Group Leader of the Computational RNA Biology Lab

Barcelona, Spain
Joined September 2010
🌱 Here we are again! Excited to share our latest review in TIBS: “The Expanding Functional Landscape of Alternative Splicing in Plants” 🔓 Free access until Oct 8: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ndnx… And stay tuned… October has more to bring! 👀🌱 @TrendsBiochem @ifibyne @unibielefeld
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Today I am so incredibly excited to share with you a new tool from the lab, #RFviewJS (and its stand-alone version #RFview). Two tools I built to fill a gap that has frustrated me for years. #RNA secondary structure visualization (1/n)
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1/ Excited to share our new paper in PNAS! 🌱 How does a plant decide which RNA isoform to make? We show that Arabidopsis SF1 rewires 3′ splice-site choice in vivo, shaping alternative splicing programs that impact both the circadian clock and immunity. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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Great talk from an incredible scientist at Ribored! #RiboRed2026
Second scientific session started with Myriam Gorospe's keynote speech. Thanks for joining our meeting to share your latest research in RNA regulation
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Second scientific session started with Myriam Gorospe's keynote speech. Thanks for joining our meeting to share your latest research in RNA regulation – at Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain
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RiboRed Meeting 2026 is about to start! Follow us to keep updated during these amazing days
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Our first scientific session topic is "Therapeutic RNAs and RNA in disease". Our speakers have covered several diseases and innovative treatments. Thanks to all of them! Marc Talló-Parra, Lorea Blázquez, Aarón Ramirez, Ángela Pérez and Julián Valero.
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RiboRed 2026 begins! Great openning talk from Rory Johnson in lncRNAs
First keynote talk has held by Dr. Rory Johnson. Thanks for your attendance to our meeting and your engaging speech about lncRNAs architecture
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(1/2) Interested in plant evolution? We are opening two PhD positions in my lab at QGG - Aarhus University, where you will combine comparative genomics and machine learning to better understand and improve crop traits. #PlantSciJob #evolution #genomics
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#NuncaMas – at Rosario, Argentina
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Proud to be part of this collaboration with such an amazing team! We investigated how food acts not just as nutrition but as a carrier of stable informational molecules. Findings show human milk sRNAs can modulate cellular stress responses.
Human milk contains a previously underappreciated layer of stable extracellular RNAs. Our new study in non-coding RNA @MDPIOpenAccess explores their abundance, stability, and biological activity under stress. doi.org/10.3390/ncrna1201000…
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The Spanish RNA Society (RIBORED) is officially here! Led by Alfredo Berzal, Encarna Martínez-Salas and Carles Suñé Negre. Visit our web to know more about us and follow our new social media channels to catch updates. #RiboRed2026 #RNA #RNAbiology #RNAspain
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Excited to share our latest advances in RNA structural discovery at Harvard Medical School, with my kids there to share the moment. Huge thanks to Fede and @silvirouskin for the invitation and their expert feedback! it was truly inspiring.
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Among the pioneers in discovering and characterizing light sensing and physiological responses in bacterial chemotrophic pathogens such as Acinetobacter baumannii, we now show that these microorganisms exhibit light-modulated circadian rhythms. rdcu.be/eIQzL
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Large language models are reshaping the way we do science, but how well do they actually understand plant molecular biology? ➡️We created MoBiPlant to answer this. 📝Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 💾Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/manu… (Thread below)
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🪴 🤖 New preprint: What do LLMs know about Plant Molecular Biology? Take a look at MoBiPlant, our new benchmark to measure LLMs performance built by more than 100 plant scientist from 19 countries! More info in this thread 👇 xitter.cf/manuFernandezBu/status…
Large language models are reshaping the way we do science, but how well do they actually understand plant molecular biology? ➡️We created MoBiPlant to answer this. 📝Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 💾Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/manu… (Thread below)
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🌱🧬New preprint: What do LLMs know about Plant Molecular Biology? Take a look at MoBiPlant, our new benchmark to measure LLMs performance built by more than 100 plant scientists from 19 countries! Amazing collaboration! 🚀 More info in this thread 👇 xitter.cf/manuFernandezBu/status…
Large language models are reshaping the way we do science, but how well do they actually understand plant molecular biology? ➡️We created MoBiPlant to answer this. 📝Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 💾Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/manu… (Thread below)
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Riboswitches are super cool and the next frontier in RNA therapeutics !
#Guanidine was known since the 1870s to affect muscle function. Vertebrates have guanidine-sensing #riboswitch RNAs linked to genes relevant to muscle disorders, including some for Ca2+ signaling and others relevant to #ataxia symptoms. @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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🚨 Buscamos candidatxs para postular a beca doctoral CONICET 2025 🌱 Tema: Regulación del crecimiento en plantas 📍 IBR Rosario | Dirige: Dr. Ramiro Rodríguez 🔬 Genética, genómica, biol. molecular y celular 📩 [email protected]
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