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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

If you are an excellent postdoctoral researcher passionate about microbe genome evolution and are interested in any research line in my group there is a #Postdoc opening in my group at BSC via AuSpire! Apply to BSC-PF1 by 7 Sept 2026: 👇 auspire.eu/research-team/bsc-pf1-call-3/

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BIST-Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology @bist.eu · 16/06/2026

🦠 How did our cells originate? A study by @gabaldonlab.bsky.social at @irbbarcelona.org & @bsc-cns.bsky.social suggests cellular complexity emerged gradually over millions of years, rather than from a single evolutionary event. 📝 Published in @nature.com #BISTCommunity 👉 bist.eu/a-study-by-i...

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Monday 15th of June at 12:30 I will be giving a talk at the Faculty of Sciences of #Tetouan (Morocco). I will be talking about our recent work on the emergence of drug resistance and new pathogenic species from environmental sources in #Candida related yeasts.

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Very proud of Islam, who performed part of her thesis with us at @irbbarcelona.org . Has been a pleasure to attend the defence, and has been my first chance to visit Morocco.

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Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón) @gabaldonlab.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Congratulations to our new Doctor, Islam Ahaik who obtained her PhD today at the Faculty o Sciences in Tetouan.

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Patricia Ruiz Guevara @patriciaenverde.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

¿De dónde venimos? El gran salto evolutivo del que surgieron las células complejas que nos conforman es un enigma. Un estudio de @irbbarcelona.org y @bsc-cns.bsky.social revela que hay más actores implicados de los que pensábamos El 'ménage à trois' celular 👉 www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/c...

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Patricia Ruiz Guevara @patriciaenverde.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"Entender el origen de la vida nos ayuda a explicar el mundo en que vivimos, incluida nuestra propia existencia", dice @tonigabaldon.bsky.social, autor principal del estudio. También impulsa otras investigaciones y abre la puerta a "posibilidades que no imaginamos". Los superordenadores ayudan 💻 🦠👇🏼

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Un 'ménage à trois' celular: un equipo español revoluciona lo que sabíamos del origen de la vida

El gran salto evolutivo por el que surgieron las células complejas que nos conforman sigue siendo un enigma. Una nueva investigación con el supercomputador de Barcelona revela que hay más actores implicados de los que pensábamos

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Anna Papageorgiou @apapageorgiou.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The origin of complex cells may have been far messier than we thought!

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Lzvolk @lzvolk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Fantastic paper. Esp challenging the typical binary process of genesis or transition. Just as the first cells as we know them were possibly survivors of multitudes of attempts that did not survive to evolve. The origin of cellular life was not simple; neither was evolution to multiple cell types.

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"Thus, the prokaryotic-to-eukaryotic transition was probably a gradual and complex process, with a constant flow of HGT from diverse sources." #SymbioSky

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Science Media Centre España @sciencemediacentre.es · 10/06/2026

🦠Un estudio español en @Nature replantea el origen de nuestras células como una historia de alianzas microbianas 🗨️Alex de Mendoza: "El proceso de formación de los eucariotas no fue una relación monógama de dos organismos, sino más tipo ménage à trois" sciencemediacentre.es/un-estudio-e...

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Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Funny to get quoted on a pun about the origin of eukaryotes being a bit of a promiscuous relationship in the 🇪🇸 press, but glad to help communicate @tonigabaldon.bsky.social & his team's fatnastic work, which highlights the importance of giant viruses 👾 in eukaryotic origins @nature.com. Congrats!

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

How did complex cells emerge? In this groundbreaking paper, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social & co show that eukaryotes arose through multiple waves of ancient genetic exchange involving diverse bacteria (& giant viruses!) revealing a far more complex origin than we imagined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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ICREA Community @icreacommunity.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I si l'origen de les nostres cèl·lules no és com ens pensàvem? 🦠🤔 Un estudi liderat pel #RecercaireICREA @tonigabaldon.bsky.social (@irbbarcelona.org @bsc-cns.bsky.social) ha descrit el rol de bacteris i virus gegants en l’origen de les cèl·lules complexes. 👇🏼 www.lavanguardia.com/ciencia/2026...

