Welcome Giorgio Blumen to our lab as a visitor researcher for four months to expand his PhD #deuteronoise project supervised by Roberta Penatti in University of Milan into Oikopleura and transcriptomics!! Yesterday, he enjoyed our weekly labmeeting by @baielx.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social

#ProjecteIRBio 🧬 Com pot un genoma reordenar-se completament… i que l’animal segueixi igual? Investigadores #NuriaTorres i #MariaRoselló de l’@IRBioUB apliquen ATAC‑seq a Oikopleura dioica i obté les primeres dades d’obertura de cromatina per entendre aquest misteri evolutiu. shorturl.at/igyYC

🔬 Sabies que…? 🧬 L’Oikopleura és un organisme clau en recerca sobre desenvolupament, regulació gènica i evolució del genoma 🧐 En vols saber més? A @geneticsub.bsky.social el grup d’en Cristian Cañestro @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social l’estudia com a model, especialment l’espècie Oikopleura dioica.

Great presentation by Biel Cassà on his PhD project about Oikopleura genome scrambling co-supervised by Nuria Torres-Águila & Cristian Cañestro in the section of Genetics during the 4th #NGIRBio @irbio-ub.bsky.social @baielx.bsky.social @ntorresag.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @ub.edu

Thrilled to be part of the Spanish #EvoDevOmics network. The amazing talent within it shows how strong evo-devo is in Spain. Exciting and fruitful collaborations ahead!

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

Excellent meeting organized by @sesbe-org.bsky.social enjoying an incredible time with colleagues and friends in beautiful València🍊, while sharing our latest work on #Oikopleura genome scrambling, speciation and breaKOs. @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @ub.edu

Bones festes i bon 2026! @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social

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⏰ Última setmana per inscriure’s a #científiques 2026! Si ets investigadora o formes part d’un centre educatiu, encara hi ets a temps. Uneix-te a la iniciativa que ja ha portat més de 600 científiques a les aules i ha implicat més de 500 centres. 📆Termini: 22/12 🔗https://tuit.cat/TSJhl

CORAL: Accurate annotation of compact genomes using long-read RNA-seq, demonstrated in Oikopleura dioica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692336v1

Evolution of Tunicate lifestyles shaped by Myosin heavy chain gene duplications, losses, and the diversification of tail muscle cell identities in Oikopleura dioica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693291v1

Evolution of Tunicate lifestyles shaped by Myosin heavy chain gene duplications, losses, and the diversification of tail muscle cell identities in Oikopleura dioica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693291v1

Downstream effects of the ''Less, but More'' Fgf signaling in Oikopleura dioica: Fgf receptor expansion and RTK pathway simplification. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693154v1

Huge Congrats to DOCTOR Marc for his PhD, and with his #TailingFree has become one of the Oikopleura Legends of Barcelona! It has been an enormous pleasure to guide you in this amazing evodevo trip! @marcfabregatorrus.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social

Feliç diada!! Happy Catalonian day!! Today, we celebrate the national day of Catalonia, …and one of the typical things we eat today is the “Bread of Saint Jordi” (top), that clearly resembles “something” known by all biologists 😅 💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛🔬🧬🪰

Congrats Esteve 👏🏻👏🏻 for your excellent defense of your TFG studying how marine noise contamination affects #Oikopleura, #deuteronoise project cosupervised by @evadevo.bsky.social @esteeve.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @ub.edu

@criscanestro.bsky.social gives a lovely, thoughtful talk on this theme, on a tunicate species with very a scrambled genome; then reflects on what the patterns of scrambling can tell us about the underlying regulatory architecture. #eseb2025

Thanks @jmolev.bsky.social !! For more on our science, please follow us here at @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social

✒️ Don't miss @carlzimmer.com’s article in @nytimes.com, on the impact of gene loss in pygmy seahorses, featuring insights from Cristian Cañestro @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...

Beautiful piece by @carlzimmer.com about the impact of #GeneLoss on pygmy sea horses. Thrilled to see Cañestro’s comments mentioned in @nytimes.com. This does not happen everyday! Thanks, Carl☺️ @criscanestro.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu

Great contributions of our lab in #ESEB2025 with our research on genome architecture and gene regulation from an #oikopleura perspective. Great organization @eseb2025.bsky.social @tonigabaldon.bsky.social @ntorresag.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social

Today in #FestaCiènciaUB we are sharing the progress of our @deuteronoise project JPI studying how marine noise pollution affects embryo development of marine invertebrates. Great work @evadevo.bsky.social in collaboration lasalle’s group of Dra. RosaM Alsina & Ignasi Nou @ubdivulga.bsky.social

Avui i demà el nostre grup @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social participa a #FestaCiènciaUB compartint amb els infants el que fem al laboratori i promovent les seves ganes d’investigar i descobrir els enigmes que la natura ens ofereix. Gràcies @ubdivulga.bsky.social per organitzar-ho!

