Irene Julca
@IreneJulca
Post-Doc at @Unil @ISBSIB @DessimozLab. Interested in #phylogenomics, comparative genomics , plants, #evolution.
Our review "Toward kingdom-wide analyses of gene expression" is out: doi.org/10.1016/j.tpla… Thanks to @tqiaowen @LabMutwil
Cool! A comprehensive genomic analysis of brown algae that shows hows a burst of genome evolution (HGT, new genes, new protein domains architectures and expansion of gene families) on their origin. The study also highlights the important role of viruses in shaping brown algae…
IN BRIEF: A magic pocket: An all-in-one CRISPR toolbox for plants (Andrea Gomez-Felipe) doi.org/10.1093/plcell… @andreagomezfe @ASPB #PlantSci
Glad to see this paper finally out! An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids @NatureEcoEvo @IBE_Barcelona @metazomics @CSIC @ERC_Research nature.com/articles/s4155…
The May 2025 issue is now fully online, with a cover highlighting the cell wall of ferns, from: "Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls" rdcu.be/enhGp
Interested in fern transcriptomes and the evolution of the secondary cell walls? check out this article I collaborated on with @LabMutwil
New Article: "Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls" rdcu.be/eiWNF Fern transcriptomes reveal repeated whole-genome duplications, unique gene families and distinct lignocellulosic evolution...
We are looking for a Doctoral Candidate with a #bioinformatics background to use metagenomics to study microbial pathogens in non-clinical niches as part of #SPOILCONTROL MSCA Doctoral Network DN DC5 - Pathogenic Flora spoilcontrol.hub.inrae.fr/phd-projects/d… Apply here: bsc.es/join-us/job-op…
⏰ Only 2 Days Left! ⏰ This is it: your last chance to submit your abstract for hashtag#ESEB2025! Don’t miss the opportunity to showcase your research and be part of one of the most important events in Evolutionary Biology. 📬 Submit now: eseb2025.com/call-for-abstr…
Move over mitochondria, a new organelle called the nitroplast is here. In a Science study last year, researchers reported that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga. Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/3Rr2t6T #ScienceMagArchives
We are looking for a Doctoral Candidate with a #bioinformatics background to use metagenomics to study microbial pathogens in non-clinical niches as part of #SPOILCONTROL @MSCActions DN DC5 - Pathogenic Flora spoilcontrol.hub.inrae.fr/phd-projects/d…
Happy to share that I'll be giving a plenary talk at VIZBI 2025 in Cambridge UK — and online — 8–11 April 2025. Mainly about how we deal with the analysis & visualization of huge trees, metagenomics profiling, novel microbial functions, synteny & more! vizbi.org/2025
WASTER’s ability to accurately estimate trees from low-coverage sequencing data without relying on assembly and alignment will lead to substantially reduced sequencing and computational costs in phylogenomic projects. #genomics #evolution #phylogeny biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
FastOMA is out now in Nature Methods 🎉: nature.com/articles/s4159… A new orthology inference algorithm that scales linearly and is highly accurate. FastOMA can process all >2000 eukaryotic UniProt ref proteomes <24 hours 🚀. Try it out at github.com/DessimozLab/fa…
From @SinaMajidian, @DessimozLab and colleagues, FastOMA achieves fast and accurate orthology inference, with linear scalability. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Como todos los años por estas fechas os regalamos el pdf de un tratado en español sobre la clasificación de los seres vivos. Por favor, re-enviadlo a quien consideréis. bit.ly/3tZelyx
Come to the dark side! Join the #darkproteome team to work on plant functional annotation within our OSCARS @HorizonEU project FAIRFUN4Biodiversity. Great project, great advisor, great city and great team! 👇👇 @CsicLifehub
Are you interested in genome annotations? Do you want to work in Valencia, Spain. We have an open position at @IBMCP. Please contact me if you are interested or forward to who may you think that could be interested.
I love this part on coevolution derived constraints ;-))
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, the 2024 Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry, have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been…
In this exciting new preprint, Warwick Vesztrocy et al use Bgee to show that "the most diverged orthologues display the greatest change in gene expression, thus suggesting that they have a greater functional divergence" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Exploring gene duplications! Our study reveals how duplicated genes diverge in function using structural and expression analysis across 36 species. Check out our paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thanks to @the_alexwv, @Gloveface, Paul Thomas, @cdessimoz #Genomics #Evolution
Over the last years we have been digging further into the origin of #Eukaryotes. Beyond the expected Asgard and Alphaproteobacterial ancestries, we found other significant gene donors and a potential mediating role of viruses. @moigilbernabeu @MicroBioBits @Marcet45
Diverse ancestries reveal complex symbiotic interactions during eukaryogenesis biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio