Josefa González
@gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biology. Adaptation Genomics. Transposable Elements. Drosophila. @IBB_Botanic @CSIC @eseb_org Vice President @Dros_EU @LCATMon #melanogasterCTF #ERCgrantee
Lab web: gonzalezlab.eu
Science outreach: www.melanogaster.eu
DrosEU: www.droseu.net
Lab web: gonzalezlab.eu
Science outreach: www.melanogaster.eu
DrosEU: www.droseu.net
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📢 Don’t miss the upcoming seminar: ‘Bacteria adapt by horizontal gene transfer driven by mobile elements, but who moves whom and for whose benefit?’, given by Dr Eduardo Rocha, Institut @pasteur.fr (París).
🗓️14 November
🕛 12:00 h
📍CNB Lecture Hall
🗓️14 November
🕛 12:00 h
📍CNB Lecture Hall
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
📢 Don’t miss the upcoming seminar: ‘Bacteria adapt by horizontal gene transfer driven by mobile elements, but who moves whom and for whose benefit?’, given by Dr Eduardo Rocha, Institut @pasteur.fr (París).
🗓️14 November
🕛 12:00 h
📍CNB Lecture Hall
🗓️14 November
🕛 12:00 h
📍CNB Lecture Hall
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📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!!
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!!
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
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PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
hoehnalab.github.io
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
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We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate
October 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate
I couldnt agree more @harmitmalik.bsky.social. We should celebrate instead the great scientists that are generous with their time and knowledge, which impacts not only their labs but the careers of so many others. We should also speak up when scientists, no matter how powerful, behave unethically.
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I couldnt agree more @harmitmalik.bsky.social. We should celebrate instead the great scientists that are generous with their time and knowledge, which impacts not only their labs but the careers of so many others. We should also speak up when scientists, no matter how powerful, behave unethically.
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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#EMBOMobileGenome Session 4: Physiological impact 🧬 chaired by Josefa González
➡️ 'Transposon-mediated evolution of human immune gene regulation' AKA Stranger Genes 👁️🔦
presented by Edward Chuong (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) @edchuong.bsky.social @colorado.edu @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
➡️ 'Transposon-mediated evolution of human immune gene regulation' AKA Stranger Genes 👁️🔦
presented by Edward Chuong (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) @edchuong.bsky.social @colorado.edu @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#EMBOMobileGenome Session 4: Physiological impact 🧬 chaired by Josefa González
➡️ 'Transposon-mediated evolution of human immune gene regulation' AKA Stranger Genes 👁️🔦
presented by Edward Chuong (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) @edchuong.bsky.social @colorado.edu @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
➡️ 'Transposon-mediated evolution of human immune gene regulation' AKA Stranger Genes 👁️🔦
presented by Edward Chuong (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) @edchuong.bsky.social @colorado.edu @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
Welcome everyone! #EMBOMobileGenome
Welcome to Day 1 of 'The mobile genome: genetic and physiological impacts of transposable elements'! 🧬
The opening remarks by Julius Brennecke accompanied by his fellow scientific organisers:
🔹Déborah Bourc'his
🔹Josefa González
🔹Joseph Peters
#EMBOMobileGenome
The opening remarks by Julius Brennecke accompanied by his fellow scientific organisers:
🔹Déborah Bourc'his
🔹Josefa González
🔹Joseph Peters
#EMBOMobileGenome
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Welcome everyone! #EMBOMobileGenome
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A new release of RepeatMasker is available. This version fixes a bug introduced in 4.2.1 that impacted the handling of poly-A tails and the naming of LINE annotations. See repeatmasker.org for more release details.
RepeatMasker Home Page
repeatmasker.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A new release of RepeatMasker is available. This version fixes a bug introduced in 4.2.1 that impacted the handling of poly-A tails and the naming of LINE annotations. See repeatmasker.org for more release details.
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🧠 🌟 Im very happy and grateful for receiving the Starting Grant from the Swedish Research Council. This support will allow my lab at Umeå University to further understand the role of transposons in oligodendrocyte specific human brain ageing. Looking forward to the exciting research! 🧬 🧠
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🧠 🌟 Im very happy and grateful for receiving the Starting Grant from the Swedish Research Council. This support will allow my lab at Umeå University to further understand the role of transposons in oligodendrocyte specific human brain ageing. Looking forward to the exciting research! 🧬 🧠
Join us in Montpellier if you are interested in #evolution #genomics #adaptation #invasive species or if you want to get to know a collegial group of #Drosophila enthusiasts
🪰 🧬16th #DrosEU2026 Workshop & Satellite #DrosophilaSuzukii Meeting Conference will take place 13–17 April 2026 in #Montpellier, France 🇫🇷.
We look forward to connecting with colleagues across Europe to discuss new research in #Drosophila #genomics #evolution & #CitizenScience +info 👉 droseu.net
We look forward to connecting with colleagues across Europe to discuss new research in #Drosophila #genomics #evolution & #CitizenScience +info 👉 droseu.net
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Join us in Montpellier if you are interested in #evolution #genomics #adaptation #invasive species or if you want to get to know a collegial group of #Drosophila enthusiasts
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1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start?
We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start?
We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Working on internal conflicts? Please submit to the Internal Conflicts STN special issue with @jevbio.bsky.social! We invite work on all forms of within-organism conflict, and are very keen to receive research manuscripts. See the link for more info, or reach out to me if you have any questions.
Call for Papers for a special issue on "Foundations of Internal Conflicts" in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Submit by Feb 28, 2026. Contact Martijn Schenkel for details: martijn.schenkel@wur.nl
[jeb.office@eseb.org](mailto:jeb.office@eseb.org)
[jeb.office@eseb.org](mailto:jeb.office@eseb.org)
October 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Working on internal conflicts? Please submit to the Internal Conflicts STN special issue with @jevbio.bsky.social! We invite work on all forms of within-organism conflict, and are very keen to receive research manuscripts. See the link for more info, or reach out to me if you have any questions.
