From January 2022, our former PhD student Sara Soria-Píriz has been awarded a three-year Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellowship. She will spend most of this period training in the Carbon Biogeochemistry in Boreal Aquatic systems (CarBBAS) group at the University of Quebec and Montreal (Canada), under the supervision of Prof. Paul del Giorgio. His work focuses on unravelling the patterns of bacterial and autotrophic picoplankton community structure and pigment characteristics as revealed by cytometric analysis. These samples are part of the LakePulse Survey, a multidisciplinary project that encompasses the study of 654 lakes from 11 different ecozones across Canada, from a very wide gradient of environmental conditions (climate, latitude, lake morphometry) and anthropogenic impacts (agriculture, forestry, mining). At the end of the fellowship Sara will be reincorporated in our lab to transfer her know-how.