New paper from the lab! Highly dynamic evolution of the chemosensory system driven by gene gain and loss across subterranean beetles, spearhead by Pau Balart-García 🧬🪲🧬sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are getting closer to the end of the workshop. This morning, Gergely J Szöllősi is talking about the difference between species and gene trees and horizontal gene transfer. #evomics2024

Today, we have Marina Marcet showing us what orthologs and paralogs are. #evomics2024

Olivier Gascuel will delight us this morning with state-of-the-art methods and software for phylogenomic inference. #evomics2024

We are looking for PhD students to work on a follow up of this work. In principle, full tuition funding would be restricted to 🇨🇳 or 🇲🇽 (Conahcyt México) candidates, but please get in touch with me. The adverts are here: findaphd.com/phds/project/i… and here: qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/postgradu…

Interested in the genomics of bird speciation on islands? Want to do a 2-year postdoc in my lab at Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales? Spanish govt Juan de la Cierva grants available, appl deadline 31-1-24. DM for more details. Please RT. SESBE

First major work fully made in the laboratory is out in bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. We found that DNA methylation allows recurrent endogenization of giant virus in a protist🦠 closely related to animals, large scale virus and eukaryotic host genomic mixture.🧵 1/10

So excited that Dave’s amazing work is out: phylogenetic trees inferred from 3D structures do well and even outperform trees inferred from sequences! We were first incredulous but we’ve replicated the result using 2 quality indicators and multiple datasets & it seems to hold. 🧵

📢 We're hiring! We're seeking to recruit a postdoctoral fellow to investigate the genomic basis of animal terrestrialization within our SEA2LAND project European Research Council (ERC) Metazoa Phylogenomics Lab Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) CSIC. Application deadline 15th October. Please RT! docs.google.com/document/d/1xX…

Applications for the equal opportunities funding to attend the Workshop on Genomics 2024 are now open! Check your elegibility and access the application form here: evomics.org/bursaries/

Interested in learning genomics and/or phylogenomics? Come join us for one or both of these awesome workshops in beautiful Cesky Krumlov in Jan! Applications now open! 1/3

Over time, the prevailing notion that amino acid sequences are superior to DNA 🧬 in reconstructing #DeepPhylogenies has rendered AA-based phylogenies an unquestionable #phylogenomic practice

First drawings of the future new Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) building (the left tower)! Already imagining coffee breaks in that terrace 😍🌇☕

Our first preprint recommended in PCI Genomics! Many thanks Samuel Abalde for the great recommendation :-) Joint effort of my lab members Metazoa Phylogenomics Lab. Phylogenomics meets open science!

New lab picture of our team! The Metazoa Phylogenomics Lab family is growing! :-) Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE)

Yeahhhhh, our lab rocks, what can I say? ;-)

New preprint from the lab! A collaborative effort by many team members. Cheers to open science! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We're recruiting! Join our team! 👇👇

How did #arthropods transition from #water to #air breathing? 🌬️

Rosa Fernández Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) has been awarded a prestigious HFSP Research #Grant to lead an international team 🌍 to investigate how #arthropods conquered #dry #land 🌊🪱🕷️
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A great debate, F2F, led by Joanna Kelly, on 'Should we sequence all species as soon as possible'. Exciting to meet people in a room! ⁦Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE)⁩ ⁦Rosa Fernández⁩ ⁦Javier del Campo⁩. Thanks Jaume Bertanpetit for organizing!