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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García

@masalgar.bsky.social

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Postdoc at @BIOCUE.bsky.social and based in Copenhagen. Former PhD student at @voltcenter.bsky.social and the Center for Exolife Sciences. I'm interested in: 🚀 Astrobiology 🌋 Extremophiles 🧬 Biotechnology 🌍 Climate change

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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · Jan 6

Are you curious about life on other planets? Watch the video below to learn about my #research and hear my thoughts on #astrobiology 👽⬇️

VOLT Center @voltcenter.bsky.social · Jan 3

Meet @voltcenter.bsky.social's astrobiologist @astromasg.bsky.social, who just defended his PhD in December!
He studies #bacteria that can live and thrive in #extreme #environments. How can this be used for finding life in outer #space? Watch the video to find out!

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Meet the scientists - Miguel Angel Salinas García (PhD)

YouTube video by VOLT - Center for Volatile Interactions

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Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · Sep 4

Side note: One often thinks they're not recovering low-abundance taxa because they're low-abundance. But with Illumina, it's also likely because they're low-GC and Illumina has strong GC bias. You can fix this with wetlab intervention like this, or using ONT instead, which doesn't have a GC-bias.🧵

Tominaga K. (tomiken) @pacyc184.bsky.social · Sep 3

Genomic recovery from rare terrestrial microbes enabled by DNA-based GC-fractionation | ISME Communications | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/ismecommun/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf152/8246624?rss=1&login=false

Genomic recovery from rare terrestrial microbes enabled by DNA-based GC-fractionation

Abstract. Genome reconstruction from metagenomic samples has dramatically increased our understanding of uncultivated lineages of life. However, untargeted

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VOLT Center @voltcenter.bsky.social · Sep 4

It apPEARs more exPEARiments are needed. The PEARameters are imPEARcise, and it is imPEARative to PEARform PEAR-wise comPEARisons.

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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · Jul 22

A sad but necessary article 😕

James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · Jul 21

What does a warmer Arctic winter look like? 🥵🌡️💦
We went to Svalbard to study the frozen winter but encountered 4.7°C & rain 🌧️
Shocked, unsettled & forced to rethink our entire plan, we document in @natcomms.nature.com what we saw & what it means for a rapidly changing Arctic
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Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point - Nature Communications

The Arctic winters are changing fast. In February 2025, Svalbard endured rain, thawing tundra, and pooling meltwater. The Comment by Bradley and coauthors describes how winter warming is reshapin...

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BIOCUE @biocue.bsky.social · Jul 18

Science is coming to a park near you! 🌳

As part of BIOCUE , we’re sampling parks to explore how nature-based urban rewilding affects soil health, compared to traditional grass lawns. Today, we took samples from Grøndalsparken in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to do some preliminary tests. 🌱 Stay tuned for more! 🌱

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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · Jul 17

Isn't it nice when you're evaluating a difficult sampling site and you find out that someone already made a path that you can use? 😁

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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · Jun 27

Very interesting paper by Uchijima et al. with an innovative way to isolate chemolithotrophic iron-oxidizing bacteria! Read the full paper here -> doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Custom-made medium approach for effective enrichment and isolation of chemolithotrophic iron-oxidizing bacteria

“Custom-made” medium approach to effectively enrich and isolate the difficult-to-culture chemolithotrophic iron-oxidizing bacteria from the natural environ

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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · Jun 27

Interesting! Should we consider then a gradient of Copiotrophy -> Oligotrophy -> Aeonophily?

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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · Jun 24

Figuring out what we need to buy for our experiments this summer to measure carbon use efficiency and much more. Lots of exciting stuff coming soon!

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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · Jun 24

After a lot of paperwork, my bacteria are finally ready to see the world! Destination: DSMZ, Germany.

A brown, sealed box on a stool, ready to be picked up for shipping.

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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · May 25

This week I attended the 1st International Symposium on Volatile Interactions in Ecosystems organised by @voltcenter.bsky.social It was full of interesting talks, posters and people. And I'm happy I was to contribute with a talk of my own!

