#ESCMIDGlobal2026 is over. The group participated with oral presentations from Hrant Hovhannisyan (computational multiplexing optimization) and @tonigabaldon.bsky.social (evolutionary genomics of #Candida ), there was a lot of learning and networking.

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

This is the cool stuff: phage steering - using phages to force evolutionary trade-offs in pathogen! Sounds a bit Science-fictiony but there's now clinical studies on small groups of patients! #ESCMIDGlobal2026

“The Year in Clinical Micro” at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 🔬 Take-home message: Culture-free diagnostics + AI are transforming ID & AST —faster, increasingly accurate, and moving us toward earlier targeted therapy and smarter antibiotic use. Not quite perfect yet—but clearly the future

Demà 📅 20 d'abril presentem a la📍SalaDarwin el documental 🎦 #UnSafariAlPleistoceno dirigit per #AlejandroArtés i assessorat per l'investigador #PedroPiñero @biologiques-uv.bsky.social director del jaciment Quibas (Abanilla, Múrcia), q recrea la serra fa 1 milió d'anys www.uv.es/uvweb/biolog...

Will be at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 for the next days. Looking forward to meet colleagues and present our work on #Candida

Phylogenomics of Asgard archaea reveals a unique blend of prokaryotic-like horizontal transfer and eukaryotic-like gene duplication www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

'Asgard archaea' no solo sigue siendo un nombre chulo, además están mostrando más y más maneras en las que parecen una forma transicional entre procariotas y eucariotas

🔬 New #FAQ drops key insights on Barcelona's #AfricanSwineFever outbreak from @gabaldonlab.bsky.social: They've sequenced the outbreak strain's genome and compared it with known variants to trace origins and characteristics. ➡️ https://shorturl.at/P02ME #ASF @tonigabaldon.bsky.social

fitness costs are associated with acquired antifungal resistance in N. glabratus, and these trade-offs can be targeted by drugs as shown by @gabaldonlab.bsky.social ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Paper Our new study on #Asgard archaea is out in Nature Communications. We find a distinctive evolutionary pattern: widespread #HGT, but genome expansion mainly through gene duplication. An interesting window into the origins of #eukaryotic complexity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We put together this FAQ on the African swine fever outbreak in Barcelona, based on current evidence. My group helped sequence the outbreak strain and compare it with other #ASFV virus genomes to explore its origins and features. #AfricanSwineFever www.pig333.com/articles/fre...

Friday 6th March at 12:00 I'll be speaking at the @irbbarcelona.org seminar series. "Deadly yeasts: unexpected origins and foreseeable future" 👇 www.irbbarcelona.org/en/events/de...

Friday 6th March at 12:00 I'll be speaking at the @irbbarcelona.org seminar series. "Deadly yeasts: unexpected origins and foreseeable future" 👇 www.irbbarcelona.org/en/events/de...

As part of @bsc-cns.bsky.social participation at the #MWC26 and #4YN I will be presenting our applications of using hashtag#IA for the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer from fecal microbiome profiles (#MiCRC) Come and meet me on the 4th March at our booth x4hpc.cat/mwc26/agenda...

✨Así será nuestro stand en el #MWC26!!! Tras meses de trabajo, éste será el espacio que acogerá algunas de nuestras presentaciones, charlas, startups de #IA , demo… y hasta 30 actividades! 🔘Agenda: www.bsc.es/mwc26 #InnovationBSC I #BSCAIFactory I #EUAIFactories I #EUAIFAntennas I #4YFN

Hoy se celebra el #DarwinDay para conmemorar el nacimiento del naturalista británico Charles Darwin.

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

📢 Vacancy: BSC is looking for a Research Area Director – Artificial Intelligence. ➡️ bsc.es/43k #AI #job #trabajo #feina

📢 #BSCSeminar: “Genotype to phenotype: taking genetic effects from social partners and the microbiome into account”. 🗣 Amelie Baud, @crg.eu 📆 11 February ➡️ bsc.es/4Jy #EquityinBSC #WomeninBSC @sommalliance.bsky.social

For 25 years, @icreacommunity.bsky.social has strengthened Catalonia’s research ecosystem by attracting top scientific talent worldwide.  This report by @crisaez.bsky.social for @ara.cat shows why investing in top scientific talent is a decisive research strategy. ➡️ https://shorturl.at/SANnO

🦠"Estem estudiant com els canvis que es produeixen en la microbiota intestinal s’associen al càncer colorectal. O com els bacteris de la boca estan implicats en la hipertensió". 🗞 Toni Gabaldon, investigador @icreacommunity.bsky.social del BSC i @irbbarcelona.org a l' @ara.cat

Són poc més de les 6.30 del matí. La paleoantropòloga nord-americana Ashley Hammond fa estona que és desperta, donant mamar al seu fill, de dos mesos. Ho té tot calculat...

Big ⁦‪@icreacommunity‬⁩ day for our 25th anniversary. (Humble, honoured, proud and happy to be part of this community) Now words of recognition to prof. Mas-Colell for his leading role founding icrea.

This has been my last meeting as president of @sesbe-org.bsky.social and I wish all the best for the new board, led by the excellent newly elected president @isabelalmudi.bsky.social . I am sure they will do amazing things.

Congratulations to @paucarazo.bsky.social and the other organizers of the #sesbe2026 meeting of the @sesbe-org.bsky.social . It has been a wonderful conference with nice talks, posters and networking, I the wonderful city of Valencia, my home town.

Yes! Congratulations! Very proud of Moisès!

Moisès Bernabéu from the group presented our work on the origins of the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor at #sesbe2026. Multiple interacting partners shaped our ancestor’s genome

Con los presis del 1er (Manuel Soler) y 2o (Andrés Moya) períodos de la @sesbe-org.bsky.social hemos hecho un breve repaso de los 20 años de historia de nuestra sociedad. Aquí en #sesbe2026 acaba mi ciclo, satisfecho de haber contribuido, y con la certeza de q la SESBE va a tener un gran futuro. 🎂

Presenting the first poster from the lab on invasive and native species at the X SESBE meeting. #SESBE2026 @sesbe-org.bsky.social @hanhtkvu.bsky.social @riutortlab.bsky.social @jrozasub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social

As always, extremely high quality in the PhD thesis research awarded with the Pere Alberch prize by the @sesbe-org.bsky.social , excellent talk too by the awardee Laia Marin from @aruizherrera.bsky.social lab. Congratulations! #sesbe2026

Now Edu Ocaña Pallarès, previous postdoc in the group, now PI at UOC presenting the timetree of fungi, calibrated with fossils and HGT. Nice to see #fungi at the paleobiology session in #sesbe2026

It has been a pleasure to present my latest work at @sesbe-org.bsky.social meeting. Hope to see it published soon ✊🏻🤞🏻

Comença en València el X congrés de la @sesbe-org.bsky.social i anit es va inaugurar una exposició fotogràfica extraordinària al Botànic que usa el fil conductor de l’evolució. Més que recomanable!

Several of us are attending #sesbe2026 in Valencia. Today Saioa Manzano @microbiobits.bsky.social presented her work on evolution of Asgard archea genomes, showing they show a blend of eukaryotic-like and prokaryotic like processes.

📣 #paper "Uncovering actionable trade-offs of antifungal resistance in a yeast pathogen" Check out our new publication in @molsystbiol.org where we systematically map stress-related trade-off associated with drug resistance in Candida glabrata (N. glabratus) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Twelve scientists from Chile, India, Nigeria, Singapore and Taiwan have been selected as new EMBO Global Investigators – Congratulations to the new cohort! 🧪 Read the press release: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twelve-scientists-become-embo-global-investigators/ #funding #training

Last days to apply for these postdoctoral positions, including one in my group. auspire.eu/research-tea...

Shocked and sad after reading that Peer Bork has passed away. A pioneer and inspiring leader in bioinformatics applied to comparative genomics, protein evolution, function prediction, microbiome, and many other relevant biological questions. His legacy will remain. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

Evolutionary dynamics of temporal transcription factor series in the insect optic lobe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.08.698497v1

I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!

This work didn't happen in a vacuum and benefited by wonderful collaborators in our lab, namely Elsa Iliopoulou and Claire Julliot de La Morandière, as well as the labs of @jsb-ucla.bsky.social and @tonigabaldon.bsky.social.

5/ 🔬 Toni Gabaldón @irbbarcelona.org, leads a project to tackle candidiasis. His team aims to improve diagnosis and design new therapies by studying how different Candida species adapt to antifungal drugs and interact with the immune system.

Los análisis genéticos sugieren que el virus de la peste porcina africana no salió del laboratorio de la Generalitat que estaba a cientos de metros, según los primeros resultados "no concluyentes" de @tonigabaldon.bsky.social elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

Several opportunities to join our group as a PhD candidate with bioinformatics or experimental background and interests in #microbiome, #Candida, or #evolution. 👉 IRB call: www.irbbarcelona.org/en/careers/y... 👉 Inphinit call: lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-... 👉 EvoMG call www.evomg-dn.eu

Several opportunities to join our group as a PhD candidate with bioinformatics or experimental background and interests in #microbiome, #Candida, or #evolution. 👉 IRB call: www.irbbarcelona.org/en/careers/y... 👉 Inphinit call: lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-... 👉 EvoMG call www.evomg-dn.eu

Very proud of the new doctor in the group, Olfat Khannous-Lleiffe congratulations for the great work and excellent defense @olfatkl.bsky.social ! Thank you also to the jury members Mani Arumugam, Mireia Valles-Colomer and Lara Nonell for their insights and discussions.

📢 #BSCSeminar: Integrating data-driven microbiome analysis with ex vivo gut models. 🗣 Mani Arumugam, University of Copenhagen 📆 27 November ➡ bsc.es/44C @sommalliance.bsky.social @tonigabaldon.bsky.social

Our group just finished two exciting and productive days during our annual retreat. We looked back and forward, we assessed, discussed and planned. We also enjoyed our time together.

Excited to share that Mani Arumugam will be visiting us at @bsc-cns.bsky.social and giving a talk next Thursday 27th November. "Integrating data-driven microbiome analysis with ex vivo gut models" More details here 👇 www.bsc.es/research-and... #microbiome #organoids #bioinformatics