Patricia Bernal
@pbernalt6ss.bsky.social
Group Leader & Associate Professor of Microbiology at Universidad de Sevilla. I am interested in Microbiology, Pseudomonas putida, T6SS, biocontrol and scicomm
Website: personal.us.es/pbguzman
📍University of Seville
Website: personal.us.es/pbguzman
📍University of Seville
Pinned
Our paper, describing how the T6SSs of P. putida shape the tomato rhizosphere, is now in its final format in @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Communications. If you'd like to learn more, here is a thread (1/11) or read the Article doi.org/10.1093/isme....
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New paper out!📢 Exploring the computing power of microbes that shapes the environment.
In this short review we talk about the "complexity gap", the distance between bottom-up genetic circuits and microbial information processes. Key questions to improve #biocomputation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
In this short review we talk about the "complexity gap", the distance between bottom-up genetic circuits and microbial information processes. Key questions to improve #biocomputation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
January 8, 2026 at 10:24 AM
New paper out!📢 Exploring the computing power of microbes that shapes the environment.
In this short review we talk about the "complexity gap", the distance between bottom-up genetic circuits and microbial information processes. Key questions to improve #biocomputation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
In this short review we talk about the "complexity gap", the distance between bottom-up genetic circuits and microbial information processes. Key questions to improve #biocomputation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
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Bacteria do compute and can be reprogrammed for new capacities—but not exactly by following Turing’s rules. Evolution, context dependence, and the soft-matter nature of living hardware redefine what computation means in biology. From @angelgm.bsky.social Lab 👉🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Exploring the computing power of microbes that shapes the environment
Microbes process input information into output responses through diverse genetic and metabolic mechanisms, effectively making them physical systems th…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Bacteria do compute and can be reprogrammed for new capacities—but not exactly by following Turing’s rules. Evolution, context dependence, and the soft-matter nature of living hardware redefine what computation means in biology. From @angelgm.bsky.social Lab 👉🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Exciting #PhD project - help us to fight antimicrobial resistance by developing new #infection models and #AI image analysis tools for drug discovery.
Fully funded 4-year #PhD studentship in the BBSRC NILAB program @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, @wwiem-qub.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ysaxdpx3
Fully funded 4-year #PhD studentship in the BBSRC NILAB program @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, @wwiem-qub.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ysaxdpx3
Using AI-driven computer vision and high-throughput multiplexed human cell infection assays to dissect intra- and intercellular signalling networks and discover new antimicrobials at Queen’s Universit...
PhD Project - Using AI-driven computer vision and high-throughput multiplexed human cell infection assays to dissect intra- and intercellular signalling networks and discover new antimicrobials at Que...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Exciting #PhD project - help us to fight antimicrobial resistance by developing new #infection models and #AI image analysis tools for drug discovery.
Fully funded 4-year #PhD studentship in the BBSRC NILAB program @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, @wwiem-qub.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ysaxdpx3
Fully funded 4-year #PhD studentship in the BBSRC NILAB program @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, @wwiem-qub.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ysaxdpx3
We are starting 2026 by looking for candidates to apply for the Junta de Andalucía PhD fellowship. If you are interested in bacterial secretion systems and molecular biology, get in touch. More info about our work: personal.us.es/pbguzman/ & regarding the call www.investigacion.us.es/convocatoria...
January 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
We are starting 2026 by looking for candidates to apply for the Junta de Andalucía PhD fellowship. If you are interested in bacterial secretion systems and molecular biology, get in touch. More info about our work: personal.us.es/pbguzman/ & regarding the call www.investigacion.us.es/convocatoria...
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Big congratulations to my former PhD student, Max Chavarría, on his amazing career trajectory after returning to Costa Rica—now fittingly recognized with the country’s most prestigious National Science Award. A well-deserved honor & a real pleasure to see his work acknowledged by his own compatriots
January 1, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Big congratulations to my former PhD student, Max Chavarría, on his amazing career trajectory after returning to Costa Rica—now fittingly recognized with the country’s most prestigious National Science Award. A well-deserved honor & a real pleasure to see his work acknowledged by his own compatriots
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A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
We create vector graphics of model organisms and emerging biological research organisms to enhance our publications. We’re sharing these editable graphics under a CC0 license for other scientists to...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
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The final form of my 2nd postdoc paper with the Bassler Lab! Turns out our favorite quorum-sensing phage isn’t a one-off, but rather a member of a globally dispersed family of phages that sense a universal autoinducer.