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · May 24

Increased Growth Temperatures Alter Arctic Plant Responses to Heat Wave and Drought

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@martacontreras.bsky.social @riikkarinnan.bsky.social @lundjing.bsky.social @voltcenter.bsky.social @villumfonden.bsky.social @dg.dk

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BIOCUE @biocue.bsky.social · May 21

🍃 Successful BIOCUE kick-off meeting at @wslresearch.bsky.social! We spent two lovely days together and designed our strategy to uncover the influence of #nature based solutions on #carbon use efficiency. This will be of extreme importance in our fight against #climatechange! Stay tuned for more 📻

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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · May 21

No había oído hablar de este proyecto, hay algún lugar donde pueda leer más información sobre REBECA?

Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · May 15

Have you tried DSMZ?

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VOLT Center @voltcenter.bsky.social · May 6

Cool #science alert!

“In this paper, we have compiled our current understanding of MVOCs in extreme environments. I hope that this review can serve as a starting point for anyone interested in this topic.” - @masalgar.bsky.social

#FEMSmicroBlog @dg.dk
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#FEMSmicroBlog: Sniffing the most extreme forms of life - FEMS

Even in extreme environments, extremophiles need to communicate with each other, for which some use volatile organic compounds.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · May 1

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming.

Could these be the real culprits?

The evidence is in--and the answer is NO.

This thread explains! 🧵

A graphic with an icon of the sun, a wiggly line denoting natural cycles, and a volcano, with a title reading "WHY is climate changing?" created by me. Not fancy, as my graphic design skills lean to function over art!

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FEMS Journals @femsjournals.bsky.social · Apr 21

Microorganisms produce a variety of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with diverse functions. @masalgar.bsky.social et al. review microbial VOCSs (#MVOCs) from #extremophiles and their potential applications.
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Marta Contreras-Serrano @martacontreras.bsky.social · Apr 16

Check out our newest #research! We quantify the interactions between increased #temperature & #heatwave & #drought in #Arctic #plants, with focus on #VOCs, #photosynthesis & #phenology.

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@voltcenter.bsky.social @dg.dk @villumfonden.bsky.social @globalchangebio.bsky.social

Increased Growth Temperatures Alter Arctic Plant Responses to Heat Wave and Drought

As the Arctic warms and heatwaves become more frequent, vegetation changes may alter the ecosystem. We investigated how warmer temperatures modulate Arctic shrub responses to heat wave and drought. A...

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European Space Agency @esa.int · Mar 13

Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

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FEMS Journals @femsjournals.bsky.social · Mar 11

Physical and chemical conditions of the majority of Earth's volume and universe are too extreme for life to exist. @charlescockell questions the limits of microbial life, the use of inhabited spaces for hypothesis testing, and its ethics. #FEMSMicrobiolRev
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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · Mar 6

Very interesting!

Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · Mar 1

molview.org works quite well

MolView

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Nature @nature.com · Feb 28

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots

https://go.nature.com/41lvtBg

Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks

Imaging study reveals how fungal networks are constructed.

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Hiro Imachi @hiro-imachi.bsky.social · Feb 27

Isolated in just 3 years! (previously, 12 years). We obtained two strains from 'Hodarchaeales', proposed to be closest to our archaeal ancestor. Our analysis suggests the ancestor was an anaerobic, syntrophic, peptidotrophic, archaeon with a simple intracellular structure and possible aerotolerance.

Eukaryotes' closest relatives are internally simple syntrophic archaea

Eukaryotes are theorized to have originated from an archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota (formerly 'Asgard' archaea)1,2. The first cultured representatives revealed valuable insight3,4 but are distantly ...

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Miguel Ángel Salinas-García @masalgar.bsky.social · Feb 27

We should avoid this kind of confusing reporting. The situation is dire as it is already, we mustn't confuse policy makers and the public.

Dan Miller @danmiller999.bsky.social · Feb 27

You may read that a new study says the AMOC will not collapse. Not true. The wind-driven currents will remain but the thermohaline currents may collapse in 20~30 years. It doesn't contradict what other "collapse" studies say & the authors agree.
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: How will media report on this new AMOC study?

RealClimate: I’ve been getting a lot of media queries about a new paper on the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), which has just been published. In my view this large media interest i...