March 2022
The lab has been awarded with an ERC-Consolidator grant.
With "mayFLYeye" we will study the genetic basis of morphological novelties that contributed insects' conquest of the skies
February 2022
While Isabel is presenting the last results from the lab at the VIII SESBE meeting in Vigo, María and Tòt are attending to the Developmental Biology Symposium in Barcelona. María won the 2nd prize to the best poster presentation!
November 2021
The lab welcomes Tòt Senar, who is joining the team to pursue his Master thesis. Tòt is investigating the visual capabilities of mayflies
October 2021
The first generation of our mayfly colony has born in our new location in Barcelona. María made the honours assisting in the delivery.
October 2021
María Rosselló joined the lab. She will use her expertise in Bioinformatics and Developmental Biology to address how mayflies adapt to different environments and evolved new organs. Welcome, María!
August 2021
Final version of our collaboration with the Belles lab at IBE-CSIC is now published in PNAS. Check it here
June 2021
Perfect starting at the University of Barcelona, Isabel is one of Leonardo awardees from the BBVA fundation. With this project, we will investigate the origin of insect wings using our favorite animal, the mayfly Cloeon dipterum.
In addition, our project to investigate the turbanate eyes of mayfly males has been also awarded by the Spanish Research Council.
Exciting times ahead!
March 2021
Two new preprints are out!
Slow cooked study on differences of ommatidia size in different species of Drosophila, together with McGregor, Posnien, Nunes and Arif labs:
Differences in orthodenticle expression promote ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species
And a great collaboration with Belles lab at IBE
The mayfly subimago explained. The regulation of metamorphosis in Ephemeroptera
February 2021
Our contribution to the work elucidating the role of Srrm234 in flies is out. A great collaboration with Irimia and Prieto-Godino labs.
Parallel evolution of a splicing program controlling neuronal excitability in flies and mammals
February 2021
Isabel presented the latest work on mayflies as part of the Koenig Museum seminar series, MEEGene: Evolutionary & Environmental Genomics. The talk is available here
January 2021
The report of the last SEBD2020 meeting is now published in International Journal of Developmental Biology:
Meeting report of the 17th Spanish Society for Developmental Biology Meeting (SEBD2020)
January 2021
We start the year with our contribution to the great work led by the Posnien lab:
Variation in a pleiotropic hub gene drives morphological evolution: insights from interspecific differences in head shape and eye size in Drosophila in Molecular Biology and Evolution
November 2020
Carlos presented his work on gill regeneration as a flash talk at the Spanish Society of Developmental Biology
cartoon: River Oracle inc.
October 2020
Thanks to the Beatriz Galindo program, in June 2021, the lab will start at the Department of Genetics, Microbiology & Statistics at the University of Barcelona
September 2020
We talk about our latest research on mayfly genomics in The Node:
Mayflies: an emergent model to investigate the evolution of winged insects
You can also check our post in Nature Ecology & Evolution community, Mayflies take off: a new model to study insect evolution
