Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
@raulgoch.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at TXST | Comparative #Genomics | Computational Biology | #Symbiodiniaceae | Coral symbiosis | Evolutionary Genomics | 🇲🇽🏳️🌈
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Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
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Final reminder to consider submitting an abstract to join our thematic session on "Reefs through time" at the @icrs.bsky.social meeting next July.
The call for abstracts closes Dec 1! See below for details.
Hope to see you there!
The call for abstracts closes Dec 1! See below for details.
Hope to see you there!
Work on reef paleoecology? Join our session "Reefs through time: leveraging today's interdisciplinary tools to better understand the past of reef organisms and ecosystems" at the 2026 International Coral Reef Symposium
📆Abstract deadline: Dec 1, 2025
🔗https://www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abstracts
📆Abstract deadline: Dec 1, 2025
🔗https://www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abstracts
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Final reminder to consider submitting an abstract to join our thematic session on "Reefs through time" at the @icrs.bsky.social meeting next July.
The call for abstracts closes Dec 1! See below for details.
Hope to see you there!
The call for abstracts closes Dec 1! See below for details.
Hope to see you there!
🌊Anyone who has taught a course on Marine Ecology & Conservation (or alike) who is willing to share their material?
🪸🪼🐟🦭🐠🦈🦀🐙🐬🐳🐡🦞🦦🐋🐚
🪸🪼🐟🦭🐠🦈🦀🐙🐬🐳🐡🦞🦦🐋🐚
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🌊Anyone who has taught a course on Marine Ecology & Conservation (or alike) who is willing to share their material?
🪸🪼🐟🦭🐠🦈🦀🐙🐬🐳🐡🦞🦦🐋🐚
🪸🪼🐟🦭🐠🦈🦀🐙🐬🐳🐡🦞🦦🐋🐚
Our lab website is up!
gonzalezpech-lab.com
gonzalezpech-lab.com
The Microbial Symbiosis Laboratory @TXST
gonzalezpech-lab.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Our lab website is up!
gonzalezpech-lab.com
gonzalezpech-lab.com
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Pretty excited to share our new preprint!
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Pretty excited to share our new preprint!
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Work on reef paleoecology? Join our session "Reefs through time: leveraging today's interdisciplinary tools to better understand the past of reef organisms and ecosystems" at the 2026 International Coral Reef Symposium
📆Abstract deadline: Dec 1, 2025
🔗https://www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abstracts
📆Abstract deadline: Dec 1, 2025
🔗https://www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abstracts
September 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
Science friends and collaborators!! This week I will be giving my tenure review seminar! It will be available via zoom to accommodate some folks travel schedules.
So, if you’d like to hear more about what the labs been up to over the past five years please reach out and I will give you the link
So, if you’d like to hear more about what the labs been up to over the past five years please reach out and I will give you the link
September 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Science friends and collaborators!! This week I will be giving my tenure review seminar! It will be available via zoom to accommodate some folks travel schedules.
So, if you’d like to hear more about what the labs been up to over the past five years please reach out and I will give you the link
So, if you’d like to hear more about what the labs been up to over the past five years please reach out and I will give you the link
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
🎙️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! I am seeking a scientist to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on research in the molecular biology of insect endosymbionts. Come join us in the tips of the Appalachian mountains for meaningful challenges in symbiosis science. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...
Research Technologist - Life Sciences Advanced Professional - Bordenstein Lab
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🎙️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! I am seeking a scientist to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on research in the molecular biology of insect endosymbionts. Come join us in the tips of the Appalachian mountains for meaningful challenges in symbiosis science. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...
Our department is looking for an Assistant Professor of Wildlife Biology. Come join us!
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/54232
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/54232
Assistant Professor Wildlife Ecology
The Department of Biology at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in wildlife biology, terrestrial vertebrate ecology, quantitative ...
jobs.hr.txstate.edu
September 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Our department is looking for an Assistant Professor of Wildlife Biology. Come join us!
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/54232
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/54232
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
Excited to share that I’ll be joining @uicbios.bsky.social as an Asst. Prof. in Jan 2026! My lab will explore the epi/genetic principles of host–microbe interactions, symbiosis, and vector biology. We’ll be hiring postdocs and techs—details and lab website coming soon!
bios.uic.edu/news-stories...
bios.uic.edu/news-stories...
Meet the Faculty | Biological Sciences | University of Illinois Chicago
bios.uic.edu
September 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Excited to share that I’ll be joining @uicbios.bsky.social as an Asst. Prof. in Jan 2026! My lab will explore the epi/genetic principles of host–microbe interactions, symbiosis, and vector biology. We’ll be hiring postdocs and techs—details and lab website coming soon!
bios.uic.edu/news-stories...
bios.uic.edu/news-stories...
