Paula Escuer

Flyer for symposium: https://ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org/

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

Participants of the workshop during Charlotte's presentation. Many screens show Hi-C maps being curated in real time.

(1/3) The 2nd Genome Curation Workshop continues!

Today, participants explored Merian elements and chromosome evolution in #Lepidoptera in a fantastic talk by @charlottewright.bsky.social

More info below 👇🦋

Participants attending a talk on day one of the 2nd Genome Curation Workshop (Cambridge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Feb 16-17). The screen shows an image of Phalera bucephala alongside information about its genome.

Mark Blaxter giving a talk during day one of the 2nd Genome Curation Workshop (Feb 16-27, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge).

📢 Today marks the start of the 2nd Genome Curation Workshop, organised by #10kLepGenomes and @projectpsyche.bsky.social

From Feb 16–27, seventeen participants will learn how to interpret and edit Hi-C maps alongside senior curators at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

Stay tuned for updates! 🦋🧬

MSc student Paula Tajada Lostao gave a fantastic talk today about her gut-brain axis work in honeybees and fruit flies at #Biology26. We are proud of you!

Inspiring talk by Mark Blaxter today at #Biology26 Neuchâtel!

Mark Blaxter from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social describes the ambition of the @ebpgenome.bsky.social to #Biology26 in Switzerland

Hoy se celebra el #DarwinDay para conmemorar el nacimiento del naturalista británico Charles Darwin.

ERGA-CH #Switzerland @ergabiodiv.bsky.social symposium with a great selection of presentations of diverse study systems using reference #genomes
#biodiversity #genomics

Hi everyone!
The talk I had the chance to give with @fnucleosome.bsky.social last October is now out on Youtube!
If you like evolution, 3D genomics, biodiversity and/or fungi, I think you might like it! 🧬🧪🍄
The submission of this paper has never been that close!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plez...

Happy to be part of this amazing project!!

Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t...

I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬

Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Sharing some pictures of last week in Roscoff at the Jaques Monod conference of speciation. I enjoyed the amazing talks and posters and I had the opportunity to meet very inspiring people, also remarkable food!

This caterpillar wears the body parts of insect prey Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.

A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat.

Genome Size Reduction Under Non-Adaptive Evolution: How Evolution Halved Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Radiation. Today talk by Sara Guirao-Rico in @eseb2025.bsky.social congress, and accepted ms. in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life Communications Biology - FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and...

FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲
@gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
@csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...

On Thursday at #ESEB2025 I will be giving a talk on "Cryptobiosis is associated with rapid chromosome restructuring in Panagrolaimus nematodes", and here is a little teaser of what to expect. For the rest, come to symposium S28.03 room 113 at 16:15. The last slide might make you fall off your chair!

My brilliant friend, Dr. María Recuerda, presenting her work on bird pangenomes at #ESEB2025!

Thanks Luis 🥰

Epigenetics and #chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera #eseb2025

One of the best talks so far by the star @pescuer.bsky.social !!!

How did evolution drive massive genome contraction during oceanic island colonization? A new paper from our lab.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I had an amazing time helping with organization of the first conference on holocentric chromosomes
@holocentricity2025.bsky.social, where I talked about methylation in Leps 🦋 and Carex 🌾Amazing experience!

Such an honour to host the first conference on Holocentric Chromosomes at the University of Neuchâtel! What an amazing group of people, big thank you to everyone who participated! Looking forward to seeing you all again next time!
🦋🌱🪱🕷️🧬

A brilliant time was had at @holocentricity2025.bsky.social in the beautiful Neuchâtel - hopefully the first of many such meetings! Thank you so much to the amazing team of organisers @camillecornet.bsky.social @pescuer.bsky.social @crazychipkali.bsky.social @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social 🌱🕷️🦋🪱

One is mine 😌💜

Only one week left to register to the first conference on holocentric chromosomes, from cells to species! 🧬🪱🦋🌱
Join us in Switzerland on the 25-26 April 2025
Travel grants available!
Register here: holocentricity.ch

Predicting Phylogenetic Bootstrap Values via Machine Learning Abstract. Estimating the statistical robustness of the inferred tree(s) constitutes an integral part of most phylogenetic analyses. Commonly, one computes

Do you want to rapidly predict bootstrap values via machine learning? You can now use our Educated Bootstrap Guesser: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

🌍 #científiques2025: "Necessitem més científiques i científics per fer front als reptes ambientals!"

🔬 Ainhoa Salcedo i Laura Vallvé són ambientòlogues a Provital, on treballen per reduir l'impacte ambiental de la indústria. Ciència i sostenibilitat van de la mà! ♻️

👉 tuit.cat/jizfM

#11F

🧬Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975): exposició al @craiubbiologia.bsky.social

👉Notícia @craiub.bsky.social : tinyurl.com/5hbypatd

⭐Theodosius Dobzhansky, genetista i biòleg evolutiu, és considerat com un dels fundadors de la Síntesi Evolutiva Moderna

📍Del 7 de gener al 28 de març a l'entrada

Do you use 3D imaging like CT or MRI for research, teaching, outreach, or art? Check out our new article featuring a detailed workflow for producing 3D cinematic renderings―from tissue-level to whole-organism details―with stunning realism! doi.org/10.1016/j.is... @helsinkiuni.bsky.social