Carmen S. Cañizares
Microbiologist • Group Lead @IRNASA_CSIC deciphering bacterial regulatory networks • Royal Society URF at @OxfordBiology • Nitrogen fixation • Volunteer at @ComunidadCERU 🍏🇪🇸🇬🇧
*Mum of three*
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresNew paper out in PNAS!!! 🎉 Do more plasmid copies mean faster evolution? 🧵 Dive into the story www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Very excited to be at my first Gordon Research Conference this week & to give my first international invited talk in the US! Amazing speakers, great discussions, & lots of learning on some of my favourite topics! Bacterial motility & chemotaxis, regulation & secondary messengers or quorum sensing 🤩🦠
- 👩🔬 #IRNASA-CSIC researcher @carmen-agro.bsky.social is in Ventura (California, USA) to participate in the ‘Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms’ conference, where she is giving an invited talk. 🔗 More info: grc.org/sensory-tran... #Microbiology #Microorganisms (1/2)
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresCost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresThe ISME Early Career Scientist Committee is glad to begin the year by spotlighting @aroneys.bsky.social, a Postdoctoral Researcher at QUT, and his paper, “Bin Chicken: targeted metagenomic coassembly for the efficient recovery of novel genomes.” doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/2)
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresPhD & Postdoc positions – Junta de Andalucía Looking for highly motivated candidates to apply with my Microbiomes & Microbial Interactions group at the University of Málaga (IHSM). Interested in joining our team? 📩 vcarrion@uma.es 🔗 www.carrionlab.com 🔗 www.ihsm.uma-csic.es/investigador...
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresIn @science.org this week: The interaction between flavonoids and rhizobial Nod factors during legume symbiosis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresThis more than anything makes an academic career worthwhile - seeing other people achieve their goals
- Very grateful to all my mentors and colleagues who have supported me over the years, especially to #Palacioslab, @poolelaboxford.bsky.social, #SRUK/CERU, @janelangdale.bsky.social & the @royalsociety.org for the incredible opportunity to start my #juniorPI journey at @biology.ox.ac.uk!! #AcademicMum
- After a few chaotic but exciting months I am now settled in the beautiful university city of #Salamanca, Spain working at @irnasa.bsky.social @csic.es as #TenuredScientist (since Oct) in the Plant–Microbe Interaction Group 🌱🦠 New Year, updated profiles! 🎉 www.irnasa.csic.es/sanchez-canizares-carmen/
- Excited to share that I will continue working on bacterial regulatory networks and interactions, with a research project funded by @cienciagob.bsky.social that has just started! 🎉 #microbiology More info (in Spanish): www.irnasa.csic.es/el-irnasa-cs...
- Very grateful to all my mentors and colleagues who have supported me over the years, especially to #Palacioslab, @poolelaboxford.bsky.social, #SRUK/CERU, @janelangdale.bsky.social & the @royalsociety.org for the incredible opportunity to start my #juniorPI journey at @biology.ox.ac.uk!! #AcademicMum
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresHappy New Year!! 🎉 We're pleased to be back with some exciting new opportunities which we will be sharing in the coming weeks. We are again inviting host labs to share their projects for our 2026 BiPS Summer Studentships. Head to our website for more details: buff.ly/g6vAJmM
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresYa está abierta la preinscripción de la #MICROCREDENCIAL de competencias básicas en biología computacional del @dpe-csic.bsky.social, impartida por @bombarelya.bsky.social, @eandresleon.bsky.social, @javijevi.bsky.social y #JoséBlanca. Que no se os pase el plazo! 👇🏼
- 🧪🧬👩🏽💻 Microcredencial impartida por @bombarelya.bsky.social, @eandresleon.bsky.social, @javijevi.bsky.social y #JoseBlanca con el apoyo de @segenetica.bsky.social. No os perdáis esta excelente ocasión de mejorar vuestras habilidades computacionales! #ComputacionalBiology #bioinformatics
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresWe 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...
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares👩🔬🧑🔬Madrid acoge hoy y mañana #SomosRAICEX2025, el Encuentro de la Red de Asociaciones de Investigadores y Científicos Españoles en el Exterior, con la participación de @carmen-agro.bsky.social, investigadora del #IRNASA-CSIC que fue vicepresidenta de #RAICEX. #LaUnionHaceLaCiencia
- My first official PhD student Olivia Tjahjono successfully passed her viva last Thursday!🥂 As part of the @poolelaboxford.bsky.social it's been a pleasure to share projects, lab bench and many science (& life) discussions! A big thank you to the examiners Elena Baena & Ray Dixon for their feedback!
