Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón)
@gabaldonlab.bsky.social
Comparative genomics group at IRB and BSC (Barcelona, Spain) https://cgenomics.org/
If you are an excellent postdoctoral researcher passionate about microbe genome evolution and are interested in any research line in my group there is a #Postdoc opening in my group at BSC via AuSpire! Apply to BSC-PF1 by 7 Sept 2026: 👇 auspire.eu/research-team/bsc-pf1-call-3/
🦠 How did our cells originate? A study by @gabaldonlab.bsky.social at @irbbarcelona.org & @bsc-cns.bsky.social suggests cellular complexity emerged gradually over millions of years, rather than from a single evolutionary event. 📝 Published in @nature.com #BISTCommunity 👉 bist.eu/a-study-by-i...
Very proud of Islam, who performed part of her thesis with us at @irbbarcelona.org . Has been a pleasure to attend the defence, and has been my first chance to visit Morocco.
Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón)@gabaldonlab.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations to our new Doctor, Islam Ahaik who obtained her PhD today at the Faculty o Sciences in Tetouan.
Congratulations to our new Doctor, Islam Ahaik who obtained her PhD today at the Faculty o Sciences in Tetouan.
¿De dónde venimos? El gran salto evolutivo del que surgieron las células complejas que nos conforman es un enigma. Un estudio de @irbbarcelona.org y @bsc-cns.bsky.social revela que hay más actores implicados de los que pensábamos El 'ménage à trois' celular 👉 www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/c...
"Entender el origen de la vida nos ayuda a explicar el mundo en que vivimos, incluida nuestra propia existencia", dice @tonigabaldon.bsky.social, autor principal del estudio. También impulsa otras investigaciones y abre la puerta a "posibilidades que no imaginamos". Los superordenadores ayudan 💻 🦠👇🏼
Un 'ménage à trois' celular: un equipo español revoluciona lo que sabíamos del origen de la vida
El gran salto evolutivo por el que surgieron las células complejas que nos conforman sigue siendo un enigma. Una nueva investigación con el supercomputador de Barcelona revela que hay más actores implicados de los que pensábamos
elconfidencial.com
The origin of complex cells may have been far messier than we thought!
Toni Gabaldón@tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Fantastic paper. Esp challenging the typical binary process of genesis or transition. Just as the first cells as we know them were possibly survivors of multitudes of attempts that did not survive to evolve. The origin of cellular life was not simple; neither was evolution to multiple cell types.
Toni Gabaldón@tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
"Thus, the prokaryotic-to-eukaryotic transition was probably a gradual and complex process, with a constant flow of HGT from diverse sources." #SymbioSky
Toni Gabaldón@tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🦠Un estudio español en @Nature replantea el origen de nuestras células como una historia de alianzas microbianas 🗨️Alex de Mendoza: "El proceso de formación de los eucariotas no fue una relación monógama de dos organismos, sino más tipo ménage à trois" sciencemediacentre.es/un-estudio-e...
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Un 'ménage à trois' celular: un equipo español revoluciona lo que sabíamos del origen de la vida
El gran salto evolutivo por el que surgieron las células complejas que nos conforman sigue siendo un enigma. Una nueva investigación con el supercomputador de Barcelona revela que hay más actores implicados de los que pensábamos
elconfidencial.com
Funny to get quoted on a pun about the origin of eukaryotes being a bit of a promiscuous relationship in the 🇪🇸 press, but glad to help communicate @tonigabaldon.bsky.social & his team's fatnastic work, which highlights the importance of giant viruses 👾 in eukaryotic origins @nature.com. Congrats!
Patricia Ruiz Guevara@patriciaenverde.bsky.social · 2mo ago¿De dónde venimos? El gran salto evolutivo del que surgieron las células complejas que nos conforman es un enigma. Un estudio de @irbbarcelona.org y @bsc-cns.bsky.social revela que hay más actores implicados de los que pensábamos El 'ménage à trois' celular 👉 www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/c...
Y si la aparición d las células eucariotas no hubiera sido tan sencilla como pensábamos? Gran trabajo @tonigabaldon.bsky.social 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🥂🍾 www.expansion.com/directivos/e...
Científicos españoles describen un intrincado puzzle genético microbiano que originó la vida celular compleja
El origen y el proceso por el que surgieron las células eucariotas es aún una de las grandes preguntas de la biología desde que Lynn Margulis* propusiera que la mitocondria...
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How did complex cells emerge? In this groundbreaking paper, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social & co show that eukaryotes arose through multiple waves of ancient genetic exchange involving diverse bacteria (& giant viruses!) revealing a far more complex origin than we imagined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I si l'origen de les nostres cèl·lules no és com ens pensàvem? 🦠🤔 Un estudi liderat pel #RecercaireICREA @tonigabaldon.bsky.social (@irbbarcelona.org @bsc-cns.bsky.social) ha descrit el rol de bacteris i virus gegants en l’origen de les cèl·lules complexes. 👇🏼 www.lavanguardia.com/ciencia/2026...
Descubren cómo se formó la célula de la que descienden todos los animales y plantas
Científicos de Barcelona revelan un episodio clave de la evolución de la vida en la Tierra ocurrido hace 2.000 millones de años
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This theoretical approach (previously in this @pnas.org s.org paper by @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social and Carl Woese www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...) seems consistent with the recent work by @tonigabaldon.bsky.social on the complex paths towards the emergence of LUCA.
Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis Fantastic paper from @microbiobits.bsky.social @tonigabaldon.bsky.social and colleagues. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis - Nature
Phylogenomic reconstruction of the proteome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor sheds light on the origin of eukaryotes, indicating an important role of horizontal transfer of genes from diverse ba...
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🦠 Descubren cómo se formó la célula de la que descienden todos los animales y plantas. Científicos de Barcelona revelan un episodio clave de la evolución de la vida en la Tierra ocurrido hace 2.000 millones de años. 🗞️ @lavanguardia.com ➡️ shorturl.at/iwnR0 @gabaldonlab.bsky.social
Virus gigantes, la pieza inesperada para explicar el origen de la vida compleja theconversation.com/virus-gigant...
Virus gigantes, la pieza inesperada para explicar el origen de la vida compleja
Un estudio del Barcelona Supercomputing Center desvela el origen de la vida compleja, los eucariotas, como el resultado de múltiples intercambios genéticos entre bacterias, arqueas y virus gigantes.
theconversation.com
Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🦠 How did our cells originate? A study by #IRBBarcelona & @bsc-cns.bsky.social by @gabaldonlab.bsky.social, suggests cellular complexity arose through long-term microbial alliances rather than a single evolutionary event. @nature.com ➡️ https://shorturl.at/kCij7 📌 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10639-9
✨ Join us at #IRBBarcelona Open Day! 📅 Saturday, May 30 A day of science, discovery, and hands-on activities for all ages. 🎟️ Sign up and don’t miss it! 👉 https://bit.ly/4ddD7VA #ExperimentaIRB
Vine a la Jornada de Portes Obertes de l'IRB Barcelona!
L’any passat va ser brutal... 😍🔬 Vam descobrir plegats com la ciència pot transformar el món.🔁 I aquest any repetim. Jornada de Portes Obertes de l'@IRBBa...
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De camino a Bilbao donde partiparé en #SEIMC2026 con una ponencia sobre virulencia, resistencia, y adaptación en hongos patógenos. www.seimc2026.org
MeTAline: enabling reproducible and scalable metagenomic analyses. #MetagenomicAnalysis #ShotgunMetagenomics #Snakemake #Containers #HPC #Bioinformatics #Genomics #NARgenomicsAndBioinformatics 🧪🧬 🖥️ academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...
Once more our group was present in the nice FEBS advanced course #hfp2026 at La Colle. With presentations and posters by @tonigabaldon.bsky.social Mrina, and Vlad. As always the conference was great! Thank you to the organizers!
#post Read our "behind the paper" blog post on our latest publication on #Asgard phylogenomics to get a starter on the significance of our findings. by @microbiobits.bsky.social and @tonigabaldon.bsky.social Enjoy 👇 communities.springernature.com/posts/how-th...
Was a pleasure to participate as an invited speaker at the 7th retreat of the Biology Dept of university of Padova!. This have me the chance to visit the oldest preserved botanical garden.
#paper Echinocandin-resistant Nakaseomyces glabratus can retain fitness across host niches. This could help explain breakthrough infections. FKS requirements are niche-specific: FKS1/FKS2 support gut colonization, while FKS2 is key for systemic infection. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Multidimensional assessment of in-host fitness costs of echinocandin resistance in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida glabrata reveals the niche-specific requirement for FKS1 and FKS2 during in...
The increasing rate of drug-resistant microbes stands as one of the major public health threats facing modern medicine (1). The severity of the emerging threat of drug resistance is more profound for ...
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