We are glad to host @jenniferlove7.bsky.social, postdoc in @yghavi.bsky.social lab, who is going to be collecting Oikopleura samples and learning from our team the secrets of Oikopleuras’ life @geneticsub.bsky.social . Thanks Jenny for the great seminar! Looking forward for exciting collaborations!
“The Lunar Surface of an Embryo of Oikopleura dioca”
Our lab participates in the third edition of the #geneticART exhibition at @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu celebrating today the #InternationalArtDay.
Come to our department, enjoy the exhibition and vote for the winner😉🌔
Outreach: “Genetics, sexual & asexual reproduction” class by @criscanestro.bsky.social with 6th grade students in Escola Itaca. Kids enjoyed cutting Planarians into pieces, which now will be monitored for weeks to observe regeneration and the formation of new individuals. @geneticsub.bsky.social
Great labmeeting by @esteeve.bsky.social showing work progress of his Master project in the @geneticsub.bsky.social program co-supervised by @alfonso233.bsky.social.
Welcome Giorgio Blumen to our lab as a visitor researcher for four months to expand his PhD #deuteronoise project supervised by Roberta Penatti in University of Milan into Oikopleura and transcriptomics!! Yesterday, he enjoyed our weekly labmeeting by @baielx.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social
#ProjecteIRBio
🧬 Com pot un genoma reordenar-se completament… i que l’animal segueixi igual?
Investigadores #NuriaTorres i #MariaRoselló de l’@IRBioUB apliquen ATAC‑seq a Oikopleura dioica i obté les primeres dades d’obertura de cromatina per entendre aquest misteri evolutiu.
shorturl.at/igyYC
🔬 Sabies que…?
🧬 L’Oikopleura és un organisme clau en recerca sobre desenvolupament, regulació gènica i evolució del genoma
🧐 En vols saber més?
A @geneticsub.bsky.social el grup d’en Cristian Cañestro @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social l’estudia com a model, especialment l’espècie Oikopleura dioica.
Great presentation by Biel Cassà on his PhD project about Oikopleura genome scrambling co-supervised by Nuria Torres-Águila & Cristian Cañestro in the section of Genetics during the 4th #NGIRBio
@irbio-ub.bsky.social
@baielx.bsky.social @ntorresag.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @ub.edu
Thrilled to be part of the Spanish #EvoDevOmics network. The amazing talent within it shows how strong evo-devo is in Spain. Exciting and fruitful collaborations ahead!
Back in BCN after an great week in Valencia, 1st meeting of #EvoDevOmics network with @mirimiam.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social @jpascualanaya.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social @fany-real.bsky.social @imaeso.bsky.social & Nuria Flames
1st #EvoDevOmics meeting🍊
What a terrific team
@isabelalmudi.bsky.social @mirimiam.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social @jpascualanaya.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social @fany-real.bsky.social Núria🔥 Nacho and more.
What great hosts🥘 @hector-escriva.bsky.social & Steph
Excellent meeting organized by @sesbe-org.bsky.social enjoying an incredible time with colleagues and friends in beautiful València🍊, while sharing our latest work on #Oikopleura genome scrambling, speciation and breaKOs.
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Torna a estar obert? (Què bonica la foto☺️)
Bones festes i bon 2026!
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CORAL: Accurate annotation of compact genomes using long-read RNA-seq, demonstrated in Oikopleura dioica www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...
Evolution of Tunicate lifestyles shaped by Myosin heavy chain gene duplications, losses, and the diversification of tail muscle cell identities in Oikopleura dioica www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...
Evolution of Tunicate lifestyles shaped by Myosin heavy chain gene duplications, losses, and the diversification of tail muscle cell identities in Oikopleura dioica www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...
Downstream effects of the ''Less, but More'' Fgf signaling in Oikopleura dioica: Fgf receptor expansion and RTK pathway simplification. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...
Huge Congrats to DOCTOR Marc for his PhD, and with his #TailingFree has become one of the Oikopleura Legends of Barcelona! It has been an enormous pleasure to guide you in this amazing evodevo trip! @marcfabregatorrus.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
Feliç diada!! Happy Catalonian day!!
Today, we celebrate the national day of Catalonia, …and one of the typical things we eat today is the “Bread of Saint Jordi” (top), that clearly resembles “something” known by all biologists 😅
💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛🔬🧬🪰
Wow, Josep!!! So exciting!! Happy to see you back to (north) Catalonia!! Congrats!!
Congrats Esteve 👏🏻👏🏻 for your excellent defense of your TFG studying how marine noise contamination affects #Oikopleura, #deuteronoise project cosupervised by @evadevo.bsky.social @esteeve.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @ub.edu
@criscanestro.bsky.social gives a lovely, thoughtful talk on this theme, on a tunicate species with very a scrambled genome; then reflects on what the patterns of scrambling can tell us about the underlying regulatory architecture. #eseb2025
Thanks @jmolev.bsky.social !! For more on our science, please follow us here at @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social
✒️ Don't miss @carlzimmer.com’s article in @nytimes.com, on the impact of gene loss in pygmy seahorses, featuring insights from Cristian Cañestro @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...
Beautiful piece by @carlzimmer.com about the impact of #GeneLoss on pygmy sea horses. Thrilled to see Cañestro’s comments mentioned in @nytimes.com. This does not happen everyday! Thanks, Carl☺️
@criscanestro.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu
Great contributions of our lab in #ESEB2025 with our research on genome architecture and gene regulation from an #oikopleura perspective.
Great organization
@eseb2025.bsky.social @tonigabaldon.bsky.social @ntorresag.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
