@AdaptInv1824

InvAdapt Lab, under the stone, is a lab focused on the study of invasive soil invertebrates, mainly land planarians

 Barcelona, Cataluña
Joined September 2025
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IRBioUB@IRBioUBOct 16
#PhDOpportunity IRBio_UB 🪿 THE ROLE OF TROPHIC INTERACTIONS IN THE CONSERVATION OF STEPPE-LAND BIRDS 👩‍🎓 Apply for a 4-year predoctoral contract under FPU fellowships ✍️Send CV, motivation letter, academic scores and 2 references to Dr. Santi Mañosa: [email protected] 📆25th Oct 👇
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1/3 Remember our #Magnificent8? 8 mysterious lineages related to animals, known only from environmental DNA. 🧬 We suspected they were just the tip of the iceberg, hiding many more "unknown unknowns". Our new preprint suggests we were right. 🧵 👉bit.ly/3TUYowB
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1/7 A nice preprint on the #siphonophore Physalia utriculus (the #bluebottle) and an enormous amount of work led by @bogdanoviclab @deMendoza_Alex Beside the interest of the organism, the paper raises a question we find fascinating. 🧵 @IBE_Barcelona
Marta Álvarez@MartonaAlvarezAug 2
New preprint out where I had a small contribution. Want to know more about Physalia utriculus? Take a look ! 👇 @bogdanoviclab @deMendoza_Alex @multicellgenome biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Integrative genomics of the siphonophore Physalia utriculus reveals the regulatory logic of...

How a single genome gives rise to specialised multicellular individuals that function as an integrated organism remains a fundamental question in the evolution of complex coloniality. Siphonophores...

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A new paper on land flatworm species thriving in urban areas of Brazil and Argentina… The question now is: when will we start receiving records of these species from Europe? "The city suits them well: five new species of land planarians..." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The city suits them well: five new species of land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) living...

The present study describes five new species of land planarians, inhabiting urban and peri-urban areas from Argentina and Brazil. Paraparaba pampeana sp. nov., Paraparaba platense sp. nov., Pasipha...

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(about Platydemus manokwari) "Samoa used a flatworm to stop invasive snails from decimating crops, but it destroyed other species too" thecooldown.com/green-tech/s…

Samoa used a flatworm to stop invasive snails from decimating crops, but it destroyed other species...

A species introduced to address one invasive species problem in Samoa ended up fueling another — and far more destructive — ecological crisis.

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Join us Nov 13th for #YSF2026, a completely free, online conference where postgraduate students (and other early career researchers) present their work on systematics, taxonomy and/or phylogenetics. Abstract submission closes Oct 24th! REGISTER: tinyurl.com/bdzxt2ht

YSF2026 Registration Form

Welcome to the YSF2026 Registration and Abstract Submission form. This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 13th 2026. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across...

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InvAdapt Lab retweeted
Rink Lab@rinklabSep 6
And that’s a wrap! We hope everyone had as enjoyable and productive a time at ISFB XVI as we did. Thanks for attending, and we’ll see you again in Sant Feliu in 2029!
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IRBioUB@IRBioUBSep 3
#SeminarIRBio Us convidem a: "A Preliminary Theory on Ecosystems and Living Systems" A càrrec de Cédric Gaucherel Senior Scientist in Theoretical Ecology AMAP laboratory - INRAE institute Dia: 9/09/ 2026 Hora: 12h Lloc: Aula M9, Edif. Margalef, @BiologiaUB @INRAE_France
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Rink Lab@rinklabSep 4
Day 4 of ISFB XVI was devoted to taxonomy and systematics. Great talks capturing flatworm diversity by Lukas Schärer, Miquel Vila-Farré, Alejandro Catalá Jimenez, Marta Riutort (@MRiutortUB), Aoi Tsuyuki, Srishti Arya (@srishti_arya_17), Vitor Milanese, and Marta Álvarez-Presas.
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Happy to be there
Rink Lab@rinklabAug 28
Only four days left until the XVI International Symposium on Flatworm Biology! Wishing all attendees a good trip. We look forward to welcoming you to Göttingen! events.gwdg.de/event/1168/
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Bipalium vagum (and other land planarians) now found in the Canary Islands 🇪🇸 reabic.net/journals/bir/2026…
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[The Times of India] In the 1990s, a predatory flatworm was released in Samoa to control giant African snails; it later became linked to the decline and extinction of native island snails timesofindia.indiatimes.com/… via @timesofindia

In the 1990s, a predatory flatworm was released in Samoa to control giant African snails; it later...

An aggressive predatory flatworm introduced to Pacific islands during the 1990s to control agricultural pests has pushed native land snail species toward extinction, turning a planned biological...

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Our new paper: Non-native land planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) in Belgium: A review and risk assessment neobiota.pensoft.net/article…

Non-native land planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) in Belgium: A review and risk...

Multiple species of land planarians have become established outside their natural ranges. Some are considered invasive because of their rapid spread and adverse effects on ecosystems. Once establis...

