Sardanyés Cayuela @josepsardanyes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Multiscale feedback drives viral evolution and epidemic dynamics
We introduce a minimal multiscale framework that links within-host virus dynamics to population-level susceptible-infectious-recovered-susceptible (SIRS) epidemiology through explicit, bidirectional c...
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Ⓙⓐⓥⓘⓔⓡ🇵🇸🍉 Ⓑⓤⓒⓔⓣⓐ🇺🇦🇪🇺 @javierbuceta.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It is out! How to efficiently perform Voronoi tessellations of lines in 3D and avoid the Lloyd algorithm to simulate realistic simulations of epithelial monolayers: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #scutoids @i2sysbio.es @lmescu.bsky.social
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The Tight Backbone Spread Model for Simulating 3D Epithelial Cell Layer Dynamics - SN Computer Science
Modeling the morphogenesis of epithelial tissues requires faithful simulation of cell-level dynamics, including changes in shape and neighborhood relations. Traditional two-dimensional models, such as...
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
La noticia sobre nuestro paper sobre nuevos simbiontes de nudibranquios publicado en Microbiome #nudibranchs #microsky 🦑🪸🧪🖥🧬👩‍🔬🦠🧫
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Have a look at all the cute #nudibranchs pictures in our article just published in Microbiome! 🤩 We applied #museomics to a large collection of nudibranchs and discovered novel symbionts @i2sysbio.es @uv.es @csic.es #microsky #bioinformatics 👩‍🔬🦠🧪🧬🖥️🦑 🧵⬇️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Museomics reveals uncultured symbionts with biosynthetic potential in nudibranchs - Microbiome
Background Museum specimens are widely used for PCR-based pathogen detection, yet their potential for metagenomic discovery of beneficial microbes remains underexplored, largely due to difficulties in...
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My colleague from @i2sysbio.es Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social published a new benchmarking framework for #long-read transcriptome reconstruction in Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com ! Congratulations!!!🥳 #bioinformatics #rna-seq 👩‍🔬🧬🖥🧪
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 12/06/2026
🔬Researchers from I2SysBio, @javierbuceta.bsky.social and Iago Grobas, are involved in the design of an implantable device (Electro-Pulsed Biohybrid) that combines electrical stimulation and stem cells to treat spinal cord injury. Now in Materials Today Bio: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 11/06/2026
👏El investigador del #I2SysBio @moyasimarro.bsky.social ocupa la novena posición en el ránquing de científicos más destacados de Research.com, en el campo de la Genética en España. A nivel mundial, se posiciona como el 615, con D-Index 104 y 36.973 citaciones. www.uv.es/uvweb/biolog...
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Investigadors de la Facultat de Ciències Biològiques entre els destacats en el rànquing Research.com
El rànquing de Research.com és una llista que classifica als investigadors més destacats del món en diverses disciplines, basant-se en criteris com el seu índex D, productivitat científica (publicacio...
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Last week, Nobel laureate Jack Szostak visited our institute @i2sysbio.es and fave a lecture about his most recent research findings. He had a quick breakfast with the research programs leaders, including myself
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Yesterday I was in the #PhD viva tribunal of Lucas Mora. Excellent thesis supervised by Pilar Domingo-Calap @pilardomingoc.bsky.social and Rafael Sanjuan @rafa-sanjuan.bsky.social from @i2sysbio.es about #phages of Klebsiella I got a very nice present - these phage and bacteria coasters #microsky
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Ron Geller @rongellerlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Congrats to our PhD student Sebastian for getting a prize on his poster at Europic2026!
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Pablo Carbonell @pablocarb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Glad to share our new paper "Living Buildings with Living Electronics: Toward Biologically Intelligent Biohybrids" in Trends in Biotech www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... with Rachel Armstrong, Jorge Barriuso, and Ioannis Ieropoulos #synbio #biomanufacturing
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🚨 I'm #hiring a senior #postdoc in microbial #singlecell genomics to join my group at @i2sysbio.es in Valencia 🇪🇸 (@csic.es/@uv.es) #microsky We will develop innovative single-cell genomics methods to investigate adaptation of microbial dark matter to extreme pollution 🧵⬇️ www.uv.es/uvweb/servic...
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 02/06/2026
L’investigador de l'I2SysBio Juli Peretó (@julipereto.bsky.social), nomenat acadèmic corresponent de la Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio...
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Researcher Juli Peretó appointed corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona
<p>Juli Peret&oacute;, a researcher at I2SysBio (UV-CSIC), has been appointed a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona (RACAB). The Academy, founded in 1764 as a l...
