¡Hola!, I'm Alejandro Rodríguez Gijón (He/Him). I'm an environmental microbiologist who aims to understand the ecology and evolution of Archaea and Bacteria by using metagenomics and environmental metadata. Here below you can find a bit of my background!
- Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Rafael Laso Pérez at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid (Spain).
- PhD candidate at the Microbial Interactions - Garcia Group at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab in Stockholm (Sweden).
- Internship at the Molecular Ecology Group at the Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque in Verbania (Italy).
- Msc. in Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecology at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid (Spain).
- BSc. in Biology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, in Madrid (Spain).
Selected publications:
- Rodríguez-Gijón A, Pacheco-Valenciana A, Milke F, Dharamshi JE, Hampel JJ, Damashek J, Wienhausen G, Rodriguez-R LM, Garcia SL. 2025. The ecological success of freshwater microorganisms is mediated by streamlining and biotic interactions. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.24.644981.
- Rodríguez-Gijón A&, Hampel JJ&, Dharamshi J, Bertilsson S, Garcia SL. 2023. Shotgun metagenomes from productive lakes in an urban region of Sweden. Scientific Data 10, 810. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02722-x.
- Rodríguez-Gijón A, Buck M, Andersson AF, Izabel-Shen D, Nascimento FJA, Garcia SL. 2023. Linking prokaryotic genome size variation to metabolic potential and environment. ISME Communications 3, 25. DOI: 10.1038/s43705-023-00231-x.
- Broman E, Izabel-Shen D, Rodríguez-Gijón A, Bongalia S, Garcia SL, Nascimento FJA. 2022. Microbial functional genes are driven by gradients in sediment stoichiometry, oxygen, and salinity across the Baltic benthic ecosystem. Microbiome 10, 126. DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01321-z.
- Rodríguez-Gijón A&, Nuy JK&, Mehrshad M, Buck M, Schulz F, Woyke T, Garcia SL. 2022. A genomic perspective across Earth’s microbiomes reveals that genome size in Archaea and Bacteria is linked to ecosystem type and trophic strategy. Frontiers in Microbiology 12. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.761869.
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