Second IBE PhD Symposium

The PhD Student Group of IBE organized its second IBE PhD Symposium during the 4th & 5th February 2021. The virtual event consisted of a number of talks by IBE PhD Students, a round table on scientific career and a poster session.

Aida Andrés, Evolutionary Biologist at the UCL Genetics Institute and former member of the IBE community, held a plenary session to round up the symposium.

Rosa Fernández new ERGA Spanish representative

IBE principal investigator Rosa Fernández will represent Spain in the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) consortium together with CSIC researcher Ana Riesgo. The mission of ERGA will be to create high quality reference genomes for all European species.

ERGA is part of the worldwide initiative Earth Biogenome Project (EBP), which aims to sequence, catalogue and characterize the genomes of all of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of ten years.

“Focus on me, I'm visible”. IBE joins the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

The IBE launched the social media campaign “Focus on Me, I'm visible” to mark the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The campaign, led in coordination with the IBE Diversity Committee, was aimed at bringing gender bias in science into sharp focus. IBE researchers also virtually visited schools to share with them their personal experience as scientists and their current research. Thanks to Miriam Merenciano from Evolutionary and Functional Genomics Lab, Rocío Caro from Evolutionary Population Genetics Lab and Gemma Isabel Martinez and Vanina Fabiola from Metazoa Phylogenomics Lab this year we reached over 200 students.

The Mercat del Peix project takes a step forward

Last March the urbanization plan for the area of the old Mercat del Peix was approved, which officially kick-started the construction project for the research and innovation complex focused on biomedicine, biodiversity and planetary well-being.

The new complex, promoted by Barcelona City Council and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), with the participation of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), will include a new building that will house the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE).

FECYT renews IBE's designation as Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+I)

With this accreditation, the FECYT recognizes the work for the dissemination of science of all member institutions. IBE has been member of this network since 2019.

The Catalan Initiative for the Earth Biogenome Project is born

The Catalan Biogenome Project (CBP) aims to produce a detailed catalogue of the genome of eukaryotic species in the Catalan territories, and it is part of the worldwide initiative Earth Biogenome Project (EBP).

The CBP is a collaborative project that has the support and direct participation of more than 20 centres throughout the Catalan-speaking territory, including the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE).

IBE researchers contribute the CSIC White Books on scientific challenges of the decade

The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) published the first two instalments of the 14 CSIC white papers that collect the scientific challenges of the decade, in order to broaden the knowledge about evolution and genomics.

IBE joins the Biodiversity Day 2021

Biodiversity Day 2021 was celebrated under the slogan: "We're part of the solution #ForNature". From nature-based solutions to climate, health issues, food and water security, and sustainable livelihoods, biodiversity is the foundation upon which we can build back better.

At the IBE we joined the Biodiversity Day 2021 by sharing research projects that are contributing to biodiversity conservation.

Marina Álvarez wins the scientific dissemination competition Rin4'

IBE predoctoral researcher Marina Álvarez from the Comparative and Computational Genomics lab was the winner of the Rin4' competition, in which doctoral students explain their research in four minutes to a non-specialist audience.

During her presentation “Save our evolutionary cousins”, she explained how she works with faecal samples from gorillas to create a genetic map of the main populations.

IBE Student Group has new representatives

IBE gets two new representatives to the IBE Student Group. They are Pablo Carrión, predoctoral researcher at the Palogenomics Lab, and Marc Palmada, predoctoral researcher at the Comparative Genomics Lab.

The IBE student group is an organization formed by all PhD and Master students conducting research at IBE. It's a forum for students to share their experience and express their worries, and also to actively contribute to the doctoral training.

Competition for the architectural complex of “Mercat del Peix” formed by IBE and UPF buildings announced

The architectural complex that goes out to tender is made up of two buildings. The first of them will house the new headquarters of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), where the joint research centre of the CSIC and UPF will bring together its 130 researchers in the study and conservation of biodiversity. With these new facilities, the IBE will have the necessary conditions to create new and more internationally competitive research groups.

IBE Communication Manager Pilar Rodríguez joins Dan Richter to lead the IBE diversity committee

From now on, they will jointly lead the activity of the committee. As part of its duty, the Diversity Committe will keep working to promote diversity in research and within the IBE community and to propose specific measures to mitigate the gender gap of the institution.

One new team joins IBE community

Oscar Lao started leading the Algorithms for Population Genomics lab. His research will be focused on developing new tools and machine-learning algorithms to better understand how genetic variation is generated in a species and which are the associated phenotypic consequences of such variation.