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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · 15d

I was happy to contribute to this interesting genomic and biochemical study on the powers of Glutamicibacter spp! This strain, isolated from a pristine cenote in Yucatán, is halotolerant and can potentially be used in bioremediation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦠🧬

Sessile culture as a strategy to enhance the production of emulsifying exopolysaccharides by Glutamicibacter sp. XHA18

Pristine environments harbor diverse microbial communities with unique and underexplored metabolic capabilities, including the production of exopolysa…

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Sep 8

My favourite reptiles: They live in amazing places e.g. Baja California and the Galapagos islands, they’re seed dispersers, some are fragile other very resilient, culturally important but threatened by habitat loss, trafficking, hunting. Today is Iguana awareness day! Photo:IIF 🌎🦎

A poster with images of 11 species of iguanas. Created by the International Iguana Foundation

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · Aug 28

What we can learn from a mother lode of Mexican mammoths w/ @rpocisv.bsky.social this week on the @science.org podcast
Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Aug 28

Sharing a video of Catemaco 🇲🇽 for #WorldLakeDay, surrounded by the volcanic Sierra de Los Tuxtlas and some patches of the original rainforest. It’s one of the sampling sites in our eDNA project.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · Aug 25

Here's a really great global/remote job opportunity at IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas. 🌏 #conservation #biodiversity #widlife #nationalparks
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

IUCN WCPA Executive Officer_Call for Applications.docx

Call For Applications Executive Officer — IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Location: Remote; Global About IUCN WCPA IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) is the world’s premier n...

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Aug 20

Bene! With a bit of FOMO for missing ESEB. Happy to find you here!

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Aug 19

Paco, that’s great!

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Aug 14

three bats outside my office! 🦇

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Jul 29

We heard howling monkeys for days in Palenque 🇲🇽 and we finally saw one! This national park protects amazing nature and impressive Mayan temples. 🐒

A howling monkey resting on a branch tree in the rainforest

Mayan temple in Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · Jul 20

The letters by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had been read before the Linnean Society.

OTD in 1858, D abandoned the “Big Species Book” he had been working on and began a short “abstract” of his theory.

It would go on to be published as On the Origin of Species.

🌱🐋🧪🧠🗃️ #HistSTM #EvoBio

Darwin’s manuscript of the title page to the Origin. Credit: Darwin Online.

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Jul 17

Very happy that after travelling 368 km (2x) to the ‘local’ Environment and Natural Resources office +3 months wait, my student got his collection permits approved! We’ll catch Ctenosaura similis for his master’s project on spiny-tailed iguana’s gut microbiome. 🧬🧪🦎🌎

A female scientist smiling and holding a young black spiny-tailed iguana with a glove

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Jul 16

Happy #WorldSnakeDay! Here is one of my favorite rattlesnakes, Crotalus catalinensis. I took this pic in Serpentario La Paz last year. However, when I was undergrad I was lucky to volunteer in a project on Santa Catalina Island (Gulf of California) where I saw many of them! 🧪🌎🐍

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Jul 15

Happy to be part of this paper! We studied changes in bacterial communities in wetlands in Southern Gulf of Mexico. I didn't get to sample the fantastic 'Pantanos de Centla', but I learnt how salinity and human activities impact microbial diversity. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🧬💧🌎👩‍💻

Salinity Is a Key Factor Shaping Bacteriobenthos in Floodplain Lakes of a Neotropical Coastal Wetland - Wetlands

Despite the key role of bacteriobenthos in the biogeochemistry of coastal wetlands, the drivers controlling their diversity, distribution, and assembly at the freshwater-seawater transition remain unc...

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Jul 11

Baby spiny-tailed iguanas (Ctenosaura similis) are growing up!❤️🦎

Young spiny-tailed iguana with bright green coloration and some brown spots

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Jul 5

A beautiful Dione juno on a Roseodendron donnell-smithii leaf. Although their caterpillars ate our plants, it’s nice to see them around! 🦋🐛

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Jul 3

Feliz cumpleaños Xin Xin 🐼 !

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · Jul 2

🇲🇽 VIDEO: Only panda not owned by China turns 35

The only known giant panda not owned by China, Xin Xin, celebrates her 35th birthday at the Zoo of Chapultepec in Mexico City. She is the last in a line of giant pandas brought to Mexico in 1975.

Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Jun 27

Last day of our bioinformatics course! Students learnt about genome assembly, microbiome analysis, creating and documenting code, etc. They’ll apply this knowledge on their research on tropical fish, fungi, iguanas, insect pests. 🧬🧪👩🏽‍💻

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Jun 19

Worried about #Erick effects on the coast of Oaxaca. Many small fishing villages, sea turtle nesting sites, crocodiles …🇲🇽🌀

Zoom Earth @zoom.earth · Jun 18

Hurricane #Erick powers toward the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico 🇲🇽🌀

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EvoBio Crash Course @evobiocc.bsky.social · Jun 4

Hello Everyone!

We are back for the 2025 edition of the #EvoBioCC 🥳💚✨

Register to our free online course on Evolutionary Biology, focused on supporting the dreams of Global South students hoping to build their careers in the field! Here is the link:

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EvoBio Crash Course 2025 | Registration Form

The fourth edition of the EvoBio Crash Course has opened registration and we are very happy to have you! We are focusing on delivering a rich course on the basics of evolutionary biology so that stude...

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · Jun 3

Iguanita!

Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · May 28

Admiring the clouds over the forest on the way back home.

Clouds over the mountains in the natural reserve ‘La Sepultura’, Chiapas, Mexico.

Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · May 27

Highway to Tuxtla Gutiérrez was closed. The bus driver had to take the old road crossing La Sepultura natural reserve. It was winding, scary and beautiful. 🌎

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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · May 22

Celebrating the 19 species (prob. more based on 🧬!) of iguanas living in Mexico on #WorldBiodiversityDay! On top of their ecological importance, they are cultural, gastronomical and economically relevant in the country (Info de la Red de Investigación y Divulgación de Anfibios y Reptiles MX) 🦎🌎🧪

A poster with images of 19 species of iguanas and a map of Mexico

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Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · May 14

New vacancy in my team!

PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture.

Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :)

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#MEvoSky #MicroSky

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Rodrigo Pérez Ortega @rpocisv.bsky.social · May 12

In the largest ever study of Tenochtitlan obsidian, researchers found that the Aztec empire sought obsidian from far and wide to make ritual jewelry and basic tools, revealing complex trade networks and ritual preferences. More in my story in @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Aztec empire sought obsidian from far and wide to make ritual jewelry and basic tools

Largest ever study of Tenochtitlan obsidian reveals complex trade networks and ritual preferences

www.science.org

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