Marta Álvarez-Presas

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

@irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu

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

Evaluating topological variability in Neodermata phylogenies using mitochondrial and ribosomal gene markers The Neodermata is a group of parasitic flatworms that includes the classes Trematoda, Cestoda, and Monogenea. Understanding the phylogenetic relationships within the Neodermata has been a longstanding...

#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

The next online speaker is Clyde Berry on group living and stress response in colonial green algae. #Multicellverse

Always listen to professor Capsaspora!

Now Yosuke Nagahata from the MCG lab convinces us that tumorigenesis is an evolutionary reversion to unicellular ancestors. #Multicellverse @multicellgenome.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

Session 9 starts with Aurora Nedelcu, invited speaker and co-organiser of this great workshop, on personal cost of cheating as a conflict mediator during the early evolution of multicellularity and cancer. #Multicellverse

Our invited speaker Elisabeth Ostrowski is closing session 8 talking about chimerism and cooperation in the social amoebae. #Multicellverse @elizostrow.bsky.social

Now Christopher Toret is talking about collective invasion organisations in eukaryotic multicellular transitions. #Multicellverse

We are so lucky that we have a hybrid meeting and we can have some speakers online, such as Lizzy Willbanks. #Multicellverse @lizzywilbanks.bsky.social

Turn now for Will Crockett on sponge reaggregation. #Multicellverse

Tristan Henderson gave a great talk on predator amoebas. Amazing! #Multicellverse

Invited speaker Marco La Fortaleza starts the first session of the day talking about epigenetic diversification in bacterial multicellularity. #Multicellverse

Last day of conference! #Multicellverse @the_prbb

And the invited speaker Vikas Trivedi is closing the last session of the day helping us to understand constraints on multicellular systems. #Multicellverse

It's turn now for Somya Mani, talking about why did multicellular development evolve to be directional? #Multicellverse