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Marta Álvarez-Presas

@martaalvarez.bsky.social

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Evolutionary biologist expert in terrestrial planarians and also digging into the genomic regulation of unicellular Holozoans. Ramon y cajal researcher at the zoology section from the University of Barcelona (Spain)

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Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1h

Great discussion for session 9 on conflicts in the evolution and stability of multicellularity. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 2h

Last but not least, invited speaker Emma Hammarlund is closing session 9 talking about fluctuating redox conditions and the "endurance" of multicellularity. #Multicellverse @hammarlund.bsky.social

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 2h

Defne Platturk is now talking about information in early multicellular life cycles. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 2h

The next online speaker is Clyde Berry on group living and stress response in colonial green algae. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 2h

Always listen to professor Capsaspora!

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 2h

Now Yosuke Nagahata from the MCG lab convinces us that tumorigenesis is an evolutionary reversion to unicellular ancestors. #Multicellverse @multicellgenome.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

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Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 2h

Session 9 starts with Aurora Nedelcu, invited speaker and co-organiser of this great workshop, on personal cost of cheating as a conflict mediator during the early evolution of multicellularity and cancer. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 4h

Our invited speaker Elisabeth Ostrowski is closing session 8 talking about chimerism and cooperation in the social amoebae. #Multicellverse @elizostrow.bsky.social

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 4h

Now Christopher Toret is talking about collective invasion organisations in eukaryotic multicellular transitions. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 4h

We are so lucky that we have a hybrid meeting and we can have some speakers online, such as Lizzy Willbanks. #Multicellverse @lizzywilbanks.bsky.social

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Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 5h

Turn now for Will Crockett on sponge reaggregation. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 5h

Tristan Henderson gave a great talk on predator amoebas. Amazing! #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 5h

Invited speaker Marco La Fortaleza starts the first session of the day talking about epigenetic diversification in bacterial multicellularity. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 5h

Last day of conference! #Multicellverse @the_prbb

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Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 19h

And the invited speaker Vikas Trivedi is closing the last session of the day helping us to understand constraints on multicellular systems. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 19h

It's turn now for Somya Mani, talking about why did multicellular development evolve to be directional? #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 20h

Arsham Nejad is talking about body size and physical constraints in the evolution of complex multicellularity. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 20h

We continue with Kyle Allison on exploring principles of multicellularity in E. coli. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 20h

We start last session of the day with our invited speaker Ricard Solé. How much can you predict? #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 21h

Time for questions and discussion on experimental evolution. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 21h

Closing session 6 with our invited speaker Gohta Goshima on unicellular-multicellular plasticity in marine derived black yeast. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 22h

We have now Eric Bapteste online talking about networks. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 22h

Poster session 2 is over. Good science and networking going on here. #Multicellverse @multicellgenome @EMBO @the_prbb

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 22h

Daniel Rozen is now talking about experimental evolution in Streptomyces. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 22h

Now Dinah Davison talking on experimental evolution in the Volvocine green algae. #Multicellverse @dinahdavison.bsky.social