🎓 Nuestro doctorando Antonio Arroyo defiende el 17 de julio su tesis titulada "Molecular determinants of adaptation and infection of Pseudomonas savastanoi in woody hosts" Dirección: Cayo Ramos y Luis Rodríguez. 🕤10:00h 📍Salón de Grados de la Facultad de Ciencias

👩‍🔬 El investigador del IHSM La Mayora Adam Stanislaw Ossowicki ha sido seleccionado para la concesión de un contrato dentro de la convocatoria “Investigador Doctor” 2025 de la Junta de Andalucía. ✨ ¡Enhorabuena, Adam! ✨

Our researchers Laura Arribas-Hernández and Rafael Morcillo joined the Eepicrops Annual Conference in Oviedo, Spain. Laura opened day 2 with a keynote on plant m6A, followed by Rafa on its role in plant growth responses to microbial volatiles 👏

🎓 Nuestra doctoranda Blanca Ruiz defiende el 16 de julio su tesis titulada "From microbiome assembly to root colonization by plant-beneficial bacteria in the avocado rhizosphere”. Dirección: Francisco Cazorla López y José A. Gutiérrez Barranquero 🕤11:00h 📍Salón de Grados de la Facultad de Ciencias

🎓 Hoy la doctoranda Islam Mohamed Eltayeb Gaib Alla ha defendido su tesis "Green Synthesis of Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticles from Aryldiazonium Gold (iii) Salts using microorganisms", dirigida por los investigadores Alejandro Pérez García, Ahmed A. Mohamed y Elsiddig A. E. Elsheikh

🎓 Nuestro doctorando Hilario Domínguez defiende el 15 de julio su tesis titulada "Extracellular strategies beyond the Type III secretion system in the Pseudomonas syringae complex" Dirección: Luis Rodríguez y Cayo Ramos 🕤10:00h 📍Salón de Grados de la Facultad de Ciencias @univmalaga.bsky.social

🎓 Today our PhD researcher Lucía Guirado Manzano made her PhD defense at the Faculty of Science Auditorium (University of Malaga) ✨ Congratulations, Lucía! ✨ #PhD #PHDdefense

🎓Nuestra doctoranda Lucía Guirado defenderá el 10 de julio (10:30h) su tesis, realizada bajo la diorección de los investigadores Dolores Fernández Ortuño y Eva Arrebola Díez. 📍 Salón de Grados. Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad de Málaga Más información ⬇️

🥭 NIR spectroscopy for the rapid assessment and cultivar classification of intact mangoes under dynamic grading-line conditions More information in our new article ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Closing the XVIII edition of RBMP from Bilbao, our computational biologist Ian Morilla presented S2-PepAnalyst, a web tool for predicting plant small signalling peptides that has been recently designed by his group 👏

Changing gears to transcriptional control of strawberry ripening 🍓, María G. Blanco from the Posé lab gave a fantastic talk within the Plant Biotechnology session of RBMP2026 🌱👏

Our next speaker at RBMP20226, Rafael Morcillo, explained how the m6A-mRNA regulatory pathway contributes to the rapid growth that plants exhibit in response to microbial volatiles 👏🌱

🗣️ El investigador del IHSM La Mayora Iñaki Hormaza ha participado en las "XXI Jornadas Técnicas Aguacate y Mango" organizadas por TROPS con su ponencia titulada "Avances en la floración del mango" 🥭

Karen Merchante (@kmerchante.bsky.social) opens the second session of RBMP2026, explaining the role that selective translation plays in plant development🌱 👏

First IHSM La Mayora researcher to give a talk at RBMP2026 is Patricia Pacheco-Ruiz from Osorio's lab. Patricia talked about terpene biosynthesis in strawberry 🍓😋.

👏 Wonderful RBMP2026 kick off at Bilbao. Many researchers of IHSM La Mayora are attending this important event for the Spanish Plant Molecular Biology Community, with talks and posters 🌱 Stay tuned!

👩‍🔬 Our researchers Juan Manuel Ocaña Gálvez, Fernando Baisón, Carlos Martínez-Zamora, Javier Ruiz-Albert and Carmen R. Beuzón participated in the latest edition of the @MicroMolSEM meeting in Valencia

👩‍🔬 Our researchers (López-Pagán, Rufián, Ruiz-Albert, Beuzon) and collaborators (Luneau, van Vliet, Aussel, Sanchez-Romero) win one of the Josep Casadesús Awards by @MicroMolSEM for their study on P. syringae and plant infection. Congrats! 👏 rdcu.be/egczU

🙌El IHSM La Mayora celebra la concesión de una ayuda PTA (Personal Técnico de Apoyo) a Jesús Hierrezuelo financiada por la @ageinves.bsky.social Esta actuación contribuye a reforzar las capacidades analíticas y científico-técnicas del centro, fortaleciendo el apoyo a la investigación ¡Enhorabuena!

Congratulations to our researcher Jessica Pérez Sancho, recipient with M. Smokvarska and G.Dubois of the French Academy of Sciences Medal. Their study on intercellular communication mediated by membrane contact sites has been recognized as one of the year's major advances in biology.

🔬 Our researchers Miguel Ángel Porras, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Luisa Carrégalo and David Vela participated in the latest edition of BACELL 2026 (Málaga), the International Congress on Bacillus Cell Biology.

🗣️ Today, the researcher Jordi Moya Laraño from the Estación Experimental Zonas Áridas (EEZA-CSIC), Almería came to visit us to share his research with an amazing talk as part of our #IHSMLaMayoraSeminars series

✍️ ¡Abierto plazo de matriculación del Máster Universitario en Biotecnología y Biología Vegetal (UMA-UNIA)! 🎓 Título oficial impartido por @univmalaga.bsky.social y Universidad Internacional de Andalucía en el que participa el IHSM La Mayora UMA-CSIC Más información en la web ⬇️ mbbv.es

📋 Join us on Friday 19th for a fascinating talk by Jordi Moya Laraño from the Estación Experimental Zonas Áridas (EEZA-CSIC), Almería as part of the #IHSMLaMayoraSeminars series Don't miss it! 🕑 9:30 AM 📍 IHSM La Mayora Auditorium

🦠 How a human pathogen builds the molecular scaffold behind its resistance More information in our new article ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @ana-alvarez-mena.bsky.social

👩‍🔬 Our researchers David Vela and María Urrutia obtained a Ramón y Cajal grant ✨ Congratulations!✨ #RyC #AyudasRamónyCajal

📢IHSM La Mayora just got stronger in Machine Learning 🌿During an outreach session at LAGA, Institut Galilée (Paris), our researcher Ian Morilla set the groundwork for AI applied to plant models — a key capability now available for the next research phase of our institute 🧠🤖 @morillalab.bsky.social

📡🌱 On June 2, we welcomed EuCNC & 6G Summit 2026 participants to the IHSM La Mayora Experimental Station. During the visit, attendees discovered several pilot trials developed within the European projects 6G PATH and 6G VERSUS, aimed at enabling smarter and more sustainable agriculture.

🗣️ Today, the researcher Ewa Grzebelus from the University of Agriculture in Krakow (Poland) came to visit us to share his research with an amazing talk as part of our #IHSMLaMayoraSeminars series

📋 Join us on Friday 5th for a fascinating talk by Ewa Grzebelus from the University of Agriculture in Krakow (Poland) as part of the #IHSMLaMayoraSeminars series Don't miss it! 🕑 9:30 AM 📍 IHSM La Mayora Auditorium