Can robots in a swarm act like the cells of an organism? Thanks to Sedeer El-Showk for the new article in @nature.com, which highlights the work of a number of research groups, including our own, on how “Robots demonstrate principles of collective intelligence”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Find out how video games helped scientists visualise limb development. Laura Aviñó-Esteban, PhD student at EMBL Barcelona and first author of a recently published study, explains how video games helped her solve the problem of fragmented limb dev. visualisation. 💻🧪 www.embl.org/news/science...

Congratulations Kristina!! Very well deserved. All of EMBL Barcelona is proud of you 👍🏻. @embl.org

Our teachers this year: Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social) Rashmi takes a systems-level approach, integrating quantitative imaging, genetics, and theory to explore how organs form and function emerges during embryogenesis. She will talk about the role of mechanical forces in organogenesis.

This Thursday, Jerome Solon (CSIC-UPV/EHU) will be the next speaker at the Seminar Series! 🧫 “Closing the gap: Mechanosensing and control of tissue mechanics for epithelial sealing and tissue repair” 📅 06/03/2025 – 10:00 🗳️ Registration: t.ly/jPOlc 👨‍🏫 Host: @jamesasharpe.bsky.social

To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author Laura Aviñó-Esteban @lauavinyo.bsky.social and corresponding author James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social, Head of EMBL Barcelona, Spain. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Congratulations Laura Avinyo! @lauavinyo.bsky.social and Heura Cardona! First paper of your PhD 🎉. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Beautiful quantified trajectory of how the skeletal pattern of the gene Sox9 emerges during limb development. @embl.org @barcelonacollaboratorium.com

Good morning #CellBio24! Don't miss this morning's Visionary Awards session from 9-11am in ballroom 20a, where @crg.eu's Elvan Böke will receive her EMBO Gold Medal and give a talk alongside fellow @ascbiology.bsky.social award winners. Gold Medal announcement 👇 www.embo.org/press-releas...

Spreading our work at the XII Jornades de Bioinformàtica i Genòmica de la @scb.iec.cat @tmontsay.bsky.social about our recent discovery rdcu.be/d04Gz of pervasive presence of not completly lysed cells in reference cell atlases @humancellatlas.org compromising quality & model training

Thanks very much Anna! @annaesteveco.bsky.social and it was great to hear about your work on the possible worrying large biases in sc RNA-Seq data.

Very nice interview with our new(-ish!) Head of Administration in Barcelona. @embl.org www.embl.org/news/people-...

Big 🧬 news this week: we have launched the first Joint Program on Evolutionary Medical Genomics. Spearheaded by @mirimiam.bsky.social, Barcelona researchers will study and exploit the vast genomic diversity of life on Earth to enhance precision medicine. Full story in @elpais.com

So exciting! Studying malaria infection in vitro! The human malaria parasite is specific to humans: you can't study the same parasite in animal models. The lab of @mariabernabeu.bsky.social build beautiful human blood vessels in vitro, & do the experiments there: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic kickoff presentation today for the inaugural symposium of the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social by @deboramarks.bsky.social from @harvardmed.bsky.social who gave the opening keynote on, Generative models for prediction and design.