
Curso Nacional de Genética (National Genetics Course)
From the 13th to the 17th of March, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera and Lluis Montoliu, organised the 9th National Genetics Course on … Continue Reading
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From the 13th to the 17th of March, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera and Lluis Montoliu, organised the 9th National Genetics Course on … Continue Reading
We are recruiting two postdoctoral researchers, one with wet-lab expertise and one with bioinformatic expertise to carry out a research … Continue Reading
Gonzalez Lab members participated in the PSL-QLife Winter School on The Genomics of Transposable Elements, held in Paris from the … Continue Reading
Our best wishes for the new year 2023!
Happy to share our work on the genomic basis of copper tolerance led by Dr. Llewellyn Green. Check this twitter … Continue Reading
We are sharing the most recent lab preprint by Marta Coronado-Zamora. Marta has developed a pipeline to identify gene-TE chimeric … Continue Reading
We are very happy that our protocol that would allow high school students to experimentally validate transposon insertions is now … Continue Reading
Josefa González participated in the annual meeting of the Life.Hub CSIC that took place at El Escorial on the 14th-16th … Continue Reading
Josefa González participated in the SMBE satellite meeting on Urban Evolutionary and Ecological ‘Omics that took place in Washington, D.C., … Continue Reading
Simón Orozco, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab, presented the MCHelper pipeline, which automatically curates de novo transposable element (TE) … Continue Reading
We are recruiting two postdoctoral researchers, one with wet-lab expertise and one with bioinformatic expertise, and one laboratory technician/manager to … Continue Reading
Dr. González was invited, together with a selected group of researchers, to share the lab results and discuss about Rapid … Continue Reading
The 2022 Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory meeting on transposable elements took place from the 11th to 15th October. The meeting … Continue Reading
From the 26th to the 28th of September, the 5th Spanish Conference on The Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology of … Continue Reading
Our weather station prototype designed by Pepe and Irene González is at the IES Eladio Cabañero in Tomelloso. This school … Continue Reading
Thomas Flatt, Alan Bergland and Josefa González organized on behalf of the DrosEU consortium the symposium “Progress and prospects in … Continue Reading
Sonja Grath, Pau Carazo and Katja Hoedjes organized the 2nd DrosEU summer school on “Integrating -omics approaches for eco-evolutionary research” … Continue Reading
Led by Dr. Miriam Merenciano, our and La Ciència Al Teu Món citizen science activity “Citizen Fly Lab” has now a … Continue Reading
Marta Coronado-Zamora has developed a genomics browser that compiles -omics datasets generated in the lab from several -omic techniques. Check … Continue Reading
The 13th DrosEU workshop took place on the 13rd and 14th of June 2022 at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, … Continue Reading
Marta Coronado-Zamora presented her latest results on the contribution of transposable elements on the diversification of the D. melanogaster trascriptome across … Continue Reading
Welcome to the lab Simón! Simón Orozco did his PhD at the Universidad de Caldas where he applied machine learning … Continue Reading
González Lab members and volunteers from the Impulsem cooperative participated in an activity organized by La Ciència Al Teu Món … Continue Reading
We are very happy to host Dr. Masse Tahami, a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Maaria Kankare at the University of … Continue Reading
We are very happy that our recent publication on the new population genomics resource DEST: Drosophila Evolution over Space and … Continue Reading
We are very happy to see our lab research on the adaptive role of transposable elements featured in TheScientist together … Continue Reading
Congratulations María on your well-deserved PhD! María Bogaerts-Márquez joined the lab in February 2017 thanks to an ERC-Consolidator grant that … Continue Reading
We wish you a healthy and happy new year! For a 2022 full of discoveries, collaborations and in person conferences!
