Jose L. Balcazar
@balcjos.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at
@icrawater.bsky.social💧
Focus on #microbiology, #AMR, #OneHealth, #biofilms, #phages, #metagenomics, and #bioinformatics
@icrawater.bsky.social💧
Focus on #microbiology, #AMR, #OneHealth, #biofilms, #phages, #metagenomics, and #bioinformatics
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#Notadepremsa
Investigadors del
@ctbeta.cat, la @univgirona.bsky.social i l’ICRA-CERCA han desenvolupat un reactor basat en biofilms i plàncton que millora de manera notable la qualitat de l’aigua en depuradores petites.
📄 Pots llegir tots els detalls aquí👉 icra.cat/noticia/un-r...
Investigadors del
@ctbeta.cat, la @univgirona.bsky.social i l’ICRA-CERCA han desenvolupat un reactor basat en biofilms i plàncton que millora de manera notable la qualitat de l’aigua en depuradores petites.
📄 Pots llegir tots els detalls aquí👉 icra.cat/noticia/un-r...
September 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#Notadepremsa
Investigadors del
@ctbeta.cat, la @univgirona.bsky.social i l’ICRA-CERCA han desenvolupat un reactor basat en biofilms i plàncton que millora de manera notable la qualitat de l’aigua en depuradores petites.
📄 Pots llegir tots els detalls aquí👉 icra.cat/noticia/un-r...
Investigadors del
@ctbeta.cat, la @univgirona.bsky.social i l’ICRA-CERCA han desenvolupat un reactor basat en biofilms i plàncton que millora de manera notable la qualitat de l’aigua en depuradores petites.
📄 Pots llegir tots els detalls aquí👉 icra.cat/noticia/un-r...
Plásticos biodegradables: ¿solución ecológica o nuevo problema sanitario? @icrawater.bsky.social
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Plásticos biodegradables: ¿solución ecológica o nuevo problema sanitario? - Newsweek en Español
los plásticos biodegradables se han consolidado como una alternativa “ecológica” frente a los plásticos convencionales...
newsweekespanol.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Plásticos biodegradables: ¿solución ecológica o nuevo problema sanitario? @icrawater.bsky.social
newsweekespanol.com/2025/07/22/p...
newsweekespanol.com/2025/07/22/p...
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Integrating comparative genomics and risk classification by assessing virulence, antimicrobial resistance, and plasmid spread in microbial communities with gSpreadComp. #Genomics #MicrobialGenomics #AMR @gigascience.bsky.social
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July 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Integrating comparative genomics and risk classification by assessing virulence, antimicrobial resistance, and plasmid spread in microbial communities with gSpreadComp. #Genomics #MicrobialGenomics #AMR @gigascience.bsky.social
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📉 The UK once led the global fight against #AMR.
Cutting The Fleming Fund undermines years of progress, weakens health systems worldwide — and puts UK health at risk.
We need renewed leadership, not retreat. 👇
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Cutting The Fleming Fund undermines years of progress, weakens health systems worldwide — and puts UK health at risk.
We need renewed leadership, not retreat. 👇
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Major UK project to tackle AMR closed by aid cuts
Government shutters major UK aid programme to tackle antimicrobial resistance
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📉 The UK once led the global fight against #AMR.
Cutting The Fleming Fund undermines years of progress, weakens health systems worldwide — and puts UK health at risk.
We need renewed leadership, not retreat. 👇
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Cutting The Fleming Fund undermines years of progress, weakens health systems worldwide — and puts UK health at risk.
We need renewed leadership, not retreat. 👇
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Antihistamines' disturbance of the gut microbiome, contributing to susceptibility to GI infection! 😱
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR 🧪
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR 🧪
Non-antibiotics disrupt colonization resistance against enteropathogens @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Antihistamines' disturbance of the gut microbiome, contributing to susceptibility to GI infection! 😱
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR 🧪
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR 🧪
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Citrobacter freundii ain't ever been a friend of ours... now becoming even more hostile!
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #MedSky
@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #MedSky
@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Global emergence and transmission dynamics of carbapenemase-producing Citrobacter freundii sequence type 22 high-risk international clone: a retrospective, genomic, epidemiological study
Our study provides evidence to suggest that Citrobacter species are emerging carriers
of carbapenem-resistance genes. These findings provide insight into the population
structure of CPC species and hi...
www.thelancet.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Citrobacter freundii ain't ever been a friend of ours... now becoming even more hostile!
