On this day, 50 years ago, EMBL was established! Today, we celebrate five decades of EMBL, fuelled by infinite curiosity. EMBL turns 50, and we’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to reaching this milestone! #EMBL50

Happy 50th anniversary EMBL! 🥳🍾 Birthday greetings from SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @EMBL Hamburg @EMBL #EMBL50

Today I will be presenting my poster (PS2.08.036) at #ISME19 in Cape Town, South Africa! Come by if you want to know about a modern microbialite reef analogous for early Earth biostructures! 🌋

EMBL was present at #ISME19 in Cape Town, South Africa, with great talks by Rob Finn and Flora Vincent! Looking forward to the next meeting in Auckland, New Zealand!

Federico Agustín Vignale is presenting our work on Extreme Microbial Ecosystems at the Planetary Biology retreat EMBL -a multidisciplinary study with several collaborators, including the X-Ray Imaging Team @EMBL team.

We are looking for an enthusiastic postdoctoral candidate to work with SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @EMBL Hamburg @EMBL and myself on an interdisciplinary project combining Biochemistry of #extremophile and #StructuralBiology. The position will be held at EMBL Hamburg in collaboration with myself Unina Federico II #postdoc

#YerbaMate makes the third most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but it’s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine. elifesciences.org/articles/10475…

Scientists at Exactas UBA, EMBL Hamburg, U of I School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and others mapped yerba mate’s genome, providing surprising facts about its biochemistry and evolution of caffeine biosynthesis. Find out more: embl.org/news/science-t…

I recently participated in the GRC on Applied and Environmental Microbiology 🦠, where I had the opportunity to serve as a Discussion Leader and to present my work on modern microbialites as a Speaker. Thanks to the chairs Denise Akob, Marianne Haines, and Jose Luis Rolando!

Seasonal biogeochemical variations in a modern microbialite reef under early Earth-like conditions bit.ly/4nBZFSu

Last week I attended the M-FED 2025, where I presented the discovery of uncharacterized microbial ecosystems in the Central Andes 🌎 I also joined the workshop “Grow your own microbial mat ” and we visited the UNESCO Geopark Heeseberg! ⛏️ A great week of microbialite science!