🧬 New research from the Burga lab! We took a closer look at a rogue selfish protein and caught evolution in the act of turning something old into something radically new 💡 (a.k.a. neofunctionalization) @imbavienna.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature.
Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
New preprint! In an fun collaboration with @imaeso.bsky.social and @mirimiam.bsky.social led by Manu F-M, we set to explore the potential adaptation of transposable elements 👾 to host adenine DNA methylation by recruiting prokaryotic DAM methyltransferases: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... 1/6
Exhausted but extremely happy for the two past days of very exciting Science! The EvoDevOmics Spanish Network gathered together in BCN to discuss about evodevo & omics, lots of great talks, discussions and future collaborations. 🤩
#evodevo
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Alejandro Burga
Isabel Almudi
Toni Gabaldón
Excited to share our new study on CpG islands (CGIs) regulation by transcription factors (TFs)! CGIs drive most transcription initiation with unclear regulation. We find that chromatin-opening TFs are key players—following a surprisingly simple rule. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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We had a great seminar by Duncan Odom @odomlab.bsky.social today about mutagenesis and cancer evolution!
1\ Excited to finally share some of my PhD work: OpenSplice!
We measured how >590,000 mutations affect exon inclusion across 600 human exons, creating a resource to study splicing regulation, benchmark variant effect predictors, and support variant interpretation.
61 species, 13 phyla, one simple geometric rule that appears to set when every embryo starts speaking through its own genome. 🧬
Panagiotis Giannios highlights a recent #preprint from @mirimiam.bsky.social & collaborators. #EvolutionaryBiology
#preLight: prelights.biologists.com/highlights/e...
Fin-catching prelight on @mirimiam.bsky.social et al.'s preprint on the animal zoo 🐟🧬
Alex de Mendoza
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Huge congrats to the CRG's Mafalda Dias for being one of eight finalists for the 2026 Premio Vanguardia de la Ciencia, one of Spain's most visible science prizes. Voting is open now and closes on Sunday 28 June at 23:59 (peninsular time).
61 species, 13 phyla, one simple geometric rule that appears to set when every embryo starts speaking through its own genome.
Vota a las finalistas del premio Vanguardia de la Ciencia
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preLights
Gioia Quarantani
61 species, 13 phyla, one simple geometric rule that appears to set when every embryo starts speaking through its own genome. 🧬
Panagiotis Giannios highlights a recent #preprint from @mirimiam.bsky.social & collaborators. #EvolutionaryBiology
#preLight: prelights.biologists.com/highlights/e...
Schubeler Lab
EvoMG Program
Zebrafish Rock!
61 species, 13 phyla, one simple geometric rule that appears to set when every embryo starts speaking through its own genome.
OpenSplice: the impact of half a million mutations on the alternative splicing of 600 human exons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.22.727141v1
