Competitive interactions shape mammalian brain network dynamics and computation - Nature Neuroscience Brain network architecture may balance cooperation and competition across circuits. Here the authors use computational whole-brain modeling across three species to show that models with competition ar...

5/ Check the original article by Andrea Luppi - @loopyluppi.bsky.social in @natneuro.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

4/ This new model can reproduce individual brain activity patterns, bringing us closer to creating realistic digital twins for personalised neuroscience.

Furthermore, it shows that networks combining competition and cooperation have superior computational capabilities for neuromorphic computing.

3/ “Competition between circuits allows certain networks to take priority over others depending on what is relevant at any given moment, which explains phenomena such as decision-making”, explains Gustavo Deco, ICREA research professor at Pompeu Fabra University @cbc-upf.bsky.social

2/ The study reveals that the human brain operates through a constant balance between competition and cooperation.

Competition acts as a stabilising force: it prevents uncontrolled activity and allows different brain systems to take turns in shaping the brain's overall dynamics.

Competitive interactions are key to explaining the dynamics of the human brain New insights into complex processes such as attention, decision-making and memory have been gained from a new study from the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Pompeu Fabra University ...

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

Fèlix Campelo: “We want to understand the physical and molecular principles of how the cell reorganizes its internal membranes to adapt to its environment” - Departament | Faculty of Medicine and Life... Damos la bienvenida al MAPCell Lab, que forma parte de MELIS desde julio de 2025. El grupo, dirigido por Fèlix Campelo, combina principios físicos y biológicos para comprender cómo la forma explica la...

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

Noms clàssics com Antònia, Blai, Victòria o Nicolàs tornen a estar de moda: "Hi ha pares que volen posar un nom 'català' als fills; potser veurem cert reciclatge" Els noms clàssics tornen a estar de moda. Alguns com Antònia, Blai, Victòria o Nicolàs tornen a sonar entre els més petits, tot i que els associàvem més als

🗣️“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, 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

2/2 Congratulations to the whole Synbio Lab on this recognition! You are doing an amazing job! 💫
@nastassiakn.bsky.social @santosmoreno-j.bsky.social

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

#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

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.

Enhorabona, companys! 👏🏽

#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

#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...

🧠 Riccardo Tancredi from Gustavo Deco's lab @cbc-upf.bsky.social will use mathematical modelling and neuroimaging data to identify computational biomarkers that can help improve the prediction and understanding of neurological conditions such as stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. #becarisFundlaCaixa

🌿 Stefanie Brüggemann will join TransDevo Lab led by @mirimiam.bsky.social ( #MELISupf - @crg.eu ) to try to better understand how plants adjust gene activity to cope with environmental stress by studying genes that regulate plant DNA transcription and structure. #becarisFundlaCaixa

⌛ Italo Lorandi Camacho will study how inflammation cause the immune system to age.
He will join the Immunology Unit at #MELISupf to explore which inflammatory signals accelerate hematopoietic stem cell decline and trigger early changes affecting immune function throughout life. #becarisFundlaCaixa

Seven young researchers from Pompeu Fabra University receive grants from the “la Caixa” Foundation to conduct their research Cinc han rebut una ajuda del programa de doctorat INPhINIT mentre que dos han estat premiats amb finançament del programa de postdoctorat Junior Leader, en el marc de la convocatòria 2025.

#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!
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#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

La vida junts, una exposició de Gemma París que combina art i ciència L’artista barcelonina presenta el resultat del seu projecte ‘La vida junts’: un centenar de dibuixos inspirats en la recerca biomèdica que es fa a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra. La Gemma París és la ter...

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