Category Archives: RNA-Seq

Lili and Marta receive prizes at the VHIO Computational Oncology Awards

On Feb 21 2024 the VHIO Computational Oncology Award 2024 was celebrated at UAB Casa de la Convalescència. The finalists to the master thesis award presented their works as a 5′ flash talk and a poster session. Two members of … Continue reading

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Filed under cancer, education, RNA-Seq, science, society, transcriptomics

Our group is participating in the SMBE Satellite Meeting on de novo gene birth

Cova Vara and Chris Papadopoulos have presented their research in this week’s Symposium on de novo genes celebrated in Texas A&M University (College Station, Nov 6-9 2023). The research aims to explore the evolution of new genes in populations and … Continue reading

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Filed under de novo gene evolution, mammal, micropeptide, ribosome profiling, RNA-Seq, transcriptomics, yeast

Emeline Favreau reports on her ESEB grant to spend time in our lab

Last March Emeline Favreau, a postdoctoral researcher at University College London, did a research stay at our laboratory. It was great to have her with us and learn more about wasps! Here she writes about her experience in the lab. … Continue reading

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Filed under lncRNA, RNA-Seq, transcriptomics

ERC Advanced Grant NovoGenePop

Our ERC Advanced Grant NovoGenePop has just started! This means we can already recruits scientists and start to gather data. The project will investigate how new genes arise in closely related species and populations. This will involve the development of … Continue reading

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Gene regulation in a hibernating primate

We have published the first study on the molecular processes underlying primate hibernation. The study is the result of a collaboration between researchers at IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona) and at Duke University and Duke Lemur Center … Continue reading

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Filed under differential gene expression, hibernation, Papers, RNA-Seq