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #MedSky
@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #MedSky
@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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🧬 Superbugs could cost $2 trillion a year by 2050
New modelling shows antibiotic-resistant infections could kill millions more and slash global GDP by $1.7 trillion annually, unless action is taken now.
Cutting aid may worsen the crisis.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#SciComm #AMR 🧪
New modelling shows antibiotic-resistant infections could kill millions more and slash global GDP by $1.7 trillion annually, unless action is taken now.
Cutting aid may worsen the crisis.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#SciComm #AMR 🧪
Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show
Exclusive: Research on burden of antibiotic resistance for 122 countries predicts dire economic and health outcomes
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🧬 Superbugs could cost $2 trillion a year by 2050
New modelling shows antibiotic-resistant infections could kill millions more and slash global GDP by $1.7 trillion annually, unless action is taken now.
Cutting aid may worsen the crisis.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#SciComm #AMR 🧪
New modelling shows antibiotic-resistant infections could kill millions more and slash global GDP by $1.7 trillion annually, unless action is taken now.
Cutting aid may worsen the crisis.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#SciComm #AMR 🧪
Reposted by Jose L. Balcazar
ProtPhage: a deep learning framework for phage viral protein identification and functional annotation. #PhageProteins #FunctionalAnnotation #DeepLearning #Phages #Bioinformatics 🧬 🖥️
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June 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
ProtPhage: a deep learning framework for phage viral protein identification and functional annotation. #PhageProteins #FunctionalAnnotation #DeepLearning #Phages #Bioinformatics 🧬 🖥️
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Note this down! www.vom2026.org
#viruses, #bacteria, #mycoviruses, #microbes, #phages, #archaea, #RNA, #evolution, #bioinformatics, #biocontrol, #ecology
#viruses, #bacteria, #mycoviruses, #microbes, #phages, #archaea, #RNA, #evolution, #bioinformatics, #biocontrol, #ecology
Viruses of Microbes 2026 | July 6-10 in Prague, Czech Republic
The Viruses of Microbes (VoM) 2026 conference is the world’s leading event for research on viruses of microorganisms, including bacteriophages, archaeal viruses, and viruses of microbial eukaryotes.
www.vom2026.org
June 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Note this down! www.vom2026.org
#viruses, #bacteria, #mycoviruses, #microbes, #phages, #archaea, #RNA, #evolution, #bioinformatics, #biocontrol, #ecology
#viruses, #bacteria, #mycoviruses, #microbes, #phages, #archaea, #RNA, #evolution, #bioinformatics, #biocontrol, #ecology
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Because of the forces they have to withstand being whizzed around on #flagellae, flagellotropic #phages are super stable. It turns out that the same super-stability remains long after you adapt to a host bacterium without a #flagellum
rdcu.be/ewnzT
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Highly stable bacteriophages PIN1 and PIN2 have hallmarks of flagellotropic phages but infect immotile bacteria
npj Viruses - Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that kill bacteria, with potential as antibacterial agents in industrial settings, agriculture, and human health. Here, we identified two phages,...
rdcu.be
July 16, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Because of the forces they have to withstand being whizzed around on #flagellae, flagellotropic #phages are super stable. It turns out that the same super-stability remains long after you adapt to a host bacterium without a #flagellum
rdcu.be/ewnzT
rdcu.be/ewnzT
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Phages play a key role in spreading virulence genes among Salmonella, while a bacterial gene, csrA, can limit this process, offering new insights for safer phage therapies and food safety strategies. doi.org/g9k9d9
Caught in the crossfire: How phages spread Salmonella virulence genes
A global study uncovers the hidden role of viruses in driving bacterial evolution and highlights a surprising bacterial gene that helps fight back.
phys.org
June 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Phages play a key role in spreading virulence genes among Salmonella, while a bacterial gene, csrA, can limit this process, offering new insights for safer phage therapies and food safety strategies. doi.org/g9k9d9
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New online! Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements
Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01157-yIn this Review, Lang and colleagues present an overview of the current knowledge landscape regarding mobile genetic elements in bacteria, with a focus on their…
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
New online! Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements
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New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!
April 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!