#phagesky #microsky
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#phagesky #microsky
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A family of linear plasmid phages that detect a quorum-sensing autoinducer exists in multiple bacterial species | mBio
The discovery of quorum-sensing responsive linear plasmid phages has transformed understanding
of phage-bacterial interactions by demonstrating inter-domain chemical communication.
To date, however, e...
journals.asm.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The final form of my 2nd postdoc paper with the Bassler Lab! Turns out our favorite quorum-sensing phage isn’t a one-off, but rather a member of a globally dispersed family of phages that sense a universal autoinducer.
#phagesky #microsky
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#phagesky #microsky
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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We’re looking for a Summer Intern to generate microscopy videos of bacteria bursting in response to administering antibiotics as part of a public education video on the uses of antibiotics and risks of misuse 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 5 January
➡️ buff.ly/YlUQUho
🗓️ Apply by 5 January
➡️ buff.ly/YlUQUho
December 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
We’re looking for a Summer Intern to generate microscopy videos of bacteria bursting in response to administering antibiotics as part of a public education video on the uses of antibiotics and risks of misuse 🔬
🗓️ Apply by 5 January
➡️ buff.ly/YlUQUho
🗓️ Apply by 5 January
➡️ buff.ly/YlUQUho
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🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social
Launch your first independent research group in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.
Deadline extended to 30 Jan 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
#plantscijobs
1/4🧵
Launch your first independent research group in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.
Deadline extended to 30 Jan 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
#plantscijobs
1/4🧵
December 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social
Launch your first independent research group in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.
Deadline extended to 30 Jan 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
#plantscijobs
1/4🧵
Launch your first independent research group in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.
Deadline extended to 30 Jan 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
#plantscijobs
1/4🧵
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We just launched the web site for our consortium to accelerate antibiotic discovery by combining high throughput, high content approaches and AI, PandemicStop-AI. Check it out: pandemicstopai.ca
December 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
We just launched the web site for our consortium to accelerate antibiotic discovery by combining high throughput, high content approaches and AI, PandemicStop-AI. Check it out: pandemicstopai.ca
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Delighted to see the main work from my PhD finally published in @mbio.bsky.social! It all started with the observation that deleting the cutRS two-component system in S. venezuelae caused this amazing explorer phenotype in the presence of glucose. But what was going on?! (1/n)
December 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Delighted to see the main work from my PhD finally published in @mbio.bsky.social! It all started with the observation that deleting the cutRS two-component system in S. venezuelae caused this amazing explorer phenotype in the presence of glucose. But what was going on?! (1/n)
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We are a Molecular Microbiology laboratory at the Andalusian Center of Developmental Biology (CABD) in Sevilla, Spain. Our main interests are gene regulation and signal transduction in the lifestyle switch between planktonic and biofilm growth. Also see us at baclifestyle.es
December 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We are a Molecular Microbiology laboratory at the Andalusian Center of Developmental Biology (CABD) in Sevilla, Spain. Our main interests are gene regulation and signal transduction in the lifestyle switch between planktonic and biofilm growth. Also see us at baclifestyle.es
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Happy to post our latest paper:
doi.org/10.1111/1751...
Biases accumulate with age, so it is essential to begin teaching critical thinking as early as possible. The problems are HOW, given the complexity of its theory, and IN WHAT EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT? The solutions we propose in this paper are...
doi.org/10.1111/1751...
Biases accumulate with age, so it is essential to begin teaching critical thinking as early as possible. The problems are HOW, given the complexity of its theory, and IN WHAT EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT? The solutions we propose in this paper are...
December 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Happy to post our latest paper:
doi.org/10.1111/1751...
Biases accumulate with age, so it is essential to begin teaching critical thinking as early as possible. The problems are HOW, given the complexity of its theory, and IN WHAT EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT? The solutions we propose in this paper are...
doi.org/10.1111/1751...
