EvodevogenomeUB- Cañestro’s lab
@evodevogenomeub.bsky.social
Cañestro lab ICREA-Acadèmia @GeneticsUB @IRBioUB @UniBarcelona #EcoEvoDevo #Genomics #GeneLoss #Chordate #Tunicate #Oikopleura #HeartDevelopment #OceanHealth
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"LESS, but MORE" refers to the evolutionary framework characterized by massive gene losses accompanied by bursts of duplications that we describe in a MS just published in MBE about FGF evolution in appendicularian tunicates👉 bit.ly/3VGWSfd
@official-smbe.bsky.social
Here, our first #BLUETORIAL 🦋😁👇
@official-smbe.bsky.social
Here, our first #BLUETORIAL 🦋😁👇
Huge Congrats to DOCTOR Marc for his PhD, and with his #TailingFree has become one of the Oikopleura Legends of Barcelona! It has been an enormous pleasure to guide you in this amazing evodevo trip! @marcfabregatorrus.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Huge Congrats to DOCTOR Marc for his PhD, and with his #TailingFree has become one of the Oikopleura Legends of Barcelona! It has been an enormous pleasure to guide you in this amazing evodevo trip! @marcfabregatorrus.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
Feliç diada!! Happy Catalonian day!!
Today, we celebrate the national day of Catalonia, …and one of the typical things we eat today is the “Bread of Saint Jordi” (top), that clearly resembles “something” known by all biologists 😅
💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛🔬🧬🪰
Today, we celebrate the national day of Catalonia, …and one of the typical things we eat today is the “Bread of Saint Jordi” (top), that clearly resembles “something” known by all biologists 😅
💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛🔬🧬🪰
September 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Feliç diada!! Happy Catalonian day!!
Today, we celebrate the national day of Catalonia, …and one of the typical things we eat today is the “Bread of Saint Jordi” (top), that clearly resembles “something” known by all biologists 😅
💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛🔬🧬🪰
Today, we celebrate the national day of Catalonia, …and one of the typical things we eat today is the “Bread of Saint Jordi” (top), that clearly resembles “something” known by all biologists 😅
💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛🔬🧬🪰
Congrats Esteve 👏🏻👏🏻 for your excellent defense of your TFG studying how marine noise contamination affects #Oikopleura, #deuteronoise project cosupervised by @evadevo.bsky.social @esteeve.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @ub.edu
September 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Congrats Esteve 👏🏻👏🏻 for your excellent defense of your TFG studying how marine noise contamination affects #Oikopleura, #deuteronoise project cosupervised by @evadevo.bsky.social @esteeve.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @ub.edu
Reposted by EvodevogenomeUB- Cañestro’s lab
Reposted by EvodevogenomeUB- Cañestro’s lab
@criscanestro.bsky.social gives a lovely, thoughtful talk on this theme, on a tunicate species with very a scrambled genome; then reflects on what the patterns of scrambling can tell us about the underlying regulatory architecture. #eseb2025
August 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
@criscanestro.bsky.social gives a lovely, thoughtful talk on this theme, on a tunicate species with very a scrambled genome; then reflects on what the patterns of scrambling can tell us about the underlying regulatory architecture. #eseb2025
Thanks @jmolev.bsky.social !! For more on our science, please follow us here at @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social
@criscanestro.bsky.social gives a lovely, thoughtful talk on this theme, on a tunicate species with very a scrambled genome; then reflects on what the patterns of scrambling can tell us about the underlying regulatory architecture. #eseb2025
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Thanks @jmolev.bsky.social !! For more on our science, please follow us here at @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social
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✒️ Don't miss @carlzimmer.com’s article in @nytimes.com, on the impact of gene loss in pygmy seahorses, featuring insights from Cristian Cañestro @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...
How the Pygmy Sea Horse Lost Its Snout
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
✒️ Don't miss @carlzimmer.com’s article in @nytimes.com, on the impact of gene loss in pygmy seahorses, featuring insights from Cristian Cañestro @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...
