Francisco Falcon

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? 🤔This paradox concerns a wide range of protein complexes: if protein A needs B to function, and B needs A, how did the ‘loop’ begin? In our latest preprint, we explore this dilemma through the lens of what we 🩷 most—genetic conflict

whenever I have to send one of my python scripts to someone else

This position is now re-advertised until June 16th. Please share or apply!

We have a 2y postdoc position open in my group. The profile is quite broad, from bioinformatics to molecular biology. If you are interested in giant virus endogenization, EvoDevo, epigenetics and evolution, do apply and gent in touch. Please RT. Details: qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…

I am very excited to share our latest manuscript on the axolotl nervous system. We established the use of adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) to perform circuit tracing in the axolotl brain and retina: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… with @Tanaxolotl @IMPVienna

@Evol_Molly @wellcometrust Seems like the link is not complete. Here is the full ad :) jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

We are looking for a postdoc (36months) to join our team!:) the project is @wellcometrust funded and the goal is to understand adaptation and response to heat stress in mammals using comparative genomics approaches. Pls spread the word!:) jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i

I'm excited to announce a Postdoc position in my group at @IMPvienna! If you're all about instrumentation, software dev, super-resolution and single molecule studies and you're driven by innovation in optics and biology, I'd love to see your application! tinyurl.com/mpjc6p5z

Very happy to share our manuscript on positional memory, in which we ask how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura and Elly Tanaka @Tanaxolotl @IMPvienna! 🧵1/14

@Pabster212 gggenomes

@IntiOmics NextSeq? 🙃

A new #box arrived to our lab! Any guess? #genomics

@IntiOmics @illumina Nova-seq X ?

We got new delivery from @illumina today!!! 😱🫣🍾🎉 Any guess what's inside?

If Darwin's finches were transposons, and the Galapagos islands were the Drosophila ovary, this cool new paper is all about the diversification of their beaks!🦜Congratulations Kirsten, @juliusbrennecke and all co-authors for this tour-de-force! 🥳👏 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

‼️ Breakthrough in evolutionary genetics ‼️ #Virus-like #transposons wage war on the species barrier 🧬🦠🪱🐠🪼 An all-IMBA paper #JustPublished in @ScienceMagazine Read more ➡️ bit.ly/MavericksHGT IMBA's Burga Lab @arburga with co-first authors @SonyaWiden & @CampoBes nail down a vector of #HorizontalGeneTransfer (#HGT) in eukaryotes: The "culprits" are called #Mavericks - Ancient virus-like transposable elements @viennabiocenter @TrainingVbc @oeaw Link to the paper in Science ➡️ doi.org/10.1126/scienc… More on the Burga Lab's research ➡️ oeaw.ac.at/imba/research/… Congratulations to all authors: Sonya Widen, Israel Campo Bes, Alevtina Koreshova, Pinelopi Pliota, Daniel Krogull & Alejandro Burga on this groundbreaking work 🎉🎊

Giant genomes? Transposable elements? Check out our review on how recent advances might help us understand how animals transitioned from water to land. Written by @DiegoRTerrones, @Tanaxolotl and myself :).

In #Bioinformatics, we train years and years and years to be able to do really complicated bio #dataScience in not that long time. So if I run an analysis and deliver results which goes in the #research paper, then yes, I do expect a co-authorship (1/n)

Bioinformatician - Job alert: Are you passionate about genomics, development and evolution? Please consider this joint position with amazing colleagues @jwjach and @NRivron

@rm0sher @TransposableMan @GIRInst_org Otherwise I would try and manually annotate them with a self alignment in blast (looking for inverted repeats), a global search maybe using blastx and maybe using a protein domain search (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/…) (2/2)

@rm0sher @TransposableMan @GIRInst_org DFAM has a search engine that could probably work, although I couldn't find any plant annotations in there. Another option but limited is using RepeatExplorer through their Galaxy pipeline (tutorial included) repeatexplorer.org/?page_id=818. (1/2)

#TE Twitter, please help! Do you know of a website that will annotate TEs in short (~5-20kb) plant sequences? I like my genomics students to see what a /real/ piece of genome looks like, but @GIRInst_org CENSOR seems to be down since last year. TYIA

Amazing work by @tbrown91 and @egypsci assembling Pleurodeles genome. Undoubtedly a very valuable resource for salamander researchers and evolution aficionados. Congratulations to all authors! :)

Four posters from ⁦@Tanaxolotl⁩ lab at today’s #ISDB2021 poster session!! For development, evo-geno and regeneration in axolotl and mouse: 🏃‍♀️🏃🌪 posters 233 (⁦@Fernand75413566⁩), 360 (⁦@FcoJFalcon⁩), 365 (⁦@Nasechkas⁩) and 389 (⁦@LeoOtsuki⁩) 🦎🐭🙌