Jordi Solana
Stem Cell Biology and Evolution (SCBE) research group | Living Systems Institute Exeter @lsiexeter.bsky.social | One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces (if you are a regenerative organism)
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaLast chance to apply for one of the LSI PhD projects intake Sept 2026! Deadline tomorrow, 26.11.2025, noon. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... @exeter.ac.uk @lsiexeter.bsky.social
- We are recruiting PhD students! Two days left to apply for the LSI studentships - deadline Nov 26 www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... and a few more for the SWBio studentships - deadline Dec 3 www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr... Please repost or forward to prospective students that might be interested!
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaPleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups. www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaIt's always special when you find your own paper in the table of contents of the journal 😍 "The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube" -> Now out in its final form www.cell.com/developmenta...
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- Reposted by Jordi SolanaJoin our upcoming course on cutting-edge evolutionary & genomic methods for Evo-Devo studies! We'll cover: comparative & single-cell transcriptomics,ATAC-seq, phylogenomics, comparative genomics, gene regulation, and much more Spots still available: sites.google.com/view/evodevo...
- I will be participating in this EvoDevo course in Madrid, organised by @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social and other colleagues. sites.google.com/view/evodevo... I will be covering scRNA-seq, other topics are transcriptomics, ATAC-seq, phylogenomics Registration closes on Nov 20! Dates: Dec 15-18
- I will be participating in this EvoDevo course in Madrid, organised by @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social and other colleagues. sites.google.com/view/evodevo... I will be covering scRNA-seq, other topics are transcriptomics, ATAC-seq, phylogenomics Registration closes on Nov 20! Dates: Dec 15-18
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- Reposted by Jordi Solana🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch! 📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility. 🙏Please, RT!
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaThrilled to share that the lab has been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award to keep exploring the evolution of 6-methyladenine #6mA in Eukaryotes. We'll open postdoc (3️⃣) and tech (1️⃣) positions to start in 2026, please share with candidates or reach out if you’d like to join us.
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaHappy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaThe Yang and Phillips labs have an exciting GW4 MRC BioMed DTP PhD project on beta-cell regeneration & designing new proteins with AI tools to control neural signals. Come join us at LSI-Exeter! gw4biomed.ac.uk/regenerating... @proteinmotion.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaNew short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵
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- Reposted by Jordi Solana🥳 Thrilled to share that our lab has been awarded an ERC StGrant for our project SigReg: Signal to Regeneration! How can we unlock limb regeneration in adult mammals? It’s time to apply what we learned from 🐸 ➡️ 🐭 Thank you @erc.europa.eu for supporting ambitious science!!!
- Massive congratulations to @canaztekin.bsky.social for being awarded an ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu ! 🎉 His "Signal to Regeneration" (SigReg) project will explore the potential of limb regeneration in mammals. Read more and watch Can introduce his project: s.gwdg.de/cLAmJE
- Reposted by Jordi Solana🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu! With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠 #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaWe are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)
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- Reposted by Jordi SolanaDelighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study led by @tomlewin.bsky.social now out in Genome Biology @bmc.springernature.com! 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/s130...
- Reposted by Jordi Solana#BiologyLetters A review of animal–chlorophyte photosymbioses explains how symbiosis drives adaptation and shapes animal life in diverse and dynamic environments. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ecology #evolution #developmentalbiology
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- Reposted by Jordi SolanaExcited to share the latest work from the lab led by @eharo84.bsky.social, in which we have used synthetic biology to explore the mechanisms by which different types of long-range enhancers ensure robust and precise developmental gene expression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Jordi SolanaHow innate immunity starts? Early embryos eliminate bacterial infections by epithelial phagocytosis, a conserved process from zebrafish to human embryos. Check our story: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaI am looking for a new postdoc to join the lab. Interested in pluripotency, germ cells, and in investigating these in a genetically tractable cnidarian? Get in touch! We offer a long-term contract, excellent research environment, and a lovely city #Galway. www.urifranklab.org
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaTextbooks: “Enhancers are just a bunch of TFBSs” But how do they REALLY work? New paper with many contributors here @berkeleylab.lbl.gov, @anshulkundaje.bsky.social, @anusri.bsky.social A 🧵 (1/n) Free access link: rdcu.be/erD22
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaExcited to share our study on sailing siphonophores, AKA bluebottles or man-o'-war! 🌊 we received hundreds of samples from scientists around the world, part of a huge effort to sequence genomes and test for multiple species 🧬 out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🦑🧪📌
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- Reposted by Jordi Solana🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
- 🚨 We’re recruiting PhD students! 🚨 Join the Stem Cell Biology and Evolution lab at @lsiexeter.bsky.social to study planarians, stem cells & evolution. 2 projects available - 1 week left to apply! Interested and no PhD yet? Apply now. Or help us spread the word! 🙌 www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
- 🧬 Project 1, with Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social : Uncovering how gene networks control cilia in planarians. We’ll use single-cell transcriptomics, ATAC-seq & RNAi to study ciliated cell types, linking genes to behaviour (movement, sensation & excretion) with quantitative analysis.
- 🧬 Project 2, with @scholpplab.bsky.social , Magda Strauss and @kylewedgwood.bsky.social : How do planarians know what to regrow after cut?🔪 We will explore how signals guide regeneration, telling stem cells where to go and what to become. We’ll use scRNA-seq, combined with imaging and modelling.