Biases accumulate with age, so it is essential to begin teaching critical thinking as early as possible. The problems are HOW, given the complexity of its theory, and IN WHAT EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT? The solutions we propose in this paper are...
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Happy to share the last work of @jmartinkus.bsky.social, led by @dukasju.bsky.social
Immunity arrays associated with Rhs and CDI toxins and linked to a novel genetic element (XPC cassette) confer protection against competitors. @currentbiology.bsky.social
Kudos !!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Immunity arrays associated with Rhs and CDI toxins and linked to a novel genetic element (XPC cassette) confer protection against competitors. @currentbiology.bsky.social
Kudos !!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Poly-immunity arrays associated with Rhs toxins confer wide protection against competitors
Martinkus et al. show that Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus species encode arrays of immunity
genes whose protein products neutralize toxins secreted by competitors. These arrays,
often linked to Xer pass...
www.cell.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Happy to share the last work of @jmartinkus.bsky.social, led by @dukasju.bsky.social
Immunity arrays associated with Rhs and CDI toxins and linked to a novel genetic element (XPC cassette) confer protection against competitors. @currentbiology.bsky.social
Kudos !!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Immunity arrays associated with Rhs and CDI toxins and linked to a novel genetic element (XPC cassette) confer protection against competitors. @currentbiology.bsky.social
Kudos !!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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We all start by cloning something into a plasmid. But the vector you choose matters more than you think. A Commentary from the battleground with my colleague & curator of the @sevaplasmids.bsky.social collection, Esteban Martínez enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We all start by cloning something into a plasmid. But the vector you choose matters more than you think. A Commentary from the battleground with my colleague & curator of the @sevaplasmids.bsky.social collection, Esteban Martínez enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
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🚨PhD position alert🚨
🔬Cryo-EM? ✅ 🧫Membrane proteins? - we've got 165 TMs for you! ✅
Join me and the team👥 in beautiful Amsterdam🚴 to untangle the amazing mycobacterial protein secretion machinery!
📝Apply here: tinyurl.com/mmxnfpnw
📆Deadline: 23 January
#PhDstudent #T7SS #cryoEM #newPI
🔬Cryo-EM? ✅ 🧫Membrane proteins? - we've got 165 TMs for you! ✅
Join me and the team👥 in beautiful Amsterdam🚴 to untangle the amazing mycobacterial protein secretion machinery!
📝Apply here: tinyurl.com/mmxnfpnw
📆Deadline: 23 January
#PhDstudent #T7SS #cryoEM #newPI
Vacature — PhD candidate; Mechanism and assembly of type VII secretion system machineries
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated PhD candidate to join Dr. Catalin Bunduc’s team in the Molecular Microbiology Section of the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE).
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December 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🚨PhD position alert🚨
🔬Cryo-EM? ✅ 🧫Membrane proteins? - we've got 165 TMs for you! ✅
Join me and the team👥 in beautiful Amsterdam🚴 to untangle the amazing mycobacterial protein secretion machinery!
📝Apply here: tinyurl.com/mmxnfpnw
📆Deadline: 23 January
#PhDstudent #T7SS #cryoEM #newPI
🔬Cryo-EM? ✅ 🧫Membrane proteins? - we've got 165 TMs for you! ✅
Join me and the team👥 in beautiful Amsterdam🚴 to untangle the amazing mycobacterial protein secretion machinery!
📝Apply here: tinyurl.com/mmxnfpnw
📆Deadline: 23 January
#PhDstudent #T7SS #cryoEM #newPI
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15 PhD positions fully funded! Apply until 6 January 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor... #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities#PhDPositions#MSCA#EU#Antimicrobialresistance#Microbiology#Structuralbiology
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor... #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities#PhDPositions#MSCA#EU#Antimicrobialresistance#Microbiology#Structuralbiology
stradivarious PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships - 26 PhDs Listed
FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in stradivarious. Search for PhD funding, scholarships & studentships in the UK, Europe and around the world.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
15 PhD positions fully funded! Apply until 6 January 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor... #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities#PhDPositions#MSCA#EU#Antimicrobialresistance#Microbiology#Structuralbiology
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor... #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #ResearchOpportunities#PhDPositions#MSCA#EU#Antimicrobialresistance#Microbiology#Structuralbiology
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🎄🧬 It’s December – time for an 'Immunocalendar': “CRISPR CRISPR KNÄUSCHEN”!
