Barcelona Collaboratorium
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The Barcelona Collaboratorium for Modelling & Predictive Biology is a joint initiative by @crg.eu & @embl.org, exploring biology's frontiers with computational and theoretical modeling to make systems predictable & controllable.
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!
Welcome back to the Collaboratorium!
September 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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!
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!
August 28, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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...
📢 Abstract submission deadline: 31 August
Register and learn more:
barcelonacollaboratorium.com/events/sympo...
July 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
⏳ 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...
📢 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
#CancerResearch #Biophysics #PRBB
July 2, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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
#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
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
June 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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
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
June 19, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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
Using the zebrafish heart, Rashmi showed how geometry, mechanics, and cellular adaptation shape robust organ development and regeneration.
#Morphogenesis #Biophysics #EMBL #PRBB
June 18, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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
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
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
June 12, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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
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
June 5, 2026 at 8:39 AM
👏 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
#BCNCollaboratorium #UniversityOfAmsterdam #AntimicrobialResistance
June 1, 2026 at 2:40 PM
👏 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
#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
Maths and Numbers in Biology: thematic sessions, poster presentations.
Register by June 8: mathsbio.iqs.url.edu
#BCNCOllaboratorium #SystemsBiology #ResearchEvent
May 29, 2026 at 10:51 AM
📢 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
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
#CollectiveIntelligence #ComplexSystems #StatisticalPhysics #BCNCollaboratorium #PRBB #UPF
May 29, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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
#CollectiveIntelligence #ComplexSystems #StatisticalPhysics #BCNCollaboratorium #PRBB #UPF
Reposted by Barcelona Collaboratorium
Out now in PLOS Computational Biology 🧬
We have an established theoretical framework for genotype–phenotype (GP) maps, describing their structural features and how those features shape evolution. But much of this assumes one discrete phenotype per genotype - which is often not true.
We have an established theoretical framework for genotype–phenotype (GP) maps, describing their structural features and how those features shape evolution. But much of this assumes one discrete phenotype per genotype - which is often not true.
May 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Out now in PLOS Computational Biology 🧬
We have an established theoretical framework for genotype–phenotype (GP) maps, describing their structural features and how those features shape evolution. But much of this assumes one discrete phenotype per genotype - which is often not true.
We have an established theoretical framework for genotype–phenotype (GP) maps, describing their structural features and how those features shape evolution. But much of this assumes one discrete phenotype per genotype - which is often not true.
How do evolving populations navigate complex fitness landscapes?
Find out more in our colleague @n-martin.bsky.social’s blackboard talk at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/compl...
#BCNCollaboratorium #fitnesslandscapes
Find out more in our colleague @n-martin.bsky.social’s blackboard talk at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/compl...
#BCNCollaboratorium #fitnesslandscapes
Nora Martin, CRG, Fitness landscapes and evolution
online.kitp.ucsb.edu
May 21, 2026 at 2:48 PM
How do evolving populations navigate complex fitness landscapes?
Find out more in our colleague @n-martin.bsky.social’s blackboard talk at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/compl...
#BCNCollaboratorium #fitnesslandscapes
Find out more in our colleague @n-martin.bsky.social’s blackboard talk at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/compl...
#BCNCollaboratorium #fitnesslandscapes
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...
Thanks @akhilesh-nandan.bsky.social for organizing!
Info: museuciencies.cat/en/exposicio...
May 21, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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...
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
#BCNCollaboratorium #Research #Science #EMBL #ScientificTalk #Networking
May 11, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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
#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
Thanks as well to Mafalda Dias (CRG) for hosting and to everyone who joined us.
#BCNCollaboratorium
May 7, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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
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).
7 May, 10:00 (PRBB, Barcelona)
Martin Weigt (Sorbonne Université) on modeling protein evolution using epistatic sequence landscapes.
Hosted by Mafalda Dias (CRG).
May 4, 2026 at 8:22 AM
🔬 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).
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
🧬Modeling Evolution in Empirical Epistatic Sequence Landscapes - May 7, 2025 at 10:00 CEST
#Collaboratorium #SeminarSeries #SystemsBiology #Evolution #ComputationalBiology
April 30, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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
🧬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
We had engaging discussions on reverse-engineering aging and pharmaco-biology approaches.
#BCNCollaboratorium #SeminarSeries #AgingResearch #SystemsB
April 30, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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
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. 🧪
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. 🧪
April 24, 2026 at 8:03 AM
🔬 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. 🧪
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.
Thanks as well to Nora Martin for hosting this seminar.
April 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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.
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
April 17, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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
Many thanks to Félix for this insightful seminar, hosted by Eric Latorre Crespo.
#BCNCollaboratorium
March 26, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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
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"
Access this preprint: "Using a simplified Rough Mount Fuji model to disentangle how multi-peaked fitness landscapes can be highly navigable"
🧵 New preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
In 2023, Papkou et al. reported an empirical fitness landscape with a striking property: >500 local optima ("peaks"), spanning both high and low fitness.
Despite this ruggedness, >75% of simulated adaptive walks reached the top ~14% of peaks.
In 2023, Papkou et al. reported an empirical fitness landscape with a striking property: >500 local optima ("peaks"), spanning both high and low fitness.
Despite this ruggedness, >75% of simulated adaptive walks reached the top ~14% of peaks.
doi.org
March 23, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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"
Access this preprint: "Using a simplified Rough Mount Fuji model to disentangle how multi-peaked fitness landscapes can be highly navigable"