Evolutionary developmental biologist. Postdoc at ETH Zurich • he/him
Zurigo, Svizzera
Joined June 2010
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This year #E3B seminar series at @ETH_en/@UZH_ch ended with an amazing talk from @multicellgenome on animals' origin. It was a blast haiving Iñaki here, sharing scientific ideas and career experiences. Looking forward to get to know the #magnificent8!
Our team is on a mission to find the 'Magnificent 8'-eight elusive lineages closely related to animals but yet to be discovered.
eDNA data suggests this glacial Spanish lake may harbor some of those "known unknown" relatives. So, here we are!
Could this serene spot hold the key to understanding the origin of animals? Stay tuned! 🌊🔬
🎥: Pablo Martin Lerma
🎶: @helloaudiio
@ERC_Research @IBE_Barcelona @CSICCat #Magnificent8 #KnownUnknowns #Biodiversity
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We're recruiting! Multiple postdoc and PhD positions at the University of Lausanne. Official adverts will be out soon, but you can have a sneak peek. Informal enquires are encouraged - if you like our papers, we want to hear from you! sites.google.com/view/sonjal…
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Hi Friends,
I'm excited to announce that I set up a crowdfunding campaign for my sugar selection system for antibiotic-free cloning! Finally formalizing this project; it's been a dream for too long now. Every penny counts; please RT!
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I had quite some fun drawing this cover for @GenomeBiolEvol linked to the recent paper from @SWielgoss and colleagues on M. xanthus mutation rate and effective population size. Read more about it here doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae066
It is ONLINE!🥳 myxoEE.org is for those interested in evolution. It showcases past, present, and future evolution experiments run with #Myxobacteria. Social selection, microbial development, predation, evolutionary dynamics, and much more. Enjoy and share!
This is great stuff! Is embryonal-like multicellular development ancestral to animals? Is (crazy) convergent evolution due to the inherent properties of cellular multicellularity? It's fascinating, and it raises so many questions!
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#PreprintAlert🚨Please share.
Our latest #Ichthyosporean #EvoDevo story, led by M. Olivetta @ChandniBhickta @NChiaruttini & in co. with @burnsajohn.
**𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 #𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝘆𝗼**
LINK ➡️tinyurl.com/MultiCSg
Buckle up for a LONG 🧵(sorry)
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When it comes to publishing, a young scientist can listen to science twitter that talks about the DORA declaration, preprints, & post publication peer review. Or they can listen to ERC consolidator grant reviewers who mostly rewarded people w/ multiple Nature & Cell family pubs.
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📕 New book out!
Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in #Evolutionary Biology? 🌱
Read the latest addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from the MIT Press open access: kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/news/vi…
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Our latest review paper by @picot, @shota483_IL and @oliMeacock is out! We discuss how to couple experiments and models when measuring inter-species interactions in microbes (1/3) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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MediaDive: the expert-curated cultivation media database academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
Does morphology of microbial development evolve latently, and how? In our recent study nature.com/articles/s42003-0… together with @OlayaRendueles, we try to address this question using #Myxo.
An evolution experiment with the predatory bacterium Myxococcus xanthus reveals the potential for ecological factors to impact the evolution of multicellular morphology latently, rather than via direct selection. @lafortma, @OlayaRendueles
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Hey folks, if you are interested in reading our new book on the evolution of multicellularity, but you don't have a spare $200- this is for you! We collected the unformatted chapters (copyright belongs to the authors) in the link below. SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE!
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Finally out! ‘A limit on the evolutionary rescue of an Antarctic bacterium from rising temperatures’ fcld.ly/qnehems, with @olombradam, @francesc_castro and @WagnerEvolution
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Very happy to share: #Grainyhead-1, evolutionarily conserved, #drug-inducible #transcription factor linked to #insulin signaling and #lifespan
Thanks everyone who participated for the shared effort!
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Aggregative #multicellularity has been described in a few taxa but it is present in all eukaryotic superclades. It seems like an uncommon type of multicellularity. Yes, it does. However, I bet it will be less and less uncommon the more we study different #protists along the tree.
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Our cell tracking software, FAST, is now publicly available! Watch our summary video below for a quick rundown of its design and capabilities:
youtu.be/9rDLSZ2AcQ0
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Myxococcus xanthus is a social and predatory soil bacterium. Researchers have just discovered the molecular machinery that lets it kill on contact elifesciences.org/articles/7…
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We're looking for a postdoc and a scientist to work on social behaviour in clonal raider ants @MPI_CE. Join us! Please RT.
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/25263c44
Scientist: tinyurl.com/2p9ca9wh
(photo by Anna Schroll)
