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Mercè Montoliu Nerín

@mmontonerin

Dr in Evolutionary Genetics. Genomics of complex eukaryotes in symbiosis, biodiversity, speciation πŸ§¬πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» She/Her🌈

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A Polynoidae annelid. Credit: Maggie Georgieva

A Polynoidae annelid. Credit: Maggie Georgieva

A Spinularia genus sponge. Credit: Maggie Georgieva

A Spinularia genus sponge. Credit: Maggie Georgieva

This Valentine's Day, meet some of nature's power couples β€” species like sponges and worms that form partnerships to survive and thrive ‡️

https://sangerinstitute.blog/2026/02/13/natures-power-couples-cosying-up-to-symbiotic-partnerships/

13.02.2026 12:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Mark Blaxter from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social describes the ambition of the @ebpgenome.bsky.social to #Biology26 in Switzerland

13.02.2026 12:53 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rosa FernΓ‘ndez (@rosafernandez.bsky.social) introducing the field of Phylogenomics to our participants πŸ™ŒπŸ½πŸ§¬πŸŒ³πŸ’» #evomics2026

24.01.2026 10:15 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Morning lecture by Maliheh Mehrshad (@mehrshmali.bsky.social) on metagenomics and metatranscriptomics! πŸ§ͺ🧬🦠 #evomics2026

24.01.2026 10:12 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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The 2026 Workshop on Genomics comes to an end! It has been two intense and inspiring weeks of Genomics in ČeskΓ½ Krumlov. We hope everyone is going back home with a renewed excitement for science and new friends and collaborations around the world! πŸ™†πŸ»β€β™€οΈπŸ§¬ #evomics2026

24.01.2026 10:25 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Evening practical session with Madeline Chase on Population Genomics πŸ¦πŸ¦πŸ§¬πŸ’» #evomics2026

21.01.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Very happy to see my good girl Cata making an appearance in the lecture on genome assembly πŸ€©πŸ™ŒπŸ½πŸΆ #evomics2026

14.01.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We continued with an Introduction to Unix, by MercΓ¨ Montoliu Nerin (@mmontonerin.bsky.social), to make sure all the participants get comfortable in the computer environment in which they will spend many hours in the coming days! πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» #evomics2026

13.01.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Our paper was included in the Collection "Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes" from the @microbiologysociety.org 🧬 😁

#genomics #longreadsequencing

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

24.10.2025 18:57 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just 5 more days left to apply to the Workshop on Genomics 2026, in Cesky Krumov, Czechia! evomics.org/apply-worksh... (Deadline 20th of October) Do not miss your chance! πŸ’»πŸ€— #Bioinformatics #Genomics #evomics2026

15.10.2025 10:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do not miss this pre-print update! It has been an honor being part of it! 🀩🧬 Follow the thread ⬇️ to understand the power of #logan, and how you could apply it too! πŸ€—

11.09.2025 14:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution.
#protistsonsky

03.09.2025 08:47 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Caught enjoying some jamΓ³n at #ESEB2025 πŸ˜…

29.08.2025 16:13 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Front row seat to the future of evolutionary biology 🌱 #ESEB2025

20.08.2025 06:14 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life Communications Biology - FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and...

FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms πŸ¦πŸ™πŸͺ±πŸ§¬πŸπŸͺ²
@gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
@csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...

15.08.2025 00:05 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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β˜€οΈ What a sunny start to the last day of #ESEB2025! The week has flown by and it was lovely to connect with so many people!
Don’t miss your last chance to stop by the #ERGABooth: say hi and grab some stickers & other goodies πŸ‘‹πŸŒΌ

#GenomesForBiodiversity @eseb2025.bsky.social

22.08.2025 08:41 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#eseb2025 is trending hashtag on BlueSky!!

22.08.2025 09:32 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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As a community, it’s wonderful to meet in person after so many online meetings!
πŸ“Έ Here are some of the many #ERGA members at #ESEB2025.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to say hi and learn more about ERGA!
#GenomesForBiodiversity

21.08.2025 12:05 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Interested in eukaryotic algal evolution, metagenomics, new plastid diversity, and more? Check out my poster (P175) today at #eseb2025 ! #protistsonsky

21.08.2025 08:50 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Barcelona reunirΓ‘ a 1.900 cientΓ­ficos para analizar el origen y la evoluciΓ³n de la vida El Centro de Convenciones Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB), gestionado por Fira de Barcelona, reanudarΓ‘ su actividad el prΓ³ximo lunes con el congreso bienal de la European Society for Evolutionary Bi...

Barcelona reunirΓ‘ a 1.900 cientΓ­ficos para analizar el origen y la evoluciΓ³n de la vida #eseb2025

www.teleprensa.com/articulo/nac...

17.08.2025 05:46 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Early bird applications are now open! Do not miss this chance!! πŸ€©πŸ§¬πŸ’» #bioinformatics #genomics

01.07.2025 09:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Equal opportunities funding for the Workshop on Genomics 2026 is now open to apply! Deadline: 2nd of July. Check elegibility in our website, and apply: evomics.org/equalopportu... #evomics2026

17.06.2025 16:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Save the date! πŸ™†πŸ»β€β™€οΈ The Workshop on Genomics 2026 will take place between the 11th and 24th of January, 2026! In ČeskΓ½ Krumlov, Czechia. Regular applications will be oppening mid-July, keep an eye on updates! πŸ€— evomics.org/2026-worksho... #evomics2026

17.06.2025 16:30 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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The k-mer workshop is over. In the Friday 3 hour hackathon, people really showed that you CAN learn k-mers in a week! It's been great. Thanks to all the co-teachers, @connectingscience.bsky.social organising team and all the participants!

06.06.2025 13:50 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

It was a great week full of kmers! 🀩

06.06.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Very excited to announce my new position at Wellcome Sanger Institute as a Postdoctoral Fellow on Genomics of Symbiosis, for the Tree of Life Department!! πŸ§¬πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Looking forward to exciting research and collaborations! 🀩

23.05.2025 08:30 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We are almost at the end of the Workshop on Genomics! πŸ™†πŸ»β€β™€οΈ and we have Dag AhrΓ©n explaining Best Practices in Handling Genomic Data! So important to send participants back home knowing how to keep a good order in their projects πŸ“‘πŸ’» #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics

16.01.2025 18:36 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Evening session on Microbiome/eDNA analyses, with David Barnett, creator of the R package MicroViz πŸ™ŒπŸ½πŸ§«πŸ§¬πŸ“Š #evomics2025 #bioinformatics #genomics

15.01.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Wonders of Genome Assembly! by Marcela Uliano-Silva 🀩 Covering important questions such as, where do I start to produce a genome assembly? Where do I go once I have contigs and scaffolds? πŸ§¬πŸ’» #evomics2025 #bioinformatics #genomics

16.01.2025 08:16 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DobrΓ© rΓ‘no! Good morning! We woke up today to a beautiful snowfall over ČeskΓ½ Krumlov β„οΈπŸ€© #evomics2025

15.01.2025 08:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0