I'm excited to be co-organising SMBE 2027 symposium S-14 "The Molecular Foundations of Evolvability" with @caraweisman.bsky.social Featuring guest speaker @n-martin.bsky.social We look forward to receiving abstracts for proposed oral presentations and hope to see many of you in Quebec City!

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · last wk.

We are pleased to announce that the SMBE 2027 symposia have been selected. 📋 Program details smbe2027.org/program 📨 Abstract submission Opens on November 20th We look forward to welcoming you in Québec City from June 20-24, 2027. #SMBE2027 #society

On Thursday, 29 October 2026 at 10:00, Maria Bruna (University of Oxford) will present "From hard needles to active rods: Excluded-volume effects in anisotropic particle systems". The seminar will be hosted by @n-martin.bsky.social Nora Martin (CRG – Collaboratorium).

At #OpenPRBB last week, visitors solved a puzzle to discover how evolutionary models rely on fitness landscapes, and why the @n-martin.bsky.social Lab uses mathematics and simulations to explore them. Thanks to everyone who braved the thunderstorms to join us!

Thanks to all the speakers, poster presenters & participants, and to @giodal.bsky.social for co-organising!

Barcelona Collaboratorium@barcelonacollaboratorium.com · 5mo ago

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

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

Last few days to submit your abstract 📮

📢 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

🧮 Join us for "Maths and Numbers in Biology" - a one-day symposium on 17th June at IQS Barcelona. Co-organised with @giodal.bsky.social, to bring together mathematical and computational biology research from across BCN: mathsbio.iqs.url.edu

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

Enjoying my sabbatical visit in Barcelona, discussing science with @n-martin.bsky.social:

Welcome to the New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics #complexsys26 program at KITP! May 11 - July 16, 2026 buff.ly/WF8olMH

New research in #GENETICS from @msrivastava95.bsky.social, Ard Louis, and @n-martin.bsky.social focuses on fitness landscapes built from genotype–phenotype maps with a random phenotype-fitness map and makes analytic predictions about their topographical properties. 🔗 for the paper: buff.ly/VnQ796V

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.

Looking forward to @pauformosa.bsky.social's talk next week 🌱 - note that this month, our seminars will be held at the PRBB (Curie room).

Barcelona Collaboratorium@barcelonacollaboratorium.com · 7mo ago

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

🧵 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.

New group website: www.noramartin-lab.com Get in touch if you are interested in joining the group, or know anyone who might be 📮

If you are at the DPG meeting in Dresden this week, join @ggalindopaula.bsky.social and me for our focus session "BP 21: Sequence Spaces, Populations and Evolution" this afternoon: www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/year/2026/co...

En el mes del nacimiento de #Darwin no podíamos dejar pasar la oportunidad de compartir este artículo de la revista eVOLUCIÓN de la @sesbe-org.bsky.social 🧬 “La Arquitectura de la Vida: la semana en que #Barcelona celebró la #evolución a pie de calle” #ESEB25 📖 : sesbe.org/revista-evol...

Tom Van Dooren and I are organising a symposium on "Advances in theoretical evo-devo" at the next Euro Evo Devo meeting in Glasgow. Invited speakers: @n-martin.bsky.social, Nayely Vélez-Cruz, Thomas Hansen & Günter Wagner. Consider submitting an abstract, now open! www.evodevoconference26.com

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔭🧪💻 Thanks to Manuela and Larissa for sharing their perspectives! Read their interview here 👇 barcelonacollaboratorium.com/news/2026-in...

Thanks for the opportunity to give a presentation; it was great to meet the participating scientists!

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 9mo ago

This year’s #EMBLDataCarpentry course is taking place across two hubs, so here are a few highlights from our Barcelona Collaboratorium location 📸

Last chance to submit an abstract to our symposium on fitness landscapes and genotype-phenotype maps!

Meike Wortel@meikewortel.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New year, new conferences! Consider submitting to the symposium on Fitness landscapes and Genotype-phenotype maps, linking computational and experimental approaches (organising with @n-martin.bsky.social; @dbajic.bsky.social invited spreaker) at SMBE (28/6-2/7)! Abstract deadline February 3rd!

New year, new conferences! Consider submitting to the symposium on Fitness landscapes and Genotype-phenotype maps, linking computational and experimental approaches (organising with @n-martin.bsky.social; @dbajic.bsky.social invited spreaker) at SMBE (28/6-2/7)! Abstract deadline February 3rd!

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 11mo ago

SMBE2026 Symposium 20 | Mapping fitness landscapes with mechanistic models, machine learning and experiments 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

SMBE2026 Symposium 20 | Mapping fitness landscapes with mechanistic models, machine learning and experiments 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

Organisers - @meikewortel.bsky.social | University of Amsterdam - @n-martin.bsky.social | @crg.eu Invited Speaker - @dbajic.bsky.social | Delft University of Technology

Submit an abstract to our symposium "S20 Mapping fitness landscapes with mechanistic models, machine learning and experiments" 🧬 - organised with @meikewortel.bsky.social

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open! Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal. 📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts And symposium selection is now finalized! 👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

Our annual PhD call is closing at the end of this week on 30 November. If you're interested in carrying out world-class scientific research in Barcelona, you still have a few days left to submit your application! www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

Thinking about a PhD in the life sciences, computational or experimental? Check out the CRG's 2026 PhD call for lots of exciting projects 🧪🖥️

Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)@crg.eu · last yr.

Are you looking for a PhD? Join us in Barcelona! You'll dive into a community of >100 PhD students from 30 countries exploring the frontiers of biology. You can also join an online workshop on 6 November (15:00 CET) to learn how to find the right lab for you. More info: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

Anne-Florence Bitbol (EPFL, Switzerland) will present a seminar on protein language models for predicting interactions and generating sequences. @n-martin.bsky.social hosts! Join us at the Collab on Thu 23 Oct. We are waiting for you! #Proteins #Bioinformatics #AI #BCNCollaboratorium