The BEAP lab would like to welcome two new members! Xènia Maya joins us as a lab technician for the IBE Microbe Hub (joint with Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo and del Campo Lab), and Viktoriya Petlovana joins us as a visiting scientist from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

#Evolution is your passion?🧬🦠🐆  📢 Check out the open call for Fundación ”la Caixa” #INPhINIT Retaining 2024 and #joinourteam at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE)! 🗓️ Open until 15th February ➡️ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/o…

#Protists double animal's biomass on earth. Despite their importance, our knowledge of these organisms is greatly hampered by the limited number of stable laboratory cultures. Read our call to action "The protist cultural renaissance" in Trends in Microbiology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Why do some planktonic protists develop a gelatinous matrix? Here we show that this original adaptation is a strategy to cope with oligotrophy in the oceans: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… With Natalia Llopis, Sarah Romac, Manon Laget and Tristan Biard

💥 #11F 💥 At Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with the launch of the #CloseTheScissors✂️ campaign to publicize the gender gap.  🔬 Girls choose #science already, now #women must be able to lead it 🧪 👉ibe.upf-csic.es/news/-/asset_p…

Interested in exploring evolution, cell biology, & ecology of #protists in a Mediterranean setting? 🌊🔬 Barcelona hosts a vibrant cluster of interconnected protist labs! 🌿🧪 Meet the teams at Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE): Daniel J. Richter, del Campo Lab, and ours; plus Ramiro Logares & Ramon Massana at

Happy to share our new preprint from postdoc Caroline J. revealing how the transportome of a symbiotic microalga (Phaeocystis) is remodeled inside a planktonic symbiosis. We combined time-resolved single-holobiont and environmental transcriptomics. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Twitter changed its name, and now we are following suit. Please say goodbye to our previous username, the powerful sorcerer Balkalarre. Please say hello to our new username, the Biology & Ecology of Abundant Protists Lab at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE): BEAP Lab (Biology & Ecology of Abundant Protists)

The BEAP lab is recruiting a PhD student (4 years) to start between January-March, 2025! The project will isolate novel, environmentally abundant protists, and investigate how they live in the lab and in the ecosystem. Apply by: 10 September More info: beaplab.org

"A large colonial choanoflagellate from Mono Lake harbors live bacteria" out now in mBio. We isolated & characterized a new choanoflagellate which forms huge colonies containing co-isolated bacteria. doi.org/10.1128/mbio.0… Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen MBA - Marine Biological Association UC Berkeley 1/6

📣Last days to apply!📣 3️⃣ PhD student positions at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) research groups of Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo , BEAP Lab (Biology & Ecology of Abundant Protists) and del Campo Lab.🧬🦠🤿 🗓️ Apply before september 10th-15th and #JoinOurTeam!🤩 👉 ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/j…