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresLed by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security. Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares🚀 PhD opportunity! Join us (@pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & @chofski.bsky.social) in Bristol 🌱✨ Design, test & model synthetic promoters in Nicotiana benthamiana, focusing on plant immunity. Apply now! 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSci #SyntheticBiology #PhD #PlantBioDesign #BristolUni
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresHot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizareswww.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/r... A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social. If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂 #Plantscience #Plantscijobs
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresTogether with a team of great colleagues, we edit a collection titled "Harnessing plant microbiomes to improve performance and mechanistic understanding" nature.com/collections/cg… in the journals @natureportfolio.nature.com @microbiomej.bsky.social . It's open for submission till June 2026.
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresConsistently an absolutely fantastic meeting - don’t miss out on an opportunity to interact with an awesome bunch of non-seed enthusiasts 🌱 😃 🧬
- Only two days left to register for the UK NonSeed meeting (Dec 12th, Norwich). We’re still accepting flash talks!! www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge...
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresLocalized glutamine leakage shapes root microbiome @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Spotlight from Zheng Qing Fu/Youxiong Que on the recent publication by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social et al from @nikogeldner.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...
- One of my first contributions at my new institute for a very cool initiative, to give visibility to every single person behind a successful research project! Da igual dónde esté, siempre acabo en todos los embolados pero rodeada de gente muy guay! 🤩 #inclusion #diversity
- El éxito tiene muchos nombres. Este vídeo del Comité de Igualdad e Inclusión del #IRNASA-CSIC explica que detrás de un logro científico, como presentar una investigación en un congreso internacional, está todo el personal de un centro como el nuestro.
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresOur preprint is finally out 🌿 “𝒑𝒑𝑮𝒑𝒑 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉-𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒅𝒐𝒑𝒔𝒊𝒔” Its been a journey- first spotted by Matteo Sugliani over ten years ago, carried forward by Shanna Romand, and brought to the finish line with help from many collaborators. #PlantScience tinyurl.com/wpf3bp25
- Such a team @iandealidbury.bsky.social, more conferences like this! 🙌🏻 @rafamorcillo.bsky.social @iplantmicro.bsky.social @vcarryon.bsky.social And well done the Sheffield group, congrats to Alex on the poster prize! 😉
- Excellent week in Malaga for the #PMS25 top science and top social programmes @carmen-agro.bsky.social
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresFrom science talks to spontaneous laughter — the 6th Plant Microbiome Symposium gave us way more than great research updates! Somewhere between sessions, a new powerhouse (and comedy troupe?) of PIs was born for better future in the area! @itqbnova.bsky.social @microsos.bsky.social
- Had such a great time at #PMS2025 🦠🌱 Met some of my favourite UK colleagues & made many new connections, especially in Spain! Huge shoutout to the organisers @vcarryon.bsky.social for putting together such an inspiring programme, creating the perfect atmosphere for networking & showing us Antequera!
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares🌱🧫🔬This week, three researchers from #IRNASA_CSIC are participating in the 6th Plant Microbiome Symposium in Antequera (Málaga, Spain). This conference brings together scientists working on the plant microbiome from different angles. #PMS2025 #PlantMicrobiome #PlantScience @microsos.bsky.social 🧵
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresCarmen Sanchez-Cañizares @carmen-agro.bsky.social from whole plant to single cell: why terminally differentiated bacteroids are more efficient nitrogen fixers in legume nodules #PMS2025
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresBacteroids versus nodules @carmen-agro.bsky.social #PMS2025
- Great to see that @courtneyherms.bsky.social is back in action at a microbiome conference here in Málaga for the #PMS2025, do follow her for the best and most interesting & fun live posting at a conference! She did such an amazing job at the #Rhizosphere6 conference in Edinburgh! 😉 🦠🌱🔬
- Good morning from day 1 at #PMS2025! Again I have chosen a terrible seat, will I ever learn! Here is a very zoomed in photo of our starting lecture from Paolina Garbeva on volition organic compounds
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresFinal countdown before the start of the #PMS2025!!! 🪴 Looking forward to seeing you in Antequera (Malaga) on 3-7 November! Final program at: 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com/programme/ #Plantscience #MicrobiomeResearch #Bioinformatics
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares1️⃣ Bacterias beneficiosas para las plantas (22/09/2025) Con Carmen Sánchez (@irnasa.bsky.social) que investiga bacterias beneficiosas para las leguminosas, con el objetivo de reducir el uso de fertilizantes químicos en la #agricultura 👉 www.ivoox.com/bacterias-be...
- Just last week we wrapped up this incredible training & support programme for #women in research by @acmedsci.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @raeng.org.uk. Thrilled to have been part of #SUSTAIN Round 11 and to have learnt so much from all the great workshops & this inspirational group of scientists!
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares📰La portada y el tema de apertura de La Gaceta de Salamanca están dedicados hoy a la nueva sede del #IRNASA-CSIC. 👏👏👏
- What a privilege attending yesterday the 30th Norman Heatley lecture hosted by @dunnschool.bsky.social to listen in person to my favourite scientist and role model Bonnie Bassler talking about the wonders of #quorumsensing, the topic I started working on as a PhD student and future microbiologist!
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares📢 A toda la comunidad trabajando en interacciones beneficiosas planta-microorganismo, ¡reservad la fecha de nuestro próximo encuentro! El XX Congreso de la SEFIN y III BeMiPlant tendrá lugar en Cádiz entre el 26-28 mayo 2026. ¡Iremos compartiendo las novedades próximamente! 🌱🧫🔬
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresWe’re looking for an enthusiastic postdoc to join our team. 😊 The project focuses on protein design and cryo-EM applied to cancer research. 🔬🧪 The position is fully funded for 3 years. Please share 🙏 Job description and application details (deadline: October 11th): www.cnio.es/en/empleo/po...
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresLocalized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresNEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫 Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all! Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares👩🔬 La investigadora @carmen-escudero.bsky.social se incorpora al #IRNASA-CSIC gracias al Programa de Atracción del Talento del Ayuntamiento de #Salamanca. Esta mañana, ha sido recibida por el alcalde. ➡️ www.irnasa.csic.es/carmen-escud...
- Este lunes tuve la suerte de asistir en persona por 1a vez a un estudio de radio para abrir la sección de ciencia en #HoyPorHoySalamanca de #LaCadenaSER y disfrutar hablando de ciencia, mi nueva aventura profesional en @irnasa.bsky.social y #SRUK/CERU y atracción de talento! Gracias por invitarme! ☺️
- 🎙️¿Sabes que @csiccyl.bsky.social ha estrenado hoy sección de ciencia en SER Salamanca? 👩🔬Carmen Sánchez Cañizares, que llega al #IRNASA-CSIC procedente de la Universidad de Oxford, ha hablado su trabajo en bacterias beneficiosas para los cultivos. ➡️ delegacion.castillayleon.csic.es/el-csic-estr...
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares👩🔬👨🔬Fabulosa Jornada de Atracción de #Talento "La carrera investigadora en el #IRNASA-CSIC". Estudiantes universitarios y de enseñanzas medias han conocido la #ciencia que hacemos. #NocheEuropeadelosInvestigadores
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresWonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
- Excited to share that I’ll soon be joining @irnasa.bsky.social as #newPI! And I couldn’t imagine a better start than with a project that has just been selected for funding by @ageinves.bsky.social @ageinves.bsky.social Very grateful for the support to keep working on #bacterialregulation! 🌱🦠
- 📢El #IRNASA-CSIC logra dos nuevos proyectos de Generación de #Conocimiento de la @ageinves.bsky.social para estudiar la espiga del #trigo y las bacterias del #suelo. 👨🔬👩🔬¡Enhorabuena a @rubenvicper.bsky.social y @carmen-agro.bsky.social! ➡️ www.irnasa.csic.es/el-irnasa-cs...
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares📣 Are you a creative and articulate plant scientist looking to connect with other like-minded folks? Application is now open for the 2025-2026 Plantae Fellows program!🌱 👉 Learn more and apply by August 31! buff.ly/JqoDSHq #plantscience
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresOnly a few days left to apply for one of three Lead Editor roles at the Journal of Applied Microbiology - a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of applied microbiology publishing. Deadline: this Thursday! ⏳
- Exciting opportunity! AMI is seeking 3 Lead Editors for its flagship journal, Journal of Applied Microbiology. Join us for an initial 3-year term starting in January 2026. Find out more: appliedmicrobiology.org/about/work-f... 🗓️ Application deadline: 24th July 2025 #AcademicJobs #LeadEditor
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresGROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresI am looking for a (bio)chemist to join the lab and help us making affinity-based probes for proteases! The project is truly interdisciplinary with a strong computational chemistry component, peptide synthesis and plant biochemistry! Text me if interested and please spread the word!
