del Campo Lab
@delcampolab.bsky.social
Microbial Ecology and Evolution Lab at IBE Barcelona led by @fonamental.bsky.social. Studying marine animal holobionts🦠🪸🌊
.@rociomozo.bsky.social is officially a PhD student in our lab! Her thesis project will explore the evolutionary history of Suessiales and the origin of symbiosis in the group🦠 Welcome!!🥳 #protists #corals #symbiosis #protistsonsky
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
.@rociomozo.bsky.social is officially a PhD student in our lab! Her thesis project will explore the evolutionary history of Suessiales and the origin of symbiosis in the group🦠 Welcome!!🥳 #protists #corals #symbiosis #protistsonsky
We had a great time last week at @same18-bcn.bsky.social in Barcelona!
October 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We had a great time last week at @same18-bcn.bsky.social in Barcelona!
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Your students arrive in Curaçao earlier than you and say: We are bored. Can we do that extra diel cycle sampling that we talked about 🤔 ?
Your only answer as a PI: Sure 😬
The outcome? Sleep-deprived students and an excellent work on the #coral holobiont rhythmicity 🪸🦠⏰
#symbiosis #microbiome
Your only answer as a PI: Sure 😬
The outcome? Sleep-deprived students and an excellent work on the #coral holobiont rhythmicity 🪸🦠⏰
#symbiosis #microbiome
🚨New Preprint Alert🚨 P. strigosa, a reef-building coral shows tightly regulated transcriptional control over natural diel cycles. #CoralReefs #Symbiosky #bioinformatics #marinemicrobes #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Your students arrive in Curaçao earlier than you and say: We are bored. Can we do that extra diel cycle sampling that we talked about 🤔 ?
Your only answer as a PI: Sure 😬
The outcome? Sleep-deprived students and an excellent work on the #coral holobiont rhythmicity 🪸🦠⏰
#symbiosis #microbiome
Your only answer as a PI: Sure 😬
The outcome? Sleep-deprived students and an excellent work on the #coral holobiont rhythmicity 🪸🦠⏰
#symbiosis #microbiome
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This effort was a 'tour de force' only made possible by my incredible lab @ambonacolta.bsky.social and @fonamental.bsky.social. Absolutely thrilled to get this part of my Ph.D. dissertation out, thank you everyone involved!
August 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This effort was a 'tour de force' only made possible by my incredible lab @ambonacolta.bsky.social and @fonamental.bsky.social. Absolutely thrilled to get this part of my Ph.D. dissertation out, thank you everyone involved!
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Lastly, we explored microbiome structure 🦠 through time. Broadly, the microbial composition is largely stable through time, with notable taxon-specific changes through day/night light cycles. During the day carbohydrate catabolizers show enrichment, while night hours feature methylotrophs.
August 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Lastly, we explored microbiome structure 🦠 through time. Broadly, the microbial composition is largely stable through time, with notable taxon-specific changes through day/night light cycles. During the day carbohydrate catabolizers show enrichment, while night hours feature methylotrophs.
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Similar to the host, the symbiont Breviolum showed diel regulated transcription, although more subtle. Time-specific functions were recovered, showing metabolite transfer and nitrogen/carbohydrate metabolism through daytime, while cellular division and reorganization/turnover during the dark hours.
August 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Similar to the host, the symbiont Breviolum showed diel regulated transcription, although more subtle. Time-specific functions were recovered, showing metabolite transfer and nitrogen/carbohydrate metabolism through daytime, while cellular division and reorganization/turnover during the dark hours.
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In the coral host, we observed dawn as a molecular surge in RNA metabolism 🧬, midday exhibits high phosphate regulation 🔋, dusk reflects lipid & amino acid metabolism ♻️, and midnight shows mRNA catabolism & mitochondrial reorganization 🗂️. Most striking, we recovered ~30% transcripts as rhythmic.