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🧬✨ It’s official!
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🧬✨ It’s official!
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
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Come join us in beautiful Britanny, France in May 2026 for a workshop that I am organizing with @lucievirevolte.bsky.social and @psudmant.bsky.social on Rapid host adaptations to infections:
sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...
sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Come join us in beautiful Britanny, France in May 2026 for a workshop that I am organizing with @lucievirevolte.bsky.social and @psudmant.bsky.social on Rapid host adaptations to infections:
sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...
sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...
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Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis?
@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here:
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@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here:
academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis?
@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here:
academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...
@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here:
academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...
Una nueva dimension de nuestro proyecto #MelanogasterCTF: BIOLOGÍA (muestreo de #Drosophila, monitoreo de variables ambientales, bioinformática para detectar y PCR para validar #mutaciones), TECNOLOGÍA (MagniFly, estación metereológica) y ahora SOCIEDAD #TimeFlies! @drosospain.bsky.social
Descubre el repositorio online "TimeFlies! observando nuestra historia y relación con la biodiversidad” de #MelanogasterCTF
Memoria colectiva, conocimiento local, #CienciaCiudadana y #genomica de la adaptación para monitoreo del #cambioclimatico en la #Biodiversidad rural.
👉 timeflies.omicsuab.org
Memoria colectiva, conocimiento local, #CienciaCiudadana y #genomica de la adaptación para monitoreo del #cambioclimatico en la #Biodiversidad rural.
👉 timeflies.omicsuab.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Una nueva dimension de nuestro proyecto #MelanogasterCTF: BIOLOGÍA (muestreo de #Drosophila, monitoreo de variables ambientales, bioinformática para detectar y PCR para validar #mutaciones), TECNOLOGÍA (MagniFly, estación metereológica) y ahora SOCIEDAD #TimeFlies! @drosospain.bsky.social
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Happy birthday to #LaskerLaureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard! She identified 120 genes involved in specifying embryonic pattern development.
Read about the epic screen that yielded her Lasker Award-winning results: ow.ly/Pz2050PYFsz #WomenInSTEM 🧪
Read about the epic screen that yielded her Lasker Award-winning results: ow.ly/Pz2050PYFsz #WomenInSTEM 🧪
I Dreamt of Fruit Flies - Lasker Foundation
In the mid-1970s, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard was struggling. Two years after finishing her PhD in molecular biology, she was working as a postdoctoral researcher in a lab she longed to leave. The…
ow.ly
October 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Happy birthday to #LaskerLaureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard! She identified 120 genes involved in specifying embryonic pattern development.
Read about the epic screen that yielded her Lasker Award-winning results: ow.ly/Pz2050PYFsz #WomenInSTEM 🧪
Read about the epic screen that yielded her Lasker Award-winning results: ow.ly/Pz2050PYFsz #WomenInSTEM 🧪
#Drosophila rules! Help us spread the word @drosospain.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @alliancegenome.bsky.social
We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)
October 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Our latest paper on a histone methyltransferase-independent function of PRC2 controlling small RNA dynamics during programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium is now published in #NAR.
#RNAbiology #TEsky #smallRNAs #PRC2 #DNAelimination
1/5
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#RNAbiology #TEsky #smallRNAs #PRC2 #DNAelimination
1/5
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A histone methyltransferase-independent function of PRC2 controls small RNA dynamics during programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium
Abstract. To limit transposable element (TE) mobilization, most eukaryotes have evolved small RNAs to silence TE activity via homology-dependent mechanisms
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October 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Our latest paper on a histone methyltransferase-independent function of PRC2 controlling small RNA dynamics during programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium is now published in #NAR.
#RNAbiology #TEsky #smallRNAs #PRC2 #DNAelimination
1/5
academic.oup.com/nar/article-...
#RNAbiology #TEsky #smallRNAs #PRC2 #DNAelimination
1/5
academic.oup.com/nar/article-...
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Transposable elements drive much of naturally occurring genetic lethality in Drosophila melanogaster https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682755v1
October 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Transposable elements drive much of naturally occurring genetic lethality in Drosophila melanogaster https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682755v1
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Fungal #GenomeSize variation is largely driven by TEs & lineage-specific genome defenses. @tbadet.bsky.social & @danielcroll.bsky.social show that presence/absence of RIP mutation systems influences #genome architecture, identifying a likely novel defense mechanism @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4hcC5tx
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Fungal #GenomeSize variation is largely driven by TEs & lineage-specific genome defenses. @tbadet.bsky.social & @danielcroll.bsky.social show that presence/absence of RIP mutation systems influences #genome architecture, identifying a likely novel defense mechanism @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4hcC5tx
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⌛DEADLINE EXTENDED : 22/10⌛
Deadline for abstract submission for the The X Meeting of the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology
@sesbe-org.bsky.social has been extended until Wednesday, 22/10
Submit your abstract at sesbe2026.es, and follow us for updates!
Deadline for abstract submission for the The X Meeting of the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology
@sesbe-org.bsky.social has been extended until Wednesday, 22/10
Submit your abstract at sesbe2026.es, and follow us for updates!
October 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
⌛DEADLINE EXTENDED : 22/10⌛
Deadline for abstract submission for the The X Meeting of the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology
@sesbe-org.bsky.social has been extended until Wednesday, 22/10
Submit your abstract at sesbe2026.es, and follow us for updates!
Deadline for abstract submission for the The X Meeting of the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology
@sesbe-org.bsky.social has been extended until Wednesday, 22/10
Submit your abstract at sesbe2026.es, and follow us for updates!