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Been talking about issues of this paper with colleagues in meetings during the past year, glad someone took the time to address it. nature.com/articles/s4155…

⬇️Now published in GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution)! This marks the end of my master’s thesis at @bornberglab 🥲 But off to new adventures at Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) 🥳 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…

My latest collaboration with the one and only Anne-Ruxandra @carvunis is out in GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution) ! Can we determine if/when a gene was born de novo by reconstructing its evolutionary past? We tried 👇

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Looking for a PhD position in 2025? 🧑‍🎓 Interested in endometriosis research? 🩸 We are looking for a computational candidate for the Pasteur-Paris University PhD program to join a fantastic international collab between my lab, Angela Goncalves and L. Doridot! Please RT!

I am delighted to share our latest preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… where we compared the transcriptional pattern of Small Secreted Peptides (SSPs) in the pathogen-induced transcriptomes of vascular and non-vascular plants #peptides

DENSE is out and ready to mine your favorite genome for its de novo genes! Try it out! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…

Hold on to your hats! The winners of the 2024 #NikonSmallWorldInMotion competition have finally been revealed, and they're sure to blow you away. View the full video gallery here: bit.ly/47t3L8A

Happy to share our new manuscript published in Nature Cardiovascular Research! 1) Curious about how genes, small open reading frames (sORFs) and microproteins evolved in primates? We explored how these elements shaped the cardiac transcriptomes and translatomes of primates. nature.com/articles/s4416…

What a nice way to say goodbye! Our latest work is now online on Aging Cell. Our study shows how Cockayne Syndrome B protein is implicated in transcription and chromatin dynamics in homeostatic and genotoxic conditions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

🧬🚨New in Trends in Genetics: Our review on microproteins in cancer! From identification to clinical potential, discover how these tiny proteins are reshaping cancer biology here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01… @s_heesch @johnprensner #microproteins #CancerResearch

Beautiful yeast (+1 algae) scientific family #EMBOEvoEco

Off to a good start at the new job 🙂

It's almost time!! We're at our wonderful venue getting ready for our EMBO Events EMBO Lecture Course Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics #EMBOEvoCompGenomics Christoforos Nikolaou Emilios Tassios

First day recap of #EMBOEvoCompGenomics. Two very inspiring talks from Mar Albà and @bornberglab for microproteins and de novo genes respectively. Poster session then followed with many interesting works being displayed. Excited for day two. Nikos Vakirlis Christoforos Nikolaou

At the EMBO lecture course on evolutionary genomics. Great science with great views in Nafplio, beautifully organised by Nikos Vakirlis Tereza Manousaki, Alex Pittis, Grigoris Amoutzias & Christophoros Nikolaou. It's now my time to tell everyone about the research from my lab! 🧬🪱

Our latest: Orphan genes are not a distinct biological entity. Orphan genes, aka loci with no homologous genes outside a focal taxon, are widely used as proxies of lineage-specific genes that are important for adaptation and innovation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bi…

Thank you Mar, it was fantastic to have you! Shout out also to co-organizers Christoforos Nikolaou Alexandros Pittis Tereza Manousaki and Greg Amoutzias

Final post here, see you'all in bluer skies