Alejandro Barrallo

We are hiring ! Interested in understanding how neuronal cell diversity arises? Come and join us @upf.edu for a #PhD #FPI fellowship

Zebrafish aren’t just fascinating to watch — they can regenerate parts of their heart, fins, spinal cord, and even retina! 🐟✨
This makes them one of the most powerful model organisms for studying regeneration and human diseases 🧬🔬.

Ours were from Stratagene, second half of the 90's

Took me a while to get used to those, but after that, never looked back

Looking for restriction sites on sequencing films was fun

And the link:
rdcu.be/eEdHJ

Accepted for publication!

Early downregulation of HC-specific genes in the vestibular sensory epithelium during chronic ototoxicity Exposure of mammals to ototoxic compounds causes hair cell (HC) loss in the vestibular sensory epithelia of the inner ear. In chronic exposure models, this loss often occurs by extrusion of the HC fro...

New preprint out from our lab!
Great effort from the four first authors, all of them talented PhD students.

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

First day of summer holidays. I could sleep a bit more. 8:00 am sharp gardeners start blowing leaves and mowing the park

Dune, 1965

Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

the enshittification of education is underway

restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

The Confocal Room

Grant funded! Insufficiently, though, as usual...

If you like our recent work and are interested in developing a postdoc project related to isoform diversity in individual cell types and their regulation, get in contact!
We are looking for applicants for Marie Curie and EMBO postdoctoral fellowships #postdocposition #singlecell #RNA_processing

Neural crest is a free population of cells that do whatever they please

Some people just need money keep flowing to their labs. Wait to see the names of the awardees

Donate to Support Emma's Fight Against Leukemia , organized by Yejin Mun Our sweet Emma, who always brings warmth, laughter, and a special kind of "Emma magic… Yejin Mun needs your support for Support Emma's Fight Against Leukemia

My friend's daughter has been recently diagnosed with B-ALL in the US. Every help will be welcomed.
www.gofundme.com/f/g7vvec-sup...

Enhorabuena Esteban!

Neural crest and lateral line, my two favourite cell populations together!

@mireyaplass.bsky.social te suena?

They could not kick you out, but maybe after some time on the chair, you want out!

Feinstaub = partículas en suspensión
Stickstoffdioxid = NO2

En el #DiaMundialdelMelanoma, gracias por visibilizar el trabajo que hacemos en los laboratorios para entender mejor este cáncer y ayudar a diseñar mejores estrategias terapéuticas para los pacientes @neuroalc.bsky.social @csic.es

www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

El primer bebé tratado de una enfermedad metabólica rara con CRISPR da esperanza a miles de pacientes El éxito del caso de K.J. abre la puerta al tratamiento de personas con enfermedades ultrarraras, a falta de un seguimiento más prolongado del niño

El primer bebé tratado de una enfermedad metabólica rara con CRISPR da esperanza a miles de pacientes
elpais.com/salud-y-bien...

Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism"
—the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing
—from decades of NIH funded research
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
@nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Posting this after some recent conversations with potential international applicants - still time to apply to our Masters courses and International PhD Academy for 2025 entry - join the diverse and vibrant Neuroscience community on our beautiful campus next to Brighton

Early downregulation of HC-specific genes in the vestibular sensory epithelium during chronic ototoxicity Exposure of mammals to ototoxic compounds causes hair cell (HC) loss in the vestibular sensory epithelia of the inner ear. In chronic exposure models, this loss often occurs by extrusion of the HC fro...

New preprint out from our lab!
Great effort from the four first authors, all of them talented PhD students.

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

I could not have imagined that a single-cell analysis tool could be be used to cluster football players...

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

Same here