- 📢 Interested? Apply now to join us! Application and eligibility details in the link. 🔗 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Deadline in 1 week. Feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested 🙌 #PhD #Planarians #StemCells #Evolution
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaCongratulations to Associate Professor Vicki Gold, who has been appointed Chair of the Review Panel at the Electron Bio-Imaging Centre at Diamond Light Source, which serves as the UK’s national facility for cryo-electron microscopy. @the-gold-lab.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Jordi SolanaA new preprint from the lab analyzing mechanisms underlying sensory neuron regeneration and function. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaAre you a Biophysicist who would like to work in an interdisciplinary institute? Then do not miss this opportunity. More information on the LSI website: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaBe part of the great PhD community at the Living Systems Institute, University Exeter @exeter.ac.uk. Applications for LSI-funded PhD studentships are open until Monday, 9th June 2025. Apply now! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaI’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaCheck out our latest work on the evolution of animal genome regulation out today in @nature.com. Nicely summarized below by @ianakim.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu
- I’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Proud to present the peer-reviewed version of our Cell Type Allometry paper, out today in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Are animals of different sizes made of the same cell types? Here’s an update of the main points and revision items (with memes!) Thread 👇🧵
- Allometry of Cell Types: Here are the Dalton Brothers, archenemies of Lucky Luke. Joe, the shortest, has a head similar to Averell, the tallest. It is the rest of the body that changes. But, do they have the same cell types? And, in the same proportions?
- It is difficult to systematically characterise “cell types”. One can do it by morphological observation, but resolution is low. This is what J. Baguñà and R. Romero did in planarians in the 80’s at @geneticsub.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... Can we do this with single-cell methods?
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View full threadAnd thanks to everyone involved, starting from first author Elena Emili, but also with Alberto Pérez Posada, Virginia Vanni, David Salamanca Díaz, Dianalí Rodríguez Fernández and Maria Christodolou @apposada.bsky.social posada.bsky.social @drsalamander.bsky.social
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- Happy to present the peer-reviewed version of our Hydractinia Cell Atlas paper out today in Nature Communications! As I presented this back when we were in “that other” social network, let me recap the basic findings and revision items in this thread: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- So, Hydractinia: Not the hermit crab, nor the dead mollusc that once occupied the shell, but the colonial cnidarian growing on top of it. Can we learn more about how this association evolved using single-cell analysis?
- Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus is a colonial cnidarian. The whole mat with hundreds of polyps is only one organism. Only one larva settles in the shell, and then it grows a structure made of stolons and polyps, that is intercommunicated and shares food, cells, etc.
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View full threadVery happy to have collaborated with this with Uri @thecocodium.bsky.social ! Also many thanks to all other authors, from different labs (too many to mention here!)
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaThrilled to receive a Discovery Award from @wellcometrust.bsky.social. We are working on adult, pluripotent stem cells in #Hydractinia. This animal is among the most regenerative creatures and does not succumb to age. Thanks to my team members and colleague at chromosome.ie @uniofgalway.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Jordi SolanaJob alert! We are seeking a research technician and lab manager to join our lab and an ERC funded project. If you'd like to work with beautiful insects in beautiful Barcelona, don't hesitate and contact us: www.mayflyecoevodevo.com/joinus
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- Reposted by Jordi SolanaMonod Conference "Origin of metazoans": fossils, genomes, cell biology, gene regulation, development, and more. Join us in Roscoff for an exceptional speaker line-up and stunning venue! 🗓️Abstract deadline: March 4. Register and share! www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/origin-me...
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaReally excited to share that I got an #ERCCoG The project EARLYFATE will explore the interplay between DNA damage responses and the very first events of mammalian embryo development. Huge thanks to all colleagues, former mentors and lab members for their help and support!
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaHonored and excited to receive an #ERCCoG grant. Big thanks to my colleagues, former mentors and, most importantly, my amazing lab members. Together, we will be exploring cell type evolution across timescales, from population variation (with @xgrau.bsky.social) to regulatory sequences across phyla.
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaHappy to share our latest work, together with the Casares lab, studying the outstanding regenerative capabilities of mayflies royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social
- Tomorrow we will be hosting Yi-Jyun Luo at the LSI @lsiexeter.bsky.social seminar series. Since we are in a very interdisciplinary institute, we thought of introducing our guests in a general and open way, explaining the background to their research ( #Betamode ). So I will start:
- The organization of genomic DNA into chromosomes is constantly reshaped by processes like fusion, fission, inversion, and translocation. These structural changes are crucial for biological phenomena such as recombination, adaptation, speciation, disease, and the development of new traits.
- While some species maintain stable genome structures over time, others experience significant chromosomal rearrangements, leading to unpredictable patterns. Understanding the evolutionary factors that drive these changes can shed light on how organisms adapt and how animal diversity evolves.
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View full threadThis is, among others, the subject of Yi-Jyun’s group research. In the scientific image you see some smoothie annelid genomes (in the right). He will tell us more in the seminar, or read their latest manuscript: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
- Reposted by Jordi SolanaWe have two open PhD positions in my group at @crg.eu. We are seeking candidates with a background in computational and/or molecular biology, and with a broad interest in evolutionary biology, gene regulation, and comparative genomics. 📅Apply before January 12 here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