We shared our citizen science activity Citizen Fly Lab with the participants of the EvoKEbcn2021 meeting. EvoKEbcn2021 is an open-minded, … Continue Reading
We are part of the steering committee of the CSIC network LifeHub that brings together 90 research groups from 40 … Continue Reading
We are happy to share our latest publication on the effect of transposable elements in the regulation of immune-related genes. … Continue Reading
We are very happy to see the first joint publication of the DrosEU and DrosRTEC consortium together with the citizens … Continue Reading
From the 16th to the 19th August, the second AsiaEvo conference took place virtually organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan University. … Continue Reading
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our lab! The postdoc researcher will join a project aimed at … Continue Reading
We are very happy to share that Pia’s has successfully defended her master thesis (110/110)! Pia joined the lab in … Continue Reading
At Gonzalez lab we are committed to provide equal opportunities to women and men in science. This 11th February, we … Continue Reading
We are very happy and very proud of Vivien who has successfully defended her thesis. Vivien has made important contributions … Continue Reading
Congratulations Javi on your Master thesis defense. Javi has contributed to the characterization of an adaptive transposable element insertion under … Continue Reading
Josefa González has been elected by the SMBE members to be a Councillor for the society. The Society for Molecular … Continue Reading
Pia Viscomi was awarded an ERASMUS fellowship to carry out her master thesis research in our laboratory. Pia started to … Continue Reading
Congrats Irene on your bachelor honors thesis! Irene has designed CRISPR experiments that will allow us to experimental validate several … Continue Reading
María Bogaerts has been awarded an EMBO short-term fellowship to work with Dr. Mathieu Gautier at the “Centre de Biologie … Continue Reading
We are very happy to have had the opportunity to contribute to this study linking chromosomal inversions with obesity-related diseases. … Continue Reading
Join our research team and collaborate with us in understanding the genetic basis of adaptation to natural and urban environments. … Continue Reading
The Discussion meeting issue ‘Crossroads between transposons and gene regulation’ organized and edited by Miguel R. Branco and Edward B. … Continue Reading
This year we will be holding our 10th DrosEU workshop at the ICG in Oeiras, Portugal. Looking forward to one … Continue Reading
This time for real… Our last 2019 publication is another collaboration with a great transposable element group in Spain, Pep … Continue Reading
We close the year with our small contribution to a big work lead by Isabel Almudi: Genomic adaptations to aquatic … Continue Reading
In the 4th Edition of the interactive workshops Ciència i Convivència, the users of Impulsem, a center for education, training … Continue Reading
We have collaborated with Omar Rota-Stabelli lab and colleagues in the analysis of European and American populations of the invasive … Continue Reading
You can watch a video summarising the rationale, the discovery and the prospects of this work here. A collaborative work … Continue Reading
We are very happy to share the new improved inversion of T-lex: a software that accurately estimates population frequencies of … Continue Reading
We are looking for a highly motivated professional to assist in the science communication projects and activities develop by González … Continue Reading
From the 5th to the 8th of September the European Drosophila Research Conference took place at the Swiss Tech Convention … Continue Reading
The lab has participated at ESEB2019 with multiple activities On the 19th August, together with Thomas Flatt (U. Fribourg), we … Continue Reading
From the 8th to the 10th of July, the 22nd French National Congress on Transposable Elements (CNET) took place in … Continue Reading
From Sunday 26th to Friday 28th June a diverse group of researchers from the Mobile DNA community met at Rancho … Continue Reading
On the 14th and 15th June, eleven secondary school and one elementary school teachers travel to Barcelona to learn and … Continue Reading
Diverse families of transposable elements affect the transcriptional regulation of stress-response genes in Drosophila melanogaster.