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Non-native land planarians are spreading across Europe, but which species pose the greatest risk? Our new paper provides the first annotated checklist, distribution maps, climate matching and Harmonia+ risk assessment for Belgium.🇧🇪 #openaccess doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.108…
Figure 1. Distribution of the nine non-native land planarian species recorded in Belgium through 31 December 2025. Part of: Van den Neucker T, Soors J, Jacobs A, Reniers J, Delva S, Kmentová N, Vanhove MPM, D’hondt B, Scheers K, Bronne L, Ewers C, Abraham L, Groom Q, Halfmaerten D, Neyrinck S, Breugelmans K, Backeljau T, Justine J-L, Gastineau R, Winsor L, Adriaens T (2026) Non-native land planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) in Belgium: A review and risk assessment. NeoBiota 108: 305-334. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.108.190976

ALT Figure 1. Distribution of the nine non-native land planarian species recorded in Belgium through 31 December 2025. Part of: Van den Neucker T, Soors J, Jacobs A, Reniers J, Delva S, Kmentová N, Vanhove MPM, D’hondt B, Scheers K, Bronne L, Ewers C, Abraham L, Groom Q, Halfmaerten D, Neyrinck S, Breugelmans K, Backeljau T, Justine J-L, Gastineau R, Winsor L, Adriaens T (2026) Non-native land planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) in Belgium: A review and risk assessment. NeoBiota 108: 305-334. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.108.190976

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InvAdapt Lab retweeted
Rink Lab@rinklabAug 17
We’re resuming our posts by sharing a preprint from former postdoc and current group leader at the University of Warsaw, Ludwik Gąsiorowski (@L_Gasiorowski). biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Divergent evolution of the Wnt signaling system in flatworms

Regenerative capacity varies widely across flatworms (Platyhelminthes). Whereas catenulids, microstomids and planarians can regenerate a complete head de novo, other flatworms cannot. This striking...

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Marta Álvarez@MartonaAlvarezAug 2
New preprint out where I had a small contribution. Want to know more about Physalia utriculus? Take a look ! 👇 @bogdanoviclab @deMendoza_Alex @multicellgenome biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Integrative genomics of the siphonophore Physalia utriculus reveals the regulatory logic of...

How a single genome gives rise to specialised multicellular individuals that function as an integrated organism remains a fundamental question in the evolution of complex coloniality. Siphonophores...

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🧬Our immune system may be older than animals themselves A study led by @IBE_Barcelona and @KyotoU_News, published in #PNAS, suggests the first blood cells emerged around 700 million years ago from genetic tools inherited from unicellular ancestors. 👉shorturl.at/KLRrM
Emergence and divergence of blood cells. The origin of blood cells is traced back approximately 700 million years to when human ancestors were single-celled organisms. When these ancestors evolved into multicellular organisms (animals), macrophages emerged as the first blood cells. Over the course of subsequent evolution, various blood cells, such as mast cells, diversified. Credit: Yosuke Nagahata.

ALT Emergence and divergence of blood cells. The origin of blood cells is traced back approximately 700 million years to when human ancestors were single-celled organisms. When these ancestors evolved into multicellular organisms (animals), macrophages emerged as the first blood cells. Over the course of subsequent evolution, various blood cells, such as mast cells, diversified. Credit: Yosuke Nagahata.

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🦠 Can a single cell learn? Researchers from @IBE_Barcelona have demonstrated that the amoeba Capsaspora owczarzaki can be trained to anticipate thermal shock. The findings suggest that learning and memory may have emerged before brains or neurons.🧵 👉shorturl.at/oOg11
Células adherentes de Capsaspora owczarzaki (Filasterea). Microscopía de fluorescencia (63x). Núcleos teñidos con DAPI (azul) y actina teñida con fal·loïdina (rojo). Crédito: Multicellgenome Lab, vía Flickr. CC BY 2.0.

ALT Células adherentes de Capsaspora owczarzaki (Filasterea). Microscopía de fluorescencia (63x). Núcleos teñidos con DAPI (azul) y actina teñida con fal·loïdina (rojo). Crédito: Multicellgenome Lab, vía Flickr. CC BY 2.0.

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InvAdapt Lab retweeted
IRBioUB@IRBioUBJul 1
#NotíciaIRBio Tres projectes de recerca de l’IRBio-UB rebran suport del programa Biogenoma-IEC, per estudiar: ctenòfors, platihelmints, artròpodes microendèmics i cavernícoles i el cargol endèmic Xerocrassa montserratensis. 🔗shorturl.at/QfnS9 📷CBP
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🌿#BiodiversityDay 2026: “Acting locally for global impact”. EASIN & the Knowledge Centre on #Biodiversity support biodiversity protection with data & knowledge on #InvasiveAlienSpecies in Europe, like the new distribution baseline on 26 IAS Union concern link.europa.eu/yrvJMy
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