⏳ How does biology keep time? Join us in Barcelona on 28–29 September 2026 for the symposium "Biological Time: From Molecules to Evolution". 📢 Abstract submission deadline: 31 August Register and learn more: barcelonacollaboratorium.com/events/sympo...

Thank you to Miguel Bernabeu and host Kristina Haase for today's Collaboratorium Seminar. A fascinating talk on how tumour vascular architecture shapes red blood cell transport, oxygen delivery and hypoxia in glioblastoma. #CancerResearch #Biophysics #PRBB

Thank you, Brooke Derrington, for your presentation! We had the opportunity to learn more about your work and studies comparing public health policies in Mexico, Spain, and the United States. #BCNCollaboratorium #PublicHeatlh

Maths and Numbers in Biology 🔬📊 brought together researchers from across Barcelona to explore how maths and modelling advance biology, from molecules to development. Thanks to all speakers, participants and IQSBarcelona for hosting! #MathsInBiology #BarcelonaCollaboratorium

Thank you to Rashmi Priya and host Alejandro Sanchez for today's Collaboratorium Seminar. Using the zebrafish heart, Rashmi showed how geometry, mechanics, and cellular adaptation shape robust organ development and regeneration. #Morphogenesis #Biophysics #EMBL #PRBB

Thank you to Martin Lercher for your Seminar yesterday. Martin showed how mechanistic models of microbial growth and AI-based prediction of molecular interactions can be combined to uncover fundamental principles of cellular function. #SystemsBiology #ComputationalBiology #AI #Collaboratorium

Still a few days to register!! #BCNCollaboratorium #IQS #Mathsandbiology

👏 Welcome to Burak Demirbas, visiting fellow from the University of Amsterdam for two months at the BCN Collaboratorium. His work explores antimicrobial resistance evolution in Candida albicans using computational modeling. #BCNCollaboratorium #UniversityOfAmsterdam #AntimicrobialResistance

📢 Join us and @n-martin.bsky.social on June 17 at IQS Barcelona for a full day of mathematics, modelling and biology. Maths and Numbers in Biology: thematic sessions, poster presentations. Register by June 8: mathsbio.iqs.url.edu #BCNCOllaboratorium #SystemsBiology #ResearchEvent

Thank you to Carmen Miguel (@uni-barcelona) for an excellent Collaboratorium Seminar yesterday, hosted by Artemy Kolchinsky (UPF): Exploring how collective intelligence emerges from local interactions,. #CollectiveIntelligence #ComplexSystems #StatisticalPhysics #BCNCollaboratorium #PRBB #UPF

Out now in PLOS Computational Biology 🧬 We have an established theoretical framework for genotype–phenotype (GP) maps, describing their structural features and how those features shape evolution. But much of this assumes one discrete phenotype per genotype - which is often not true.

How do evolving populations navigate complex fitness landscapes? Find out more in our colleague @n-martin.bsky.social’s blackboard talk at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/compl... #BCNCollaboratorium #fitnesslandscapes

A wonderful visit with the Collaboratorium to the exhibition The Invention of Time at the Ciutadella, guided by @ricardsole.bsky.social — Senior Fellow of the Collaboratorium and curator of the exhibition. Thanks @akhilesh-nandan.bsky.social for organizing! Info: museuciencies.cat/en/exposicio...

Our new visitor at the Collaboratorium (Meike Wortel’s group - CRG/UVA) gave us the pleasure of presenting his research this afternoon! Thanks to Coen Berns. #BCNCollaboratorium #Research #Science #EMBL #ScientificTalk #Networking

Thank you to Martin Weigt (Sorbonne Université) for a stimulating seminar at the Collaboratorium on protein evolution, epistasis, and generative models! Thanks as well to Mafalda Dias (CRG) for hosting and to everyone who joined us. #BCNCollaboratorium

🔬 Seminar @ Collaboratorium 7 May, 10:00 (PRBB, Barcelona) Martin Weigt (Sorbonne Université) on modeling protein evolution using epistatic sequence landscapes. Hosted by Mafalda Dias (CRG).

