Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾
@xgrau.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist. Postdoctoral Fellow & LCF Junior Leader at CRG (Barcelona).
«Ara mateix / enfilo aquesta agulla amb el fil d'un propòsit que no dic / i em poso a apedaçar.»
xgrau.github.io & ecoevo.social/@xgrau
«Ara mateix / enfilo aquesta agulla amb el fil d'un propòsit que no dic / i em poso a apedaçar.»
xgrau.github.io & ecoevo.social/@xgrau
«A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time»
This looks great. Figure 2 is textbook material!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This looks great. Figure 2 is textbook material!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
«A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time»
This looks great. Figure 2 is textbook material!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This looks great. Figure 2 is textbook material!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
There's something else we want to highlight about this paper: all the single-cell transcriptomic atlases can be freely browsed through an interactive database (by @aelek.bsky.social). This includes 3 coral species: Oculina, Stylophora pistillata & Acropora millepora 🪸
sebelab.crg.eu/multicoral-s...
sebelab.crg.eu/multicoral-s...
October 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
There's something else we want to highlight about this paper: all the single-cell transcriptomic atlases can be freely browsed through an interactive database (by @aelek.bsky.social). This includes 3 coral species: Oculina, Stylophora pistillata & Acropora millepora 🪸
sebelab.crg.eu/multicoral-s...
sebelab.crg.eu/multicoral-s...
Oculina is a highly resilient coral that can thrive in a symbiotic state, exchanging nutrients with photosynthetic algae like most corals do, but also without algae. In fact, it can undergo seasonal episodes of bleaching during the hot Mediterranean summers, & promptly recover as temperatures drop.
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Oculina is a highly resilient coral that can thrive in a symbiotic state, exchanging nutrients with photosynthetic algae like most corals do, but also without algae. In fact, it can undergo seasonal episodes of bleaching during the hot Mediterranean summers, & promptly recover as temperatures drop.
Hot off the press! Our latest work on the evolution of facultative symbiosis in stony corals, focusing on a remarkable Mediterranean species: Oculina patagonica.
🪸 🌊
#evobio #corals #coralbiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🪸 🌊
#evobio #corals #coralbiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hot off the press! Our latest work on the evolution of facultative symbiosis in stony corals, focusing on a remarkable Mediterranean species: Oculina patagonica.
🪸 🌊
#evobio #corals #coralbiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🪸 🌊
#evobio #corals #coralbiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
As #ESEB2025 is kicking off in Barcelona, let me invite you to my poster on Monday afternoon: «Evolution of facultative symbiosis in the stony #coral Oculina» 🪸 🌊
(poster P01.286 in the symposium on «Evolutionary Genomics: Understanding & Adapting to #ClimateChange», which is looking great! 🙂)
(poster P01.286 in the symposium on «Evolutionary Genomics: Understanding & Adapting to #ClimateChange», which is looking great! 🙂)
August 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
As #ESEB2025 is kicking off in Barcelona, let me invite you to my poster on Monday afternoon: «Evolution of facultative symbiosis in the stony #coral Oculina» 🪸 🌊
(poster P01.286 in the symposium on «Evolutionary Genomics: Understanding & Adapting to #ClimateChange», which is looking great! 🙂)
(poster P01.286 in the symposium on «Evolutionary Genomics: Understanding & Adapting to #ClimateChange», which is looking great! 🙂)
August 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A single-cell ATACseq atlas of our favourite sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis! By @aelek.bsky.social @martaig.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A single-cell ATACseq atlas of our favourite sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis! By @aelek.bsky.social @martaig.bsky.social
New paper from the lab out today!
«Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome»
It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to have been able to contribute to @ianakim.bsky.social’s project 🙂 — check out her thread below!
«Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome»
It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to have been able to contribute to @ianakim.bsky.social’s project 🙂 — check out her thread below!
May 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
New paper from the lab out today!
«Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome»
It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to have been able to contribute to @ianakim.bsky.social’s project 🙂 — check out her thread below!
«Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome»
It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to have been able to contribute to @ianakim.bsky.social’s project 🙂 — check out her thread below!
New preprint from the @arnausebe.bsky.social lab! 💐
Here @crisnava.bsky.social, @seanamontgomery.bsky.social & collaborators develop a novel ChIPseq protocol, and demonstrate its huge potential to study the evolution of chromatin function and regulation across the eukaryotic tree of life.
Here @crisnava.bsky.social, @seanamontgomery.bsky.social & collaborators develop a novel ChIPseq protocol, and demonstrate its huge potential to study the evolution of chromatin function and regulation across the eukaryotic tree of life.
March 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
New preprint from the @arnausebe.bsky.social lab! 💐
Here @crisnava.bsky.social, @seanamontgomery.bsky.social & collaborators develop a novel ChIPseq protocol, and demonstrate its huge potential to study the evolution of chromatin function and regulation across the eukaryotic tree of life.
Here @crisnava.bsky.social, @seanamontgomery.bsky.social & collaborators develop a novel ChIPseq protocol, and demonstrate its huge potential to study the evolution of chromatin function and regulation across the eukaryotic tree of life.
The Biodiversity Cell Atlas team is growing!
Open positions:
1. Looking for a developer for the BCA database, with @ebi.embl.org
2. A senior research technician to develop single-cell methods
3. A bioinformatician to analyse new atlases, with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Info in next post.
Open positions:
1. Looking for a developer for the BCA database, with @ebi.embl.org
2. A senior research technician to develop single-cell methods
3. A bioinformatician to analyse new atlases, with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Info in next post.
March 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The Biodiversity Cell Atlas team is growing!
Open positions:
1. Looking for a developer for the BCA database, with @ebi.embl.org
2. A senior research technician to develop single-cell methods
3. A bioinformatician to analyse new atlases, with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Info in next post.
Open positions:
1. Looking for a developer for the BCA database, with @ebi.embl.org
2. A senior research technician to develop single-cell methods
3. A bioinformatician to analyse new atlases, with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Info in next post.
This is a nice example (from
ouyanglab.com/singlecell/b...). My only (very minor) objection would be about heatmaps in general (we put scales in them but often read them in a qualitative way), but the layout of the clusters does a good job at enabling comparison of differential marker expression.
ouyanglab.com/singlecell/b...). My only (very minor) objection would be about heatmaps in general (we put scales in them but often read them in a qualitative way), but the layout of the clusters does a good job at enabling comparison of differential marker expression.
December 24, 2024 at 11:11 AM
This is a nice example (from
ouyanglab.com/singlecell/b...). My only (very minor) objection would be about heatmaps in general (we put scales in them but often read them in a qualitative way), but the layout of the clusters does a good job at enabling comparison of differential marker expression.
ouyanglab.com/singlecell/b...). My only (very minor) objection would be about heatmaps in general (we put scales in them but often read them in a qualitative way), but the layout of the clusters does a good job at enabling comparison of differential marker expression.
Very much looking forward to setting this in motion!
For this project we’re going go work with the lovely sea anemome, Nematostella ❤️
We’ll combine population genomics with single-cell omics to build whole-organism genotype-phenotype maps & probe the genetic determinants of cell type evolution.
For this project we’re going go work with the lovely sea anemome, Nematostella ❤️
We’ll combine population genomics with single-cell omics to build whole-organism genotype-phenotype maps & probe the genetic determinants of cell type evolution.
December 4, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Very much looking forward to setting this in motion!
For this project we’re going go work with the lovely sea anemome, Nematostella ❤️
We’ll combine population genomics with single-cell omics to build whole-organism genotype-phenotype maps & probe the genetic determinants of cell type evolution.
For this project we’re going go work with the lovely sea anemome, Nematostella ❤️
We’ll combine population genomics with single-cell omics to build whole-organism genotype-phenotype maps & probe the genetic determinants of cell type evolution.
An old edition of Cosmos, when I was 15yo. I think many bits of info have been revised, but the ethos and its worldview really struck a chord.
I haven’t reread it since, weary of finding too many aspects in which I might have been too naïve… maybe it’s time to embrace this change though!
I haven’t reread it since, weary of finding too many aspects in which I might have been too naïve… maybe it’s time to embrace this change though!
November 18, 2024 at 5:07 PM
An old edition of Cosmos, when I was 15yo. I think many bits of info have been revised, but the ethos and its worldview really struck a chord.
I haven’t reread it since, weary of finding too many aspects in which I might have been too naïve… maybe it’s time to embrace this change though!
I haven’t reread it since, weary of finding too many aspects in which I might have been too naïve… maybe it’s time to embrace this change though!
Check out our latest preprint!
«GeneExt: a gene model extension tool for enhanced single-cell RNA-seq analysis»
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Presented in this thread by Grisha Zolotarov:
twitter.com/zolotarg/sta...
«GeneExt: a gene model extension tool for enhanced single-cell RNA-seq analysis»
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Presented in this thread by Grisha Zolotarov:
twitter.com/zolotarg/sta...
December 8, 2023 at 4:18 PM
Check out our latest preprint!
«GeneExt: a gene model extension tool for enhanced single-cell RNA-seq analysis»
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Presented in this thread by Grisha Zolotarov:
twitter.com/zolotarg/sta...
«GeneExt: a gene model extension tool for enhanced single-cell RNA-seq analysis»
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Presented in this thread by Grisha Zolotarov:
twitter.com/zolotarg/sta...