Barcelona Collaboratorium

On Thursday, 29 October 2026 at 10:00, Maria Bruna (University of Oxford) will present "From hard needles to active rods: Excluded-volume effects in anisotropic particle systems". The seminar will be hosted by @n-martin.bsky.social Nora Martin (CRG – Collaboratorium).

A big thank you to Rubén Pérez-Carrasco from Imperial College London for his fascinating seminar at the Collaboratorium today! Thank you for sharing your exciting research and insights with us! #Collaboratorium #SystemsBiology #Seminar #Research

At #OpenPRBB last week, visitors solved a puzzle to discover how evolutionary models rely on fitness landscapes, and why the @n-martin.bsky.social Lab uses mathematics and simulations to explore them. Thanks to everyone who braved the thunderstorms to join us!

We had a wonderful symposium this year! On 28–29 September, the Barcelona Collaboratorium’s “Biological Time: From Molecules to Evolution” symposium brought us together in Barcelona at the brand-new, very comfortable MareNostrum Auditorium and Collaboratorium offices.

Jordi García-Ojalvo explored today how both multicellular organisms and simpler life forms such as bacteria use collective strategies to respond to their environment, that is a compelling perspective on the fundamental principles of living systems. Welcome back to the Collaboratorium!

We are delighted to launch a new season of the Barcelona Collaboratorium Seminar Series with our Senior Fellow Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, from Pompeu Fabra University, hosted by James Sharpe. Join us next Thursday!

⏳ How does biology keep time? Join us in Barcelona on 28–29 September 2026 for the symposium "Biological Time: From Molecules to Evolution". 📢 Abstract submission deadline: 31 August Register and learn more: barcelonacollaboratorium.com/events/sympo...

Thank you to Miguel Bernabeu and host Kristina Haase for today's Collaboratorium Seminar. A fascinating talk on how tumour vascular architecture shapes red blood cell transport, oxygen delivery and hypoxia in glioblastoma. #CancerResearch #Biophysics #PRBB

Thank you, Brooke Derrington, for your presentation! We had the opportunity to learn more about your work and studies comparing public health policies in Mexico, Spain, and the United States. #BCNCollaboratorium #PublicHeatlh

Maths and Numbers in Biology 🔬📊 brought together researchers from across Barcelona to explore how maths and modelling advance biology, from molecules to development. Thanks to all speakers, participants and IQSBarcelona for hosting! #MathsInBiology #BarcelonaCollaboratorium

Thank you to Rashmi Priya and host Alejandro Sanchez for today's Collaboratorium Seminar. Using the zebrafish heart, Rashmi showed how geometry, mechanics, and cellular adaptation shape robust organ development and regeneration. #Morphogenesis #Biophysics #EMBL #PRBB

Thank you to Martin Lercher for your Seminar yesterday. Martin showed how mechanistic models of microbial growth and AI-based prediction of molecular interactions can be combined to uncover fundamental principles of cellular function. #SystemsBiology #ComputationalBiology #AI #Collaboratorium

Still a few days to register!! #BCNCollaboratorium #IQS #Mathsandbiology

👏 Welcome to Burak Demirbas, visiting fellow from the University of Amsterdam for two months at the BCN Collaboratorium. His work explores antimicrobial resistance evolution in Candida albicans using computational modeling. #BCNCollaboratorium #UniversityOfAmsterdam #AntimicrobialResistance

📢 Join us and @n-martin.bsky.social on June 17 at IQS Barcelona for a full day of mathematics, modelling and biology. Maths and Numbers in Biology: thematic sessions, poster presentations. Register by June 8: mathsbio.iqs.url.edu #BCNCOllaboratorium #SystemsBiology #ResearchEvent

Thank you to Carmen Miguel (@uni-barcelona) for an excellent Collaboratorium Seminar yesterday, hosted by Artemy Kolchinsky (UPF): Exploring how collective intelligence emerges from local interactions,. #CollectiveIntelligence #ComplexSystems #StatisticalPhysics #BCNCollaboratorium #PRBB #UPF

A wonderful visit with the Collaboratorium to the exhibition The Invention of Time at the Ciutadella, guided by @ricardsole.bsky.social — Senior Fellow of the Collaboratorium and curator of the exhibition. Thanks @akhilesh-nandan.bsky.social for organizing! Info: museuciencies.cat/en/exposicio...

Our new visitor at the Collaboratorium (Meike Wortel’s group - CRG/UVA) gave us the pleasure of presenting his research this afternoon! Thanks to Coen Berns. #BCNCollaboratorium #Research #Science #EMBL #ScientificTalk #Networking

Thank you to Martin Weigt (Sorbonne Université) for a stimulating seminar at the Collaboratorium on protein evolution, epistasis, and generative models! Thanks as well to Mafalda Dias (CRG) for hosting and to everyone who joined us. #BCNCollaboratorium

🔬 Seminar @ Collaboratorium 7 May, 10:00 (PRBB, Barcelona) Martin Weigt (Sorbonne Université) on modeling protein evolution using epistatic sequence landscapes. Hosted by Mafalda Dias (CRG).

We are pleased to announce our upcoming seminar featuring Martin Weigt (Sorbonne Université, Paris). 🧬Modeling Evolution in Empirical Epistatic Sequence Landscapes - May 7, 2025 at 10:00 CEST #Collaboratorium #SeminarSeries #SystemsBiology #Evolution #ComputationalBiology

Thank you to Leon Peshkin (Harvard Medical School) for his inspiring visit to the Collaboratorium, enriched with a certain touch of humor today! We had engaging discussions on reverse-engineering aging and pharmaco-biology approaches. #BCNCollaboratorium #SeminarSeries #AgingResearch #SystemsB

🔬 Our next Seminar at the Collaboratorium: 30 Apr, 09:00 (PRBB, Barcelona) Leon Peshkin (Harvard) on reverse-engineering aging via pharmaco-biology & model organisms. Hosted by Jeremy Gunawardena (Collab-UPF). Access by registration only for non members of the PRBB. 🧪

Thank you to Pau Formosa-Jordan for an excellent seminar on plant multicellular dynamics, from cellular patterning to developmental transitions. Thanks as well to Nora Martin for hosting this seminar.

