🦟 Why don’t viruses kill the mosquitoes that transmit them? 🔬 A study reveals how these insects coexist with viruses such as dengue and Zika, and what this can teach us about their spread and control. Learn more:  https://tuit.cat/uu8EJ @melisupf.bsky.social

#Recerca Un equip internacional d'experts en embriologia i bioètica de la #UPFBarcelona publica el primer llibre blanc per fer servir models embrionaris basats en cèl·lules mare en l’àmbit de la biologia reproductiva. ℹ️ tuit.cat/3qztH

#Symposium The 2026 MELIS Biomedical Research Symposium is a wrap! Thank you to all who have made it possible! 🎉 ℹ️ tuit.cat/lUahd @prbb.org @upf.edu

We are so ready! Remember, this afternoon and tomorrow morning we will be at the @prbb.org Auditorium. Come and enjoy bioscience!

Just one week to go! Hope to see you there! 💫 Register now if you haven't already: tuit.cat/dT2kl

#Awards 🏅 Big congratulations to professor Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo who has recieved the Manuel Rico-Bruker España Prize for his outstanding career in Biophysics by the Spanish Biophysical Society. @upf.edu @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social ℹ️ tuit.cat/uqdSi

#Seminar 📋 Publish your results in Nature Communications 🗣️ Dr Andrés Cano and Dr Paraskevi Mallini, both editors of the journal. 📆 8 June - ⏰ 15:00 in the Maria Skłodowska-Curie room - Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona#Seminar Contact Ana Janic if you'd like to arrange a meeting with the editors

#20PRBB Laia de Nadal, rectora de la #UPFBarcelona, va participar dimecres en l'acte del vintè aniversari del @prbb.org, un referent en recerca biomèdica del sud d'Europa. Per molts anys! 🎂

📣 New PRBB-CRG conference 📋 A wander through the wonders of innate immunity: immunometabolic control of inflammation and infection 🗣️ Matt Sweet  - University of Queensland 📆 May 21 - ⏰ 12:00 hosted by: Ruben Vicente - @melisupf.bsky.social    📍 #PRBB Maria Skłodowska-Curie room

🚀Ready to kick-start your scientific career? Join the next #MMRES class! More than 60% of the #MMRES Master's Programme is spent doing hands-on research projects in top #BISTCommunity and MELIS-UPF labs upf.edu/web/mmres

Blending @melisupf.bsky.social @prbb.org @researchmar.bsky.social

L'enhorabona, companys, @politiquesupf.bsky.social ! 🙌🏻

Felicitats! 🎉

We already have the winning project of the 21st edition of the PRBB Award 🏆🧬 A study on familial dyslipidemia stands out for its scientific quality and highlights young talent in biomedical research. Find out more 👇 https://tuit.cat/sf0p3 @upf.edu @melisupf.bsky.social

The Pharmacoinformatics lab, led by @mpastor.bsky.social, has co-developed #FAIRlite: a refined set of #FAIRprinciples to streamline #computationaltoxicology. Designed for clarity, FAIR lite ensures both model developers and end users can apply FAIR standards without ambiguity.

#Symposium We are keen to share with you our Biomedical Research Symposium. An event to bring together researchers working on a wide range of topics in biomedicine & to showcase the projects of our excellent young researchers. June 4-5 at the @prbb.org Auditorium 👉 registration - tuit.cat/dT2kl

#Research 🧬 The largest genetic database of the indigenous peoples of the Americas reveals over a million previously unknown variants A really interesting project led by Tábita Hünemeier, in which David Comas collaborated to help describe the contribution of the population they have named Ypykuéra

What makes each pancreatic cell unique? 🤔 🧬 SPICEY reveals it by identifying genes and regulatory regions of DNA. A key new tool to better understand the pancreas in health and diabetes. Read more: https://tuit.cat/1zUg7 #DiabetesResearch #Bioinformatics @melisupf.bsky.social

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Research 1/ 💫 We are pleased to share the first paper from the Computational Neuroscience Research Group led by Gustavo Deco since he joined the #MELISupf Competitive interactions are key to explaining the dynamics of the human brain has now been published in @natneuro.nature.com 🎊 tuit.cat/itifI

