Researchers Discover How a Respiratory Bacterium Obtains Essential Lipids From the Human Body and Targets Fat-Rich Tissues. Dr. Ignacio Fita, David Vizarraga and Pablo Guerra, from the IBMB-CSIC, participated in this research. www.recercasantpau.cat/en/destacats...

The promoters of the Association for Assistance to Patients with NEK8 Gene alterations "Una Vida para Mateo" visited the IBMB. They were able to meet the research groups and see the facilities. The Association funds a research line carried out at the IBMB-CSIC on the NEK8 gene. @nek6789.bsky.social

Group Leader Seminar, Monday January 19th. 14:30h Speaker: Maribel Geli Leader of the "The endocytic pathway and the actin cytoskeleton" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room

We were delighted to welcome Mateo and his family from www.asociacionunavidaparamateo.com to the Cell Signaling Group (@Nek967) at the IBMB. The association finances a research line aimed at unraveling the physiological roles of the NEK8 protein kinase. A fantastic day of science and fun!

IBMB Seminar, Tuesday January 13th. 14:30h Speaker: Dr. Marcelo Nollmann. CNRS-INSERM, Montpellier Title: "Spatial chromatin tracing reveals cell-type-specific 3D gene structures in adult fly neurons" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room

IBMB researchers affected by the cancellation of foreign subawards are still waiting for solutions. Read the full news: www-ara-cat.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.ara....

Group Leader Seminar, Monday December 1st. 14:30h Speaker: Enrique Marcos Benteo Leader of the "Protein Design and Modeling" group Fèlix Serratosa seminar room

***JOB OFFER*** We are seeking a research technician/lab manager to join the Epigenetics and Single-Cell Dynamics Lab at IBMB-CSIC in Barcelona (herraezlab.rf.gd). ibmb.csic.es/en/jobs/rese...

***JOB OFFER*** We are seeking a research technician/lab manager to join the Epigenetics and Single-Cell Dynamics Lab at IBMB-CSIC in Barcelona (herraezlab.rf.gd). ibmb.csic.es/en/jobs/rese...

IBMB Seminar, Monday November 10th. 14:30h Speaker: Aneta Koseska. Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior, Bonn Title: "Memory and learning in single cells" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room

***Oferta de feina: Tècnica/Tècnic de laboratori*** ***Oferta de empleo: Técnica/Técnico de laboratorio*** ibmb.csic.es/en/departmen...

IBMB Seminar, Tuesday October 21st. 14:30h Speaker: Dr. Sara Miller. Scientific editor Cell Press Title: "Publishing in High Impact Journals: Lessons from Cell Press & Roundtable for Early Career Researchers" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room

We are excited to share our latest publication! 🎉 The group led by Héctor García Seisdedos, in colaboration with scientists of the University of Geneva and the Weizmann Institute of Science, has published an article featured on the cover of Molecular Systems Biology.

IBMB Seminar, Tuesday October 14th. 11:30h Speaker: Dr. Jan Skotheim. Stanford University Title: "On the cause and consequences of cell size control" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room

Group Leader Seminar, Monday September 29th. 14:30h Speaker: Marc Liesa Leader of the "Mitochondria, Redox, and Metabolic Diseases" group Fèlix Serratosa seminar room

Dr. Liesa was invited to write a commentary about new advances in treatments for Protoporphyria, published at the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI). @marcliesa.bsky.social ibmb.csic.es/en/news/lies...

New work from @llimargaslab.bsky.social: Distinct cellular and molecular mechanisms contribute to the specificity of the two Drosophila melanogaster chitin synthases in chitin deposition ibmb.csic.es/en/news/dist...

