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ESEB 2025: Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology

 ESEB 2025 Congress Website & Pre-Registration Now Open !! Join us at the CCIB from August 17 to 22, 2025, for a congress that promises to be a landmark in the field of evolutionary biology. This event, hosted by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (#ESEB) and proudly organized by the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology (#SESBE), continues a tradition of biennial conferences dating back to 1987. https://lnkd.in/dSy62d25 ...

The Alfa 55 magazine publishes a report on the human microbiome, where the work of our group, and others in the field is highlighted (in Spanish)

Dr. Toni Gabaldón was one of the specialists interviewed on the article, were he explains some advances on the colorectal cancer diagnosis test that is being developed at the group. Read the article here ...

Our Caixa Research project on evolutionary emergence of antifungal resistance is highlighted in this blog entry on fungi and their relevance for health

At the article they interviewd our Group leader, Toni Gabaldon as leader of a CaixaResearch project aimed at discovering new drugs against candidiasis.One of the challenges for antifungal treatments is the emergence of resistant strains.The research group seeks to decipher which mutations favor the resistance of the ‘Candida’ fungus. Read the article at Caixa Research blog ...

Jesse Willis, winner of the Excellence in Doctoral Thesis in Bioinformatics Awards by Bioinformatics in Barcelona.

We are happy to share that our past member, Jesse Willis has won the award with the thesis Oral Microbiome: Composition, Interactions and Shaping Factors (2021), directed by Toni Gabaldón and performed in our group. . This thesis provides for the first time a global view of the oral microbiome of the Spanish population, revealing significant connections with oral health, systemic health and other lifestyle factors. The nearly 3,000 samples analyzed by this thesis come from the citizen science project… ...

The MultiSeq project receives funding from the ERC to optimise sequencing and explore market potential

• The laboratory led by Dr. Toni Gabaldón at IRB Barcelona and the BSC is exploring an innovative solution that minimises the time and cost of sequencing.• The MultiSeq project has received an ERC Proof of Concept grant endowed with €150,000, for a period of 18 months. Read the article at IRB website ...