Join our next Collaboratorium Seminar on 23 April, 10:00 at PRBB, Barcelona. Pau Formosa-Jordan (Max Planck Institute) will speak on plant multicellular dynamics and Arabidopsis development. Hosted by Nora Martin. #Collaboratorium

We were delighted to welcome Félix Campelo (UPF) to the Collaboratorium Seminar Series on 26 March for a talk on the biophysical principles of ER cargo export. Many thanks to Félix for this insightful seminar, hosted by Eric Latorre Crespo. #BCNCollaboratorium

Kye Hunter and @n-martin.bsky.social from the Collaboratorium have some results to share! Access this preprint: "Using a simplified Rough Mount Fuji model to disentangle how multi-peaked fitness landscapes can be highly navigable"

We were pleased to welcome Thomas Surrey (CRG) to today’s Collaboratorium seminar. His talk offered a compelling perspective on mitotic spindle architecture through minimal self-organizing microtubule networks. Thank you, Thomas. Hosted by our Senior Fellow Eric Latorre! #BCNCollaboratorium

Thomas Surrey (CRG) at the Barcelona Collaboratorium, 19 March: bipolar spindle self-organization in cell division. Join us for this seminar!!

Welcome Pietro Gadaleta! Pietro is a sabbatical visitor at the Collaboratorium until June. He is working on ecological feedbacks in the evolution of antibiotic resistance in E. coli, using mathematical modelling. #BCNCollaboratorium

Today, Meike Wortel (Univ. of Amsterdam) gave a clear and thought-provoking dive into a central question in microbial ecology and evolution: how can multiple species — and even very closely related genotypes — coexist over time despite strong competitive pressure? Hosted by @n-martin.bsky.social !

📅 26/02 | Meike Wortel (U Amsterdam/Collaboratorium) on frequency-dependent selection — trade-offs sustaining microbial diversity. Join us at the Collaboratorium! This year our seminar series is a success: come and you will meet the community, create synergies. #Microbiome #BCNCOllaboratorium

Jeremy Green’s seminar today (King’s College London), hosted by James Sharpe (Head of EMBL Barcelona), was a real success. See you next week with Meike Wortel (University of Amsterdam). #BCNCollaboratorium #EMBLBarcelona #CRG #SeminarSeries #SystemsBiology #DevelopmentalBiology

Thu 19 Feb 2026, 10:00: Collaboratorium Seminar Series: Jeremy Green (KCL) “Nematics and Dipoles in Embryonic Self-Organisation”, hosted by James Sharpe (EMBL BCN). #Morphogenesis

This year’s #EMBLDataCarpentry course is taking place across two hubs, so here are a few highlights from our Barcelona Collaboratorium location 📸

Join us for the second edition of 'AI and biology'! 🤖🧬 Explore how AI transforms biological research – from foundation models for biology to generative modelling. 10 – 13 March 2026 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual Submit your abstract by 2 Dec: s.embl.org/ees26-02-bl #EESAIBio #AI

🎙️To mark World Science Day, we ask: What does it really mean to understand a living cell? In this #PRBBPodcast #ScienceWithAView episode, Alfondo MartinezArias and Vikas Trivedi explore the mysteries inside cells 🧬 and the art of great research supervision. 🎧Listen here 👉 https://tuit.cat/T7ueI

Today’s talk was a visual feast and genuinely fascinating. Gratitude to Dr. @Tim Liebisch and Prof. Franziska Matthäus for closing on a high note. “From images to mechanisms: quantitative analysis and modeling of multicellular systems” #BCNCollaboratorium #Imaging #Modeling #MulticellularSystems

This morning we hosted David Brückner (Biozentrum, Univ. Basel) — chaired by James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona) — for a tour of self-organization in development via dynamical systems + information theory, with concrete case studies on organoids and gastruloids.

En un món ple de dades i titulars cridaners, cal una mirada analítica per interpretar-los amb criteri. Com podem, doncs, aprendre a llegir les dades amb pensament crític? Activitat gratuïta amb inscripció: www.crg.eu/en/event/cor... @noeliaferruz.bsky.social @jamesasharpe.bsky.social

🧬 How do cells know what shape to take? Join us ar at the Barcelona Collaboratorium to meet David Brückner (Biozentrum Basel) on information flow in self-organized developmental systems. 🗓️ 6 Nov – 10:00 CEST

Today, Timothy Saunders (University of Warwick) explored how complex 3D structure emerges in skeletal muscle — revealing chiral twists, cell rearrangements and glass-like transitions shaping organ morphogenesis! Timothy was hosted by James Sharpe. #EMBL #CRG #Collaboratorium

Thank you to Anne-Florence Bitbol (Lausanne) for her inspiring seminar at the BCN Collaboratorium! Today was on how protein language models reveal coevolution, generate new proteins, and map interactions across the tree of life. 🧬#BCNCollaboratorium #Bioinformatics

Fancy a trip to scenic Barcelona? ☀️ Or maybe to historic Heidelberg? 🏰 You're in luck: #EMBLDataCarpentry lets you combine hands-on data carpentry training with the destination of your choice. Apply by 27 Oct 👉 s.embl.org/dtc26-01-bl 📆 2 – 6 Feb 🌍 EMBL Heidelberg and @barcelonacollaboratorium.com