Group Leader of the Computational RNA Biology Lab
Joined September 2010
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1/ Excited to share our new paper in PNAS! 🌱
How does a plant decide which RNA isoform to make?
We show that Arabidopsis SF1 rewires 3′ splice-site choice in vivo, shaping alternative splicing programs that impact both the circadian clock and immunity.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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Great talk from an incredible scientist at Ribored! #RiboRed2026
Second scientific session started with Myriam Gorospe's keynote speech. Thanks for joining our meeting to share your latest research in RNA regulation
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Second scientific session started with Myriam Gorospe's keynote speech. Thanks for joining our meeting to share your latest research in RNA regulation
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RiboRed Meeting 2026 is about to start! Follow us to keep updated during these amazing days
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Our first scientific session topic is "Therapeutic RNAs and RNA in disease". Our speakers have covered several diseases and innovative treatments. Thanks to all of them!
Marc Talló-Parra, Lorea Blázquez, Aarón Ramirez, Ángela Pérez and Julián Valero.
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Uciel retweeted
May 13
RiboRed 2026 begins! Great openning talk from Rory Johnson in lncRNAs
First keynote talk has held by Dr. Rory Johnson. Thanks for your attendance to our meeting and your engaging speech about lncRNAs architecture
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Uciel retweeted
Apr 14
(1/2) Interested in plant evolution? We are opening two PhD positions in my lab at QGG - Aarhus University, where you will combine comparative genomics and machine learning to better understand and improve crop traits. #PlantSciJob #evolution #genomics
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Proud to be part of this collaboration with such an amazing team!
We investigated how food acts not just as nutrition but as a carrier of stable informational molecules. Findings show human milk sRNAs can modulate cellular stress responses.
Human milk contains a previously underappreciated layer of stable extracellular RNAs.
Our new study in non-coding RNA @MDPIOpenAccess explores their abundance, stability, and biological activity under stress.
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The Spanish RNA Society (RIBORED) is officially here!
Led by Alfredo Berzal, Encarna Martínez-Salas and Carles Suñé Negre. Visit our web to know more about us and follow our new social media channels to catch updates.
#RiboRed2026 #RNA #RNAbiology #RNAspain
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Uciel retweeted
30 Sep 2025
Here we use In-cell NMR to study degradation of misfolded proteins in the periplasm of live bacterial cells 👇👇
A fun project with @TatoVila_1962
@rpierattelli, FJH y LJG!
@IBR_CONICET @Plabem1 @cerm_cirmmp @fbioyfunr
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Excited to share our latest advances in RNA structural discovery at Harvard Medical School, with my kids there to share the moment.
Huge thanks to Fede and @silvirouskin for the invitation and their expert feedback! it was truly inspiring.
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30 Sep 2025
Among the pioneers in discovering and characterizing light sensing and physiological responses in bacterial chemotrophic pathogens such as Acinetobacter baumannii, we now show that these microorganisms exhibit light-modulated circadian rhythms.
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Uciel retweeted
8 Sep 2025
Large language models are reshaping the way we do science, but how well do they actually understand plant molecular biology?
➡️We created MoBiPlant to answer this.
📝Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
💾Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/manu…
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8 Sep 2025
🪴 🤖 New preprint: What do LLMs know about Plant Molecular Biology?
Take a look at MoBiPlant, our new benchmark to measure LLMs performance built by more than 100 plant scientist from 19 countries!
More info in this thread 👇
x.com/manuFernandezBu/status…
8 Sep 2025
Large language models are reshaping the way we do science, but how well do they actually understand plant molecular biology?
➡️We created MoBiPlant to answer this.
📝Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
💾Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/manu…
(Thread below)
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Uciel retweeted
8 Sep 2025
🌱🧬New preprint: What do LLMs know about Plant Molecular Biology?
Take a look at MoBiPlant, our new benchmark to measure LLMs performance built by more than 100 plant scientists from 19 countries! Amazing collaboration! 🚀
More info in this thread 👇 x.com/manuFernandezBu/status…
8 Sep 2025
Large language models are reshaping the way we do science, but how well do they actually understand plant molecular biology?
➡️We created MoBiPlant to answer this.
📝Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
💾Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/manu…
(Thread below)
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Uciel retweeted
13 Aug 2025
Riboswitches are super cool and the next frontier in RNA therapeutics !
13 Aug 2025
#Guanidine was known since the 1870s to affect muscle function. Vertebrates have guanidine-sensing #riboswitch RNAs linked to genes relevant to muscle disorders, including some for Ca2 signaling and others relevant to #ataxia symptoms. @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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3 Aug 2025
🚨 Buscamos candidatxs para postular a beca doctoral CONICET 2025
🌱 Tema: Regulación del crecimiento en plantas
📍 IBR Rosario | Dirige: Dr. Ramiro Rodríguez
🔬 Genética, genómica, biol. molecular y celular
📩 rrodriguez@ibr-conicet.gov.ar
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Happy to share that our lab got funded through Spain’s PID2024 call!! We'll be exploring how RNA structure, not just sequence, shapes lncRNA function across evolution.
Congrats to those selected, and strength to those who weren’t in this highly competitive process.
29 Jul 2025
Publicamos la Propuesta de Resolución Provisional de la convocatoria Proyectos Generación de Conocimiento 2024 (#PID2024).
✅ Dotación histórica de 667M de euros ( 2% que el año anterior).
✅ Se han presentado 7.190 solicitudes.
🆕 Informe interactivo para buscar ayudas por comunidades autónomas.
👉aei.gob.es/noticias/propuest…
🗣️ José Manuel Fernández de Labastida, director de la #AEI: "Gracias a todo el personal investigador que ha participado en esta convocatoria, a los colaboradores y colaboradoras científicas de la AEI y a su personal. Ha sido un arduo trabajo para las 55 comisiones técnicas que han seleccionado las mejores propuestas. Su labor, junto con la de los más de 8.000 evaluadores y evaluadoras, ha quedado plasmada en los aproximadamente 37.600 informes de evaluación elaborados."
#FondoEuropeoDeDesarrolloRegional
#FondoSocialEuropeoPlus
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