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Javier del Campo
@fonamental.bsky.social
Group leader at @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social (@csic.es - @upf.edu) & Adjunct at @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social. Microbial Ecology & Evolution 🔬🌍🧫🧬 🪸 @pr2-database.bsky.social Coordinator #corals #symbiosis #protists
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✅ For the first time, it has been observed in situ that "sleep" helps maintain the host-microbe balance in very primitive organisms, a mechanism that could be extremely ancient in animal evolution.
January 28, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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🌙 When the sun sets, corals recover from the stress accumulated during the day, caused by the intense activity of their symbiotic microorganisms. 💤

#DiscoveringLife
#ConservingBiodiversity

👉https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2026.01.004
January 28, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Corals sleep like us, but their symbiosis does not rest🪸

📕 A research team from the @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social has discovered that corals rest at night despite not having a nervous system, while their microbes remain active.🧵

#UnravellingEvolution

👉https://shorturl.at/qx9K6
January 28, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Really awesome work led by @bradweilerdives.bsky.social looking at the transcriptomic & microbial patterns of a coral holobiont every 6 hours for 3 days! 🪸 🦠 🇨🇼 🤿

Out now in Cell Host & Microbe! 📘

Author share-link here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mWb66t8JE...
🚨New Pub Alert🚨 We present a system-level molecular framework of natural diel regulation in the stony coral P. strigosa, integrating host & symbiodiniaceae transcriptomics with microbiome dynamics over 6hr intervals. Amazing to publish this PhD work @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social 👉 shorturl.at/TzYEr
January 28, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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This project was so fun thanks to @ambonacolta.bsky.social and @fonamental.bsky.social through the lack of sleep during those 6 hr interval dives over 3 days. Massive thank you to everyone involved, including CARMABI marine station in Curaçao, our collaborators, and @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Despite a relatively stable microbiome, we reveal that microbial co-occurrence networks shift between daytime carbohydrate catabolism and nighttime methylotrophy, indicating metabolic hand-offs across domains of life within the holobiont. #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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To help reduce the annotation gap of functional assignment in non-model organisms like corals, we supplemented our host gene ontology enrichment terms using protT5 protein language model to predict functions for poorly annotated proteins, adding more context beyond standard homology-based pipelines.
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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We uncover transcriptional rhythms in the coral, including dawn initiated RNA biosynthesis, midday & dusk regulation of phosphate metabolism, and midnight activation of stress and repair pathways. Breviolum sp. displays tightly regulated cell cycle dynamics and nutrient transport oscillations.
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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🚨New Pub Alert🚨 We present a system-level molecular framework of natural diel regulation in the stony coral P. strigosa, integrating host & symbiodiniaceae transcriptomics with microbiome dynamics over 6hr intervals. Amazing to publish this PhD work @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social 👉 shorturl.at/TzYEr
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
DeepKOALA: A Fast and Accurate Deep Learning Framework for KEGG Orthology Assignment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM
ColabPCR: A validated Google Colaboratory Notebook for Reproducible and Precise Primer Design www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Happy to have contributed to the #protists section of this @ergabiodiv.bsky.social whitepaper 👉 From Permits to Samples: Addressing Key Challenges for High-Quality Reference Genome Generation in Europe onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Comparative analysis of organismal trait variation in benthic cnidarians link.springer.com/article/10.1... #corals
January 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Genetic modification in dinoflagellate algae: Some successes, many failures www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protists
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Please share🙏:

Our lab opens 2 PhD positions to investigate fungi's evolution: #Barcelona

Wet lab in Biochemistry/Structural Biology of cryo-tolerant fungi
www.upf.edu/documents/d/...

Computational in Physical Chemistry of cellular processes under extrem environments
www.upf.edu/documents/d/...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Charting the landscape of cytoskeletal diversity in microbial eukaryotes www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #protists
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Single-cell phylogenomics identifies major groups of marine eugregarine endosymbionts (Apicomplexa) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protists #symbionts
January 26, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Help us make hope normal again.

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January 25, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
The mycobiome of Cassiopea xamachana as determined by culture-based and metagenomic sequencing link.springer.com/article/10.1... #holobiont #symbiosis
January 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Eukan: a fully automated nuclear genome annotation pipeline for less studied and divergent eukaryotes academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... #protists
January 23, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Thanks to all our collaborators and funders, with a special shoutout to the @univmiami.bsky.social Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing (IDSC) to making this all possible! @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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A lot of great discussion at @univmiami.bsky.social IDSC Day 2026 about advances in AI & Machine Learning- including critical ethics issues.

Presented our newest work adapting protein language models (PLMs) in corals to enhance functional annotations. Thanks for hosting such an awesome event IDSC!
January 22, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Com a guia per a les votacions, s’ha elaborat un 📝 llistat de referència d’obres publicades el 2025 gràcies a la col·laboració de @comicat.bsky.social

🔗 Consulta les bases www.comic-barcelona.com/ca/premi-vin...

✅ Vota a participa.ficomic.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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El Premi Vinyeta Ficomic s’incorpora per primera vegada al panorama dels guardons de la 75a 𝗡𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀, impulsada per @omnium.cat i l’ @iec.cat
January 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM