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
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Here, our first #BLUETORIAL 🦋😁👇
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Here, our first #BLUETORIAL 🦋😁👇
December 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Apply for Development's Pathway to Independence programme
The programme aims to support a small number of researchers in the fields of developmental biology, stem cells and regeneration as they transition from postdoc to group leader. Read more ⬇️
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The programme aims to support a small number of researchers in the fields of developmental biology, stem cells and regeneration as they transition from postdoc to group leader. Read more ⬇️
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Apply for Development's Pathway to Independence programme - the Node
Development are currently welcoming applications for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, which aims to support a small number of researchers in
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December 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Apply for Development's Pathway to Independence programme
The programme aims to support a small number of researchers in the fields of developmental biology, stem cells and regeneration as they transition from postdoc to group leader. Read more ⬇️
thenode.biologists.com/apply-for-de...
The programme aims to support a small number of researchers in the fields of developmental biology, stem cells and regeneration as they transition from postdoc to group leader. Read more ⬇️
thenode.biologists.com/apply-for-de...
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⏰ Última setmana per inscriure’s a #científiques 2026!
Si ets investigadora o formes part d’un centre educatiu, encara hi ets a temps.
Uneix-te a la iniciativa que ja ha portat més de 600 científiques a les aules i ha implicat més de 500 centres.
📆Termini: 22/12
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Si ets investigadora o formes part d’un centre educatiu, encara hi ets a temps.
Uneix-te a la iniciativa que ja ha portat més de 600 científiques a les aules i ha implicat més de 500 centres.
📆Termini: 22/12
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December 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
⏰ Última setmana per inscriure’s a #científiques 2026!
Si ets investigadora o formes part d’un centre educatiu, encara hi ets a temps.
Uneix-te a la iniciativa que ja ha portat més de 600 científiques a les aules i ha implicat més de 500 centres.
📆Termini: 22/12
🔗https://tuit.cat/TSJhl
Si ets investigadora o formes part d’un centre educatiu, encara hi ets a temps.
Uneix-te a la iniciativa que ja ha portat més de 600 científiques a les aules i ha implicat més de 500 centres.
📆Termini: 22/12
🔗https://tuit.cat/TSJhl
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CORAL: Accurate annotation of compact genomes using long-read RNA-seq, demonstrated in Oikopleura dioica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692336v1
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
CORAL: Accurate annotation of compact genomes using long-read RNA-seq, demonstrated in Oikopleura dioica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692336v1
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Evolution of Tunicate lifestyles shaped by Myosin heavy chain gene duplications, losses, and the diversification of tail muscle cell identities in Oikopleura dioica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693291v1
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Evolution of Tunicate lifestyles shaped by Myosin heavy chain gene duplications, losses, and the diversification of tail muscle cell identities in Oikopleura dioica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693291v1
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Evolution of Tunicate lifestyles shaped by Myosin heavy chain gene duplications, losses, and the diversification of tail muscle cell identities in Oikopleura dioica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693291v1
December 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Evolution of Tunicate lifestyles shaped by Myosin heavy chain gene duplications, losses, and the diversification of tail muscle cell identities in Oikopleura dioica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693291v1
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Downstream effects of the ''Less, but More'' Fgf signaling in Oikopleura dioica: Fgf receptor expansion and RTK pathway simplification. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693154v1
December 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Downstream effects of the ''Less, but More'' Fgf signaling in Oikopleura dioica: Fgf receptor expansion and RTK pathway simplification. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.693154v1
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
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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
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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.
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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...
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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