EXTRAORDINARY IBMB Seminar, Monday September 15th. 14:30h Speaker: Dr Vladlen Z. Slepak. University of Miami, US Title: "Pharmacological Targeting of OR51E1, ectopically expressed olfactory G protein-coupled receptor linked to prostate cancer aggressiveness" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room

Irene Hernando-Herráez, a researcher at the IBMB-CSIC, has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (@erc.europa.eu), funded with €1.5 million. These prestigious grants support young scientists leading outstanding research projects. #ERCStG

***JOB OFFER*** The Protein Design and Modeling lab at IBMB offers a postdoc position at the intersection of computational protein design, biophysics and structural biology. Please share with colleagues and anyone you know that might be interested. ibmb.csic.es/en/jobs/post...

The CryoEM Platform did the first experiments with lamella, so now thin layers of material can be studied with our Transmission Electron Microscope Glacios, run by Pablo Guerra. ibmb.csic.es/en/news/the-...

EXTRAORDINARY IBMB Seminar, Monday July 14th. 14:30h Speaker: Marta Shahbazi. Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) Title: "Developmental plasticity of the early mammalian embryo" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room

EXTRAORDINARY IBMB Seminar, Friday July 4th. 14:00h Speaker: Ralf Jockers. Institut Cochin, INSERM, Paris Title: "Intracellular GPCRs – Emerging Roles in Metabolic Regulation and Disease" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room

EXTRAORDINARY IBMB Seminar, Monday June 30th. 12:00h Speaker: Thomas Vallim. Associate Professor, Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Title: "New roles of Bile Acids controlling Systemic Metabolism" Tower I, room 3.

#PCBCommunity |🦠 Científics de @ibmb-csic.bsky.social i @idibell.bsky.social descobreixen que els embrions poden eliminar infeccions bacterianes abans de formar el seu sistema immune i descriuen un mecanisme de #fagocitosi similar al dels glòbuls blancs en embrions humans. 🔬 ➕ info 👉 tuit.cat/07lxI

The group of Esteban Hoijman @estebanhoijman.bsky.social published an article in the journal Cell Host and Microbe, exploring the first encounter of an embryo with a microorganism. ibmb.csic.es/en/news/expl...

Seminar, Monday June 16th. 14:30h Oriana Filluelo. Jiménez Lab "Exploring Atrophin transcriptional corepressor activity in the Drosophila embryo" Kanad Roy. Gallego-Martí Lab "Targeting mRNA condensates in neurites to understand the synaptic plasticity dysfunction in schizophrenia"

Dr. Esteban Hoijman @estebanhoijman.bsky.social , leader of the Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, will present a talk in the CNIO AdHoc Seminars: The developmental emergence of immunity: imaging epithelial phagocytes in action. Thursday June 12th, 12:00h. www.cnio.es/eventos/the-...

‘Mitotic’ kinesin-5 is a dynamic brake for axonal growth in Drosophila Wen Lu, Brad S. Lee, Helen Xue Ying Deng, Margot Lakonishok, Enrique Martin-Blanco,Vladimir I. Gelfand Development (2025) 152 (9): dev204424. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

New paper by Martin-Blanco's Lab! A transient contractile seam promotes epithelial sealing and sequential assembly of body segments doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🫀Un equipo internacional de investigadores descubren cómo el #colesterol puede alterar el funcionamiento interno del corazón y desarrollan una #inmunoterapia experimental para revertir el proceso @irsantpau.bsky.social @csic.es #CIBER #investigación 📰 www.ciberisciii.es/noticias/una...

EXTRAORDINARY IBMB Seminar, Friday May 16th. 10:00h Speaker: Dr. Nerea Irigoyen. Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge Title: "The translational landscape of Zika viruses, more than just a polyprotein" Tower I, room 3.

IBMB Seminar, Monday May 5th. 14:30h Speaker: Glòria Casas. Saade Lab Title: "Evolutionary Insights into FAM72 Gene Function in Neural Development" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room.

Research at the “Chromatin Structure and Function” laboratory unveils the unusual structure of maternal histone mRNAs Maternal histone mRNAs are uniquely processed through polyadenylation in a Stem-Loop Binding Protein (SLBP) dependent manner. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf288. ibmb.csic.es/en/news/mate...

