De novo genes arise from previously non-coding sequences. This evolutionary path — when randomly expressed sequences become folded and active proteins — challenges our understanding of genetic innovation. New Review by @bornberglab.bsky.social and @lacholt.bsky.social out now!

📢 EvoMG-DN PhD applications are now open! Join our EU-funded MSCA network and explore evolution, ageing, and disease. 👉 www.evomg-dn.eu 📅 Apply by 30 November 2025 #PhD #DoctoralTraining #MSCA #HorizonEurope #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #BiomedicalResearch#EarlyCareerResearchers

Great PhD defence today of Lili Boll on combining large amounts of omics data to better understand Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor response! @upf.edu @grib-barcelona.bsky.social

Great PhD defence today of Lili Boll on combining large amounts of omics data to better understand Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor response! @upf.edu @grib-barcelona.bsky.social

Lili gave a talk entitled "Refining Immunotherapy Response Prediction in Advanced Bladder Cancer" related to the work recently published by the group in Nature Communications Check it out👇 👇 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39979258/

📢 Join us for the XXIV Evolutionary Biology Conference! 🗓️ June 27, 2025 📍 Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis Catalans 🎙️ Invited speaker: Jérôme Salse (INRAE, France) 🏆 XVI Antoni Prevosti Award for young researchers 🔗 Info & registration: scb.iec.cat/xxiv-jornada... #EvolBio2025 @scb.iec.cat

Delighted to share paper on translational activity of 80S monosomes across different tissues in 🪰 in @narjournal.bsky.social thanks to fabulous team Albert Blandy Tayah Hopes Elton Vasconcelos @amy-turner96.bsky.social Bulat Fatkhullin Michaela Agapiou Juan Fontana academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

👀Last week (28-29 April), members of @grib-barcelona.bsky.social attended the Computational Genomics Symposium 2025 in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Girona!☀️💁‍♀️ @maralbalab.bsky.social @researchmar.bsky.social @prbb.org

Now is the time to reserve your spot for the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on #microproteins. Come join us in beautiful Barcelona in August! www.grc.org/decoding-mic...

Thursday we will be hosting Jorge Ruiz-Orera at the PRBB 💥

Our piece on the beautiful work by Cui et al. on the impact of human accelerated regions on neurons is out now! @grib-barcelona.bsky.social @researchmar.bsky.social @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧪📣Course alert!📣🧪 Applications are open for the new edition of the @EMBO.org course on Genome assembly and downstream analysis in Florence 🇮🇹. We can’t wait to welcome a new group of participants after the success of🇧🇪 & 🇪🇸 editions. 🗓️ Apply by May 31. 🧪🧬🖥️ #EMBOgenomeSeq #ScienceTraining

Few weeks left to submit your abstract to #ESEB2025 in Barcelona! 👇 eseb2025.com Do not miss this opportunity to present your most exciting work at the hot-spot #evolution event in Europe this year. Choose among the 50+ symposia covering a broad range of topics!

Happy to see this out! Integration of data from hundreds of patients to deepen our understanding of the molecular basis of the response to immunotherapy. Big team effort! @researchmar.bsky.social @upf.edu

So many great reviews and perspectives in this month's special issue on #microproteins in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social! www.cell.com/trends/genet... And just in time for tomorrow's @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on microproteins! #KSMicroproteins25 🎉🙌

🐦 Calling all Early Birds! ​ ​ Hurry up and seize the opportunity to participate in the upcoming ESEB Congress, set in the vibrant city of Barcelona 🌟​ ​ 🎟️ Secure now your place at the best possible price 👉🏻 eseb2025.com/registration... ​ #ESEB2025 #Biology #Evolution #Genomics

The new year starts with tenure-track openings at @UPFBarcelona @the_prbb Computational Biology: upf.edu/ca/web/biome... Quantitative Biology: upf.edu/ca/web/biome... Check it out!