Beautiful piece by @carlzimmer.com about the impact of #GeneLoss on pygmy sea horses. Thrilled to see Cañestro’s comments mentioned in @nytimes.com. This does not happen everyday! Thanks, Carl☺️
@criscanestro.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu
@criscanestro.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu
Do you need a pygmy sea horse break? Here's my story on the deep lesson about evolution they have to teach us. Gift link: nyti.ms/4mrKIC8
August 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Beautiful piece by @carlzimmer.com about the impact of #GeneLoss on pygmy sea horses. Thrilled to see Cañestro’s comments mentioned in @nytimes.com. This does not happen everyday! Thanks, Carl☺️
@criscanestro.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu
@criscanestro.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu
Great contributions of our lab in #ESEB2025 with our research on genome architecture and gene regulation from an #oikopleura perspective.
Great organization
@eseb2025.bsky.social @tonigabaldon.bsky.social @ntorresag.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
Great organization
@eseb2025.bsky.social @tonigabaldon.bsky.social @ntorresag.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Great contributions of our lab in #ESEB2025 with our research on genome architecture and gene regulation from an #oikopleura perspective.
Great organization
@eseb2025.bsky.social @tonigabaldon.bsky.social @ntorresag.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
Great organization
@eseb2025.bsky.social @tonigabaldon.bsky.social @ntorresag.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
Today in #FestaCiènciaUB we are sharing the progress of our @deuteronoise project JPI studying how marine noise pollution affects embryo development of marine invertebrates. Great work @evadevo.bsky.social in collaboration lasalle’s group of Dra. RosaM Alsina & Ignasi Nou
@ubdivulga.bsky.social
@ubdivulga.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Today in #FestaCiènciaUB we are sharing the progress of our @deuteronoise project JPI studying how marine noise pollution affects embryo development of marine invertebrates. Great work @evadevo.bsky.social in collaboration lasalle’s group of Dra. RosaM Alsina & Ignasi Nou
@ubdivulga.bsky.social
@ubdivulga.bsky.social
Avui i demà el nostre grup @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social participa a #FestaCiènciaUB compartint amb els infants el que fem al laboratori i promovent les seves ganes d’investigar i descobrir els enigmes que la natura ens ofereix. Gràcies @ubdivulga.bsky.social per organitzar-ho!
May 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Avui i demà el nostre grup @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social participa a #FestaCiènciaUB compartint amb els infants el que fem al laboratori i promovent les seves ganes d’investigar i descobrir els enigmes que la natura ens ofereix. Gràcies @ubdivulga.bsky.social per organitzar-ho!
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Despertem a la #FestaCiènciaUB la consciència sobre la contaminació marina que pateixen els nostres mars i oceans 🌊 a través de l'observació de criatures marines 🔎 web.ub.edu/ca/web/laubd... @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
Un mar de problemes - La UB Divulga - UB
Taller de la XI Festa de la Ciència de la Universitat de Barcelona.
web.ub.edu
May 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Despertem a la #FestaCiènciaUB la consciència sobre la contaminació marina que pateixen els nostres mars i oceans 🌊 a través de l'observació de criatures marines 🔎 web.ub.edu/ca/web/laubd... @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
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#Genètica | Llegim a @es.theconversation.com aquest article del @criscanestro.bsky.social i el @gasparsanchez.bsky.social
➡️ Menos, pero más: entendiendo la pérdida de genes en la evolución.
🔗 https://theconversation.com/menos-pero-mas-entendiendo-la-perdida-de-genes-en-la-evolucion-249961
➡️ Menos, pero más: entendiendo la pérdida de genes en la evolución.
🔗 https://theconversation.com/menos-pero-mas-entendiendo-la-perdida-de-genes-en-la-evolucion-249961
April 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
#Genètica | Llegim a @es.theconversation.com aquest article del @criscanestro.bsky.social i el @gasparsanchez.bsky.social
➡️ Menos, pero más: entendiendo la pérdida de genes en la evolución.
🔗 https://theconversation.com/menos-pero-mas-entendiendo-la-perdida-de-genes-en-la-evolucion-249961
➡️ Menos, pero más: entendiendo la pérdida de genes en la evolución.
🔗 https://theconversation.com/menos-pero-mas-entendiendo-la-perdida-de-genes-en-la-evolucion-249961
Moltes gràcies @biolegscat.bsky.social per fer-vo-en eco de la notícia sobre la recerca del nostre grup. Ancorat adalt al nostre fil trobareu un bluetutorial🦋 per qui vulgui llegir una mica més sobre la rellevància de la “pèrdua gènica” i la hipòtesis “menys, però més” 🧬🔬🌊
#Genètica | Llegim a @es.theconversation.com aquest article del @criscanestro.bsky.social i el @gasparsanchez.bsky.social
➡️ Menos, pero más: entendiendo la pérdida de genes en la evolución.
🔗 https://theconversation.com/menos-pero-mas-entendiendo-la-perdida-de-genes-en-la-evolucion-249961
➡️ Menos, pero más: entendiendo la pérdida de genes en la evolución.
🔗 https://theconversation.com/menos-pero-mas-entendiendo-la-perdida-de-genes-en-la-evolucion-249961
April 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Moltes gràcies @biolegscat.bsky.social per fer-vo-en eco de la notícia sobre la recerca del nostre grup. Ancorat adalt al nostre fil trobareu un bluetutorial🦋 per qui vulgui llegir una mica més sobre la rellevància de la “pèrdua gènica” i la hipòtesis “menys, però més” 🧬🔬🌊
Publication of our outreach article on our work on #GeneLoss "Less, but more" studying #Fgf #evolution in #Oikopleura @gasparsanchez.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social
@es.theconversation.com
Thanks Laura for your great editorial work @lauragderivera.bsky.social
theconversation.com/menos-pero-m...
@es.theconversation.com
Thanks Laura for your great editorial work @lauragderivera.bsky.social
theconversation.com/menos-pero-m...
March 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Publication of our outreach article on our work on #GeneLoss "Less, but more" studying #Fgf #evolution in #Oikopleura @gasparsanchez.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social
@es.theconversation.com
Thanks Laura for your great editorial work @lauragderivera.bsky.social
theconversation.com/menos-pero-m...
@es.theconversation.com
Thanks Laura for your great editorial work @lauragderivera.bsky.social
theconversation.com/menos-pero-m...
Proud of the two amazing women of our lab, @ntorresag.bsky.social @evadevo.bsky.social, who in the Int. Day of Women and Girls in Science went to two schools to talk about their projects and become models for girls and boys to follow 👩🔬 #11FdoneSTEMub @ubdivulga.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Proud of the two amazing women of our lab, @ntorresag.bsky.social @evadevo.bsky.social, who in the Int. Day of Women and Girls in Science went to two schools to talk about their projects and become models for girls and boys to follow 👩🔬 #11FdoneSTEMub @ubdivulga.bsky.social @geneticsub.bsky.social
Great talk by Nuria @ntorresag.bsky.social on her postdoctoral research in our lab studying how marine biotoxins affects gene expression & chromatin remodelling in Oikopleura embryos, in colaboration with @mariarossello.bsky.social at @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @scb.iec.cat
February 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Great talk by Nuria @ntorresag.bsky.social on her postdoctoral research in our lab studying how marine biotoxins affects gene expression & chromatin remodelling in Oikopleura embryos, in colaboration with @mariarossello.bsky.social at @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @scb.iec.cat
Today, do not miss the posters of our lab at @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social working in (Eco)EvoDevo using Oikopleura as a model. #Noisosome @evadevo.bsky.social #GenomeScrambling @baielx.bsky.social #CRISPR @tinosaurio.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Today, do not miss the posters of our lab at @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social working in (Eco)EvoDevo using Oikopleura as a model. #Noisosome @evadevo.bsky.social #GenomeScrambling @baielx.bsky.social #CRISPR @tinosaurio.bsky.social
January 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Less, but more: new insights from appendicularians on chordate Fgf evolution and the divergence of tunicate lifestyles https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39686543/
December 19, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Less, but more: new insights from appendicularians on chordate Fgf evolution and the divergence of tunicate lifestyles https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39686543/
Congrats 🥳🥳 @ntorresag.bsky.social and @mariarossello.bsky.social for being granted with this exciting projects as PIs studying gene regulatory landscape in scramble genomes at #SGREvoDevoCat
#EvoDevo and #Genomics rock 🧬🎸🤘🏻😎
@geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
#EvoDevo and #Genomics rock 🧬🎸🤘🏻😎
@geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
🏆 Conservation of gene regulatory landscape in scramble genomes
IPs: Núria Paz Torres Aguila i Maria Rosselló Xamena
👏 Enhorabona per l'excel·lència i la innovació científica!
www.ub.edu/irbio/resolu...
