Martín-Durán lab

🚨Registration for the UK #EvoDevo meeting is open! Join us on July 11th @QMUL to enjoy an exciting day of talks, posters, friends, and superb science! -Registration: shorturl.at/9cQGL -More info: londonevodevo.ac.uk Supported by @AzentaSciences @Novogene_Europe

Thrilled to share our new paper in @emboreports, now online! We explored transcriptomic evolution during early embryogenesis of two spiralian annelids, to understand how early cell fate modes shape development before the gastrulation. #EvoDevo #Embryogenesis #RegulatoryEvolution

@Lynn_evodevo @Allan_littlecar Really cool work, Yan! 😊

Happy to work with my collaborators Jingcheng, @Allan_littlecar, Yue and @Chema_MD. Read the paper:#sec-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

Thanks @GigaScience for the cool video opportunity, and thanks again to all co-authors! @EizaguirreLab @ProjetoBioSal @Chema_MD @rossiterlab @QM_SBBS @QMULGeography et al

Happy to announce that my book « Cells - The Illustrated Story of Life » is in press and can be pre-ordered on the site of the New York publisher « The Experiment » theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/fall-…

Arrow worms have looked almost the same since the Cambrian era, but their evolution has baffled scientists since Darwin. New @Nature study from OIST, @ucl and @MieUniversity finally demystifies the worm, connecting genomics, epigenomics, and cell-types. oist.jp/news-center/ne…

Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study now out in @GenomeBiology! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians. doi.org/10.1186/s13059…

Nature research paper: The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan go.nature.com/41xxhYY

Still time to apply for this position! Deadline 15th September!

A genome sequence and single-cell atlas of a marine worm species point towards bursts of gene emergence, duplication and loss as the drivers of lineage-specific body traits go.nature.com/3HuQlAl

Congratulations to @BillaDelonge and @Ferdix on their brilliant @Nature study of the arrow worm genome and spiralian evolution! We had the pleasure of discussing it in a @NatureNV piece.

📢 The Vice Chancellor has appointed Prof Mark Brown as Director of the @Cambridge_Uni @ZoologyMuseum and Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology. Congratulations Mark! We look forward to welcoming you in Jan 2026. bit.ly/3UVHmey

Authors in this paper used 193 Darwin Tree of Life project reference genomes to study centromere architecture. What is a #centromere? It's the region of a chromosome where the microtubules attach during cell division - key equipment! Read more ⤵️ researchsquare.com/article/rs-700…

We are searching for an enthusiastic scientist to join our team and establish annual killifish as a model system for early developmental biology and biophysics! @embl Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei... Please re-post 🙏

We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @HFSP project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protists Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept @embl has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab, great package: core funding, fantastic PhD students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/job…

📢Glad to share our genome paper on an early-diverged cephalochordate species, Asymmetron lucayanum! By decoding & analyzing this genome in a comparative genomics framework, we know better now regarding the genome and gene evolution in cephalochordates. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

“We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and research-driven Reader in Evolutionary Genomics to join our Department of Biology, within the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences” ⁦@QMUL⁩ qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-1/ap…

How bats developed their wings? 🦇 Turns out they reutilize existing gene programs 🔧 Find out more in our paper @NatureEcoEvo in collaboration with @RealFany and @StefanMundlos labs nature.com/articles/s4155…

It has been a while… but an updated, faster & more accurate version of OrthoFinder is now out! Scales to thousands of species on conventional compute resources with higher accuracy than ever before and the same data rich fully phylogenetic outputs 👉biorxiv.org/content/10.110…