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Manuel Irimia
@mirimiam.bsky.social
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ICREA Evolutionary Biologist working on transcriptomics of development and evolution at @upf.edu and @crg.eu. Coordinator of the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Joint Program.

Lab website: http://transdevolab.com
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evomg-bcn.bsky.social
Today we had a great EvoMG Seminar by Dario Valenzano @dvalenzano.bsky.social from FLI, who told us about some of their recent aging work using the fascinating short-lived killifish.

Hosted by @mirimiam.bsky.social

evomedgenomics.com/events/exter...
Dario Valenzano at PRBB
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Reposted by Manuel Irimia
evmedasu.bsky.social
1. Map evolutionary diversity to hack biomedical innovation
2. Revolutionize cancer therapy
3. Target the development of antimicrobial resistance
4. Address Anthropocene-related diseases
5. Support healthier behaviors
6. Improve pandemic responses
by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Dan Blumstein!
6 ways evolutionary medicine can transform our health
Evolutionary medicine is an emerging interdisciplinary field with huge potential to improve human health and tackle a broad scope of major health challenges.
www.weforum.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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monicabettencourt.bsky.social
📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for
PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc...
Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager.
Get in touch!
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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felixmendu.bsky.social
Interested in intracellular organization and membrane trafficking? 🥞 Join us at @melisupf.bsky.social in Barcelona! We’re looking for postdocs to apply for a Juan de la Cierva fellowship (PhD between Jan’24–Dec ’25). If you’d like to work with us, get in touch! www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...
Ayudas para contratos Juan de la Cierva 2025 | Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Las ayudas Juan de la Cierva tienen como finalidad fomentar la incorporación de jóvenes, en posesión del grado de doctor, con objeto de que completen su formación investigadora postdoctoral en centros...
www.aei.gob.es
November 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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jjlucaslab.bsky.social
Gracias @20minutos.es por divulgar nuestro trabajo sobre un primer paso hacia terapias capaces de corregir CPEB4 en el #Autismo
Una investigación del @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social colaboración entre nuestro laboratorio y el de Lourdes Ruiz Desviat. @mirimiam.bsky.social
www.20minutos.es/capaces/inve...
Investigadores españoles logran diseñar unas moléculas que 'reparan' en el laboratorio una alteración frecuente en el autismo
Es solo una prueba de concepto llevada a cabo en un modelo celular, pero este estudio constituye un primer paso hacia su posible uso terapéutico
www.20minutos.es
November 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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jpascualanaya.bsky.social
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch!
📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility.
🙏Please, RT!
October 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Join us Friday for the second DSSS talk this week where we are hosting Dr. Manuel Irimia from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Everyone welcome!

▶️More info: tinyurl.com/yc5x4ks8
📆: Friday 31st October at 3pm
📍: MPI IS seminar room IS N0.002 (ground floor)
#DSSS
@mirimiam.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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crg.eu
Are you looking for a PhD? Join us in Barcelona! You'll dive into a community of >100 PhD students from 30 countries exploring the frontiers of biology. You can also join an online workshop on 6 November (15:00 CET) to learn how to find the right lab for you.

More info: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
October 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Reposted by Manuel Irimia
camilleberthelot.bsky.social
We are hiring a ✨ bioinformatics PhD student ✨ for fall 2026 as part of the @evomg-dn.bsky.social MSCA doctoral network!

Our project in a nutshell: can the evolution of gene expression in the uterus point us towards which genes are important for human uterine diseases?

To apply 👉 www.evomg-dn.eu
evomg-dn.bsky.social EVOMG-Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social · 20d
The #EvoMG Doctoral Network brings together leading research institutions from Spain, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal and Sweden to train 15 #PhD researchers in #evolutionarymedicine.

To find out more about the secondments for each position, visit👉 www.evomg-dn.eu
October 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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melisupf.bsky.social
#PhDOffer #AcademicJobs #PhDChat #PhDLife
📣 15 fully funded PhD positions in Evolutionary Medical Genomics (@evomg-bcn.bsky.social) are open!

🧬🔬 Explore ageing, cancer evolution, and pathogen resistance across leading European institutions.

Deadline: Nov 30
Apply here: www.evomg-dn.eu
October 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Reposted by Manuel Irimia
melisupf.bsky.social
With these positions, you can join:
🔸 The Molecular Virology Laboratory (@viroupf.bsky.social) led by Juana Diez 🦠😷🤧

🔸 The Developmental and Evolutionary Transcriptomics Laboratory led by Manuel Irimia (@mirimiam.bsky.social) - @crg.eu 🧬🐟🐭

cc @evomg-dn.bsky.social
#PhDOffer #AcademicJobs
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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sdrecercaupf.bsky.social
At the @melisupf.bsky.social, @mirimiam.bsky.social would like to recruit two fully-funded #PhDcandidate for the #MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social.

#AcademicSky #ResearchJobs
October 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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prbb.org
🔴 TODAY‼️ PRBB-CRG conference

📋 Linking phenotypic differences between species to differences in their genomes
🗣️ @hillermich.bsky.social  - Senckenberg Research Institute

📆 Oct 17 - ⏰ 12:00
hosted by: @mirimiam.bsky.social - @crg.eu @melisupf.bsky.social 
 
📍 #PRBB Marie Curie room
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
mirimiam.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨
Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program.

If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃

Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇
EVOMG-DN
EvoMG-DN is a European Doctoral Network funded by the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), composed of 14 beneficiaries and associated partners from both academic and non-academic sectors.
www.evomg-dn.eu
October 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Reposted by Manuel Irimia
trevorgraham.bsky.social
We have two fantastically well-funded #PhD studentships available through the @evomg-dn.bsky.social #EU doctoral network (led by brilliant @mirimiam.bsky.social, @crg.eu). These enable students to move to the UK and come and work with us @icr.ac.uk to exploit #cancer #evolution for patient benefit.
October 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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trevorgraham.bsky.social
The second is about potential fitness costs of cancer drug resistance, and how we might exploit them using approaches like adaptive therapy. (building on our work with @mlockley.bsky.social in ovarian cancer: aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar...). Description here: www.icr.ac.uk/study-and-ca...
Adaptive Therapy Exploits Fitness Deficits in Chemotherapy-Resistant Ovarian Cancer to Achieve Long-Term Tumor Control
Carboplatin adaptive therapy improves treatment efficacy without increasing daily dose due to reduced fitness of drug-resistant populations, which can be tracked using cfDNA and could direct adaptive ...
aacrjournals.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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prbb.org
📣 New PRBB-CRG conference

📋 Linking phenotypic differences between species to differences in their genomes
🗣️ @hillermich.bsky.social  - Senckenberg Research Institute

📆 Oct 17 - ⏰ 12:00
hosted by: @mirimiam.bsky.social  - @crg.eu  @melisupf.bsky.social 
 
📍 #PRBB Marie Curie room
October 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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melisupf.bsky.social
Las week, the @prbb.org hosted the Iberian EvoMG PI Meeting 2025. An event organized by the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social & @biomics-twinning.bsky.social to bring together all researchers working on the different areas of evolutionary medical genomics.

Delighted to see so many familiar faces there! 🙌😊
evomg-bcn.bsky.social EvoMG Program @evomg-bcn.bsky.social · Oct 12
Next was Juan Diez ( @viroupf.bsky.social ), from the EvoMG Program and @melisupf.bsky.social, on virus projects involving virus evolution and host-viral interactions.
Juana Diez EvoMG Program, UPF
October 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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evomg-bcn.bsky.social
Next, Manuel Irimia ( @mirimiam.bsky.social ), from the EvoMG Program, @melisupf.bsky.social and @crg.eu, presented two recently started projects leveraging comparative transcriptomics to better understand disease.
Manuel Irimia, EvoMG Program, UPF, CRG
October 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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cristinapujades.bsky.social
We are hiring ! Interested in understanding how neuronal cell diversity arises? Come and join us @upf.edu for a #PhD #FPI fellowship
October 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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biomics-twinning.bsky.social
✨ Getting to know BIOMICS members ✨
Meet the people behind our #Twinning project one story at a time.
🎙️ Who’s our first guest?
Hint: a Group Leader at ETH Zurich exploring how molecular mechanisms shape human biology and disease.

Here ➡️ youtu.be/iqlB74ldyos
#HorizonEurope #BIOMICS #MeetTheTeam
Getting to know BIOMICS members: Pedro Beltrão
YouTube video by BIOMICS Twinning
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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denisduboule.bsky.social
Vertebrate Genome Evolution. Annual Symposium of the @louisjeantetfdn.bsky.social Foundation in Geneva. Free access on site and on line. Great speakers for a super interesting topic. #SvantePaabo #HenrikKaessmann organisers 🙏 See you there! @biology-unige.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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crisprscan.bsky.social
Glad to share that the website for the MZT EMBO workshop that I organize together with Ana Boskovic (EMBL, Rome), Antonio Giraldez (Yale U) and Melissa Harrison (U Wisconsin) is out: meetings.embo.org/event/26-awa...
Please spread the word and join us in beautiful Seville next 4-7 May!
Awakening the Genome During Developmental Reprogramming: From Embryos to Organoids
This EMBO Workshop explores the gene-regulatory mechanisms that drive developmental reprogramming upon fertilization. It focuses on the interplay of transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and develop…
meetings.embo.org
September 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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aljordlab.bsky.social
🔴✨ Exciting opportunity : we're hiring a PhD student! ✨🔴

👉 Don't hesitate to apply or spread the word!

⏰ Deadline 30th November 2025

ℹ️ More information and application : www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

@crg.eu @prbb.org
Centre for Genomic Regulation Website
www.crg.eu
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Reposted by Manuel Irimia
evomg-dn.bsky.social
At EvoMG-DN we believe that evolutionary history shapes both the human genome and its pathogens and ultimately disease susceptibility.
We will tackle health challenges from an evolutionary perspective in the topic of: ageing, cancer and infectious diseases.
#PhD #EvolutionaryBiology #MSCA
September 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM