Today I am leaving the Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo lab at Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), and I am coming back to Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW. It was a wonderful 6 months filled with new ideas, new projects, new papers, and new friendships. Thanks, Bekker NAWA, for making my scientific dreams come true! NAWA Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange

Always a cool workshop! #choanos, #filastereans, #ichtyosporeans & #corallochytreans! Patricia Patricia Suárez Ara will be our representative! 💪

📣Congratulations to Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo for his ERC Advanced Grant!👏👏 Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo is a PI of Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) (CSIC-UPF Medicine and Life Sciences) and has been awarded one of the most prestigious grants from the European Research Council (ERC) for the "MISSINGRELATIVES" project.🧵 #UnravellingEvolution #ERCAdG

Ctenophores or sponges? We identified chromosomal changes that support ctenophores as the sister group of all other animals. In nature w/ stevehaddock.bsky Dan Rokhsar et al. Support from MBARI U.S. National Science Foundation European Research Council (ERC) 🔗nature.com/articles/s4158…

Had a wonderful time attending and presenting at the IV International Choanoflagellates and Friends Workshop (as a friend)! Thanks to David Booth for organizing and to everyone for all the inspiring chats and super cool science 🧬

We have two (senior and junior) tech positions to work on sc technologies for the Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative. Exciting 3y project supported by Moore Foundation, with multiple partners. 🗓️Apply by Dec-22 🔗recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs/p… 🔗recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs/p… Please share

To close up, beautiful family photo of the congress #SESBE2024! Thank you to Phil Donoghue Phil Donoghue, Josefa González Dr. Josefa González, all speakers, presenters, attendees and SESBE board. Special thanks to Sombradoble team, the congress wouldn’t have been possible w/o you!

Had a great time last week at the SESBE meeting! Thanks to the organizers for the amazing meeting and thanks to everyone that came to check out my poster on Friday! SESBE @sesbe2024

Meri 🚺 & Patri Patricia Suárez Ara discussing #ichthyosporeans with Rebecca from Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc in a wonderful, snowy day! #academiclife #animalorigins #holozoans thanks Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc for the opportunity!

Does the absence of cosmic radiation affect unicellular relatives of animals? Nobody knows. We have started a project to unravel that, thanks to a collaboration with Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc & Amal Rahmeh. #ichthyosporeans #animalorigins #cosmicsilence Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE)

Just 3 weeks away from Patricia Suárez Ara's PhD defense! 🎉 The thesis, featuring an incredible #ichthyosporean image, is as stunning visually as it is rich in science. Thrilled to celebrate another milestone in #ichthyosporeans & #corallochytreans research. #multicellularity

If you are attending #EED2024 don't miss our symposium on The Evolution of Multicellularity and Cell Differentiation on Wednesday! Supported by The Company of Biologists Euro Evo Devo 2024

And Patricia Suárez Ara is representing Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo lab at #EED24 taking about the amazing Creolimax

I had the best time at EuroEvoDevo! Four intense days of getting to know about everyone’s cool science, meeting new people and catching up with old colleagues! See you in 2 years 🧬 #EED2024

Delve into the fascinating world of #Ichthyosporea in our review Springer Nature Communications Biology with victoria shabardina @Jennah_E_D Patricia Suárez Ara 🚺 et al. Thrilled to have collaborated with pioneers in Ichthyosporea like Wyth & Hiroshi, who laid the groundwork in isolating

The BEAP lab is recruiting a PhD student (4 years) to start between January-March, 2025! The project will isolate novel, environmentally abundant protists, and investigate how they live in the lab and in the ecosystem. Apply by: 10 September More info: beaplab.org

I’m not the most active user on here but from now on I’ll be on the other side 🦋

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT! For more information see here: gahanlab.com tinyurl.com/34xke35d

✨Animal evolution fans, rejoice! CRISPR-Cas9 is now in Corallochytrium (Teretosporea, which includes Ichthyosporea), ready to unlock secrets of animal origins! 🔬Led by Patricia Suárez Ara & Sebas Najle. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… The Royal Society #animalorigins #holozoans #protists