Huge congrats to the entire team, super cool work!

Capolavoro 🎨 alert 🚨! What is the role of gene body methylation in invertebrates? Despite extensive speculation linking it to plasticity and environmental responses, its mechanistic effects and heritability remain unclear. Our take out in @natecoevo.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Our preprint on the 'Origins of Eukaryotic Metabolism' is out! Take a look at some of the new findings on the origin of eukaryotic membranes, metabolic integrations between archaeal and bacterial ancestors, and other fascinating prokaryotic interactions during eukaryogenesis. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Even more bizarrely, some retrotransposons encode DAMs, but also cytosine DNMTs and Chromo (histone reader) domains, we dub these guys EpiLTRs. Why on earth a TE needs a more complex epigenome than many classic eukaryotic model species (e.g. yeast or flies) boggles us, but hard to explore yet. 5/

New preprint! In an fun collaboration with @imaeso.bsky.social and @mirimiam.bsky.social led by Manu F-M, we set to explore the potential adaptation of transposable elements 👾 to host adenine DNA methylation by recruiting prokaryotic DAM methyltransferases: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... 1/6

Thrilled to be part of this extraordinary set of groups of the #EvoDevOmics Network, and glad to see the interactions of my team with members of other labs. Great presentations by @alfonso233.bsky.social and @baielx.bsky.social of our lab projects on gene loss and genomics. #dissemination #outreach

🧬 Big Data Phylogeny & Comparative Methods course (23–26 June , online) with @martaalvarez.bsky.social & @meleonora-rossi.bsky.social Learn to build and interpret phylogenetic trees, analyse trait evolution, and apply comparative genomics to real data www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

The last couple of days were a blast! We had the 1st general meeting of the Spanish Network of #EvoDevOmics, funded by @ageinves.bsky.social. Lots of great science and fruitful discussions! Thanks to @mirimiam.bsky.social, @imaeso.bsky.social and @isabelalmudi.bsky.social for the local organization

Amazing couple of days enjoying & discussing science in the best possible company during the Barcelona meeting of the 'EvoDevOmics Network', funded by @ageinves.bsky.social. Really happy to see how the EvoDevo community in Spain is thriving & fostering a fantastic new generation of PhDs & Postdocs.

& the rest of labs for such fantastic network: @anariesgo.bsky.social, @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social, @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social, @phylobrain.bsky.social, @fany-real.bsky.social, @multicellgenome.bsky.social,@obog.bsky.social, @arnausebe.bsky.social, @bpernaute.bsky.social, Almuedo & Flames labs

Special thanks to @mirimiam.bsky.social @melisupf.bsky.social, @jpascualanaya.bsky.social, and @imaeso.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social for organising!

Exhausted but extremely happy for the two past days of very exciting Science! The EvoDevOmics Spanish Network gathered together in BCN to discuss about evodevo & omics, lots of great talks, discussions and future collaborations. 🤩 #evodevo

🚨🧬🚨 We're looking for a specialized Research Assistant to spearhead a project aimed at exploring new RNA therapeutics in diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Junior or Senior, we're hoping to recruit a highly motivated and self-driven scientist interested in both basic and applied science. 🦄

New preprint!! 🚨 Did you know that many vertebrate species determine sex based on environmental conditions rather than chromosomes? Some turtles, like Trachemys scripta, rely on temperature. We learned more about how this happen molecularly.👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Huge congrats Rafa!!

🚨 1/ Preprint Alert! Sex determination outcome is conserved across vertebrates (i.e. generating 2 compatible sexes) ♀️♂️ But are the cell types and gene programs behind them conserved too? 🧬 Spoiler: not really 👀 Find out in our new preprint ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dorks

📣 Call for Abstracts! Working on sex chromosomes? Join us at SMBE 2026 in Copenhagen (28 June–2 July). All taxa, systems, and approaches welcome! ⏰ Deadline: 3 Feb 2026 👉 smbe2026.org/abstracts/

Back from the amazing #sesbe2026 meeting, congrats to @paucarazo.bsky.social & the other organizers! Excellent science, meeting colleagues & sharing our work with a great talk by @biomanu1998.bsky.social SESBE is the place to be! @irbio-ub.bsky.social @sesbe-org.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social

Back in BCN after an great week in Valencia, 1st meeting of #EvoDevOmics network with @mirimiam.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social @jpascualanaya.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social @fany-real.bsky.social @imaeso.bsky.social & Nuria Flames

1st #EvoDevOmics meeting🍊 What a terrific team @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @mirimiam.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social @jpascualanaya.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social @fany-real.bsky.social Núria🔥 Nacho and more. What great hosts🥘 @hector-escriva.bsky.social & Steph

Ayer estuvimos presentando el primer Poster del laboratorio en el X congreso de la sociedad española de Biologia Evolutiva. #SESBE2026 @sesbe-org.bsky.social

Congratulations to @paucarazo.bsky.social and the other organizers of the #sesbe2026 meeting of the @sesbe-org.bsky.social . It has been a wonderful conference with nice talks, posters and networking, I the wonderful city of Valencia, my home town.

Great talk on venom evolution by Aida Verdes at #SESBE2026. @sesbe-org.bsky.social

congrats!!

Immune cell response to spinal cord injury in a zebrafish larva. Credit to @beckergroup.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

🚨 We are hiring! 🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project 🔬 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English 📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025 📧 [email protected] 🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom

Spanish EvoDevo at its best. Congrats to the team on this cool work 🥂🍾 Turns out that “deep conservation of CREs across hundreds of millions of years is far more widespread than previously recognized” Check it out👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

#ArticleIRBio 📄Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes 👥Magri, Marta S. @imaeso.bsky.social et al. 📕Nature Ecology & Evolution @nature_the_journal

A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows new findings on genomic regulation mechanisms throughout evolution, project led by @imaeso.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social, M Arnone, JL Gómez-Skarmeta and V Hinman. web.ub.edu/web/actualit...

Great news after the Christmas break! The work on the evolution of cis-regulation in echinoderms by the great Marta Magri, a PhD sibling of mine, is out in Nature Ecology and Evolution! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative keeps growing! We're looking for a Bioinformatician to join the BCA team in Hinxton (UK). www.linkedin.com/posts/wellco...

Our latest: Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history, led by @meleonora-rossi.bsky.social with help from friends @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social including @anariesgo.bsky.social @evopalaeo.bsky.social Davide Pisani and many others

If you want to read more, take also a look at our blog on @springernature.com Research Communities: go.nature.com/45BwBUi

Exciting news to start the new year! We’re thrilled to see this work finally out in @natecoevo.nature.com, the result of a major collaboration between my lab and the labs of Veronica Hinman and Nacho Maeso, began many years ago with the dear José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am extremely proud and happy to announce that another paper from my PhD days has just been published in @natecoevo.nature.com on evolution of genome and gene regulation thanks to all the amazing people involved. Check the paper out at: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our work on the evolution of the regulatory genome of echinoderms is now out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Led by my former PhD Marta Magri, Danila Voronov & Saoirse Foley. Great collaboration of Arnone, Hinman & Maeso labs, started long time ago with our missed José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta: rdcu.be/eXX8l