#Recerca #Biodiversitat
IPs: Núria Paz Torres Aguila i Maria Rosselló Xamena
👏 Enhorabona per l'excel·lència i la innovació científica!
www.ub.edu/irbio/resolu...
#Recerca #Biodiversitat
Resolució de la Convocatòria Ajuts PR IRBio 2024 per a joves investigadors/es
Termini: 30 de juny 2024
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December 19, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Congrats 🥳🥳 @ntorresag.bsky.social and @mariarossello.bsky.social for being granted with this exciting projects as PIs studying gene regulatory landscape in scramble genomes at #SGREvoDevoCat
#EvoDevo and #Genomics rock 🧬🎸🤘🏻😎
@geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
#EvoDevo and #Genomics rock 🧬🎸🤘🏻😎
@geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social
"LESS, but MORE" refers to the evolutionary framework characterized by massive gene losses accompanied by bursts of duplications that we describe in a MS just published in MBE about FGF evolution in appendicularian tunicates👉 bit.ly/3VGWSfd
@official-smbe.bsky.social
Here, our first #BLUETORIAL 🦋😁👇
@official-smbe.bsky.social
Here, our first #BLUETORIAL 🦋😁👇
December 18, 2024 at 4:52 PM
"LESS, but MORE" refers to the evolutionary framework characterized by massive gene losses accompanied by bursts of duplications that we describe in a MS just published in MBE about FGF evolution in appendicularian tunicates👉 bit.ly/3VGWSfd
@official-smbe.bsky.social
Here, our first #BLUETORIAL 🦋😁👇
@official-smbe.bsky.social
Here, our first #BLUETORIAL 🦋😁👇
Great work progress presentation by @ntorresag.bsky.social on her project on DGE and the impact of biotoxins derived from diatom blooms on embryo development of marine organisms in the context of Oceans Health.
December 18, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Great work progress presentation by @ntorresag.bsky.social on her project on DGE and the impact of biotoxins derived from diatom blooms on embryo development of marine organisms in the context of Oceans Health.
Reposted by EvodevogenomeUB- Cañestro’s lab
🔜 Don't miss out this @MSCActions
Doctoral network opportunity!
🟢 15 PhD positions
🔵 Positions available in several countries
🔴 Deadline: December 20th
This network is coordinated by @obog.bsky.social
at #CABD
🔝 Open positions at CABD at @obog.bsky.social
& María Almuedo Castillo
labs
Doctoral network opportunity!
🟢 15 PhD positions
🔵 Positions available in several countries
🔴 Deadline: December 20th
This network is coordinated by @obog.bsky.social
at #CABD
🔝 Open positions at CABD at @obog.bsky.social
& María Almuedo Castillo
labs
December 17, 2024 at 12:13 PM
🔜 Don't miss out this @MSCActions
Doctoral network opportunity!
🟢 15 PhD positions
🔵 Positions available in several countries
🔴 Deadline: December 20th
This network is coordinated by @obog.bsky.social
at #CABD
🔝 Open positions at CABD at @obog.bsky.social
& María Almuedo Castillo
labs
Doctoral network opportunity!
🟢 15 PhD positions
🔵 Positions available in several countries
🔴 Deadline: December 20th
This network is coordinated by @obog.bsky.social
at #CABD
🔝 Open positions at CABD at @obog.bsky.social
& María Almuedo Castillo
labs
Reposted by EvodevogenomeUB- Cañestro’s lab
Interested in #Cellbehaviour ? Winter is coming and along will come the #JuanDeLaCierva call for junior postdocs! DM or email @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social if you are interested in learning how genes modulate cell behaviour during development! #DevBio #Drosophila www.ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/202...
El MICIU destina cerca de 35 millones a 486 contratos Juan de la Cierva para jóvenes investigadores/as
El MICIU destina cerca de 35 millones a 486 contratos Juan de la Cierva para jóvenes investigadores/as
www.ciencia.gob.es
December 6, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Interested in #Cellbehaviour ? Winter is coming and along will come the #JuanDeLaCierva call for junior postdocs! DM or email @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social if you are interested in learning how genes modulate cell behaviour during development! #DevBio #Drosophila www.ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/202...