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Descubren cómo se formó la célula de la que descienden todos los animales y plantas

Científicos de Barcelona revelan un episodio clave de la evolución de la vida en la Tierra ocurrido hace 2.000 millones de años

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This theoretical approach (previously in this @pnas.org s.org paper by @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social and Carl Woese www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...) seems consistent with the recent work by @tonigabaldon.bsky.social on the complex paths towards the emergence of LUCA.

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IRB Barcelona @irbbarcelona.org · 11/06/2026

🦠 Descubren cómo se formó la célula de la que descienden todos los animales y plantas. Científicos de Barcelona revelan un episodio clave de la evolución de la vida en la Tierra ocurrido hace 2.000 millones de años. 🗞️ @lavanguardia.com ➡️ shorturl.at/iwnR0 @gabaldonlab.bsky.social

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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IRB Barcelona @irbbarcelona.org · 10/06/2026

🦠 How did our cells originate? A study by #IRBBarcelona & @bsc-cns.bsky.social by @gabaldonlab.bsky.social, suggests cellular complexity arose through long-term microbial alliances rather than a single evolutionary event. @nature.com ➡️ shorturl.at/kCij7 📌 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10639-9

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IRB Barcelona @irbbarcelona.org · 08/05/2026

✨ Join us at #IRBBarcelona Open Day! 📅 Saturday, May 30 A day of science, discovery, and hands-on activities for all ages. 🎟️ Sign up and don’t miss it! 👉 bit.ly/4ddD7VA #ExperimentaIRB

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Vine a la Jornada de Portes Obertes de l'IRB Barcelona!

L’any passat va ser brutal... 😍🔬 Vam descobrir plegats com la ciència pot transformar el món.🔁 I aquest any repetim. Jornada de Portes Obertes de l'@IRBBa...

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

De camino a Bilbao donde partiparé en #SEIMC2026 con una ponencia sobre virulencia, resistencia, y adaptación en hongos patógenos. www.seimc2026.org

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

MeTAline: enabling reproducible and scalable metagenomic analyses. #MetagenomicAnalysis #ShotgunMetagenomics #Snakemake #Containers #HPC #Bioinformatics #Genomics #NARgenomicsAndBioinformatics 🧪🧬 🖥️ academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...

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Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón) @gabaldonlab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Once more our group was present in the nice FEBS advanced course #hfp2026 at La Colle. With presentations and posters by @tonigabaldon.bsky.social Mrina, and Vlad. As always the conference was great! Thank you to the organizers!

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Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón) @gabaldonlab.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

#post Read our "behind the paper" blog post on our latest publication on #Asgard phylogenomics to get a starter on the significance of our findings. by @microbiobits.bsky.social and @tonigabaldon.bsky.social Enjoy 👇 communities.springernature.com/posts/how-th...

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Was a pleasure to participate as an invited speaker at the 7th retreat of the Biology Dept of university of Padova!. This have me the chance to visit the oldest preserved botanical garden.

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Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón) @gabaldonlab.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

#Paper Our new study on #Asgard archaea is out in Nature Communications. We find a distinctive evolutionary pattern: widespread #HGT, but genome expansion mainly through gene duplication. An interesting window into the origins of #eukaryotic complexity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Phylogenomics of Asgard archaea reveals a unique blend of prokaryotic-like horizontal transfer and eukaryotic-like gene duplication - Nature Communications

The genomes of Asgard archaea, the closest prokaryotic relatives to eukaryotes, are larger than those of other archaea and contain multiple genes seemingly acquired from bacteria. Here, Manzano-Morale...

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Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón) @gabaldonlab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

#ESCMIDGlobal2026 is over. The group participated with oral presentations from Hrant Hovhannisyan (computational multiplexing optimization) and @tonigabaldon.bsky.social (evolutionary genomics of #Candida ), there was a lot of learning and networking.

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Eukaryotes didn't just arise from two partners. Phylogenomics of the LECA proteome reveals multiple waves of bacterial HGT, some predating mitochondrial endosymbiosis, plus a possible role for giant viruses. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón) @gabaldonlab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Will be at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 for the next days. Looking forward to meet colleagues and present our work on #Candida

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IRB Barcelona @irbbarcelona.org · 13/04/2026

🔬 New #FAQ drops key insights on Barcelona's #AfricanSwineFever outbreak from @gabaldonlab.bsky.social: They've sequenced the outbreak strain's genome and compared it with known variants to trace origins and characteristics. ➡️ shorturl.at/P02ME #ASF @tonigabaldon.bsky.social

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

We put together this FAQ on the African swine fever outbreak in Barcelona, based on current evidence. My group helped sequence the outbreak strain and compare it with other #ASFV virus genomes to explore its origins and features. #AfricanSwineFever www.pig333.com/articles/fre...

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Frequently asked questions about the ASF virus detected in Barcelona

The virus detected in Barcelona is ASF genotype II and has been classified in a new genetic group: #29.

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Molecular Systems Biology @molsystbiol.org · 24/03/2026

fitness costs are associated with acquired antifungal resistance in N. glabratus, and these trade-offs can be targeted by drugs as shown by @gabaldonlab.bsky.social ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

As part of @bsc-cns.bsky.social participation at the #MWC26 and #4YN I will be presenting our applications of using hashtag#IA for the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer from fecal microbiome profiles (#MiCRC) Come and meet me on the 4th March at our booth x4hpc.cat/mwc26/agenda...

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Agenda - BSC MWC 2026 Agenda

Explore BSC's agenda for 4YFN 2026, featuring key events and presentations on cutting-edge technology and innovations. Discover what’s next at the Mobile World Congress.

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IRB Barcelona @irbbarcelona.org · 09/02/2026

For 25 years, @icreacommunity.bsky.social has strengthened Catalonia’s research ecosystem by attracting top scientific talent worldwide. This report by @crisaez.bsky.social for @ara.cat shows why investing in top scientific talent is a decisive research strategy. ➡️ shorturl.at/SANnO

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BSC-CNS @bsc-cns.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🦠"Estem estudiant com els canvis que es produeixen en la microbiota intestinal s’associen al càncer colorectal. O com els bacteris de la boca estan implicats en la hipertensió". 🗞 Toni Gabaldon, investigador @icreacommunity.bsky.social del BSC i @irbbarcelona.org a l' @ara.cat

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Diari ARA @ara.cat · 06/02/2026

Són poc més de les 6.30 del matí. La paleoantropòloga nord-americana Ashley Hammond fa estona que és desperta, donant mamar al seu fill, de dos mesos. Ho té tot calculat...

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L’extraordinària lliga que atrau els millors científics del món a Catalunya

Aquesta iniciativa de captació i retenció de talent, pionera al món i que ha inspirat altres programes internacionals, ha impulsat el sistema de recerca del nostre país

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IreneJulca @irenejulca.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

(1/3) I am very happy to share that I’ll be moving to Aarhus University as an Assistant Professor in March. During these years, I’ve met so many great people who supported me on this path, and even if I can’t name everyone here, I’m truly grateful to all of you!

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Congratulations to @paucarazo.bsky.social and the other organizers of the #sesbe2026 meeting of the @sesbe-org.bsky.social . It has been a wonderful conference with nice talks, posters and networking, I the wonderful city of Valencia, my home town.

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This has been my last meeting as president of @sesbe-org.bsky.social and I wish all the best for the new board, led by the excellent newly elected president @isabelalmudi.bsky.social . I am sure they will do amazing things.

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Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón) @gabaldonlab.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Moisès Bernabéu from the group presented our work on the origins of the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor at #sesbe2026. Multiple interacting partners shaped our ancestor’s genome

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Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón) @gabaldonlab.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Now Edu Ocaña Pallarès, previous postdoc in the group, now PI at UOC presenting the timetree of fungi, calibrated with fossils and HGT. Nice to see #fungi at the paleobiology session in #sesbe2026

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Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón) @gabaldonlab.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Several of us are attending #sesbe2026 in Valencia. Today Saioa Manzano @microbiobits.bsky.social presented her work on evolution of Asgard archea genomes, showing they show a blend of eukaryotic-like and prokaryotic like processes.

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Comparative genomics group IRB-BSC Barcelona (PI: Toni Gabaldón) @gabaldonlab.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

📣 #paper "Uncovering actionable trade-offs of antifungal resistance in a yeast pathogen" Check out our new publication in @molsystbiol.org where we systematically map stress-related trade-off associated with drug resistance in Candida glabrata (N. glabratus) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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