August 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In the coral host, we observed dawn as a molecular surge in RNA metabolism 🧬, midday exhibits high phosphate regulation 🔋, dusk reflects lipid & amino acid metabolism ♻️, and midnight shows mRNA catabolism & mitochondrial reorganization 🗂️. Most striking, we recovered ~30% transcripts as rhythmic.
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🚨New Preprint Alert🚨 P. strigosa, a reef-building coral shows tightly regulated transcriptional control over natural diel cycles. #CoralReefs #Symbiosky #bioinformatics #marinemicrobes #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🚨New Preprint Alert🚨 P. strigosa, a reef-building coral shows tightly regulated transcriptional control over natural diel cycles. #CoralReefs #Symbiosky #bioinformatics #marinemicrobes #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Huge thanks to this amazing team! @fonamental.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @medrecover.bsky.social over.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social @szndohrn.bsky.social @ub.edu @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
#MedCalRes @ageinves.bsky.social @cienciagob.bsky.social
Huge thanks to this amazing team! @fonamental.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @medrecover.bsky.social over.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social @szndohrn.bsky.social @ub.edu @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
#MedCalRes @ageinves.bsky.social @cienciagob.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Bryozoans are key habitat-formers, yet often overlooked in climate research.
Our work shows they’re at risk under future ocean conditions.
🌊 We need more long-term, multi-stressor studies in natural settings. Stay tuned for the ongoing HOLOCHANGE and MedAcidWarm projects!
Bryozoans are key habitat-formers, yet often overlooked in climate research.
Our work shows they’re at risk under future ocean conditions.
🌊 We need more long-term, multi-stressor studies in natural settings. Stay tuned for the ongoing HOLOCHANGE and MedAcidWarm projects!
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Bryozoans are key habitat-formers, yet often overlooked in climate research.
Our work shows they’re at risk under future ocean conditions.
🌊 We need more long-term, multi-stressor studies in natural settings. Stay tuned for the ongoing HOLOCHANGE and MedAcidWarm projects!
Bryozoans are key habitat-formers, yet often overlooked in climate research.
Our work shows they’re at risk under future ocean conditions.
🌊 We need more long-term, multi-stressor studies in natural settings. Stay tuned for the ongoing HOLOCHANGE and MedAcidWarm projects!
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This is the first study to document long-term microbiome and skeletal responses to combined ocean acidification & warming in bryozoans in the wild.
We reveal:
✅ Complex, species-specific strategies
⚠️ Signs of vulnerability under future ocean conditions
This is the first study to document long-term microbiome and skeletal responses to combined ocean acidification & warming in bryozoans in the wild.
We reveal:
✅ Complex, species-specific strategies
⚠️ Signs of vulnerability under future ocean conditions
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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This is the first study to document long-term microbiome and skeletal responses to combined ocean acidification & warming in bryozoans in the wild.
We reveal:
✅ Complex, species-specific strategies
⚠️ Signs of vulnerability under future ocean conditions
This is the first study to document long-term microbiome and skeletal responses to combined ocean acidification & warming in bryozoans in the wild.
We reveal:
✅ Complex, species-specific strategies
⚠️ Signs of vulnerability under future ocean conditions
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What about long-term effects?
We monitored Pentapora populations over 5 years:
📉 Bryozoan cover declined
☠️ Necrosis increased
🌡️ Warming & acidification together accelerated mortality
What about long-term effects?
We monitored Pentapora populations over 5 years:
📉 Bryozoan cover declined
☠️ Necrosis increased
🌡️ Warming & acidification together accelerated mortality
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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What about long-term effects?
We monitored Pentapora populations over 5 years:
📉 Bryozoan cover declined
☠️ Necrosis increased
🌡️ Warming & acidification together accelerated mortality
What about long-term effects?
We monitored Pentapora populations over 5 years:
📉 Bryozoan cover declined
☠️ Necrosis increased
🌡️ Warming & acidification together accelerated mortality
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But not all are good news...
We also observed:
📉 Loss of key microbial genera
☠️Rise of opportunists & anaerobes
These microbial shifts may signal early dysbiosis — an early warning of declining host health.
But not all are good news...
We also observed:
📉 Loss of key microbial genera
☠️Rise of opportunists & anaerobes
These microbial shifts may signal early dysbiosis — an early warning of declining host health.
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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But not all are good news...
We also observed:
📉 Loss of key microbial genera
☠️Rise of opportunists & anaerobes
These microbial shifts may signal early dysbiosis — an early warning of declining host health.
But not all are good news...
We also observed:
📉 Loss of key microbial genera
☠️Rise of opportunists & anaerobes
These microbial shifts may signal early dysbiosis — an early warning of declining host health.
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🦠 Microbial communities:
We found species-specific core microbiomes, conserved across both pH conditions.
This stability suggests potential acclimatization capacity in both species despite environmental stress.
🦠 Microbial communities:
We found species-specific core microbiomes, conserved across both pH conditions.
This stability suggests potential acclimatization capacity in both species despite environmental stress.
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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🦠 Microbial communities:
We found species-specific core microbiomes, conserved across both pH conditions.
This stability suggests potential acclimatization capacity in both species despite environmental stress.
🦠 Microbial communities:
We found species-specific core microbiomes, conserved across both pH conditions.
This stability suggests potential acclimatization capacity in both species despite environmental stress.
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🧱 Mineral & skeletal structure:
The two species showed opposing strategies to low pH.
🦪 P. ottomuelleriana reduced Mg-calcite & zooid volume
🪸 M. truncata thickened its skeleton
→ Different energy trade-offs to maintain calcification under stress
🧱 Mineral & skeletal structure:
The two species showed opposing strategies to low pH.
🦪 P. ottomuelleriana reduced Mg-calcite & zooid volume
🪸 M. truncata thickened its skeleton
→ Different energy trade-offs to maintain calcification under stress
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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🧱 Mineral & skeletal structure:
The two species showed opposing strategies to low pH.
🦪 P. ottomuelleriana reduced Mg-calcite & zooid volume
🪸 M. truncata thickened its skeleton
→ Different energy trade-offs to maintain calcification under stress
🧱 Mineral & skeletal structure:
The two species showed opposing strategies to low pH.
🦪 P. ottomuelleriana reduced Mg-calcite & zooid volume
🪸 M. truncata thickened its skeleton
→ Different energy trade-offs to maintain calcification under stress
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We focused on two species:
🦪 Pentapora ottomuelleriana (fast-growing, encrusting)
🪸 Myriapora truncata (slow-growing, erect)
They naturally occur inside & outside a Mediterranean CO₂ vent. 🌋
We also used 3D micro-CT scans to visualize how their skeletons change.
We focused on two species:
🦪 Pentapora ottomuelleriana (fast-growing, encrusting)
🪸 Myriapora truncata (slow-growing, erect)
They naturally occur inside & outside a Mediterranean CO₂ vent. 🌋
We also used 3D micro-CT scans to visualize how their skeletons change.
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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We focused on two species:
🦪 Pentapora ottomuelleriana (fast-growing, encrusting)
🪸 Myriapora truncata (slow-growing, erect)
They naturally occur inside & outside a Mediterranean CO₂ vent. 🌋
We also used 3D micro-CT scans to visualize how their skeletons change.
We focused on two species:
🦪 Pentapora ottomuelleriana (fast-growing, encrusting)
🪸 Myriapora truncata (slow-growing, erect)
They naturally occur inside & outside a Mediterranean CO₂ vent. 🌋
We also used 3D micro-CT scans to visualize how their skeletons change.
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Why bryozoans?
🪸 They build reef-like structures
🌍 They're widespread + ecologically important
🦠 But largely understudied—especially their microbiomes!
We studied them at a volcanic CO₂ vent & a control site in Ischia Island, a "time machine" for future oceans.
Why bryozoans?
🪸 They build reef-like structures
🌍 They're widespread + ecologically important
🦠 But largely understudied—especially their microbiomes!
We studied them at a volcanic CO₂ vent & a control site in Ischia Island, a "time machine" for future oceans.
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Why bryozoans?
🪸 They build reef-like structures
🌍 They're widespread + ecologically important
🦠 But largely understudied—especially their microbiomes!
We studied them at a volcanic CO₂ vent & a control site in Ischia Island, a "time machine" for future oceans.
Why bryozoans?
🪸 They build reef-like structures
🌍 They're widespread + ecologically important
🦠 But largely understudied—especially their microbiomes!
We studied them at a volcanic CO₂ vent & a control site in Ischia Island, a "time machine" for future oceans.
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Our new paper is out today in @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🚨
🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08524-8
We studied how two Mediterranean bryozoan species respond to ocean acidification & warming using a natural underwater CO₂ vent as a climate change lab. 🌊🧫
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Our new paper is out today in @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🚨
🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08524-8
We studied how two Mediterranean bryozoan species respond to ocean acidification & warming using a natural underwater CO₂ vent as a climate change lab. 🌊🧫
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July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Our new paper is out today in @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🚨
🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08524-8
We studied how two Mediterranean bryozoan species respond to ocean acidification & warming using a natural underwater CO₂ vent as a climate change lab. 🌊🧫
🧵⬇️
Our new paper is out today in @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🚨
🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08524-8
We studied how two Mediterranean bryozoan species respond to ocean acidification & warming using a natural underwater CO₂ vent as a climate change lab. 🌊🧫
🧵⬇️
Has it lost its mind? Can it see or is it blind? Don’t worry — we’re not judging anyone. We’re just amazed by the protagonist of this week’s #MidweekMicrobe.
Make some noise for a true Ironman: the euglenozoan Euglena mutabilis! 🤘 🦠
📷 Gerd Guenther
Make some noise for a true Ironman: the euglenozoan Euglena mutabilis! 🤘 🦠
📷 Gerd Guenther
July 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Has it lost its mind? Can it see or is it blind? Don’t worry — we’re not judging anyone. We’re just amazed by the protagonist of this week’s #MidweekMicrobe.
Make some noise for a true Ironman: the euglenozoan Euglena mutabilis! 🤘 🦠
📷 Gerd Guenther
Make some noise for a true Ironman: the euglenozoan Euglena mutabilis! 🤘 🦠
📷 Gerd Guenther
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Very excited to have my work in the Peninsula Gallery located in Sidney, BC.
#metalart #sculptures #metalsculpture #metalwork #metalartist #artist #fabrication #metalworking #metalartwork #custom #handcrafted #artwork #metalfab #scrapart #artworks #cephalopod
#nautilus #humboldtsquid #cameroceras
#metalart #sculptures #metalsculpture #metalwork #metalartist #artist #fabrication #metalworking #metalartwork #custom #handcrafted #artwork #metalfab #scrapart #artworks #cephalopod
#nautilus #humboldtsquid #cameroceras
July 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Very excited to have my work in the Peninsula Gallery located in Sidney, BC.
#metalart #sculptures #metalsculpture #metalwork #metalartist #artist #fabrication #metalworking #metalartwork #custom #handcrafted #artwork #metalfab #scrapart #artworks #cephalopod
#nautilus #humboldtsquid #cameroceras
#metalart #sculptures #metalsculpture #metalwork #metalartist #artist #fabrication #metalworking #metalartwork #custom #handcrafted #artwork #metalfab #scrapart #artworks #cephalopod
#nautilus #humboldtsquid #cameroceras
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📣 ¡#IBE_Barcelona participa en 🎬 #CSICdeCine 2025!
El 19 de septiembre se proyectará la película Flow en el edificio #CMIMA, y contaremos con la participación de Javier del Campo, investigador principal del #IBE, en el debate científico. 🍿🎞️
👉https://shorturl.at/TMwlP
El 19 de septiembre se proyectará la película Flow en el edificio #CMIMA, y contaremos con la participación de Javier del Campo, investigador principal del #IBE, en el debate científico. 🍿🎞️
👉https://shorturl.at/TMwlP
July 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
📣 ¡#IBE_Barcelona participa en 🎬 #CSICdeCine 2025!
