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Mercè Montoliu Nerín
@mmontonerin.bsky.social
Dr in Evolutionary Genetics. Genomics of complex eukaryotes in symbiosis, biodiversity, speciation 🧬👩🏻‍💻 She/Her🌈
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Our paper was included in the Collection "Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes" from the @microbiologysociety.org 🧬 😁

#genomics #longreadsequencing

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Just 5 more days left to apply to the Workshop on Genomics 2026, in Cesky Krumov, Czechia! evomics.org/apply-worksh... (Deadline 20th of October) Do not miss your chance! 💻🤗 #Bioinformatics #Genomics #evomics2026
October 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Do not miss this pre-print update! It has been an honor being part of it! 🤩🧬 Follow the thread ⬇️ to understand the power of #logan, and how you could apply it too! 🤗
🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...
September 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution.
#protistsonsky
Hello there 🦋
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social

Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳

▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

#protistsonsky
September 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Caught enjoying some jamón at #ESEB2025 😅
August 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Front row seat to the future of evolutionary biology 🌱 #ESEB2025
August 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲
@gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
@csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...
FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life
Communications Biology - FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and...
www.nature.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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☀️ What a sunny start to the last day of #ESEB2025! The week has flown by and it was lovely to connect with so many people!
Don’t miss your last chance to stop by the #ERGABooth: say hi and grab some stickers & other goodies 👋🌼

#GenomesForBiodiversity @eseb2025.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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#eseb2025 is trending hashtag on BlueSky!!
August 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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As a community, it’s wonderful to meet in person after so many online meetings!
📸 Here are some of the many #ERGA members at #ESEB2025.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to say hi and learn more about ERGA!
#GenomesForBiodiversity
August 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Interested in eukaryotic algal evolution, metagenomics, new plastid diversity, and more? Check out my poster (P175) today at #eseb2025 ! #protistsonsky
August 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Early bird applications are now open! Do not miss this chance!! 🤩🧬💻 #bioinformatics #genomics
Applications are now open for the Workshop on Genomics 2026 (11-24 Jan) in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. For the first time, we are offering Early Bird Registration discounts! 🐣 Do not miss the chance! 🤩 Help us spread the word among friends and colleagues! 🙆🏽‍♀️ #evomics2026
evomics.org/apply-worksh...
July 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Equal opportunities funding for the Workshop on Genomics 2026 is now open to apply! Deadline: 2nd of July. Check elegibility in our website, and apply: evomics.org/equalopportu... #evomics2026
June 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Save the date! 🙆🏻‍♀️ The Workshop on Genomics 2026 will take place between the 11th and 24th of January, 2026! In Český Krumlov, Czechia. Regular applications will be oppening mid-July, keep an eye on updates! 🤗 evomics.org/2026-worksho... #evomics2026
June 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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The k-mer workshop is over. In the Friday 3 hour hackathon, people really showed that you CAN learn k-mers in a week! It's been great. Thanks to all the co-teachers, @connectingscience.bsky.social organising team and all the participants!
June 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It was a great week full of kmers! 🤩
What a great time we had at the kmer workshop this week!
June 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Very excited to announce my new position at Wellcome Sanger Institute as a Postdoctoral Fellow on Genomics of Symbiosis, for the Tree of Life Department!! 🧬👩🏻‍💻 Looking forward to exciting research and collaborations! 🤩
May 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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We are almost at the end of the Workshop on Genomics! 🙆🏻‍♀️ and we have Dag Ahrén explaining Best Practices in Handling Genomic Data! So important to send participants back home knowing how to keep a good order in their projects 📑💻 #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics
January 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Evening session on Microbiome/eDNA analyses, with David Barnett, creator of the R package MicroViz 🙌🏽🧫🧬📊 #evomics2025 #bioinformatics #genomics
January 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The Wonders of Genome Assembly! by Marcela Uliano-Silva 🤩 Covering important questions such as, where do I start to produce a genome assembly? Where do I go once I have contigs and scaffolds? 🧬💻 #evomics2025 #bioinformatics #genomics
January 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Dobré ráno! Good morning! We woke up today to a beautiful snowfall over Český Krumlov ❄️🤩 #evomics2025
January 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Morning lecture with Sonya Dyhrman on Genomics in the Ocean! 🌊🛥🧪🧬💻 Such an inspiring lecture! 🤩 #evomics2025 #bioinformatics #genomics
January 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Ready for more adventures? 🗺 We have Genomic Adventure again tonight!! 🤩 with @guyleonard.bsky.social! 💻🧬 #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics
January 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Starting week 2 of the Workshop on Genomics 2025 with a keynote lecture by Evan Eichler, on Genome Structural Variation! 🧬 #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics
January 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM