Category Archives: transcriptomics
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
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
Filed under de novo gene evolution, mammal, micropeptide, ribosome profiling, RNA-Seq, transcriptomics, yeast
Our group goes to ECCB 2022
We had a great time at the European Conference in Computational Biology celebrated in Sitges in September 2022. Mar gave a keynote talk on The emerging small proteome, and Marta, Lili and José Carlos presented their PhD research in the … Continue reading
Filed under lncRNA, ribosome profiling, 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
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
Filed under de novo gene evolution, ribosome profiling, RNA-Seq, transcriptomics, yeast
mRNA molecules one at a time
Fascinated by the potential of long read technologies to make a difference in our knowldege of the transcriptome, two years ago we started generating Nanopore dRNA data for different yeast species, including the yeast S. pombe. This organism is ideal … Continue reading
Filed under ribosome profiling, transcriptomics, yeast
Our research on de novo genes featured in Nature News
Research on de novo genes has been the subject of a News Feature in Nature, written by Adam Levy. The article presents the case of the arctic cod; comparison of genomic sequences from closely related fish species has shown that … Continue reading
Filed under de novo gene evolution, science, transcriptomics
Using ribosome profiling to improve our understanding of gene regulation
To measure changes in the expression of the genes we normally compare mRNA abundances using high throughput RNA sequencing data (RNA-Seq), as a proxy for the changes in the encoded proteins. However, it is well known that the correlation between … Continue reading