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e...
Please share, thank you 🙏🏻
Please share, thank you 🙏🏻
May 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e...
Please share, thank you 🙏🏻
Please share, thank you 🙏🏻
🚨 New paper out @microbiologysociety.org! #Genome 🧬 characterization of #CCA -associated bacteria 🦠, with antimicrobial activity against antibiotic 💊-resistant pathogens! #AMR
doi.org/10.1099/mgen...
doi.org/10.1099/mgen...
July 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🚨 New paper out @microbiologysociety.org! #Genome 🧬 characterization of #CCA -associated bacteria 🦠, with antimicrobial activity against antibiotic 💊-resistant pathogens! #AMR
doi.org/10.1099/mgen...
doi.org/10.1099/mgen...
Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
June 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
We examined the microbiome of Madracis aurentenra, an urban coral off the coast of the Colombian Caribbean. Interesting dynamics between Endozoicomonas and Vibrionaceae 🧪🪸 #MicroSky peerj.com/articles/192...
Endozoicomonas dominance and Vibrionaceae stability underpin resilience in urban coral Madracis auretenra
Coral resilience varies across species, with some exhibiting remarkable stability and adaptability, often mediated by their associated microbiomes. Given the species-specific nature of coral-microbiom...
peerj.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We examined the microbiome of Madracis aurentenra, an urban coral off the coast of the Colombian Caribbean. Interesting dynamics between Endozoicomonas and Vibrionaceae 🧪🪸 #MicroSky peerj.com/articles/192...
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
Check out our dispatch on apicomplexans that infect corals!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
These parasite-like partners have lost photosynthesis but retained chlorophyll... are they friend or foe?
@currentbiology.bsky.social #protistsonsky #symbiosky #microsky #coralreefs
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
These parasite-like partners have lost photosynthesis but retained chlorophyll... are they friend or foe?
@currentbiology.bsky.social #protistsonsky #symbiosky #microsky #coralreefs
March 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Check out our dispatch on apicomplexans that infect corals!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
These parasite-like partners have lost photosynthesis but retained chlorophyll... are they friend or foe?
@currentbiology.bsky.social #protistsonsky #symbiosky #microsky #coralreefs
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
These parasite-like partners have lost photosynthesis but retained chlorophyll... are they friend or foe?
@currentbiology.bsky.social #protistsonsky #symbiosky #microsky #coralreefs
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🌍 Conservation biology needs a microbial upgrade!
This review, from @raulgoch.bsky.social & others, highlights how microbiome research can enhance conservation genomics & improve biodiversity management in a changing world.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Microbiome #Conservation #Genomics
This review, from @raulgoch.bsky.social & others, highlights how microbiome research can enhance conservation genomics & improve biodiversity management in a changing world.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Microbiome #Conservation #Genomics
Incorporating microbiome analyses can enhance conservation of threatened species and ecosystem functions
Conservation genomics is a rapidly growing subdiscipline of conservation biology that uses genome-wide information to inform management of biodiversit…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🌍 Conservation biology needs a microbial upgrade!
This review, from @raulgoch.bsky.social & others, highlights how microbiome research can enhance conservation genomics & improve biodiversity management in a changing world.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Microbiome #Conservation #Genomics
This review, from @raulgoch.bsky.social & others, highlights how microbiome research can enhance conservation genomics & improve biodiversity management in a changing world.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Microbiome #Conservation #Genomics
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
Congrats to Parkinson lab PhD students Lauren & Matt (and former postdoc Raul!) and the whole team for putting together this nice perspective on efforts to incorporate microbiome analyses into conservation efforts.
🚨 Paper alert: our multidisciplinary team emphasizes the importance of microbes 🦠 in conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems🌱. We also encourage studying their ecological functions! 🧪🧫
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjAVB8cd4...
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjAVB8cd4...
March 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Congrats to Parkinson lab PhD students Lauren & Matt (and former postdoc Raul!) and the whole team for putting together this nice perspective on efforts to incorporate microbiome analyses into conservation efforts.
🚨 Paper alert: our multidisciplinary team emphasizes the importance of microbes 🦠 in conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems🌱. We also encourage studying their ecological functions! 🧪🧫
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjAVB8cd4...
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjAVB8cd4...
March 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🚨 Paper alert: our multidisciplinary team emphasizes the importance of microbes 🦠 in conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems🌱. We also encourage studying their ecological functions! 🧪🧫
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjAVB8cd4...
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjAVB8cd4...
