#SeminarIRBio Evolution of neural circuits in Drosophilids 🗣️ Prof. Lucía Prieto-Godino, The Francis Crick Institute in London 📅 7 de maig de 2026 🕔 12h 📍 Aula de Graus , @biologiaub.bsky.social Organitza: Doctorat Genètica, @geneticsub.bsky.social eneticsUB i @isabelalmudi.bsky.social (IRBio)

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.

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

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

Happy to see this beautiful work out and honoured to be part of it!

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ZGA is a universal and essential transition in animal development, by which embryos take control of their own gene expression. Despite its importance, ZGA has well been characterized in only a handful of model organisms, where both the timing and the identity of the genes involved greatly vary. 2/15

Excellent first keynote talk by Pau Carazo @paucarazo.bsky.social from the university of Valencia on how temperature drives the divergent evolution of sexual conflict in #Drosophila chaired by @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social #DrosoSpain2026

@pedromartinezserra.bsky.social presenting cool work on tunicate phylogeny and more during the annual seminar in Natural Sciences at the Museum here in Tromsø

Registration for the 19th meeting of the #SEBD is now open! Please join us at El Rompido for 3 days full of excellent #DevBio and plenty of opportunities to present your work at #SEBD2026 share.google/2llY3VlS5fQA...

The @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social was represented this week at #BSDB2026 @bsdb.bsky.social by @isabelalmudi.bsky.social who presented her latest results on gene duplication and co-option of doublesex in the origin of the really amazing male specific visual system of mayflies!

#SEBD board members @isabelalmudi.bsky.social and @trayon.bsky.social were this week at #BSDB2026 @bsdb.bsky.social meeting “Molecules to Morphogens” at Warwick, presenting their latest results

#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

Join us! 👇

This was a great meeting! What a fantastic way to celebrate #DevBio with our #GfE and #DSDB colleagues at #GfESEBDDSBD2026 Thank you all for the #science , the discussions and all the fun! See you all again soon! #GfE2026

[1/14] 🥚🧬 La mayoría de aves proporcionan algún grado de cuidado parental a su descendencia, una inversión (tiempo, energía, exposición a depredadores…) muy elevada para mejorar la supervivencia de su descendencia.

That's it: #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026 is over. Thanks for the science, talks, posters, chairing, discussions, helpers in back & front. See you latest at #GfE2028 for more #DevBio & oidsks for all the fish, plants, mice, worm, flies, frogs, squids, brown algae, human, -oids, whatnots and you.

The @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social was very well represented at this week’s joint meeting of the @sebioldev.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social and DSDB meeting in Potsdam with talks by @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social @araujolabub.bsky.social

[1/11]🧽🧬¿De dónde venimos los animales? Uno de los objetivos de la biología es reconstruir el Árbol de la Vida. La revolución de los análisis genómicos ha permitido resolver las relaciones de muchos organismos, pero otros quedan aún sin resolver, incluyendo algunos episodios evolutivos clave.

Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.

Here are some links to things I mentioned during my talk at #gfe2026 - Summary of @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 celebrations: www.biologists.com/100-years/ - Grants from the Company: www.biologists.com/grants/ - @dev-journal.bsky.social/HDBI meeting: www.biologists.com/meetings/dev... ...

Mayflies are sexually dimorphic, with males having an extra set of 'turban'-like eyes. @isabelalmudi.bsky.social shows that turban eyes develop by adapting existing eye gene networks, likely downstream of an extra sex-determining gene found only in males. #gfe2026 More in @dev-journal.bsky.social⤵

At the #GfESEBDDSBD2026 EvoDevo session we start with a talk by Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social from @geneticsub.bsky.social and #SEBD board member #GfE2026

it’s already … tomorrow?! Who is heading to #gfe2026 in Potsdam? Looking forward to seeing you all and to discuss your science. #devbio

Kicking off #gfe2026 meeting with a great historical perspective on Potsdam followed by the Keynote Lecture by Thomas Bosh. Thomas shows us that eukaryotes are holobionts/meta organisms that do-evolved with species-specific microbiota.

Welcome to the GfE Meeting 2026 joint with DSDB and SEBD in Potsdam. Salim Seyfried opens the #gfe2026 conference at Uni Potsdam. Let’s have amazing 4 days of science.

It has been a great start to our Development & Regeneration joint meeting #GfESEBDDSDB2026 with a great keynote and two fantastic sessions on Fertilization and early development! @sebioldev.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social

Our society is well represented in this first flash-talk session with talks by Jorge Mañes-García (from @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social) and Isabel Pérez-Ferrer (from @eloisaherrera.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social) #GfESEBDDSDB2026 #gfe2026

What a way to start the second day of #GfESEBDDSDB2026 ! A Keynote lecture by Isabel Fariñas @farinaslab.bsky.social introduced by our president Eloisa Herrera @eloisaherrera.bsky.social

We continue the morning with a session on “Forces define form - mechanobiology” with 2 #SEBD representatives, Jerome Solom from Biofisika Institute (CSIC, EHU) and Cielo Centola from @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social

SESBE, trabajando por un futuro inclusivo para las mujeres y las niñas

📣 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 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

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👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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

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...

Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬 We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies. Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

It's out, Minos transgenesis in the pantry moth by @donyaniyaz.bsky.social @lucalivraghi.bsky.social High efficient, glowing eye and silk gland markers peerj.com/articles/202... @peerj.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce our next #SEBD2026 meeting! The meeting will take place in El Rompido, Huelva, from the 28th to the 30th of October 2026 #savethedate @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social @ijdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @devdynamics.bsky.social

One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution' organised by James Hombría & Antónia Monteiro Deadline 5 Dec. biologists.com/workshops/ju... @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @jlopezrios.bsky.social

Join us in Montpellier if you are interested in #evolution #genomics #adaptation #invasive species or if you want to get to know a collegial group of #Drosophila enthusiasts

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch! 📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility. 🙏Please, RT!

🧐 Vols saber-ne més? A la Secció de @geneticsub.bsky.social tenim el grup de recerca de la Dra. Isabel Almudí @isabelalmudi.bsky.social que els estudia. 💌 Segueix-nos per descobrir més curiositats de la #genètica! 2/2

🔬 Sabies que…? 🧬 El Cloeon dipterum és una espècie d’efímera molt comuna i interessant dins de l’ordre Ephemeroptera i de la família Baetidae. És una de les efímeres més conegudes d’Europa i s’utilitza com a espècie model per estudiar el desenvolupament d’aquests insectes aquàtics. 1/2

How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵 Check our latest preprint

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬 To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain). 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy

Last day to send an abstract for the next sesbe meeting in Valencia! Don't miss the oportunity

[14/14]🐜 🧬 Referencias: - Juvé, Y., Lutrat, C., Ha, A. et al. One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants. Nature (2025).