James Sharpe

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...

Thanks a million for that Nimesh! It was great to have you and all the students here at @barcelonacollaboratorium.com for the summer school 👍🏻

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Miki, and all the Ebisuya lab - thank you, for all your effort, support, fun, inspiration, and your belief in EMBL Barcelona. 💪🏻 One of the founding labs, you will always be part of EMBL Barcelona - always be one of the gang! ❤️

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

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.

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

From left to right: Heura Cardona-Blaya, Laura Aviñó-Esteban and James Sharpe. Image courtesy of Carla Manzanas.

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

So much looking forward to this meeting in September v4sdb2025.img.cas.cz
#V4SDB2025 #DevelopmentalBiology

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

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...

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.

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

www.embl.org/news/people-...

Congratulations Prisca and all - well deserved! 🍾

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

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

You have made me jealous! :-)

Tissue Biology and Disease Modelling Scientists at EMBL Barcelona focus on Tissue Biology and Disease Modelling

A perfect example of Tissue Biology and Disease Modelling (www.embl.org/research/uni...) at @embl.org Barcelona.

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.