We are pleased to announce our upcoming seminar featuring Martin Weigt (Sorbonne Université, Paris). 🧬Modeling Evolution in Empirical Epistatic Sequence Landscapes - May 7, 2025 at 10:00 CEST #Collaboratorium #SeminarSeries #SystemsBiology #Evolution #ComputationalBiology

Thank you to Leon Peshkin (Harvard Medical School) for his inspiring visit to the Collaboratorium, enriched with a certain touch of humor today! We had engaging discussions on reverse-engineering aging and pharmaco-biology approaches. #BCNCollaboratorium #SeminarSeries #AgingResearch #SystemsB

🔬 Our next Seminar at the Collaboratorium: 30 Apr, 09:00 (PRBB, Barcelona) Leon Peshkin (Harvard) on reverse-engineering aging via pharmaco-biology & model organisms. Hosted by Jeremy Gunawardena (Collab-UPF). Access by registration only for non members of the PRBB. 🧪

Thank you to Pau Formosa-Jordan for an excellent seminar on plant multicellular dynamics, from cellular patterning to developmental transitions. Thanks as well to Nora Martin for hosting this seminar.

Join our next Collaboratorium Seminar on 23 April, 10:00 at PRBB, Barcelona. Pau Formosa-Jordan (Max Planck Institute) will speak on plant multicellular dynamics and Arabidopsis development. Hosted by Nora Martin. #Collaboratorium

We were delighted to welcome Félix Campelo (UPF) to the Collaboratorium Seminar Series on 26 March for a talk on the biophysical principles of ER cargo export. Many thanks to Félix for this insightful seminar, hosted by Eric Latorre Crespo. #BCNCollaboratorium

Kye Hunter and @n-martin.bsky.social from the Collaboratorium have some results to share! Access this preprint: "Using a simplified Rough Mount Fuji model to disentangle how multi-peaked fitness landscapes can be highly navigable"

Nora Martin@n-martin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧵 New preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... In 2023, Papkou et al. reported an empirical fitness landscape with a striking property: >500 local optima ("peaks"), spanning both high and low fitness. Despite this ruggedness, >75% of simulated adaptive walks reached the top ~14% of peaks.

We were pleased to welcome Thomas Surrey (CRG) to today’s Collaboratorium seminar. His talk offered a compelling perspective on mitotic spindle architecture through minimal self-organizing microtubule networks. Thank you, Thomas. Hosted by our Senior Fellow Eric Latorre! #BCNCollaboratorium

Thomas Surrey (CRG) at the Barcelona Collaboratorium, 19 March: bipolar spindle self-organization in cell division. Join us for this seminar!!

Welcome Pietro Gadaleta! Pietro is a sabbatical visitor at the Collaboratorium until June. He is working on ecological feedbacks in the evolution of antibiotic resistance in E. coli, using mathematical modelling. #BCNCollaboratorium

Today, Meike Wortel (Univ. of Amsterdam) gave a clear and thought-provoking dive into a central question in microbial ecology and evolution: how can multiple species — and even very closely related genotypes — coexist over time despite strong competitive pressure? Hosted by @n-martin.bsky.social !

📅 26/02 | Meike Wortel (U Amsterdam/Collaboratorium) on frequency-dependent selection — trade-offs sustaining microbial diversity. Join us at the Collaboratorium! This year our seminar series is a success: come and you will meet the community, create synergies. #Microbiome #BCNCOllaboratorium

Jeremy Green’s seminar today (King’s College London), hosted by James Sharpe (Head of EMBL Barcelona), was a real success. See you next week with Meike Wortel (University of Amsterdam). #BCNCollaboratorium #EMBLBarcelona #CRG #SeminarSeries #SystemsBiology #DevelopmentalBiology

Thu 19 Feb 2026, 10:00: Collaboratorium Seminar Series: Jeremy Green (KCL) “Nematics and Dipoles in Embryonic Self-Organisation”, hosted by James Sharpe (EMBL BCN). #Morphogenesis