Two heads are better than one, unless you’re a land planarian trying to find some grub. FORCE pilot project - check! Video credit: Daniel Stoga #nightscience #WormWednesday @hanhtkvu.bsky.social @aikmi.bsky.social @embldbunit.bsky.social @martaalvarez.bsky.social

Last week we presented land planarian diversity at the XI Trobada d'estudis del Montseny

La setmana pasada estuvimos presentando la diversidad de planarias terrestres en el Montseny 👇

We are at the II Congrés de ciència ciutadana. Paving the way! #citizenscience @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social #InvAdapt

Avui presentem la diversitat de planàries terrestres a la XI Trobada de presentació d'estudis del Montseny. #TrobadaEstudis #Montseny #XarxadeParcs @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social

Two former PhD students from my lab have led this great work, @martaalvarez.bsky.socialand Jordi Paps. How proud I feel, Congratulations!

Pleased to be a small part of this molecular palaeobiology study by Jialin Wei, led by Marta Álvarez-Presas and Jordi Paps, with help from Davide Pisani. Animals repeatedly used similar genomic solutions to the challenges of terrestrialization @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social

#ArticleIRBio 📄Evaluating topological variability in Neodermata phylogenies using mitochondrial and ribosomal gene markers 👥 Authors: V. Hugo Caña-Bozada, Belén Mera-Loor, D. I. Hernández-Mena, JL. Justine, M. Álvarez-Presas (IRBioUB) 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... @martaalvarez.bsky.social

Last round of interviews for the online participants. #Multicellverse

Second round table discussing about the future of the community meetings and what are the next steps. Thanks to all the participants!

And our last invited speaker was László Nagy who was talking about the Evolution of gene families key to the formation of multicellular fruiting bodies in fungi. #Multicellverse

Fredrik Söderbom on The role of non-coding RNAs in the evolution of multicellularity. #Multicellverse

We had also in session 10 Hajk-Georg Drost talking about How ancient genes convergently organise multicellularity across the tree of life. #Multicellverse @hajkdrost.bsky.social

We had a blast in session 10 on genome evolution. First speaker was Nick Irwin talking about horizontal gene transfer. #Multicellverse

Great discussion for session 9 on conflicts in the evolution and stability of multicellularity. #Multicellverse

Last but not least, invited speaker Emma Hammarlund is closing session 9 talking about fluctuating redox conditions and the "endurance" of multicellularity. #Multicellverse @hammarlund.bsky.social

Defne Platturk is now talking about information in early multicellular life cycles. #Multicellverse

The next online speaker is Clyde Berry on group living and stress response in colonial green algae. #Multicellverse

Now Yosuke Nagahata from the MCG lab convinces us that tumorigenesis is an evolutionary reversion to unicellular ancestors. #Multicellverse @multicellgenome.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

Session 9 starts with Aurora Nedelcu, invited speaker and co-organiser of this great workshop, on personal cost of cheating as a conflict mediator during the early evolution of multicellularity and cancer. #Multicellverse

Our invited speaker Elisabeth Ostrowski is closing session 8 talking about chimerism and cooperation in the social amoebae. #Multicellverse @elizostrow.bsky.social

Now Christopher Toret is talking about collective invasion organisations in eukaryotic multicellular transitions. #Multicellverse

We are so lucky that we have a hybrid meeting and we can have some speakers online, such as Lizzy Willbanks. #Multicellverse @lizzywilbanks.bsky.social

Turn now for Will Crockett on sponge reaggregation. #Multicellverse

Tristan Henderson gave a great talk on predator amoebas. Amazing! #Multicellverse

Invited speaker Marco La Fortaleza starts the first session of the day talking about epigenetic diversification in bacterial multicellularity. #Multicellverse

Last day of conference! #Multicellverse @the_prbb

And the invited speaker Vikas Trivedi is closing the last session of the day helping us to understand constraints on multicellular systems. #Multicellverse

It's turn now for Somya Mani, talking about why did multicellular development evolve to be directional? #Multicellverse

Arsham Nejad is talking about body size and physical constraints in the evolution of complex multicellularity. #Multicellverse

We continue with Kyle Allison on exploring principles of multicellularity in E. coli. #Multicellverse

We start last session of the day with our invited speaker Ricard Solé. How much can you predict? #Multicellverse

Time for questions and discussion on experimental evolution. #Multicellverse

Closing session 6 with our invited speaker Gohta Goshima on unicellular-multicellular plasticity in marine derived black yeast. #Multicellverse

We have now Eric Bapteste online talking about networks. #Multicellverse

Poster session 2 is over. Good science and networking going on here. #Multicellverse @multicellgenome @EMBO @the_prbb

Daniel Rozen is now talking about experimental evolution in Streptomyces. #Multicellverse

Now Dinah Davison talking on experimental evolution in the Volvocine green algae. #Multicellverse @dinahdavison.bsky.social

Starting session 6 on experimental evolution with the online participation of Will Ratcliff. #Multicellverse @wcratcliff.bsky.social

Wrapping up session 5 with questions and discussion. #Multicellverse

And to finish session 5, Katrin Hammerschmidt will delight us on the role of environmental factors in the multicellularity of cyanobacteria. #Multicellverse

Lena Friebel is now talking about cannibalism in bacteria! #Multicellverse

Enrico Colizzi is talking now about cooption of microbial communities. #Multicellverse

Session 5 continues with the talk by Natsuko Rivera-Yoshida on transitions to microbial multicellularity. #Multicellverse

It is always amazing listening to Núria Ros-Rocher 's talks. Today on two different model systems, Capsaspora and C. flexa. #Multicellverse

Nice discussion at the end of session 4.#Multicellverse

Closing session 4 with the invited speaker Tomislav Domazet-Lošo talking about system-level imprints of multicellularity across the tree of life. #Multicellverse

And Ralf Jauch is now discussing on the transcriptional toolkit of pluripotent stem cells. #Multicellverse

Now Seok-Wan Choi is talking about introgression and duplication in filamentous algae. #Multicellverse