José Aguilar-Rodríguez
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José Aguilar-Rodríguez
@jaguilarrod.bsky.social
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Evolutionary systems/cell biologist. EMBO and SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Dmitri Petrov and Dan Jarosz at Stanford. PhD with Andreas Wagner at the University of Zurich. Studying how molecular and cellular systems shape, and are shaped by, evolution.
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This is a beautiful study. Congrats Jose and all authors!
Thank you so much, Raquel! 😊 That means a lot! I’m really happy you found it accessible and interesting!
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Check out @jaguilarrod.bsky.social and @petrovadmitri.bsky.social thought provoking work! If like me, you feel this work may be out of your comfort zone, make sure to read Jose's bluetorial, clearly explained! Congratulations!
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My lab is seeking two PhD candidates to investigate the function and regulation of endogenous retroviruses in the early stages of human development 🦠👩‍🔬. Apply through the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) program: www.molgen.mpg.de/IMPRS/applic.... www.molgen.mpg.de/5094682/Fuey...
[2026] – Endogenous retroviruses in human embryogenesis
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Thank you so much, Cedric! 😊 Thrilled to hear that!
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Wow! Very impressive work 🤯
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🦖 Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park (1990) turns 35 in November. In a new preprint, I argue that it was a prescient meditation on evolutionary genetics, complexity, & control. I also examine analogous efforts of today (e.g. “de-extinction.")

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Thank you so much! Haha yes, I still remember how tough it was at the bench in the beginning; definitely a humbling experience. I look forward to hearing what you think once you’ve had a chance to read it!
Congratulations, Raquel! Amazing work!
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Today in @nature.com, we present our work leveraging functional genomics and human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism in preimplantation development driven by the endogenous retrovirus HERVK.
Special thanks to the reviewers whose comments improved our manuscript a lot! rdcu.be/eI3tD
A human-specific regulatory mechanism revealed in a pre-implantation model
Nature - Genetic manipulation of blastoids reveals the role of recently emerged transposable elements and genes in human development.
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This paper is SO COOL! Congrats, and thanks for sharing!
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I’m excited to announce the launch of my lab at EPFL in Jan 2026 🎉. We’ll combine evolution & synthetic biology to study and (re)engineer bacterial communication.
I’m recruiting PhD students to start in the first semester of 2026.
Apply via EPFL PhD programs by Nov 1
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Thank you! That means a lot and I’m happy you found it interesting. We put a lot of care into it.
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What a cool paper. Also note that this very careful analysis does not support the majority of synonymous variants being non-neutral in yeast
Thanks a lot! I’m really glad you liked it and found the thread useful.
Thank you so much! 😊 I’m really glad you found it interesting!
And endless gratitude to all my amazing co-authors: @jccvila.bsky.social, Shi-An Chen, @mrazo.bsky.social, @oliviamghosh.bsky.social, Dan Jarosz, Hunter Fraser, and @petrovadmitri.bsky.social. This work would not exist without you all!