The Plasmid Biology and Evolution lab is part of the Unit of Evolutionary Biology of Microorganisms within the IRYCIS (Ramon y Cajal Institute for Health Research), located in the Ramon y Cajal Hospital in Madrid.

Welcome to the PBE lab led by Alvaro San Millan (Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, IRYCIS, Madrid)
The PBE lab is based in the Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Madrid. If you are interested in working with us, get in touch.
Check out some of the cool microbiology we see on an average day!
In the PBE lab we study the role of plasmids as catalysts of bacterial evolution, with a special focus on the evolution of plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance.
New paper from the PBE lab in PNAS
Methods paper in Methods in Molecular Biology
Alvaro publishes a perspective on the evolution of antibiotic resistance
Incredible meeting at Proctor Academy, Andover, NH
The PBE Lab in the XXVII Conference of the Spanish Society of Microbiology (SEM)