Despertem a la #FestaCiènciaUB la consciència sobre la contaminació marina que pateixen els nostres mars i oceans 🌊 a través de l'observació de criatures marines 🔎 web.ub.edu/ca/web/laubd... @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social

#Genètica | Llegim a @es.theconversation.com  aquest article del @criscanestro.bsky.social  i el @gasparsanchez.bsky.social  ➡️ Menos, pero más: entendiendo la pérdida de genes en la evolución. 🔗 https://theconversation.com/menos-pero-mas-entendiendo-la-perdida-de-genes-en-la-evolucion-249961

Moltes gràcies @biolegscat.bsky.social per fer-vo-en eco de la notícia sobre la recerca del nostre grup. Ancorat adalt al nostre fil trobareu un bluetutorial🦋 per qui vulgui llegir una mica més sobre la rellevància de la “pèrdua gènica” i la hipòtesis “menys, però més” 🧬🔬🌊

Publication of our outreach article on our work on #GeneLoss "Less, but more" studying #Fgf #evolution in #Oikopleura @gasparsanchez.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @es.theconversation.com Thanks Laura for your great editorial work @lauragderivera.bsky.social theconversation.com/menos-pero-m...

Proud of the two amazing women of our lab, @ntorresag.bsky.social @evadevo.bsky.social, who in the Int. Day of Women and Girls in Science went to two schools to talk about their projects and become models for girls and boys to follow 👩‍🔬 #11FdoneSTEMub @ubdivulga.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social

Great talk by Nuria @ntorresag.bsky.social on her postdoctoral research in our lab studying how marine biotoxins affects gene expression & chromatin remodelling in Oikopleura embryos, in colaboration with @mariarossello.bsky.social at @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @scb.iec.cat

Today, do not miss the posters of our lab at @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social working in (Eco)EvoDevo using Oikopleura as a model. #Noisosome @evadevo.bsky.social #GenomeScrambling @baielx.bsky.social #CRISPR @tinosaurio.bsky.social

Dioicous new year!! 🍾🥂 Our lab wish you a very free-living 2025!!🥳🥳 Artist 🤩: @tinosaurio.bsky.social

Less, but more: new insights from appendicularians on chordate Fgf evolution and the divergence of tunicate lifestyles https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39686543/

Congrats 🥳🥳 @ntorresag.bsky.social and @mariarossello.bsky.social for being granted with this exciting projects as PIs studying gene regulatory landscape in scramble genomes at #SGREvoDevoCat #EvoDevo and #Genomics rock 🧬🎸🤘🏻😎 @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social

"LESS, but MORE" refers to the evolutionary framework characterized by massive gene losses accompanied by bursts of duplications that we describe in a MS just published in MBE about FGF evolution in appendicularian tunicates👉 bit.ly/3VGWSfd @official-smbe.bsky.social Here, our first #BLUETORIAL 🦋😁👇

Great work progress presentation by @ntorresag.bsky.social on her project on DGE and the impact of biotoxins derived from diatom blooms on embryo development of marine organisms in the context of Oceans Health.

🔜 Don't miss out this @MSCActions Doctoral network opportunity! 🟢 15 PhD positions 🔵 Positions available in several countries 🔴 Deadline: December 20th This network is coordinated by @obog.bsky.social at #CABD 🔝 Open positions at CABD at @obog.bsky.social & María Almuedo Castillo labs

Interested in #Cellbehaviour ? Winter is coming and along will come the #JuanDeLaCierva call for junior postdocs! DM or email @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social if you are interested in learning how genes modulate cell behaviour during development! #DevBio #Drosophila www.ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/202...

Very happy to be part of this starter pack @geneticsub.bsky.social and to see @araujolabub.bsky.social, @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @compgenlabub.bsky.social @mariottilab.bsky.social @riutortlab.bsky.social and many others there too! Join this starter pack for news about our Genetics’ section @ub.edu

Congrats to all organizers of the 8th edition of the PhDday of our Department. Great invited talk by @ntorresag.bsky.social, postdoc from our lab @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social

We have two open PhD positions in my group at @crg.eu. We are seeking candidates with a background in computational and/or molecular biology, and with a broad interest in evolutionary biology, gene regulation, and comparative genomics. 📅Apply before January 12 here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

🫶🏼🦋 Hello Bluesky! We finally did the step: bye-bye X 👋🏻 Let’s go back to business talking and enjoying Science communication with good vibes. #EvoDevo #Genomics #DevelopmentalBiology Please help us to spread the word so we can again meet all our friends ☺️