El 19 de septiembre se proyectará la película Flow en el edificio #CMIMA, y contaremos con la participación de Javier del Campo, investigador principal del #IBE, en el debate científico. 🍿🎞️
👉https://shorturl.at/TMwlP
El 19 de septiembre se proyectará la película Flow en el edificio #CMIMA, y contaremos con la participación de Javier del Campo, investigador principal del #IBE, en el debate científico. 🍿🎞️
👉https://shorturl.at/TMwlP
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🏆 Javier del Campo, principal investigator at @delcampolab.bsky.social (#IBE_Barcelona), has been awarded the Hutner Award at the 16th International Congress of Protistology (ICOP/ISOP 2025) — a recognition of his impactful work in the field of protistology.🦠🧬🪸
👉https://shorturl.at/5Lz6L
👉https://shorturl.at/5Lz6L
July 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🏆 Javier del Campo, principal investigator at @delcampolab.bsky.social (#IBE_Barcelona), has been awarded the Hutner Award at the 16th International Congress of Protistology (ICOP/ISOP 2025) — a recognition of his impactful work in the field of protistology.🦠🧬🪸
👉https://shorturl.at/5Lz6L
👉https://shorturl.at/5Lz6L
Platyproteum noduliferae is a marine alveolate, discovered in the intestinal tract of the host Phascolosoma noduliferum (a peanut worm🥜🪱 ) in the western coast of Hok kaido, Japan by Yokouchi et al #Midweekmicrobe
📷 Yokouchi et al 2022
📷 Yokouchi et al 2022
July 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Platyproteum noduliferae is a marine alveolate, discovered in the intestinal tract of the host Phascolosoma noduliferum (a peanut worm🥜🪱 ) in the western coast of Hok kaido, Japan by Yokouchi et al #Midweekmicrobe
📷 Yokouchi et al 2022
📷 Yokouchi et al 2022
Last week we attended the Jornades de Biologia Evolutiva, organized by the @scb.iec.cat 🧫
@matteoagazzi.bsky.social and @rociomozo.bsky.social did a great job presenting their advances on their coral HMW and HiC data generation and Suessiales de novo transcriptomics projects🧬🤩
Keep it up folks!☺️
@matteoagazzi.bsky.social and @rociomozo.bsky.social did a great job presenting their advances on their coral HMW and HiC data generation and Suessiales de novo transcriptomics projects🧬🤩
Keep it up folks!☺️
July 1, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Last week we attended the Jornades de Biologia Evolutiva, organized by the @scb.iec.cat 🧫
@matteoagazzi.bsky.social and @rociomozo.bsky.social did a great job presenting their advances on their coral HMW and HiC data generation and Suessiales de novo transcriptomics projects🧬🤩
Keep it up folks!☺️
@matteoagazzi.bsky.social and @rociomozo.bsky.social did a great job presenting their advances on their coral HMW and HiC data generation and Suessiales de novo transcriptomics projects🧬🤩
Keep it up folks!☺️
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It is an honor to receive the #ISOP Hutner Award to a researcher within 15 years of his PhD who has made outstanding contributions in protistology 😊
I would like to thank my mentors (Ramon Massana, @multicellgenome.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social) and my past and present students 🙏
I would like to thank my mentors (Ramon Massana, @multicellgenome.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social) and my past and present students 🙏
June 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It is an honor to receive the #ISOP Hutner Award to a researcher within 15 years of his PhD who has made outstanding contributions in protistology 😊
I would like to thank my mentors (Ramon Massana, @multicellgenome.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social) and my past and present students 🙏
I would like to thank my mentors (Ramon Massana, @multicellgenome.bsky.social, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social) and my past and present students 🙏