Yeey! Very happy to have joined the department! Great place, great people, great science! (now I'll need great funding 😂)

Welcome aboard, MAPCell Lab! 💫 It is a pleasure to have a group at MELIS @upf.edu led by @felixmendu.bsky.social to dechiper the physics and biology behind cellular organisation, membranes an biological form. Find out more about Felix's background and research project 👇 tuit.cat/tiZ3p

#Seminar 📣 Leveraging whole genome CRISPR-Cas9 screens to identify novel immunotherapeutic targets in lung cancer 🗣️ Kate Sutherland - Kate Sutherland Hosted by Tayla Dyton - EMBL & Ana Janic - #MELISupf 🗓️ April 17th 🕐 10:30 am 📍 Charles Darwin room, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona

🗣️“Hi ha pares que volen posar un nom ‘català’ als fills; potser veurem cert reciclatge” 🎧 Francesc Calafell, investigador de l' #IBE_Barcelona i professor i investigador del @melisupf.bsky.social#IBE_Barcelona reflexiona a @rac1oficial.bsky.socialsobre el retorn de noms en desús. 👉

#Seminar 📣 Leveraging whole genome CRISPR-Cas9 screens to identify novel immunotherapeutic targets in lung cancer 🗣️ Kate Sutherland - @sutherlandlab.bsky.social Hosted by Tayla Dyton - @embl.org & Ana Janic - MELIS @upf.edu 🗓️ April 17th 🕐 10:30 am 📍 Charles Darwin room, @prbb.org

1/2 🎂 To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the editors of Nature Biotechnology - @natureportfolio.nature.com - have selected some of their favourite articles published in the last decade. This includes an article by SynBio lab led by @marcguellc.bsky.social at @upf.edu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 New PRBB-CRG conference 📋 Temporal control of neurogenesis 🗣️ Bassem Hassan - @institutducerveau.bsky.social  📆 April 13 - ⏰ 12:00 hosted by: @cristinapujades.bsky.social  - @melisupf.bsky.social    📍 #PRBB Maria Skłodowska-Curie room

We’ve reopened the call for a PhD position with Juana Diez at @melisupf.bsky.social within the EVOMG-DN project. 🧬 Viral Codon Usage: A Novel Readout of Virus Evolution and Host Interaction 🗓 Deadline: 10 May 2026 👉 Apply here: www.evomg-dn.eu/call-for-app...

#Seminar 📣 Thermodynamics of cell biology: actomyosin oscillation and junction assembly 🗣️ Arie Horowitz - University of Texas at Austin Hosted by Jeremy Gunawardena. 🗓️ April 13th 🕐 3 pm 📍 Rita Levi-Montalcini room, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona#Seminar

#HonorisUPF La UPF investirà doctores honoris causa Helga Nowotny i Maria Leptin, figures clau en la consolidació del model europeu de recerca. 28 d'abril de 2026 12.00 h. Auditori. Campus de la Ciutadella ℹ️ https://ow.ly/c2jU50YFHkp

#Seminar 📣 From proliferation to differentiation: analysing how the zebrafish visual system grows 🗣️ Kara Cerveny - Professor of Biology and Chair of Neuroscience Program at Reed College Hosted by Cristina Pujades 🗓️ April 10th 🕐 10 am 📍 Marie Curie room, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona#Seminar

Estudies un doctorat a la #UPFBarcelona? La dotzena edició del concurs #Rin4Min ja està en marxa! L’objectiu és explicar la teva tesi doctoral en només quatre minuts i davant d’un públic no especialitzat.

#Seminar 📣 Thermodynamics of cell biology: actomyosin oscillation and junction assembly 🗣️ Arie Horowitz - University of Texas at Austin Hosted by Jeremy Gunawardena. 🗓️ April 13th 🕐 3 pm 📍 Rita Levi-Montalcini room, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona#Seminar

#Research Elena Hidalgo is among the 13 scientists @natchembio.nature.com features to share her views on the most exciting frontiers or the most needed developments in redox biology. Read the original article 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Community 🎖️ Three young researchers from MELIS - Universitat Pompeu Fabra receive grants from #FundaciólaCaixa to conduct their research They will recieve a four year fellowship from the INPhINIT doctoral programme to develop their PhD. Congratulations Italo, Stefanie & Riccardo! tuit.cat/gg99u