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
Our group project is out! This was a fun exchange among diverse researchers. #STOTEN
Incorporating microbiome analyses can enhance conservation of threatened species and ecosystem functions
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kjAVB8cd4...
@raulgoch.bsky.social @rmcminds.bsky.social @junhee-jung.bsky.social
Incorporating microbiome analyses can enhance conservation of threatened species and ecosystem functions
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kjAVB8cd4...
@raulgoch.bsky.social @rmcminds.bsky.social @junhee-jung.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Our group project is out! This was a fun exchange among diverse researchers. #STOTEN
Incorporating microbiome analyses can enhance conservation of threatened species and ecosystem functions
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kjAVB8cd4...
@raulgoch.bsky.social @rmcminds.bsky.social @junhee-jung.bsky.social
Incorporating microbiome analyses can enhance conservation of threatened species and ecosystem functions
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kjAVB8cd4...
@raulgoch.bsky.social @rmcminds.bsky.social @junhee-jung.bsky.social
This is just devastating. My thoughts are with all our NOAA colleagues and in other federal agencies. No way to anticipate the lag that all of this will bring to the progression of science both here and globally…😮💨
February 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This is just devastating. My thoughts are with all our NOAA colleagues and in other federal agencies. No way to anticipate the lag that all of this will bring to the progression of science both here and globally…😮💨
So grateful for being part of this amazing community and for being featured in this video! ☺️
📢Watch our newest OHMC Resource Video! 📹
Here we highlight the One Health #Microbiome Center's Weekly #SeminarSeries.
The video was produced by Dina Constantinides and features @botanichole.bsky.social, Christine Ta, and @raulgoch.bsky.social!
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogxg...
Here we highlight the One Health #Microbiome Center's Weekly #SeminarSeries.
The video was produced by Dina Constantinides and features @botanichole.bsky.social, Christine Ta, and @raulgoch.bsky.social!
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogxg...
OHMC Weekly Seminar Series
YouTube video by One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State
www.youtube.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
So grateful for being part of this amazing community and for being featured in this video! ☺️
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio
January 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
📢 Hey! We're hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to accelerate discoveries on the molecular biology of the symbiosis between #Drosophila and #Wolbachia. Know anyone who loves molecular studies of bugs, bacteria, and/or bacteriophages?
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...
Research Technologist - Life Sciences Advanced Professional
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:07 PM
📢 Hey! We're hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to accelerate discoveries on the molecular biology of the symbiosis between #Drosophila and #Wolbachia. Know anyone who loves molecular studies of bugs, bacteria, and/or bacteriophages?
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
🚨New Preprint🚨: A Single-cell Atlas of Coral Bleaching! 🪸🦠🔥. We show the microbial ecology of coral bleaching from the gene expression of host and symbiont cells to the shifts in the bacterial and protist communities within the holobiont! #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🧪
A Single-Cell Atlas of Coral Bleaching
The symbiosis between corals and dinoflagellate algae is disrupted by heat stress, leading to bleaching. Recurring bleaching events, driven by the climate crisis, are causing massive coral mortality a...
www.researchsquare.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:57 PM
🚨New Preprint🚨: A Single-cell Atlas of Coral Bleaching! 🪸🦠🔥. We show the microbial ecology of coral bleaching from the gene expression of host and symbiont cells to the shifts in the bacterial and protist communities within the holobiont! #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🧪
🚨Proud to share this @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on genomes of bacteria 🦠 extracted from crustose coralline algae and with antimicrobial potential! 💊 A great example of prime undergraduate research led y the brilliant student @diegolera.bsky.social @MedinaLab! doi.org/10.1101/2024...
The Potential of CCA-associated Bacteria to Fight Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens: a Genomic Survey
The global rise of antimicrobial resistance has intensified efforts in bioprospecting, with researchers increasingly exploring unique marine environments for novel antimicrobials. In line with this tr...
doi.org
December 1, 2024 at 4:07 PM
🚨Proud to share this @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on genomes of bacteria 🦠 extracted from crustose coralline algae and with antimicrobial potential! 💊 A great example of prime undergraduate research led y the brilliant student @diegolera.bsky.social @MedinaLab! doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Reposted by Raúl González-Pech (he/him)
🚨 The Alker Lab is starting at the University of Rhode Island in early 2025 and we will be hiring! 🚨
If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out! Repost to help spread the word 🪸🧪🧬🌊
If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out! Repost to help spread the word 🪸🧪🧬🌊
November 30, 2024 at 12:14 AM
🚨 The Alker Lab is starting at the University of Rhode Island in early 2025 and we will be hiring! 🚨
If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out! Repost to help spread the word 🪸🧪🧬🌊
If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out! Repost to help spread the word 🪸🧪🧬🌊