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James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Congratulations Antoni! This should help the limb development community get into computer modelling, to understand how gene regulatory networks drive spatial pattern formation 👍🏻

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James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Honoured to give the Jenkinson Memorial Lecture in the brand new Life and Mind building (lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk). Thanks to @peterhox.bsky.social and all - great discussions 👍🏻

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James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Can robots in a swarm act like the cells of an organism? Thanks to Sedeer El-Showk for the new article in @nature.com, which highlights the work of a number of research groups, including our own, on how “Robots demonstrate principles of collective intelligence”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Thanks a million for that Nimesh! It was great to have you and all the students here at @barcelonacollaboratorium.com for the summer school 👍🏻

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James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Miki, and all the Ebisuya lab - thank you, for all your effort, support, fun, inspiration, and your belief in EMBL Barcelona. 💪🏻 One of the founding labs, you will always be part of EMBL Barcelona - always be one of the gang! ❤️

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EMBL @embl.org · 10/03/2025

Find out how video games helped scientists visualise limb development. Laura Aviñó-Esteban, PhD student at EMBL Barcelona and first author of a recently published study, explains how video games helped her solve the problem of fragmented limb dev. visualisation. 💻🧪 www.embl.org/news/science...

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James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Congratulations Kristina!! Very well deserved. All of EMBL Barcelona is proud of you 👍🏻. @embl.org

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Venice Summer School in Evolutionary Systems Biology @veniceevodevo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Our teachers this year: Rashmi Priya (@rashmi-priya.bsky.social) Rashmi takes a systems-level approach, integrating quantitative imaging, genetics, and theory to explore how organs form and function emerges during embryogenesis. She will talk about the role of mechanical forces in organogenesis.

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Barcelona Collaboratorium @barcelonacollaboratorium.com · 04/03/2025

This Thursday, Jerome Solon (CSIC-UPV/EHU) will be the next speaker at the Seminar Series! 🧫 “Closing the gap: Mechanosensing and control of tissue mechanics for epithelial sealing and tissue repair” 📅 06/03/2025 – 10:00 🗳️ Registration: t.ly/jPOlc 👨‍🏫 Host: @jamesasharpe.bsky.social

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author Laura Aviñó-Esteban @lauavinyo.bsky.social and corresponding author James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social, Head of EMBL Barcelona, Spain. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

From left to right: Heura Cardona-Blaya, Laura Aviñó-Esteban and James Sharpe. Image courtesy of Carla Manzanas.

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James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Congratulations Laura Avinyo! @lauavinyo.bsky.social and Heura Cardona! First paper of your PhD 🎉. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Beautiful quantified trajectory of how the skeletal pattern of the gene Sox9 emerges during limb development. @embl.org @barcelonacollaboratorium.com

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EMBO Press @embopress.org · 15/12/2024

Good morning #CellBio24! Don't miss this morning's Visionary Awards session from 9-11am in ballroom 20a, where @crg.eu's Elvan Böke will receive her EMBO Gold Medal and give a talk alongside fellow @ascbiology.bsky.social award winners. Gold Medal announcement 👇 www.embo.org/press-releas...

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EMBO Gold Medal awarded to Elvan Böke – Press releases – EMBO

The scientist is recognized for her pioneering research on physiological mechanisms that enable oocytes to stay healthy over decades of dormancy

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Anna Esteve Codina @annaesteveco.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Spreading our work at the XII Jornades de Bioinformàtica i Genòmica de la @scb.iec.cat @tmontsay.bsky.social about our recent discovery rdcu.be/d04Gz of pervasive presence of not completly lysed cells in reference cell atlases @humancellatlas.org compromising quality & model training

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James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Thanks very much Anna! @annaesteveco.bsky.social and it was great to hear about your work on the possible worrying large biases in sc RNA-Seq data.

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James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Congratulations Prisca and all - well deserved! 🍾

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Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) @crg.eu · 23/11/2024

Big 🧬 news this week: we have launched the first Joint Program on Evolutionary Medical Genomics. Spearheaded by @mirimiam.bsky.social, Barcelona researchers will study and exploit the vast genomic diversity of life on Earth to enhance precision medicine. Full story in @elpais.com

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The dawn of a new medicine: Researchers use the theory of evolution to fight cancer

The world’s first joint research program in evolutionary medical genomics has been launched in Barcelona, under the direction of biologist Manuel Irimia

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James Sharpe @jamesasharpe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

So exciting! Studying malaria infection in vitro! The human malaria parasite is specific to humans: you can't study the same parasite in animal models. The lab of @mariabernabeu.bsky.social build beautiful human blood vessels in vitro, & do the experiments there: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sandy Anderson @sandyanderson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Fantastic kickoff presentation today for the inaugural symposium of the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social by @deboramarks.bsky.social from @harvardmed.bsky.social who gave the opening keynote on, Generative models for prediction and design.

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