Maria Madrid (she/her)
@mariamadrid16.bsky.social
Colombian 🇨🇴 PhD student @ KU Leuven || Bioinformatician || Eco-evolutionary genomics 🪲🦋🕷️ Studying the evolutionary role of chromosomal inversions in beetles 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸
My new paper is finally out in mSystems from @asm.org! Submitted in Sept 2025 and published Dec 12th 2025. "Metagenomic, metabolomic, and sensorial characteristics of fermented coffee" ☕️🧬🦠🇨🇴 doi.org/10.1128/msys... #coffee #fermentation #microbiology #metabolomics #metagenomics
Metagenomic, metabolomic, and sensorial characteristics of fermented Coffea arabica L. var. Castillo beans inoculated with microbial starter cultures | mSystems
Our study demonstrates that inoculating coffee fermentation alters the sensory qualities of coffee and reshapes the dynamics of bacterial and fungal communities during this process. We identified dist...
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Fantastic "first" #EvolutionaryGenomics day @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social with talks from Kerstin Johannesson, Felicity Jones, Alexander Suh, @wenjuanma84.bsky.social, @mariamadrid16.bsky.social, and many others 🐌🐦🐟🐞🐚🌱🧬
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!
Got the chance to present my research on chromosomal inversions and beetles at ESEB 2025 in Barcelona 🪲🧬 Thanks for everyone who came and asked questions! Big thanks also to @eseb2025.bsky.social for organizing and for having me. We’re having a wonderful time! @svbelleghem.bsky.social
Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
🚀 PhD Opportunity 🎓: Why do some species survive #climatechange while others vanish? Join us in 🧜♀️ to 🔍🌊🐌 : 🐚Unravel rapid #evolution & #adaptation, biological invasions & extinction 🐚Integrate #genomics, #conservation, ecology & more 🐚Turn science into conservation action ℹ️ tinyurl.com/fhzxr7ed
Open PhD position in Population Genomics at University of Zurich. Fully funded, focus on human demographics, genetics, and cultural evolution. Apply by June 30, 2025. More info: https://www.evobio.uzh.ch/en.html #phd
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VIB.AI's International PhD call is now open! https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd If you're interested in applying AI to biology, take a look at the PhD projects across our labs. 🗓️ Deadline: June 22nd
Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!
🚨PhD position in AI in Microbiology! We’re looking for a PhD researcher passionate about developing automated systems for microbiological research. 🌍 More info & apply: jobs.vib.be/j/109363/phd... @vibmicrobes.bsky.social @vibai.bsky.social
PhD Position in AI in Microbiology - VIB
About the labThe lab of Jeroen Raes (VIB, KU Leuven) is home to a vibrant, dynamic and international group of researchers in the field of gut microbial ecology and its clinical applications. In additi...
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Metagenomic, metabolomic and sensorial characteristics of fermented Coffea arabica L. var. Castillo beans inoculated with microbial starter cultures https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.22.634363v1
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion. Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more. If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
PhD position in Evolutionary Genomics of Seasonal Camouflage at Stockholm University extended to May 4, 2025. Suitable candidates should apply via: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:805048/where:4/ #phd
PhD Student in Evolution of Seasonal Camouflage
PhD Student in Evolution of Seasonal Camouflage
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A PhD position in plant evolutionary genomics is available at Univ.Vienna 🇦🇹. Focus: genomic drivers underlying the diversification of Tillandsia 😍. Funded by a project between France & Austria (ANR-FWF project RadiaSpe). Come join the team! More information: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Univie_R...
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“De-extinction” is to biodiversity loss what “Mars colonization” is to climate change—wishful thinking that is at its core impossible but nevertheless sucks up attention and resources from actual solutions to these crises (which, ultimately, might be the whole point)
Apply now! Wieslaw is the best supervisor and the project is great! If you want to be supervised by a person from whom you can learn a lot, who cares about your scientific development and you want to work in our fantastic team - do not hesitate any longer! Please share!
This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨🔬🧬🖥️
Sex redefined - Nature
The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.
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Having a great time at the Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics in Český Krumlov! Thanks @evomics.bsky.social for organizing! @wpsg.bsky.social