- 📣We offer a #PhDposition @dfg.de-funded #RTG2670 BEAM: "Beyond Amphiphilicity - Self-Organization of Soft Matter via Multiple Noncovalent Interactions" with @marischuster.bsky.social. 🔗More: www.ipb-halle.de/en/career/jo... 📅Apply now! #MolecularModelling #Proteases #SciJobs #PhDjobs
- Enhorabuenísima!! Más qué merecido!! 💜👏🏻👏🏻
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresIn a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresWe have an open engineer position to work on type IX secretion (T9SS), under the supervision of @doan_thierry (collab with HP Fierobe & A. Tolonen). 1-year contract, renewable up to 3.5 years. Please apply here or forward to anyone potentially interested: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares#NewResearch 🚨Out now! Structural analyses of the extracellular flagellum shows mechanism for flagellin incorporation #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Amazing weekend at the #SRUK/CERU symposium in York! Thanks Sara for leading and charing this edition!! It's always so special to see old friends and meet new people in person!! What a great & supportive community we have of Spanish researchers in the UK 🍏🇪🇸🇬🇧 symposium.sruk.org.uk/event-2025/
- It's been a pleasure to participate once again, this time charing a session about a topic I am really passionate about!! What a fantastic discussion and interesting debate!! #womeninSTEM #recognisetorise #ComunidadCERU #SRUK2025 #FacingChallenges
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!! Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species, stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Inspirational and very motivating talk by @jeffinerca.bsky.social at the closing remarks of #Rhizosphere6 emphasising the many research communities that fit in this meeting and "all the good that carbon does when it's in the soil"! Superb last talk! More people & friends in Vienna 2029!!
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares@royalsociety.org URF reunion at the #rhizo6 in Edinburgh. Beautiful dinner in the National Museum of Scotland. From left: Carmen Sánchez Cañizares, @iandealidbury.bsky.social, Laura Lehtovirta- Morley, Cecile Gubry-Rangin, yours truly and in the front Siul Ruiz. #rhizo6 📸 @jeffinerca.bsky.social
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresSwitching gears to hear again some insights on bacterial motility in the soil by @carmen-agro.bsky.social
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- On my way to Edinburgh for my first Rhizosphere conference - #Rhizosphere6! Very happy to share our work with a talk on Tuesday and looking forward to meeting other fellow researchers and hearing about all the exciting projects in the programme!! 🌱🦠 www.rhizo6.org
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresIn his #ParentCarerScientist case study, Professor Ben Sheldon FRS talks about navigating crises at home and at work, and why it's important for leaders to set an example when it comes to balancing work with caring responsibilities: #CarersWeek #AndAScientist royalsociety.org/about-us/who...
- If you are a Spanish researcher working in the UK, you can't miss our #SRUK/CERU annual symposium! Come to meet other fellow researchers & an incredibly supportive community in a weekend full of great talks & networking opportunities! Travel grants are available! ➡️ symposium.sruk.org.uk/event-2025/
- In this 12th edition the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK will be discussing all the key challenges we face both in our current world and society, and also as researchers! Check out our programme (concert included!) and very 🔝 speakers. Last days to register!
- As a plus this year, we will also be holding a pre-event about climate change on Friday morning in collaboration with @connects-uk.bsky.social ➡️ connects-uk.org
- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares🌱 We will soon open the search for a new W3 Professor in Plant Stress Resilience / Molecular Plant Physiology. 🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement. #AcademicJobs
- Para aquell@s investigadores en el extranjero que os estéis planteando el retorno a España - uni o CSIC - y queráis conocer dos de los trámites más comunes y solicitados para ello, ¡no os perdáis el webinario de este miércoles organizado por #SRUK/CERU! Más info 👉🏻 sruk.org.uk/ceru-events/...
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- Reposted by Carmen S. Cañizares¡Ya estamos en BlueSky! 🦋🌱🌿🦠🧫🔬 Abrimos esta cuenta @sefin-esp.bsky.social con el objetivo de compartir noticias relevantes para nuestra comunidad y seguir en este espacio las novedades de nuestros socios y grupos en La Sociedad Española de Fijación de Nitrógeno. ¡Os invitamos a seguirnos! 👋
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresIf you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant and ECR Visiting Fellowships. The next deadline is 6 June Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb Please repost
- It's now official!! The @poolelaboxford.bsky.social family is in full celebration mode today! Congratulations to Phil on becoming a new elected Fellow of the Royal Society! 🎉👏🏻
- We are delighted that Professor Philip Poole has been elected as a Fellow of @royalsociety.org! Phil’s work focuses on the rhizosphere – a nutrient-rich area which is key in plant productivity – and how bacteria establish symbiotic interactions with plants 👇 bit.ly/3H3LvJJ
- Reposted by Carmen S. CañizaresThe abstract submission deadline for #ENFC2025 has been extended to May 30. There is still time to share your research and join us this September in Oxford! 📝 Submit here: web.cvent.com/event/aa2ad9...
