@martaalvarez.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist expert in terrestrial planarians and also digging into the genomic regulation of unicellular Holozoans. Ramon y cajal researcher at the zoology section from the University of Barcelona (Spain)
🚨New course alert!
Registrations are now open for the course: Big Data Phylogeny and Comparative Methods: From Theory to Practice with @martaalvarez.bsky.social & Maria Eleonora Rossi
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
SESBE, trabajando por un futuro inclusivo para las mujeres y las niñas
It was a great morning spent listening to the high level research that next generation irbio is conducting. Congrats to all. @irbio-ub.bsky.social
Ha estat fantàstic. Un nivell altíssim de recerca i humà a les noves generacions de l' @irbio-ub.bsky.social. Felicitats a totes
Sergi Taboada showing all the great research they do on sponges. #SESBE2026 @sesbe-org.bsky.social @sergitaboada.bsky.social
Great talk on venom evolution by Aida Verdes at #SESBE2026. @sesbe-org.bsky.social
Presenting the first poster from the lab on invasive and native species at the X SESBE meeting. #SESBE2026 @sesbe-org.bsky.social @hanhtkvu.bsky.social @riutortlab.bsky.social @jrozasub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
Avui ens trobem a les jornades prismàtic sobre espècies invasores. @creaf.cat @irbio-ub.bsky.social
Hoy estamos en la sesión de prismàtic sobre especies invasoras
Today at the session on invasive species organised by prismàtic
Two heads are better than one, unless you’re a land planarian trying to find some grub. FORCE pilot project - check!
Video credit: Daniel Stoga
#nightscience
#WormWednesday
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Last week we presented land planarian diversity at the XI Trobada d'estudis del Montseny
La setmana pasada estuvimos presentando la diversidad de planarias terrestres en el Montseny 👇
We are at the II Congrés de ciència ciutadana. Paving the way! #citizenscience @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social #InvAdapt
Avui presentem la diversitat de planàries terrestres a la XI Trobada de presentació d'estudis del Montseny. #TrobadaEstudis #Montseny #XarxadeParcs @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
Two former PhD students from my lab have led this great work, @martaalvarez.bsky.socialand Jordi Paps. How proud I feel, Congratulations!
Thanks a lot, Gemma!
Pleased to be a small part of this molecular palaeobiology study by Jialin Wei, led by Marta Álvarez-Presas and Jordi Paps, with help from Davide Pisani. Animals repeatedly used similar genomic solutions to the challenges of terrestrialization @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social
#ArticleIRBio
📄Evaluating topological variability in Neodermata phylogenies using mitochondrial and ribosomal gene markers
👥 Authors: V. Hugo Caña-Bozada, Belén Mera-Loor, D. I. Hernández-Mena, JL. Justine, M. Álvarez-Presas (IRBioUB)
🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Last round of interviews for the online participants. #Multicellverse
Second round table discussing about the future of the community meetings and what are the next steps. Thanks to all the participants!
And our last invited speaker was László Nagy who was talking about the Evolution of gene families key to the formation of multicellular fruiting bodies in fungi. #Multicellverse
Fredrik Söderbom on The role of non-coding RNAs in the evolution of multicellularity. #Multicellverse
We had also in session 10
Hajk-Georg Drost talking about How ancient genes convergently organise multicellularity across the tree of life. #Multicellverse @hajkdrost.bsky.social
We had a blast in session 10 on genome evolution. First speaker was Nick Irwin talking about horizontal gene transfer. #Multicellverse
Great discussion for session 9 on conflicts in the evolution and stability of multicellularity. #Multicellverse
Last but not least, invited speaker Emma Hammarlund is closing session 9 talking about fluctuating redox conditions and the "endurance" of multicellularity. #Multicellverse @hammarlund.bsky.social
Defne Platturk is now talking about information in early multicellular life cycles. #Multicellverse