Very nice evidence of the power of convergence evolution in #terrestrialization. Congrats to all authors! @martaalvarez.bsky.social Jordi, Davide, @phil-donoghue.bsky.social & Jialin #metazoans

Indeed! Very nice collaboration with @irenedelrey.bsky.social @sebasn1.bsky.social @konsmitsi.bsky.social @jtrinidad13.bsky.social Montse Elias, Padhu & others to decipher the origin of the #plasmalogen biosynthesis pathway. @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @icreacommunity.bsky.social @csic.es

And for the online participants we had the first round of Backstage Interviews led by Vika interviewing Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo and Laura Nuño de la Rosa. #Multicellverse @multicellgenome.bsky.social

@multicellgenome.bsky.social @philipcball.bsky.social @ucciuv.bsky.social @sfelena.bsky.social @pablocarb.bsky.social @ccbiologiquesuv.bsky.social @sesbe-org.bsky.social @tonigabaldon.bsky.social @paucarazo.bsky.social Thanks @pacoalanaranja.es for the pic that captures the mood of the discussions

📣The #EMBOWorkshop hosted by @multicellgenome.bsky.social#EMBOWorkshopLab has begun! 🔬Three days filled with talks from international experts exploring the #evolution and origins of #multicellularity🦠🧬 #Multicellverse #UnravellingEvolution #DiscoveringLife

Thrilled to see choanoflagellates can glide! I think this provide further support to the stunning complexity of the unicellular ancestor of animals, as we have been proposing. Congrats @thibautbrunet.bsky.social ! very nice work. #AnimalOrigins #choanos #multicellularity #protistsOnSky

Less than a month away! 📣 Our lab is so excited to co-host the #EMBOWorkshop on the evolution of #multicellularity. Get ready to dive deep into the origins of multicellular life across all kingdoms. 🔬See you in Barcelona (or online) soon! @prbb.org @csic.es

#PhDposition! Great PI, nice project, wonderful environment. @IBE_Barcelona #microbes #evolution

What you're looking at is a brand new protist species! 🤯🔬 Isn't it beautiful? This image is just a glimpse of what's to come. We can't wait to share our full findings soon, in partnership with Guifré @beaplab.bsky.social @luisjagago.bsky.social. Stay tuned! #NewSpecies #protistsonSky #diversity

Editor-in-Chief Joel Dacks looks back on the year and shares some of our new initiatives, including "Issue Highlight" image and AI use guidance. Read about these initiatives and more in the Editor's Message onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

More on the ancient foundation of animal development. Coyle & King illustrate how core regulatory modules were present in our pre-animal ancestors. The key was not invention, but recycling & new protein interactions. #CellBiology #multicellularity #protistsOnSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We couldn't imagine a better way to send off the incredible @MartonaAlvarez than with black paella and sea views! 🥘 Marta, thanks for everything! We will be cheering you on every step of the way. 🥰🥰🥰 #science #farewell #newbeginnings #teamwork #academialife @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org

Cnidarian-Microbe Interactions Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred. Contact Matt Gibson: [email protected]

Congrats Haillot & the whole @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social lab! Another brilliant example of how we shouldn't assume simplicity in non-bilaterian animals. Triploblasty’s roots seem to run older than we thought! Nice to see a crosstalk between MAPK, β-catenin & Notch to define identities. #EvoDevo

🚀 Watching Núria Ros-Rocher grow from PhD student to independent @cnrs.fr researcher has been a joy. Talent + grit + kindness = 🔥. Huge congrats, Núria—and kudos, Thibaut. And I know this is just the beginning! Can’t wait for the next C. flexa chapters!

wow! A huge congratulations to @StevenHaddock & @sonkejo.bsky.social, whose work I have admired for years This book looks absolutely gorgeous and, as a huge fan of #bioluminescenc and #diversity, I'll definitely be getting a copy for the lab. #scicomm

THANK YOU SO MUCH, @martaalvarez.bsky.social! For your groundbreaking work on #protists, your incredible talent, your passion, and your kindness. We've loved every moment of these last 29 months with you in the lab! 🥰🥰 . #WomenInSTEM @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es #protistsOnsky

Sometimes life and science give you a 🎁 gift! Thanks, @freejakoba.bsky.social, for the visit! #academialife

Complex behaviour is not limited to animals! Here we map the entire spectrum of waveforms dynamics on a quadriflagellate single cell with 4x 70um (!) #cilia, to a low dimensional behavioural manifold with surprising structure! #protistsonsky All revealed in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Very happy to share our new paper where we develop CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in our favorite unicellular relative of animals, Corallochytrium limacisporum! With @sebasn1.bsky.social @multicellgenome.bsky.social Elena and Claudio. Check it out: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

✨Animal evolution fans, rejoice! CRISPR-Cas9 is now in Corallochytrium ready to unlock secrets of animal origins! 🔬Led by @patriciasuarez.bsky.social & @sebasn1.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @royalsociety.org @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social#holozoans #ProtistsonSky

Victoria Shabardina from the @multicellgenome.bsky.social lab, catching us up on the latest findings on the emergence of animal multicellularity. Ets still amongst the last few 'metazoan exclusive' genes remaining. Gorgeous imagining 🔬👌🏽 #SMBE2025

Tomorrow last day to register to the #multicellularity conference. You do not need to present, you can just join us to enjoy what will be discussed. Any questions, do not hesitate to email or DM us! #protistsOnSky #protists

And also proud of Alba, who has done a great job in her presentation about genome annotation. Well done! #COMFUTURO #mentoring @csicdivulga.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @multicellgenome.bsky.social

Proud of Diego, who this morning presented for the first time in a conference and nailed it! He was presenting the results of past of our #REGULOMICS project. @csicdivulga.bsky.social #JBE25 #COMFUTURO #mentoring @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @multicellgenome.bsky.social

Congrats Javi!! 🎉🎉🎉

That's a wrap on a brilliant #multicellularity symposium at #icop25 organized by Elena, Rubén & Guifré ! 👏 Cool to have so many familiar faces and hearing amazing talks from Núria, @GonzolinBS, Michelle & Tristan, So much great #protists #multicellularity science! 🔬🧬 #protistsOnSky

See our comment on @currentbiology.bsky.social about the new Bostrychia moritziana genome paper. A huge step for a under-sampled branch of life. Congrats @borglab.bsky.social & all authors! #Genomics #RedAlgae #Rhodophyta #protistsonSKy #multicellularity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How does agency change as life evolves from single cells to complex bodies? This review by Stuart Newman and colleagues examines the surprising roles of development, microbes, and even cancer in reshaping what organisms can do. @multicellgenome.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...

The quest for the #Magnificent8 continues! This time, in search of Freship1 and Freship2 in Lago de Sanabria. See Marina, Alicia, and Rubén in action! Thanks to Antonio from proyectoagua; Juan and David from Europarques & many others! #ProtistsOnSky @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org

Happy to have contributed to this great article: #Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Congrats Alexandra Schoenle et al. #ProtistsOnSky authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Four friends, one table with views & endless conversations. From family to XAN, platyhelminthes, and the good old days at @geneticsub.bsky.social @riutortlab.bsky.social ! nothing was off the menu. Grateful for nights like this. Grateful for friends like these! @martaalvarez.bsky.social JordiPaps

Did changes in cosmic radiation have any effect in the origin of animals? Does a reduction in cosmic radiation affect extant #ichthyosporeans? David & Elena presenting our experimental evolution project to Laboratorio Subterráneo Canfranc #animalorigins #protistsonSky

Nice text by Ana Lozano where she presents our little organisms celebrating the oceans day. Worth reading 👇#COMFUTURO #FGCSIC @multicellgenome.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @beaplab.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social

Thrilled to reconnect with friends & meet researchers I’ve only read about at #SEBC2025! 📢 I’ll be speaking on the role of cells in the unicellular-to-multicellular transition. Registration is open! #protistsOnSky🔬 Join us: sebc2025.org

Great #protistsOnSky day at Águilas, we 📘 presented the book "Hola Plancton" from Kristina Heldmann. 🖼️ presented the exhibition "Plankton City" lead by @annikaguse.bsky.social 🧬 introduced our work on the #Magnificent8, our missing unicellular relatives.

This is such a #protistsOnSky exhibition. A delight to be involved on this!

#multicellularity #protistsOnSky #childcaregrants #Barcelona info & registration 👉 meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul...

#protistsOnSky #multicellularity

Our work on genomic regulation across unicellular relatives of animals shown by @martaalvarez.bsky.social #ChoanoCon25 We aim to unravel the origin of animal-like genomic regulation #animalorigins #protistsOnSky

Delighted to see our work now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social. A great place for Bostrychia to stake its claim as an emerging red algal model system. Check it out here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Nice to see Margarita presenting our work with @beaplab.bsky.social and @luisjagago.bsky.social on Maop2, the first #Magnificent8 missing unicellular lineages closely related to animals we got in culture! #animalorigins #diversity #holozoans #protistsOnSky

Yes. We ❤️ choanoflagellates. We ❤️ people that work with choanoflagellates. And we ❤️ people that love choanoflagellates! #protistsOnSky

So proud of the work and enthusiasm of Marina presenting our search for the #Magnificent8 missing lineages closely related to animals. 😻💪💪 #protistsOnSky

😻 HUGE NEWS! One of the "Magnificent 8" – key missing lineages for understanding animal origins – is ALIVE in our lab! Watch the video! Massive thanks to @luisjagago.bsky.social (isolation wizard!) & @beaplab.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @csic.es @erc.europa.eu #protistsonSky

Could animals have originally evolved by cell aggregation? we believe they could!. See two different relatives of animals aggregating and deploying key multicellular genes. Nice collaboration with JP Gerdt, T. Alarcón, koryu_kin, Ruibao, Gonzalo, @jennahed.bsky.social & Kyle. #protistsonSky

📣 The @multicellgenome.bsky.social of @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social hosts the @embo.org‬ Workshop "Evolution and origins of multicellularity across the tree of life"🧬🦠✨ 📆 9-11 October 2025 📍 Auditorium @prbb.org‬ ⌛ Abstract submission: 1st June 👉https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-multicellularity

Watch our new video (in Spanish!) to learn why we are focused on searching the #Magnificent8 – eight lineages that remain unknown and that may be key to understand the origin of animals. 🧬🦠 #multicellularity @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @prbb.org youtu.be/RMJ_5xtZvmI?...

Thanks so much @veronavillar.bsky.social ! #ichthyosporeans are 😍 and your @tomocube.bsky.social is 🥇 #protistsonSky

Elena presenting our work at @ipblncsic.bsky.social‬ 😍 #evolution #protistsonSky #ichthyosporeans