Last week I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Liceu Politècnic, Sant Cugat, on the topic: Stem cells to repair and model the human brain 🧠✨ Grateful for the invitation, the great questions, and the inspiring atmosphere. Science, education, and equality go hand in hand. @ubneuro.bsky.social

🚀 Cajal’s Challenge Accepted – 2026 Edition 🧠 Understanding the Paths from Neuron Induction to Circuit Integration 📅 6 July 2026 | 📍 Universitat de Barcelona 💡 Poster abstracts encouraged 🏆 Cajal Club Prize for students, short talk & $500 travel grant. 🔗 Free registration: lnkd.in/dDZPYW4T

🚀 Cajal’s Challenge Accepted – 2026 Edition 🧠 Understanding the Paths from Neuron Induction to Circuit Integration 📅 6 July 2026 | 📍 Universitat de Barcelona 💡 Poster abstracts encouraged 🏆 Cajal Club Prize for students, short talk & $500 travel grant. 🔗 Free registration: lnkd.in/dDZPYW4T

Our collaboration with @theconversation.com is now available in English! Thanks to @ub.edu and @ubneuro.bsky.social. How stem cell therapy can regenerate brain tissue after a stroke theconversation.com/how-stem-cel...

Échale un vistazo a nuestro artículo en The Conversation donde intentamos acercar nuestra investigación al público general. Muy orgulloso del equipo y del apoyo de @ub.edu y @ubneuro.bsky.social. 🔬🧬💊🧠🧫 👇 web.ub.edu/es/web/actua...

Our new paper in iScience is out! 🧠✨ “Variability vs Phenotype: multimodal analysis of Dravet Syndrome Brain Organoids powered by Deep Learning.” #Neuroscience #Organoids #AI #DravetSyndrome Open access 👇 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

You cannot miss the next talk from the "Cicle Continuat de Conferències". Dr. Danial Roshandel will show us the status of Stem Cell Transplantation for Ocular Regeneration! #stencells #regenerativemedicine #celltherapy

🎉Our last paper, BDNF Overexpression Enhances Neuronal Activity and Axonal Growth in Human iPSC-Derived Neural Cultures, has been featured on the @ub.edu website! The article highlights our recent work on stem cell-based therapies for brain damage. @ubneuro.bsky.social 🔬🧠🧫 web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been announced!! Congrats to the awarded!

You cannot miss this talk! Sergio Gascón PhD in Barcelona! @ubneuro.bsky.social @ub.edu @idibaps.bsky.social

Book the date in your calendars for the next Talk! @ub.edu @ubneuro.bsky.social You cannot miss it!! #reprogramming #neurons

🎉 We’re thrilled to share our lab’s latest publication with the scientific community! This fantastic work was part of the iGEM competition, with the help of @ubneuro.bsky.social, @ub.edu, @idibaps.bsky.social and CIBERNED. Read the article here 👉 www.mdpi.com/3422314

Next talk at the Faculty of Medicine @ub.edu. Sponsorized by the @ubneuro.bsky.social. Don't miss it!

First round of fMRI in stroke-damaged mice with stem cell transplantation. Very exciting day for our project! With Marie Karam, José T. Garrido, Guadalupe Soria Rodríguez, @ubneuro.bsky.social and @idibaps.bsky.social. #Stroke #StemCells #RegenerativeMedicine #Brain 🧠 🔬

Interesting results from the group of Claire Parish! Exercise promotes the functional integration of human stem cell-derived neural grafts in a rodent model of Parkinson’s disease: Stem Cell Reports www.cell.com/stem-cell-re...

First results from clinical trials published in Nature! Human iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons transplanted in the brain of patients with Parkinson's Dieseas. More results from Sweden and US will come soon! #RegenerativeMedicine #Parkinson #StemCells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy with this wonderful recognition from my hometown. As scientists, we are not used to this kind of awards. Thanks to the Cultural Association of Albacete in Madrid, the government of the Province of Albacete, @ub.edu and @ubneuro.bsky.social.

Read our last paper Published today! With Marie KARAM and Alba Ortega Gascó, two talented postdocs in the Laboratory of Neural Stem Cells and Brain Damage. @ub.edu, @ubneuro.bsky.social, @idibaps.bsky.social and CIBERNED. www.mdpi.com/3251774

Nova sessió del cicle continuat de conferències de la Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut: Philippe Séguéla, científic de McGill University, ve a l’Aula Magna del #CampusCLÍNIC el 2 d’abril @ubneuro.bsky.social @nscbraindamage.bsky.social #FMiCS 🖱️ bit.ly/41ZkSOl

This week, Alba Ortega Gascó, postdoc in the lab, was presenting our last results at the Stem Cell Models of Neurodegeneration Meeting, in Edinburgh, UK. @ubneuro.bsky.social , @idibaps.bsky.social #Assembloids #AlzheimerDisease 🧫 🧠 🔬

Another talk comming soon in our Cicle of Conferences! Don't miss this opportunity! “Ion channels and pain circuits: from ASICs to the Anterior Cingulate Cortex” #pain #brain #research @ub.edu www.ub.edu/portal/web/m...