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 28/05/2026
Now available: Reflections on Science and Evolution, by @moyasimarro.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007... An exploration of the future of the species, the ethical and ontological consequences of intervening in ourselves, and the creation of entities that emulate us, among other questions
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Reflections on Science and Evolution
This book discusses several long-standing and intriguing questions and answers the big questions about knowledge, evolution, and science
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Delighted to share that the new @csic.es Ranking of Spanish Women Researchers places me in the top 2% Grateful for this recognition, and deeply aware that it reflects years of work, learning, and collaboration with my team and international colleagues @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social tinyurl.com/RankingCSIC
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Ranking de mujeres investigadoras españolas y en España. Edición GS-ORCID OPENALEX Abril 2026
El ranking de investigadoras españolas y en España incluye los 11 000 perfiles en Google Scholar con mejores indicadores métricos (índice h y citas) con identificador ORCID asignado de las mujeres españolas que investigan en España o fuera y de las mujeres investigadoras extranjeras con afiliación a instituciones españolas. Esta edición incluye los indicadores equivalentes de Openalex
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Forgot spike-ins in your lrRNA-seq experiment? 😅 No problem! Our TUSCO benchmarks your transcript models using endogenous single-isoform genes as internal ground truth. Integrated in SQANTI3 for human & mouse. 🧬 Just out in @natcomms.nature.com @pacbio.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com rdcu.be/fkZCb
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TUSCO: benchmarking transcriptome reconstruction with endogenous single-isoform controls
Nature Communications - Long-read sequencing enables comprehensive transcriptome characterization but remains challenging to benchmark due to sequencing errors, sample variability, and the limited...
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 27/05/2026
📅‼️El I2SysBio celebra un congreso internacional centrado en los avances de la biología integrativa de sistemas del 9 al 11 de septiembre www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio...
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I2SysBio to host international conference on the latest breakthroughs in Integrative Systems Biology from 9 to 11 September
<p>The Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Valencia, will host the international conference &lsquo...
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
¡La edición de este año de #PintOfScience ha sido una experiencia increíble! 🍻🔬 Muchísimas gracias a los organizadores Cecilia Picazo @cecipicam.bsky.social y Víctor Garrigós de @i2sysbio.es, y David Peris y Lucía Ramos de @iatacsic.bsky.social por el enorme trabajo! 👩‍🔬 🧪 🦠 #PINTMAN26 #microsky
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Ⓙⓐⓥⓘⓔⓡ🇵🇸🍉 Ⓑⓤⓒⓔⓣⓐ🇺🇦🇪🇺 @javierbuceta.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
👇👇 elpais.com/ciencia/2026...
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Me piden ser científico, pero mi día a día es de gestor
El autor denuncia el peso creciente de la burocracia en su día a día como investigador. Las sociedades científicas denuncian que hasta el 44% de la jornada se va en tareas administrativas
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 14/05/2026
Manises se estrena en la nueva edición del festival Pint of Science, con la colaboración del I2SysBio. Los próximos días 18, 19 y 20 de mayo, en el restaurante Sant Joan Bistró, se celebrarán diez charlas de divulgación científica. ¡Os esperamos! www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio...
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Ya se está acercando el evento del año - Pint of Science! Os invito a mi charla sobre la materia oscura microbiana - el tema de mi investigación en el @i2sysbio.es 🧬👩‍🔬Será el próximo miércoles 20.5. a las 19:00 en Sant Joan Bistro en Manises en Valencia #PintofScience #PINT26MAN
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 07/05/2026
El grupo de investigación de @anaconesa.bsky.social en el #I2SysBio participa en un proyecto europeo para mejorar el trigo frente a la sequía y la falta de nutrientes. www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio...
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I2SysBio (CSIC-UV) is taking part in a European project to improve wheat’s resilience to drought and nutrient deficiency
<p><strong>&bull; The Institute of Integrative Systems Biology is participating in one of the projects funded by the European Innovation Council to develop innovative, high-risk technologies</strong><...
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🏆 La @sebibc.bsky.social lanza la I Edición del Premio Nacional de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional . 🗓️ Candidaturas hasta el 30 junio 2026 💶 Premio: 5.000 € + keynote en SEBiBC 2026 (Toledo) 🔗 Bases: www.sebibc.es/premio-nacio... @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social
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Premio Nacional Bioinformática – SEBiBC
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
El día 20 de mayo tendré un charla en #PintofScience sobre la "Materia oscura microbiana" 📍Sant Joan Bistro, C/ Major, 20, Manines, Valencia 🇪🇸 a las 19:00 pintofscience.es/event/MAN-nu... #science #womeninSTEM #microsky
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yesterday Ana Villena from @sfelena.bsky.social group defended her PhD at @i2sysbio.es #microsky #viruses
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 22/04/2026
Today, 22/04/2026, Ana Villena Giménez defends her PhD at #I2SysBio. This thesis, supervised by Victoria Castiglioni and Santiago Elena @sfelena.bsky.social, studies the effect of below-background radiation and microgravity on host and virus mutual responses.👏🎉 www.i2sysbio.es/communicatio... 🧪🧫🦠
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Ana Villena defends her thesis on host-pathogen interactions under environmental stress
<p><strong>This thesis, supervised by Victoria G. Castiglioni, Santiago F. Elena, studies the effect of below-background radiation and microgravity on host and virus mutual responses. Part of the resu...
