Associate Professor and the University of Bologna @robertofeuda.bsky.social
Joined January 2012
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4 Nov 2025
A productive month for the lab — between new preprints and papers!
Monoaminergic neurons evo and devo biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Opsin evolution in plankton
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Mosquito Cell Atlas (small contrib.)
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5 papers all computational biologists should read 🧵
1. A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects
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Does anyone have experience with the Gilson PipetMax 268 or 278, or any liquid handling robot, for combinatorial barcoding sci-RNA-seq/SPLiT-seq style workflows? We are interested in buying one for library prep automation. Any feedback welcome!
➡️ Reply or DM me!
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1/9 Interesting new paper by Kasalo, Domazet-Lošo et al. on amino acid biosynthesis & animal origins.
Some of the most energetically expensive amino acids became "outsourced" during early animal evolution rather than synthesized internally.
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We are recruiting 2 PhD students @ the University of Bologna to study neuron evolution in mosquitoes and non-bilaterian animals using single-cell genomics, and computational biology. Plus, Bologna is hard to beat scientifically and gastronomically. info: unibo.it/en/study/phd-profes…
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Apr 20
Interested in microRNAs, early animal evolution, and RNA biology? We’re recruiting a @BBSRC ‑funded Postdoctoral Research Associate @BristolUni.
Apply by 14 May 2026 👇
jobs.ac.uk/job/DRF997/resear…
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Apr 13
Very nice and timely paper on phylogenomic model choice.
Strong evidence that mixture models outperform homogeneous and partitioned approaches, with CAT-GTR showing robust performance across conditions.
Highly relevant for difficult phylogenetic problems. academic.oup.com/mbe/advance…
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Nel caso vi interessi: 90 minuti su occhi, origine ed evoluzione… e altre cose. Sì, solo 90 minuti
(it is in italian e grazie @abrainpod per l'invito )
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Jan 13
Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a FIS-3 Advanced Grant (ERC-inspired) to study the evolution of neurogenic GRNs.
Recruiting soon: 4 postdocs 3 PhDs
Press release in Italian — to decolonise scientific language 😄
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30 Oct 2025
🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in @CellCellPress! The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology: mosquitoes taste with their legs (more than we thought), glial cells (not neurons!) dramatically rewire after blood meal & males/females are nearly identical at the cellular level—with intriguing exceptions. Read it here: cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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17 Oct 2025
We have a fully funded PhD to study mosquito vision — combining single-cell genomics, evolutionary genomics & high-resolution imaging.
Discover how these tiny hunters see the world.
RP, apply and contact me if interested! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…
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14 Oct 2025
Interested in joining my lab to study the evolution and development of monoaminergic neurons?
You can now apply for the Giuseppe Levi Post-Doc Fellowship (2 years, Neurobiology, EU citizens).
Deadline: 10 Nov 2025 – 18:00
For more info selezionionline.lincei.it and email me!
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10 Oct 2025
Our latest: combining single-cell RNA-seq from 16 species and HCR validation, we show that monoaminergic neurons share a conserved transcriptional identity across Bilateria. In contrast, we find no evidence for this program in non-bilaterian metazoans. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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22 Aug 2025
Our latest: We optimized SPLiT-Seq for insect brains!
Check out our new protocol in Methods in Molecular Biology—tailored single-cell transcriptomics for insect neuroscience: link.springer.com/protocol/1…
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18 Aug 2025
Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study now out in @GenomeBiology! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians. doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-0…
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30 Jul 2025
To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept @embl has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab, great package: core funding, fantastic PhD students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues
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26 Jul 2025
How do insects hear?
In this preprint, we reveal a stunning 3D ultrastructure of the insect mechanosensory nerve ending. Then, through separate experiments, we show that axial stretch along its axis is the mechanism that activates the auditory neuron.
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22 Jul 2025
📢Glad to share our genome paper on an early-diverged cephalochordate species, Asymmetron lucayanum! By decoding & analyzing this genome in a comparative genomics framework, we know better now regarding the genome and gene evolution in cephalochordates.
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21 Jul 2025
Yes.
Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.
Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
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19 Jul 2025
Johnny Cash and John Denver perform "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in their only performance together (1978)
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