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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · 2d

Last week the lab participated at @same18-bcn.bsky.social, the Symposium of Aquatic Microbial Ecology in Barcelona. It was a great week full of scientific exchange! We presented our last results in different topics from anaerobic oxidation of methane to the resistome of aquatic habitats🦠🔬🌊

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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · 8d

Glad to share my research at the @same18-bcn.bsky.social

Maria Papadatou @marypapadatou.bsky.social · 8d

@gecko1990.bsky.social shared an informative talk on “Metagenomic and lipidomic analysis of a marine subsurface biofilm involved in the anaerobic oxidation of methane”.
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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · 11d

Yesterday we participated in the #europeanresearchersnight at the @mncn-csic.bsky.social Children learnt about microbial diversity and how to use antibiotics, and we learnt about how big their curiosity is. A win-win situation 🦠🔬

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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to see this published showing the power of cultivation and lab work to shed light on key microorganisms for the methane cycle!

Marie-Caroline Müller @mariecmueller.bsky.social · Sep 8

💠 Happy to announce our latest paper in @natcomms.nature.com about the x-ray crystallography structures of three ANME MCRs purified from microbial enrichment cultures from @cuwelte.bsky.social and Gunter Wegener🌊🏞!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Atomic resolution structures of the methane-activating enzyme in anaerobic methanotrophy reveal extensive post-translational modifications - Nature Communications

Biochemical research on methane oxidation in anaerobic methanotrophic archaea is hampered by the lack of cultured isolates. Here, Müller et al. present atomic-resolution snapshots of the methane-oxidi...

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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · 15d

You can read the original article here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Deep learning reveals antibiotics in the archaeal proteome - Nature Microbiology

Use of artificial intelligence to mine proteomes of archaea led to the discovery of archaeasins, antimicrobials that kill drug-resistant bacteria in laboratory and animal models, offering a promising source of future antibiotics.

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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to highlight our News & Views on the article by Torres et al. from @delafuentelab.bsky.social team 🚀 Archaea could help to discover new antibiotics!

Read it here:
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Deep-mining the archaeal proteome for antibiotics - Nature Microbiology

A deep-learning algorithm unravels a collection of archaeasins, peptides from the archaeal proteome with potential antimicrobial activity and implications for the development of next-generation antibiotics

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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · Jul 23

New post talking about archaeal-bacterial syntrophy, methane and two inspiring scientists who chose cooperation over rivalry🦠🙌

Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com · Jul 22

New online! Anaerobic oxidation of methane: it takes two to tango

Anaerobic oxidation of methane: it takes two to tango

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 22 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01218-2In this Journal Club Rafael Laso Pérez revisits a paper that provided evidence of the syntrophic relation between anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria and highlights how scientific collaboration can propel a field forward.

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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · Jun 23

For ANME enthusiasts & for those who wonder how a methanogen turns into a methanotroph

👇New work by Orphanlab

Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@caltech.edu @mblscience.bsky.social

Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea

Modification of core carbon and energy metabolism aided a recent evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in archaea.

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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · May 13

Here the press release from the @mncn-csic.bsky.social
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Los microorganimos del Ártico adaptan estacionalmente sus estrategias de supervivencia al nitrógeno disponible | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

El ciclo del nitrógeno es un límite planetario que hemos sobrepasado

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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · May 12

We observed how nitrification is a prevalent metabolism in winter dominated by Nitrososphaeria and nitrite oxidizing bacteria. In summer different heterotrophic bacteria express a variety of machineries to use different nitrogen sources. Check here the paper!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Nitrogen cycling during an Arctic bloom: from chemolithotrophy to nitrogen assimilation | mBio

The Arctic is one of the environments most affected by anthropogenic climate change. It is expected that the rise in temperature and change in ice cover will impact the marine microbial communities an...

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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · May 12

New paper alert! 🚨Finally, we publish the research on the nitrogen cycle of a unique Arctic dataset. We have over 13 metagenomes and 7 metatranscriptomes from March until July 2014 from the Dease Strait in the Canadian Arctic. They show how the microbial community changes from winter to summer.

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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · May 7

El 20 de mayo estaré por La Botillería hablando de arqueas =)

CSICdivulga @csicdivulga.bsky.social · May 7

📣El CSIC se suma a la X edición de @pintofscience.es con charlas en el Café Gijón y La Botillería, Madrid.
Las charlas se celebran los días 19, 20 y 21 de mayo y están relacionadas con biología, nutrición, neurociencia o paleontología.
➡️ www.csic.es/es/actualida...
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Rafael Laso Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social · Apr 10

¿Te interesan los microorganismos que habitan en los ríos? Ofrezco una #JAE_Intro para caracterizar la resistencia a antibióticos y diversidad procariota en las aguas del río Manzanares durante 7 meses en el @mncn-csic.bsky.social junto con @alejandrorgijon.bsky.social. DM para más información

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