La plastisfera: una amenaza emergente para el medioambiente y la salud pública
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La plastisfera: una amenaza emergente para el medioambiente y la salud pública
Los desechos plásticos y los microorganismos que los colonizan componen un nuevo ecosistema que puede ser crítico para la aparición de patógenos y resistencias antimicrobianas.
theconversation.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
La plastisfera: una amenaza emergente para el medioambiente y la salud pública
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If you are interested in phage satellites, we hope you'll enjoy this. Fun collaboration with the Rocha, Seed, Bikard, and Chen labs! rdcu.be/efkvG
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites
Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Penadés et al. explore the genetics, potential origins and life cycle of phage satellites, and they discuss the impact of these elements on the...
rdcu.be
March 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
If you are interested in phage satellites, we hope you'll enjoy this. Fun collaboration with the Rocha, Seed, Bikard, and Chen labs! rdcu.be/efkvG
Reposted by Jose L. Balcazar
Pangenomes suggest ecological-evolutionary responses to experimental soil warming journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
March 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Pangenomes suggest ecological-evolutionary responses to experimental soil warming journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
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Limitations of sequence dissimilarity as a predictor of prokaryotic lineage royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
March 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Limitations of sequence dissimilarity as a predictor of prokaryotic lineage royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
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MicrobeRX: a tool for enzymatic-reaction-based metabolite prediction in the gut microbiome microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #jcampubs
MicrobeRX: a tool for enzymatic-reaction-based metabolite prediction in the gut microbiome - Microbiome
Background The gut microbiome functions as a metabolic organ, producing numerous enzymes that influence host health; however, their substrates and metabolites remain largely unknown. Results We presen...
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
MicrobeRX: a tool for enzymatic-reaction-based metabolite prediction in the gut microbiome microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #jcampubs
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NanoASV: a snakemake workflow for reproducible field-based Nanopore full length 16S Metabarcoding amplicon data analysis academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs
March 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
NanoASV: a snakemake workflow for reproducible field-based Nanopore full length 16S Metabarcoding amplicon data analysis academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs
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Addressing the dynamic nature of reference data: a new nucleotide database for robust metagenomic classification journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
March 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Addressing the dynamic nature of reference data: a new nucleotide database for robust metagenomic classification journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
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Horizontal transfer of bacterial operons into eukaryote genomes academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-... #jcampubs
March 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Horizontal transfer of bacterial operons into eukaryote genomes academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-... #jcampubs
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🔬 Discover the latest in #AMR monitoring with our interactive data tools!
Explore our data viz, story maps and dashboards for E. coli, Campylobacter, Salmonella, & MRSA
Check resistance levels in humans, animals, and food – country by country for 2022-2023
Check it out here → europa.eu/!63cF6p
Explore our data viz, story maps and dashboards for E. coli, Campylobacter, Salmonella, & MRSA
Check resistance levels in humans, animals, and food – country by country for 2022-2023
Check it out here → europa.eu/!63cF6p
Antimicrobial resistance in Europe
Resistance of Salmonella and E. coli in food, animals and humans. Explore data country by country.
europa.eu
March 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🔬 Discover the latest in #AMR monitoring with our interactive data tools!
Explore our data viz, story maps and dashboards for E. coli, Campylobacter, Salmonella, & MRSA
Check resistance levels in humans, animals, and food – country by country for 2022-2023
Check it out here → europa.eu/!63cF6p
Explore our data viz, story maps and dashboards for E. coli, Campylobacter, Salmonella, & MRSA
Check resistance levels in humans, animals, and food – country by country for 2022-2023
Check it out here → europa.eu/!63cF6p
Reposted by Jose L. Balcazar
El 2007 érem 2 dones, i avui som 46 en un equip en creixement d’aproximadament 100 persones. 👩🔬💪
Aquest canvi és una mostra de l’esforç, el talent i la dedicació de totes les dones que formem part de l’equip d’ICRA.
Feliç Dia Internacional de la Dona 💟 #8M
Aquest canvi és una mostra de l’esforç, el talent i la dedicació de totes les dones que formem part de l’equip d’ICRA.
Feliç Dia Internacional de la Dona 💟 #8M
March 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
El 2007 érem 2 dones, i avui som 46 en un equip en creixement d’aproximadament 100 persones. 👩🔬💪
Aquest canvi és una mostra de l’esforç, el talent i la dedicació de totes les dones que formem part de l’equip d’ICRA.
Feliç Dia Internacional de la Dona 💟 #8M
Aquest canvi és una mostra de l’esforç, el talent i la dedicació de totes les dones que formem part de l’equip d’ICRA.
Feliç Dia Internacional de la Dona 💟 #8M
Reposted by Jose L. Balcazar
Phage interactions may contribute to the population structure and dynamics of hydrothermal vent microbial symbionts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
February 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Phage interactions may contribute to the population structure and dynamics of hydrothermal vent microbial symbionts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
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Evaluation of Metagenome Binning: Advances and Challenges www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
February 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Evaluation of Metagenome Binning: Advances and Challenges www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs