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Save the date! The 6th European meeting on Planarian biology will be celebrated the 13-15th of October in Hotel Cap Roig, Platja d'Aro (Catalonia). https://www.caproig.com/ca/ Don't miss the opportunity to meet the planarian community in a magnificent scenery in the Costa Brava. Registration and
Our new paper characterizing the LIM-HD family of transcription factors is out at Open Biology . Impressive work by Loli Molina to unravel the function of LIM-HD genes in patterning and neural and gut differentiation
As part of her PhD, Anna is visiting Jordi Solana's lab at Oxford Brookes to perform single-cell sequencing after silencing cbp-3. We hope to better understand the role of this gene in the differentiation of the different planarian cell lineages. Just before leaving Barcelona, Anna presented her
Have a look to our work about Wnt-signaling and chromatin remodeling!!! Wnt/β-catenin signalling is required for pole-specific chromatin remodeling during planarian regeneration Pascual-Carreras et al. Nature Communications 14 , 298 (2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-35937-y
We have just finished the BIYSC course for young scientists. It has been a rewarding experience !!! Thanks to all students and to Pablo and Anna for their enthusiasm !!!
We are happy to announce that the long-postponed 5 th European Meeting on Planarian Biology will take place from October 2 nd to 4 th , 2022, at Hotel Eden Roc in Sant Feliu de Guixols. https://compgen.bio.ub.edu/EMPB2022 You are very wellcome!!!
Ainhoa presented her Master Thesis: “Finding new elements of the planarian posterior organizer” CONGRATULATIONS!
Our recent paper describes how planarian CREB-binding protein (cbp) gene family has been expanded in planarians and diversified their functions. Thus, cbp-2 seems to be required for planarian survival and stem cell maintenance whereas cbp-3 appears to regulate the differentiation of many cell
Our genes paper from Eudald-Pascual and Sureda-Gomez et al. is now published! It is a part of the Special Issue The Evolution of Invertebrate Animals This is really a result of a Team effort! Congratulations! https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/12/1/101
In this manuscript in collaboration with the laboratory of Karen Smeets we propose ROS as an early signal required to activate ERK signaling to promote regeneration
Look at our results about the effects of launch stress in planarians. Collaboration with Pontifical Gregorian University /University of Cassino, the Amsterdam University Medical Center and ESA’s https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Regen…
Last Saturday Eudald presented his research at the EMBO Workshop: Neuromesodermal progenitors in development, evolution and regeneration. Great talk Eudald!
In our last preprint we characterize the function of CBP/p300 planarian homologues on neoblast maintenance and differentiation. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.08.287045v1 Lots of work from many undergraduate and master students under the supervision of Susanna and the recent
Check out our lab latest paper “ Planarian cell number depends on Blitzschnell, a novel gene family that balances cell proliferation and cell death ” published in Development. https://dev.biologists.org/content/early/2020/02/28/dev.184044 This is the work of Eudald and several current ad past
Eudald and Pablo presented at the X Epigenetics and Chromatin meeting in Barcelona. https://scb.iec.cat/x-jornada-de-cromatina-i-epigenetica/
Maria, our PhD student, has been selected to participate in the UB final of the "Tesis en 4 minutes" contest. This contest consists in explaining your thesis for a general public in only 4 minutes. In the first round the participant's record a video with their presentation and some selected talks
After several years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Lapage lab in Nice working on sea urchin, Loli has come back to the planarian world as a Beatriu de Pinós-Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher. We are really happy to have you back in Barcelona
We are glad to announce a new planarian publication that will help to better visualize and understand omics resources. We encourage to play with the new tool: https://compgen.bio.ub.edu/PlanNET/ Eudald, one of our PhD students, was also involve in this investigation. He studied to biologic relations
For the first time, different Developmental Societies of all over the Europe organize a congress to get all scientific groups that works with Developmental Biology. This first edition took place in Alicante (Spain) and most of members attended and had the change to present part of their work. Eudald