Marta, Chris, Cova and Mar participate in the GRC conference Decoding Microproteins Across Evolution and Disease

Marta E. Camarena, Chris Papadopoulos, Cova Vara and Mar Albà present their wok at the GRC conference.

May 23, 2025

New group picture

Panni Szegedi, Giada Grottini, Joan Antoni Martorell, Lili Boll, Mar Albà, Cova Vara, Chris Papadopoulos, Marta Espinosa Camarena, José Carlos Montañés

April 02, 2025

Our work on the prediction of immunotherapy response using omics data published!

New manuscript available at Nat Com. The result of an intensive team work involving Lili Boll, Sergio Vázquez, Marta E. Camarena and Júlia Perera-Bel, among others.

December 01 , 2024

We participate in the EMBO Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics in Nafplion

Chris Papadopoulos, Cova Vara and Mar Albà participated in the EMBO Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics Lecture course in Nafplion (Greece) from 3 to 6 of November 2024.

July 15 , 2024

José Carlos Montañés defends his PhD at Universitat Pompeu Fabra

José Carlos has defended his PhD titled “Discovery and evolutionary analysis of novel genes and translated ORFs” on the 11th of July.

March 04 , 2024

Lili and Marta receive prizes at the VHIO Computational Oncology Awards

On Feb 21 2024 the VHIO Computational Oncology Award 2024 was celebrated at UAB Casa de la Convalescència

November 08 , 2023

Our group is participating in the SMBE Satellite Meeting on de novo gene birth

May 04 , 2023

Evolutionary trajectories of new duplicated and putative de novo genes

We explored the evolutionary trajectories of new duplicated and de novo genes.

March 22 , 2023

The functions of human de novo originated proteins start to be revealed

A new study reveals the functional importance of human de novo originated proteins.

November 24 , 2022

Our group goes to ECCB 2022

Marta, Lili and José Carlos presented their PhD research in the poster sessions at ECCB

June 07 , 2022

Emeline Favreau reports on her ESEB grant to spend time in our lab

Emeline Favreau shares her experience during her research stay in our lab.

June 02 , 2022

ERC Advanced Grant NovoGenePop

Our ERC Advanced Grant NovoGenePop investigates the emergence of new genes.

June 01 , 2022

mRNA molecules one at a time

We used Nanopore dRNA data to study alternative splicing in yeast.

June 26 , 2021

Large scale annotation of small proteins by ribosome profiling

We contributed to a global initiative annotating small proteins using ribosome profiling.

February 28 , 2021

Article in Ellipse by Will on his PhD journey in the lab

Will Blevins explains in an article in Ellipse his experience doing a PhD in the lab.

February 13 , 2021

Protein translation from uORFs: roles in stress

We explored the role of uORFs in regulating translation during stress conditions in yeast.

February 05 , 2021

Uncovering de novo gene birth in yeast using deep transcriptomics

We investigated de novo gene evolution in baker's yeast using transcriptomics and ribosome profiling.

Mar Albà 's evolutionary genomics LAB

@ Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)