Honoured to give the Jenkinson Memorial Lecture in the brand new Life and Mind building (lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk). Thanks to @peterhox.bsky.social and all - great discussions 👍🏻

Can robots in a swarm act like the cells of an organism? Thanks to Sedeer El-Showk for the new article in @nature.com, which highlights the work of a number of research groups, including our own, on how “Robots demonstrate principles of collective intelligence”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Miki Ebisuya@ebisuyamiki.bsky.social · last yr.

Closing our Barcelona lab is bittersweet. These seven years were amazing—thanks to EMBL Barcelona and the fantastic lab members/collaborators, I launched my dream projects of Synthetic Dev Bio and Stem Cell Zoo. Now, we’re taking them to PoL Dresden!

Find out how video games helped scientists visualise limb development. Laura Aviñó-Esteban, PhD student at EMBL Barcelona and first author of a recently published study, explains how video games helped her solve the problem of fragmented limb dev. visualisation. 💻🧪 www.embl.org/news/science...

Congratulations Kristina!! Very well deserved. All of EMBL Barcelona is proud of you 👍🏻. @embl.org

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology@imbavienna.bsky.social · last yr.

Kristina Stapornwongkul is joining IMBA! The Stapornwongkul lab will study how the nutritional environment and metabolic processes influence embryonic development—an emerging research area with broad implications for both fundamental biology and biomedical applications. Welcome, Kristina!

Our teachers this year: Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social) Rashmi takes a systems-level approach, integrating quantitative imaging, genetics, and theory to explore how organs form and function emerges during embryogenesis. She will talk about the role of mechanical forces in organogenesis.

Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology@veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 2y ago

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Venice Evo Devo Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems Aug 27-22, 2025 Centro Cultural Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice Register at: meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... Deadline is March 31, 2025. #VeniceEvoDevo

This Thursday, Jerome Solon (CSIC-UPV/EHU) will be the next speaker at the Seminar Series! 🧫 “Closing the gap: Mechanosensing and control of tissue mechanics for epithelial sealing and tissue repair” 📅 06/03/2025 – 10:00 🗳️ Registration: t.ly/jPOlc 👨‍🏫 Host: @jamesasharpe.bsky.social

To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author Laura Aviñó-Esteban @lauavinyo.bsky.social and corresponding author James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social, Head of EMBL Barcelona, Spain. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Congratulations Laura Avinyo! @lauavinyo.bsky.social and Heura Cardona! First paper of your PhD 🎉. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Beautiful quantified trajectory of how the skeletal pattern of the gene Sox9 emerges during limb development. @embl.org @barcelonacollaboratorium.com

Good morning #CellBio24! Don't miss this morning's Visionary Awards session from 9-11am in ballroom 20a, where @crg.eu's Elvan Böke will receive her EMBO Gold Medal and give a talk alongside fellow @ascbiology.bsky.social award winners. Gold Medal announcement 👇 www.embo.org/press-releas...

EMBO Gold Medal awarded to Elvan Böke – Press releases – EMBO

The scientist is recognized for her pioneering research on physiological mechanisms that enable oocytes to stay healthy over decades of dormancy

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Spreading our work at the XII Jornades de Bioinformàtica i Genòmica de la @scb.iec.cat @tmontsay.bsky.social about our recent discovery rdcu.be/d04Gz of pervasive presence of not completly lysed cells in reference cell atlases @humancellatlas.org compromising quality & model training

Thanks very much Anna! @annaesteveco.bsky.social and it was great to hear about your work on the possible worrying large biases in sc RNA-Seq data.

Anna Esteve Codina@annaesteveco.bsky.social · 2y ago

Brilliant presentation by @jamesasharpe.bsky.social at XII Jornades de Bioinformàtica i Genòmica by @scb.iec.cat about mechanistic dynamical models and #Turing patterns to go from genes to phenotypes

Very nice interview with our new(-ish!) Head of Administration in Barcelona. @embl.org www.embl.org/news/people-...

Big 🧬 news this week: we have launched the first Joint Program on Evolutionary Medical Genomics. Spearheaded by @mirimiam.bsky.social, Barcelona researchers will study and exploit the vast genomic diversity of life on Earth to enhance precision medicine. Full story in @elpais.com

The dawn of a new medicine: Researchers use the theory of evolution to fight cancer

The world’s first joint research program in evolutionary medical genomics has been launched in Barcelona, under the direction of biologist Manuel Irimia

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So exciting! Studying malaria infection in vitro! The human malaria parasite is specific to humans: you can't study the same parasite in animal models. The lab of @mariabernabeu.bsky.social build beautiful human blood vessels in vitro, & do the experiments there: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic kickoff presentation today for the inaugural symposium of the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social by @deboramarks.bsky.social from @harvardmed.bsky.social who gave the opening keynote on, Generative models for prediction and design.