Happy to have the whole group together.: Marie Karam (postdoc, Lebanon/FRA), José Garrido (phd st, PRT), Federica Passeri (master student, ITA), Alba Ortega (postdoc,CAT), Clàudia Puigsasllosas (phd st, CAT), and Anna-Christina Haeb (phd st, GER)!🔬🧠 @ub.edu @ubneuro.bsky.social @idibaps.bsky.social

Looking for a PhD position? You have to check this! #phd #research #opportunity training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/

Nueva distinción para el proyecto contra el ictus Reneurish, impulsado por estudiantes de la UB - Actualidad - Universidad de Barcelona @ub.edu @ubneuro.bsky.social web.ub.edu/es/web/actua...

Great visit to the Cortical Labs stand at the #MWC25. Thanks @sandraacosta.bsky.social, Ángeles Rabadán, ZeNEUROID and of course Brett Kagan for a fantastic collaboration! #corticalneurons #brain #artificialintelligence

Fantastic last day at the MWC Barcelona 2025, the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event #MWC25. Thanks to @startub.bsky.social and the rest of the network from @ub.edu!

Today, the Steering Committee of the @ubneuro.bsky.social (@ub.edu) has visited the facilities of the new Cognitive Neuroscience Unit. A space with a lot of potential that we hope will be filled with exciting projects. #cognitiveneuroscience #brain More information 👇 www.event-lab.org

If you are looking for a PhD in Biomedicine, this can be a nice opportunity: #phd #biomedicine #job #opportunity 🧬🔬💊 interact-msca.ku.dk

Next Wednesday (19th of February) @idibaps.bsky.social will host Prof. Hal Dietz, who is giving a talk entitled: "Leveraging nature’s success: lessons from modifiers of Marfan Syndrome and related vascular disorders". With the support of @ub.edu www.clinicbarcelona.org/actividades/...

El CSIC conmemora el Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia con más de 200 actividades www.csic.es/es/actualida...

Starting the new year by reaching 2k citations is very exciting! We will work to continue improving our impact. @ubneuro.bsky.social @ub.edu @idibaps.bsky.social

Barcelona Team (@ub.edu, @ubneuro.bsky.social) in the final project meeting from #NEUChiP. Organized by @astonuniversity.bsky.social and @lborouniversity.bsky.social at the wonderful city of Lichfield. Good science and the best company!

New talk in our Conference Cicle, next Tuesday the 4th of February at 13.00h, at the Faculty of Medicine (Aula Magna). See you there!! @ub.edu #artificialintelligence #AI Computational Pathology and Artificial Intelligence for Precision Medicine in the era of ChatGPT www.ub.edu/portal/web/m...

The UB improves in several areas of knowledge in the World University Rankings by Subject - Current events - University of Barcelona web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

This March, UK Dementia Research Institute is hosting the Symposium Stem Cell Models in Neurodegeneration, as part of the CURE-ND network. High-profile speakers and the city of Edinburgh as background. More info here 👉 lnkd.in/dWuG-PAp #StemCells #Organoids #Brain 🧠 🔬

Today, we have been at Santo Angel School (Gavá, Barcelona) to present our work in front of a group of motivated students. Great experience always meeting the next generations of scientists. @ubneuro.bsky.social @ub.edu #stemcells #stroke 🧠🔬🧫

Recuerdo cuando valoré hacer la tesis en el CNIO o cuando conocí a gente del CNIO, y todos me contaron historias muy negativas de como María Blasco trataba a sus trabajadores. Al parecer, esta investigación corroborarían bastante esos testimonios: elpais.com/ciencia/2024...

Very happy with the impact of our work! Already 200 citations this 2024. Let's try to improve for next year, with the help of @ub.edu, @ubneuro.bsky.social and @idibaps.bsky.social.

Dancing microglia!

In September, we lost one of developmental neurobiology's greats. Many thanks to Carlos Villaescusa for summarising the many contributions that Ernest Arenas made over the years - both scientifically and for the research community journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Very proud of iGEM-UB team, that returned from Paris iGEM Jamboree with the Gold Medal 🏅 representing @ub.edu and @ubneuro.bsky.social! I couldn't be happier! They deserve it after all that hard work! #Reneurish