Microbial eco-evolutionary biologist | Assistant Professor @UCIrvine | Mexican scientist in STEM | Passionate runner/hiker and food lover. she/her
Irvine, CA
Joined June 2011
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Alejandra Rodriguez retweeted
Microbial movement into soils occurs at a surprisingly local scale. By measuring dispersal rates and spatial patterns, this study challenges the assumption that microbes freely mix across environments.
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#microbes #fungi #bacteria #dispersal #ecology
Alejandra Rodriguez retweeted
Only 10 days left to apply:
We are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical ecology and evolution.
You will have the opportunity to interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.
Please RT.
Details:
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The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution awards. Deadline is 10/16: simonsfoundation.org/2025/08… #science #ecology #evolution
Alejandra Rodriguez retweeted
PhD opportunity: Bdelloid rotifers are strange animals with no males and high stress tolerance. 10% of their genes came from bacteria, fungi via HGT, including antimicrobial genes unique in animals. Find out how/why and discover new antimicrobials too! findaphd.com/phds/project/ex…
Alejandra Rodriguez retweeted
Thrilled to share that I'm starting my own lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! My lab will study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome. kxuelab.com/ 1/2
Alejandra Rodriguez retweeted
The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT):
APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩💻
APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾🔬
More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
Application deadline: 1 March 2025
ALT Panoramic view onto the old town of Bern, with mountains in the background.
Alejandra Rodriguez retweeted
The strength of interspecies interaction in a microbial community determines its susceptibility to invasion
-in @PLOSBiology
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New: Elizabeth Duan, Olivia Kosterlitz (@livkosterlitz) & Benjamin Kerr (@evokerr) spotlight the @NatureEcoEvo article by Alfonso Santos-Lopez (@ASantosLopez), Alvaro San Millan (@AlvSanMillan) & team on mobile elements as agents of rapid adaptive change.
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Alejandra Rodriguez retweeted
Dunlop School Faculty & Undergrads: Join us for May the Fiber Be with You, the first talk in the Mind, Body, World & You series led by Associate Professor Katrine Whiteson, on November 20 at 4 p.m.
Fiber-rich foods will be served after the talk!
Register: bit.ly/Healthy_Microbiome
ALT Mind Body World & You
Alejandra Rodriguez retweeted
I love seeing our own @toby_hammer around town, even on the side of @UCIrvine busses! @UCIBioSci @UCI_Microbiome
Alejandra Rodriguez retweeted
New work out in @eLife! Possibly the last one in our series on bacterial aggregation behaviours on polysaccharides. We knew cells were engaging in collective behaviours. But how do they know when to leave and why? We provide potential answers in this work
elifesciences.org/articles/9…
As usual @EvolvedBiofilm is on top of things! I'm very proud of this work lead by PhD candidate Zahraa Al-Tameemi in my lab. And I'm happy this is published in the great journal mSystems!
Microbial diversification is maintained in an experimentally evolved synthetic community
@mSystemsJ by Zahraa Al-Tameemi and @jandraRV
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
Alejandra Rodriguez retweeted
Can we use machine learning to identify blood-based biomarkers to help predict and prevent suicide? Researchers at UC Irvine School of Medicine believe this might be possible. @UCIMedSchool
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Thrilled to share our new story. While cooperation can evolve from autonomy, can a mutualistic cooperation reversely evolve to autonomy? We observed this reversion in experimental evolution of a microbial consortium, mediated by HGT! Summary thread below doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.24.5…
Super excited I made it to @ISME_microbes in Cape Town! We are here with a good representation of microbial members from UC Irvine @UCI_Microbiome , including my lab faculty.sites.uci.edu/verdug…
On Tuesday (08/20), I will present a poster (PS2.23.017) at 10am on how 'Substrate complexity buffers negative interactions in a synthetic community of leaf litter degraders'.
