🎨 We merge science and art in our #PicOfTheMonth at @geneticsub.bsky.social 🔬 The image shows a lateral view of the trunk of an adult Oikopleura dioica, the closest living invertebrate relative to humans and other vertebrates. 📸 by @alfonso233.bsky.social @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social

I’m very grateful for the opportunity to share some of the results from my #MSCA project, OikoDefensome, at the 13th International Tunicate Meeting #ITM13. Many thanks to the organisers! It’s a great pleasure to be part of such a wonderful community. Looking forward to the rest of the meeting!

CORAL: Accurate annotation of compact genomes using long-read RNA-seq, demonstrated in Oikopleura dioica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692336v1