Salvador Espada-Hinojosa
Email: salvador.espada@univie.ac.at
Position
PhD student
Research Interest
I deal with bacterial genomics, phylogenomics, and population genomics. I use FISH, optical and electronic microscopy, Sanger, Illumina and PacBio sequencing, and R. I am currently addressing Candidatus Thiobius zoothamnicola, the bacterial symbiont of Zoothamnium niveum. I also aim to address the mutualism itself, in terms of the maintenance mechanism involved.
Education and research activities
2012-2022 Research stay at the Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia (52 weeks)
2009 Cruise to 9°N East Pacific Rise, hydrothermal vents; one dive with DSV Alvin
07/2008-05/2012 University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria), Technical assistant
09/2008 Master in Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz (Spain)
09/2001 Master degree in Marine Sciences, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz (Spain)
06/1991 Baccalaureate, Centro de Enseñanzas Integradas, Málaga (Spain)
Conferences
2017 52nd European Marine Biology Symposium, Piran, Slovenia. Co-organizer of session Marine Symbiosis, September, 25-29 2017
2015 Animal Microbe Symbioses Gordon Conference, Waterville Valley, USA, June 21.26, 2105 (invited talk)
2013 5th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems, Victoria, Canada, 18 – 23 August, 2013 (2 talks, 2 posters of group)
2012 7th International Symbiosis Society Congress, Krakow, Poland, 22 -28 July,
2006 5th International Congress on Symbiosis, Vienna, Austria
Skills
labwork: FISH, TEM, SEM, microscopy, mini- and mesofluidics
fieldwork: snorkeling
informatics: R, bash, Mathematica, Mediawiki, Typo3, Wordpress, Joomla!
outreach: Wikimedia, Twitter
Publications
De Oliveira AL, Srivastava A, Espada-Hinojosa S, Bright M. 2022. The complete and closed genome of the facultative generalist Candidatus Endoriftia persephone from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Molecular Ecology Resources 00:1–18 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13668
Espada-Hinojosa S, Drexel J, Kesting J, Kniha E, Pifeas I, Schuster L, Jean-Marie Volland J-M, Zambalos HC, Bright M. 2022. Host-symbiont stress response to lack-of- sulfide in the giant ciliate mutualism. PLoS ONE 17(2): e0254910. doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0254910
Bright M, Espada Hinojosa S, Volland J-M, Drexel J , Kesting J, Kolar I , Morchner D, Nussbaumer A, Ott J, Scharhauser F, Schuster L, Zambalos HC, Nemeschkal HL. 2019. Thiotrophic bacterial symbiont induces polyphenism in giant ciliate host Zoothamnium niveum. Sci Rep 9, 15081 (2019). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51511-3
Volland, J-M, Schintlmeister, A, Zambalos, H, Reipert, S, Mozetič, P, Espada-Hinojosa, S, Turk, V, Wagner, M & Bright, M. 2018. NanoSIMS and tissue autoradiography reveal symbiont carbon fixation and organic carbon transfer to giant ciliate host. ISME J. (doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0069-1).
Bright M, Espada-Hinojosa S, Lagkouvardos I, Volland J-M. 2014. The giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum and its thiotrophic epibiont Candidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoli: a model system to study interspecies cooperation. Frontiers in Microbiology 5: 1-13.