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
#PhD opportunity in Valencia 🇪🇸 #microsky #epidemiology
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 23/04/2026
Con motivo del Día de la Tierra 🌍 #earthday, las Comisiones de Sostenibilidad de #I2SysBio, #IFIC e #IATA (@csic.es , @uv.es) han sembrado de flores silvestres y plantado árboles frutales y ornamentales para favorecer la biodiversidad en el Parc Científic. 🌱 i2sysbio.es/communicatio...
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I2SysBio celebrates Earth Day
<p>To mark Earth Day, the Sustainability Committees of the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC), and the Institute of Agrochemistry and Foo...
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Muy orgullosa de anunciar la Escuela de Verano en Bioinformática Avanzada @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social, junto a @sebibc.bsky.social. Presenta avances recientes en formato “train the trainer”, con materiales reutilizables, ideal para profesionales y docentes que enseñan bioinformática. tinyurl.com/EscVern
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 15/04/2026
Javier Buceta @javierbuceta.bsky.social i Juli Peretó @julipereto.bsky.social, investigadors de l’I2SysBio, han sigut entrevistats en À Punt Radiotelevisió Valenciana @apuntmedia.es a.es. 🎙️ Parlen de com la química i la física expliquen el que passa a la cuina. 🔬🍽️ www.apuntmedia.es/programes/l-...
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14.04.2026 | La cuina també és ciència: Juli Peretó i Javier Buceta ens ho expliquen
Conversem amb Juli Peretó, bioquímic i biòleg molecular, i Javier Buceta, físic i investigador del CSIC, sobre com la química i la física expliquen tot el que passa a la cuina, des de les reaccions bà...
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 15/04/2026
Se ha abierto el plazo de inscripción para la XXVII «Matinal de la Evolució», que tendrá lugar 🗓️ el sábado 16 de mayo en el 📍 Auditorio Joan Plaça del Jardín Botánico en Valencia. Enlace para la inscripción gratuita: encuestas.uv.es/index.php/19... La jornada cuenta con el apoyo del #I2SysBio. 🧪
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INSCRIPCIO MATINAL EVOLUCIÓ 2026
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 01/04/2026
En À Punt Radiotelevisió Valenciana @apuntmedia.es han entrevistat Santiago Elena @sfelena.bsky.social, catedràtic del @csic.es i antic codirector de l’I2SysBio, pel seu nomenament com a nou membre de l’Acadèmia Americana de Microbiologia.👏🏆 #virus #microsky 🦠🧬🖥️🧪 🌐 www.apuntmedia.es/programes/l-...
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30.03.2026 | Com evolucionen els virus? Santiago Elena ens dona les claus
Conversem amb Santiago Elena, catedràtic del CSIC i codirector de l’Institut de Biologia Integrativa i de Sistemes (I2SysBio), pel seu nomenament com a nou membre de l’Acadèmia Americana de Microbiolo...
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Our institute @i2sysbio.es organizes 2 days workshop about @erc.europa.eu grants, where we will listen to talks by ERC and EIC grantees from our institute and other institutes in Valencia
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 27/03/2026
El #I2SysBio tiene el honor de invitaros a las "I Jornadas territoriales Pro-ERC , Pro-EIC del @csic.es " a celebrarse en la Comunidad Valenciana, de 14 de abril y el 15 de abril #ERC #EIC #science #researchgrant
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The “curse of interdisciplinarity”: Fields like bioinformatics fall between the cracks in grant evaluation. 🧬 For bios: Too little mechanistic validation 🧮 For math: Not enough new theory 💻 For computing: “Just” applied computing Interdisciplinarity is essential, but evaluation hasn’t caught up.
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Excellent news! I got CIDEGENT research grant from the Valencian government! 🥳🍾 It's 100,000 eur / year + my salary during 4 years + 2 years possible extension for my research on horizontal gene transfer in extreme industrial environments, Thinking about hiring a #postdoc 👩‍🔬🧪🧬🖥️🦠 #microsky #science
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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 23/03/2026
El miércoles 25 a las 17:00 h, se celebra en la Sala Darwin (@uv.es) s la cuarta edición del evento BioPhyzza. Este año la conferenciante invitada es Susanna Manrubia, primera presidenta del Scientific Advisory Board del #I2SysBio. La entrada es gratuita, pero es necesario inscribirse 🧪 #biophysics
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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
My @i2sysbio.es (@csic.es / @uv.es) colleague Santiago Elena @sfelena.bsky.social has been elected as a new fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology! Congratulations 👏👏🏆 #viruses #microsky
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