On the 13th and 14th May, we participated in the Royal Society discussion meeting Crossroads between transposons and gene regulation. The event … Continue Reading
We are very happy to learned that Vivien Horvath, a third year PhD student in our lab, was awarded a … Continue Reading
On the 23rd and 24th April the working groups of the EuroScitizen COST action met at the National History Museum … Continue Reading
We are very happy to have hosted another successful workshop of the DrosEU consortium at the PRBB in Barcelona. 43 … Continue Reading
We are hosting, together with La Ciència Al Teu mòn, the first steering committee meeting of the EuroScitizen COST Action. … Continue Reading
On Saturday 6th March, IES Eladio Cabañero and La Ciència Al Teu Mòn spearheaded an event to share with the … Continue Reading
The Complex Systems Life Sciences PhD Program at the University of Turin organized a “Transposable Element Day” as part of their … Continue Reading
Carlos Vargas, Vivien Horváth, María Bogaerts, Miriam Merenciano, Judit Salces and Josefa González shared with the YOMO2019 public the research … Continue Reading
Vivien, a third year PhD student in our lab, has been an EMBO Short-Term Fellowship to visit the laboratory of … Continue Reading
Very happy to see our bioRxiv preprint now published in PLoS Genetics. The work was started at Dmitri Petrov lab … Continue Reading
We are very happy to have our citizen science project Melanogaster Catch The Fly (MCTF) showcased as part of the … Continue Reading
The year 2018 was full of events, we would like to highlight the most positive ones! Students awards and accomplishments … Continue Reading
Together with Cristina Vieira, Emmanuelle Lerat, and Clement Goubert from the Equipe Eléments transposables, Evolution, Populations (TREEP), we have analyzed the population … Continue Reading
We have reviewed the recent literature to identify some of the evolutionary insights obtained from large scale resequencing datasets in Drosophila … Continue Reading
Diego Ayala, a researcher at MIVEGEC (IRD), has put together a colloquium with the aim of bringing together vector and … Continue Reading
We are very happy to share our latest publication that analyzes the population structure and the evidence for local adaptation … Continue Reading
We have shared our citizen science project aDaptNAtion: Melanogaster Catch The Fly at the Jornadas de divulgación innovadora in Zaragoza. … Continue Reading
Camillo Iacometti, an ERASMUS master student in the lab, has succesfully defended her master thesis (110/110) at the Università di … Continue Reading
Students, teachers, and researchers shared the citizen science project aDaptNAtion: Melanogaster Catch The Fly with the PRBB Open Day visitors. … Continue Reading
Miriam Merenciano, a third-year PhD student, has been awarded an EMBO Short term fellowship to work with Fillip Port at the … Continue Reading
We have added a new chapter to our research on Bari-Jheh transposable element: 2008. Bari-Jheh was first identified as a … Continue Reading
Vivien won the Prevosti Prize for Best Oral Presentation at the XVIII Jornada de Biology Evolutiva that was held in … Continue Reading
Vivien Horvath and Maria Bogaerts shared the research in our lab and our citizen science project aDaptNAtion: Melanogaster Catch The … Continue Reading
We have been awarded an ESEB Outreach Initiative Fund together with Diego Ayala (MIVEGEC; IRD; Montpellier) and Roberto Torres (La … Continue Reading
Fourteen secondary school teachers from Castilla-La Mancha, Valencia, Andalucía, Aragón and Catalunya participated on June the 28th in the course Teach and … Continue Reading
Vivien Horváth, Sara Guirao-Rico, Judit Salces and Gabriel Rech from González lab and La Ciència Al Teu Món designed an activity … Continue Reading
We are very happy to be part of the COST Action proposal Building on scientific literacy in evolution towards scientifically responsible … Continue Reading
FECYT selected our project AdaptNation: the European Drosophila community to receive funding in their 2017 Call. The project will run from January 2018 … Continue Reading
Miriam Merenciano, a PhD student in the lab, got a Travel award to present her research at the annual meeting … Continue Reading
Miriam Merenciano, from González Lab, and Roberto Torres from La Ciencia Al Teu Mon, shared the lab ERC project and … Continue Reading
Miriam Merenciano, Vivien Horváth, Maria Bogaerts, Lain Guio, and Josefa González shared their ERC research project with high school students at … Continue Reading
We are very happy to learn the Judit Salces will be joining the lab as a Juan de la Cierva … Continue Reading
AdapNet, the Spanish excellence network in adaptation genomics was renewed in the latest call of the Spanish Ministry for Economy, … Continue Reading