Josefa González

@anneroulin.bsky.social Because plants are fantastic @ibb-botanic.bsky.social 🙂! And because we are developing a pipeline to identify gene-TE chimeric transcripts across species and we are experimentally validating some of them.

We are growing our first #Arabidopsis accessions!! Thanks to Nacho and colleagues at CRAG @uab.cat and Sònia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social @ibb-botanic.bsky.social!!

📢 Don’t miss the upcoming seminar: ‘Bacteria adapt by horizontal gene transfer driven by mobile elements, but who moves whom and for whose benefit?’, given by Dr Eduardo Rocha, Institut @pasteur.fr  (París).

🗓️14 November
🕛 12:00 h
📍CNB Lecture Hall

📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!!

The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.

For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.

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We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate

Felicitats @araujolabub.bsky.social!!

I couldnt agree more @harmitmalik.bsky.social. We should celebrate instead the great scientists that are generous with their time and knowledge, which impacts not only their labs but the careers of so many others. We should also speak up when scientists, no matter how powerful, behave unethically.

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

#EMBOMobileGenome Session 4: Physiological impact 🧬 chaired by Josefa González

➡️ 'Transposon-mediated evolution of human immune gene regulation' AKA Stranger Genes 👁️🔦
presented by Edward Chuong (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) @edchuong.bsky.social @colorado.edu @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social

Welcome everyone! #EMBOMobileGenome

A new release of RepeatMasker is available. This version fixes a bug introduced in 4.2.1 that impacted the handling of poly-A tails and the naming of LINE annotations. See repeatmasker.org for more release details.

Congratulations Vivien @vivienhorvath.bsky.social! This is great news!!

🧠 🌟 Im very happy and grateful for receiving the Starting Grant from the Swedish Research Council. This support will allow my lab at Umeå University to further understand the role of transposons in oligodendrocyte specific human brain ageing. Looking forward to the exciting research! 🧬 🧠

Join us in Montpellier if you are interested in #evolution #genomics #adaptation #invasive species or if you want to get to know a collegial group of #Drosophila enthusiasts

1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start?

We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am sorry that the situation in the States is so terrible and happy to have you back in Europe! Good luck for the new position @pleunipennings.bsky.social!

Working on internal conflicts? Please submit to the Internal Conflicts STN special issue with @jevbio.bsky.social! We invite work on all forms of within-organism conflict, and are very keen to receive research manuscripts. See the link for more info, or reach out to me if you have any questions.

Congratulations Vivien @vivienhorvath.bsky.social!! I am very happy for you! Best wishes for the new lab!

Gracias a las empresas, medios de comunicacion y al @csic.es por ser parte del itinerario Ciceron de Conexion GENOMA: >170 grupos de investigación de todo el estado avanzando el conocimiento sobre la función, estructura y evolución del #genoma

🧬✨ It’s official!
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍

Come join us in beautiful Britanny, France in May 2026 for a workshop that I am organizing with @lucievirevolte.bsky.social and @psudmant.bsky.social on Rapid host adaptations to infections:

sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis?

@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!

Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here:

academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...

Una nueva dimension de nuestro proyecto #MelanogasterCTF: BIOLOGÍA (muestreo de #Drosophila, monitoreo de variables ambientales, bioinformática para detectar y PCR para validar #mutaciones), TECNOLOGÍA (MagniFly, estación metereológica) y ahora SOCIEDAD #TimeFlies! @drosospain.bsky.social

I Dreamt of Fruit Flies - Lasker Foundation In the mid-1970s, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard was struggling. Two years after finishing her PhD in molecular biology, she was working as a postdoctoral researcher in a lab she longed to leave. The…

Happy birthday to #LaskerLaureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard! She identified 120 genes involved in specifying embryonic pattern development.
Read about the epic screen that yielded her Lasker Award-winning results: ow.ly/Pz2050PYFsz #WomenInSTEM 🧪

#Drosophila rules! Help us spread the word @drosospain.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @alliancegenome.bsky.social

A histone methyltransferase-independent function of PRC2 controls small RNA dynamics during programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium Abstract. To limit transposable element (TE) mobilization, most eukaryotes have evolved small RNAs to silence TE activity via homology-dependent mechanisms

Our latest paper on a histone methyltransferase-independent function of PRC2 controlling small RNA dynamics during programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium is now published in #NAR.
#RNAbiology #TEsky #smallRNAs #PRC2 #DNAelimination
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Transposable elements drive much of naturally occurring genetic lethality in Drosophila melanogaster https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682755v1

Widespread shifts in genome architecture and trophism across fungi. Phylogenetic positions of the shifts identified for genome size. Negative values denote an identified decrease in the genomic trait value while positive values denote an increase in the genomic trait value.

Fungal #GenomeSize variation is largely driven by TEs & lineage-specific genome defenses. @tbadet.bsky.social & @danielcroll.bsky.social show that presence/absence of RIP mutation systems influences #genome architecture, identifying a likely novel defense mechanism @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4hcC5tx