Every day we open a new door onto a different prokaryotic immune system, with extra love for archaeal hosts.
Crafted by the Zink Group within our department :)
Have a wonderful Christmas time! ✨
Every day we open a new door onto a different prokaryotic immune system, with extra love for archaeal hosts.
Crafted by the Zink Group within our department :)
Have a wonderful Christmas time! ✨
December 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🎄🧬 It’s December – time for an 'Immunocalendar': “CRISPR CRISPR KNÄUSCHEN”!
Every day we open a new door onto a different prokaryotic immune system, with extra love for archaeal hosts.
Crafted by the Zink Group within our department :)
Have a wonderful Christmas time! ✨
Every day we open a new door onto a different prokaryotic immune system, with extra love for archaeal hosts.
Crafted by the Zink Group within our department :)
Have a wonderful Christmas time! ✨
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The #1 organism used to make biocement has never been engineered... until now! Excited to share our work on Sporosarcina pasteurii! Esp. since it's the first project I've contributed to here at Cultivarium :)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A genetic platform for a biocementation bacterium
Sporosarcina pasteurii is the most widely studied bacterium for microbially-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP), a process of intense interest for materials and construction applications. D...
www.biorxiv.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The #1 organism used to make biocement has never been engineered... until now! Excited to share our work on Sporosarcina pasteurii! Esp. since it's the first project I've contributed to here at Cultivarium :)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research
The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...
research.pasteur.fr
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
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Microbes determine the health of all other organisms and that of the planet. They were our ancestors and are our cousins. They are life and sustain it.
Microbes are life, the biological core of One Health and Health in All Policies url: academic.oup.com/microlife/ar...
Microbes are life, the biological core of One Health and Health in All Policies url: academic.oup.com/microlife/ar...
Microbes are life, the biological core of One Health and Health in All Policies
The World Health Organization (WHO) is promoting the operative concept of “Health in All Policies” (HiAP; https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/11263
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December 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Microbes determine the health of all other organisms and that of the planet. They were our ancestors and are our cousins. They are life and sustain it.
Microbes are life, the biological core of One Health and Health in All Policies url: academic.oup.com/microlife/ar...
Microbes are life, the biological core of One Health and Health in All Policies url: academic.oup.com/microlife/ar...
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A wonderful discourse on the relevance of movies in microbiology teaching from the inspiring Manuel Sánchez-Angulo:
www.the-microbiologist.com/features/whe...
www.the-microbiologist.com/features/whe...
When movies teach us to love microbes
I have been teaching microbiology for more than 25 years. During that time, I have seen it all - students who arrive eager to learn and others who attend because they have no other choice. Over the ye...
www.the-microbiologist.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A wonderful discourse on the relevance of movies in microbiology teaching from the inspiring Manuel Sánchez-Angulo:
www.the-microbiologist.com/features/whe...
www.the-microbiologist.com/features/whe...
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My @i2sysbio.es colleagues Lucas Mora, Rafael Sanjuan @rafa-sanjuan.bsky.social and Pilar Domingo Calap @pilardomingoc.bsky.social published a paper about reversible phenotypic resistance to phages in Klebsiella. 👏👏 Congratulations! 🧬🖥🧪🦠🧫 #microsky #viruses #phages
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Reversible phenotypic resistance to phage infection via capsule downregulation in Klebsiella pneumoniae
Molecular biology; Microbiology; Cell biology
www.cell.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
My @i2sysbio.es colleagues Lucas Mora, Rafael Sanjuan @rafa-sanjuan.bsky.social and Pilar Domingo Calap @pilardomingoc.bsky.social published a paper about reversible phenotypic resistance to phages in Klebsiella. 👏👏 Congratulations! 🧬🖥🧪🦠🧫 #microsky #viruses #phages
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...