***OFERTA EMPLEO JUVENIL*** Se ofrece un contrato formativo de un año para menores de 30 años en el Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona para formar parte de un equipo en el Área de Gestión de Proyectos. ibmb.csic.es/en/jobs/ofer...

Drosophila and human Headcase define a new family of Ribonucleotide granule proteins required for stress response. Delia Ricolo, Jordi Casanova & Panagiotis Giannios. Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads2086 ibmb.csic.es/en/news/dros...

EXTRAORDINARY IBMB Seminar, Monday March 31st. 14:30h Speaker: Michal Minczuk. MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge Title: "Mitochondrial genome engineering to unravel the genetic links between mitochondrial gene regulation and human disease for future therapies"

Seminar, Monday March 24th. 14:30h Speaker: Joan Roncero. Hoijman Lab Title: "Quantitative 4D-imaging of self-protection in the early embryo" Speaker: Adrià Alcaide. Guerin Lab Title: "Enzymatic initiation and polymerization of Group 2 bacterial capsules" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room.

Dr Esteban Hoijman gave a talk at Cambridge University: "Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments" @estebanhoijman.bsky.social www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/research/pdn...

New Casanova's Lab publication! Ricolo, D., Tamba, F. and Casanova, J. (2025) Autocrine Wingless constricts the Drosophila embryonic gut by Ca+2-mediated repolarization of mesoderm cells. EMBO Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s44319-025-00411-x ibmb.csic.es/en/news/auto...

EXTRAORDINARY IBMB Seminar, Monday March 17th. 14:30h Speaker: Dr. Boyan Bonev. Group Leader at Helmholtz Zentrum München (Germany) Title: "Dissecting the 3D epigenetic regulation of cell fate decisions in brain development and evolution" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room.

Diversity Committee Seminar, Monday March 10 at 14:30 | Speaker: Sílvia Donoso López, PhD in Social Anthropology and Master’s in Gender and Equality Policies. Title: "What is not named does not exist. Inclusive communication is not just a formality" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room.

IBMB Seminar, Monday March 3rd. 14:30 PM Speaker: Meta Heidenreich. Garcia-Seisdedos Lab. Title: "From Principles of Protein Assembly to Drug Persistence" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room.

EXTRAORDINARY IBMB Seminar, Monday February 24th. 14:30 PM Speaker: Alba Diz-Muñoz. EMBL Heidelberg Title: "The missing mechanical link: how composite interfaces govern cell morphogenesis, immune migration, and stem cell fate" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room.

IBMB-IRB Seminar, Wednesday February 12th. 12:00 PM Speaker: Dr. Alfred Cortés. ICREA Research Professor, Malaria Epigenetics Lab, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain Title: "The regulation of the regulator of the regulator of the regulator of sexual conversion in Plasmodium falciparum" Auditorium room.

IBMB Seminar, Monday February 10th. 14:30 PM Speaker: Miriam Ferrando. Aragay Lab Title: "Gα q , a master regulator of organelle contacts" Speaker: Sergi Vázquez Monteagudo. Verdaguer Lab Title: "Functional characterization of replicative complexes of RNA virus. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus."

Groundbreaking Insights into Spinal Cord Development In their latest Nature Reviews Neuroscience publication, Dr. Murielle Saade and Prof. Elisa Martí, explore the remarkable process of spinal cord development. ibmb.csic.es/en/news/earl...

IBMB Seminar, Monday February 3rd. 14:30 PM Speaker: Aurélien Roux. University of Geneva, Switzerland Title: "Actin dynamics sustains spatial gradients of membrane tension in adherent cells" Fèlix Serratosa seminar room.

IBMB Seminar, Monday January 27th. 14:30 PM Speaker: Alba Ayats. Roca Lab Title: "Non-random knotting of intracellular DNA" Speaker: Juan Carlos Villegas. Guerin Lab Fèlix Serratosa seminar room.

IBMB-CSIC and the association Una vida para Mateo, co-stars of TVE’s Comando Actualidad. @nek6789.bsky.social www.rtve.es/play/videos/...