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Marta Álvarez-Presas

@martaalvarez.bsky.social

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Evolutionary biologist expert in terrestrial planarians and also digging into the genomic regulation of unicellular Holozoans. Ramon y cajal researcher at the zoology section from the University of Barcelona (Spain)

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Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 9h

Last round of interviews for the online participants. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 9h

Second round table discussing about the future of the community meetings and what are the next steps. Thanks to all the participants!

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 9h

And our last invited speaker was László Nagy who was talking about the Evolution of gene families key to the formation of multicellular fruiting bodies in fungi. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 9h

Fredrik Söderbom on The role of non-coding RNAs in the evolution of multicellularity. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 9h

We had also in session 10
Hajk-Georg Drost talking about How ancient genes convergently organise multicellularity across the tree of life. #Multicellverse @hajkdrost.bsky.social

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

We had a blast in session 10 on genome evolution. First speaker was Nick Irwin talking about horizontal gene transfer. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Great discussion for session 9 on conflicts in the evolution and stability of multicellularity. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Last but not least, invited speaker Emma Hammarlund is closing session 9 talking about fluctuating redox conditions and the "endurance" of multicellularity. #Multicellverse @hammarlund.bsky.social

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Defne Platturk is now talking about information in early multicellular life cycles. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

The next online speaker is Clyde Berry on group living and stress response in colonial green algae. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Always listen to professor Capsaspora!

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Now Yosuke Nagahata from the MCG lab convinces us that tumorigenesis is an evolutionary reversion to unicellular ancestors. #Multicellverse @multicellgenome.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

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Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Session 9 starts with Aurora Nedelcu, invited speaker and co-organiser of this great workshop, on personal cost of cheating as a conflict mediator during the early evolution of multicellularity and cancer. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Our invited speaker Elisabeth Ostrowski is closing session 8 talking about chimerism and cooperation in the social amoebae. #Multicellverse @elizostrow.bsky.social

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Now Christopher Toret is talking about collective invasion organisations in eukaryotic multicellular transitions. #Multicellverse

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Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

We are so lucky that we have a hybrid meeting and we can have some speakers online, such as Lizzy Willbanks. #Multicellverse @lizzywilbanks.bsky.social

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Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Turn now for Will Crockett on sponge reaggregation. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Tristan Henderson gave a great talk on predator amoebas. Amazing! #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Invited speaker Marco La Fortaleza starts the first session of the day talking about epigenetic diversification in bacterial multicellularity. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 1d

Last day of conference! #Multicellverse @the_prbb

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Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 2d

And the invited speaker Vikas Trivedi is closing the last session of the day helping us to understand constraints on multicellular systems. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 2d

It's turn now for Somya Mani, talking about why did multicellular development evolve to be directional? #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 2d

Arsham Nejad is talking about body size and physical constraints in the evolution of complex multicellularity. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 2d

We continue with Kyle Allison on exploring principles of multicellularity in E. coli. #Multicellverse

Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social · 2d

We start last session of the day with our invited speaker Ricard Solé. How much can you predict? #Multicellverse