#Seminar 📣 From proliferation to differentiation: analysing how the zebrafish visual system grows 🗣️ @kara-cerveny.bsky.social - Professor of Biology and Chair of Neuroscience Program at @reed.edu Hosted by @cristinapujades.bsky.social 🗓️ April 10th 🕐 10 am 📍 Marie Curie room, @prbb.org building

Fins al 26 de març | Exposició "La vida junts" L'artista barcelonina Gemma París combina art i ciència en aquesta instal·lació artística que s’exposa al vestíbul del Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org. Una iniciativa del @melisupf.bsky.social i la Fundació Vila Casas.

Would you like to do a postdoc in Biophysics/Cell biology using advanced microscopy in Barcelona? quantitative live-cell imaging, cryoET in yeast and non-model organisms?...contact us if you would like to apply for a fellowship with us! Reposts are appreciated #postdoc #MSCA-PF

🖼️ Gemma París presents La vida junts at PRBB. 🎨 Nearly 100 works transforming scientific images into ink drawings. 🔬 Art and science come together to make the invisible visible. On view until March 26. @melisupf.bsky.social  @upf.edu  @fundaciovilacasas.bsky.social  https://tuit.cat/vrLwy

📣 From next generation sequencing to multiomics 🧬 Do not miss this seminar by genomics units of @crg.eu & #melisupf that will be held at the @prbb.org on 24 March free registration: xn--espaa-rta.werfen.com/aviti-prbb

#Symposium 📣 Save the date! June 4-5 at the Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Connect, discover, and dive into biomedicine! Free entry—register now: https://tuit.cat/dT2kl#Symposium🎯 Will you join us?

If you like science and the arts, don't miss “La vida junts": 100 drawings by Gemma París inspired by scientific images encapsulated in Petri dishes. 📍 Until 26 March in the @prbb.org lobby The MELIS artist in residence program is an initiative by @upf.edu & the @fundaciovilacasas.bsky.social

#ComunitatUPF It has been fantastic to spend two days sharing knowledge, learning teaching strategies to improve learning, building community and debating the future of our Department and Faculty. 💫 Thank you all! #MELISupf #Biomedicine #TeamBuilding - @upf.edu

#Podcast 🎧 The latest episode of the Galaxy Balance podcast features Marc Güell ( @marcguellc.bsky.social ), an ICREA Research Professor at @upf.edu AI, synthetic evolution and the future of genomic engineering in an episode by Cory Smith. #AI #microbiome #SynBio open.spotify.com/episode/6gnl...

#JobOffer MELIS is looking for a Junior Group Leader Position in Cell Metabolism ✅ PhD in Biology or similar; capacity to lead high-impact research projects; supervision of doctoral theses; teaching ⏰ Deadline: May 2 📍 Barcelona #PRBB Apply: apply.interfolio.com/180316 Details: bit.ly/40N09LX

#Research 1/ ⚖️ Reduced working hours benefit health, but may increase gender differences Reduced hours boost worker's health but often widen the gender gap in task distribution. cc @hospitaldelmar.bsky.social @sjdhospitalbarcelona.org ℹ️ tuit.cat/j7qs8

Delighted to collaborate with @melisupf.bsky.social on this exciting study. Juana Diez and her team reveal that coronaviruses reprogram the cellular tRNA pool to optimise viral gene expression 🤯🍾🥂🥳🥳

1/ 🎯 A therapeutic target that would curb the spread of #coronaviruses has been identified It is an enzyme that is activated in human cells in response to stress due to infection and causes changes in the cellular machinery that favour the production and spread of coronaviruses tuit.cat/5y9Rr

3CatInfo es fa ressò de la nostra recerca; 💊 Un tractament experimental millora la memòria en la síndrome de Down Un estudi liderat per Andrés Ozaita en col·laboració amb l' @hospitaldelmar.bsky.social Llegeix i escolta la notícia aquí 👇 www.3cat.cat/3catinfo/un-...

Some global patterns cannot be explained solely by the properties of individual units. 🌐 Ricard Solé @melisupf.bsky.social  explores complex systems: from ant colonies 🐜 to the human brain. 🧠 👉