Francisco Falcon

Bioinformatics Enthusiast. PhD at the IMP, part of Vienna BioCenter

[Alejandro Burga @arburga]

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? 🤔This paradox concerns a wide range of protein complexes: if protein A needs B to function, and B needs A, how did the ‘loop’ begin? In our latest preprint, we explore this dilemma through the lens of what we 🩷 most—genetic conflict

[Peter Gao @PlanetaryGao]

whenever I have to send one of my python scripts to someone else

[Alex de Mendoza @deMendoza_Alex]

This position is now re-advertised until June 16th. Please share or apply!

[Alex de Mendoza @deMendoza_Alex]

We have a 2y postdoc position open in my group. The profile is quite broad, from bioinformatics to molecular biology. If you are interested in giant virus endogenization, EvoDevo, epigenetics and evolution, do apply and gent in touch. Please RT. Details: https://t.co/RXzmujXP1i

[Katharina Lust @LustKatharina]

I am very excited to share our latest manuscript on the axolotl nervous system. We established the use of adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) to perform circuit tracing in the axolotl brain and retina: https://t.co/OTlsURssHX with @Tanaxolotl @IMPVienna

[Francisco Falcon @FcoJFalcon]

@Evol_Molly @wellcometrust Seems like the link is not complete. Here is the full ad :) https://t.co/ca6OyRDZlQ

[Francisco Balzarotti @BalzarottiFran]

I'm excited to announce a Postdoc position in my group at @IMPvienna!

If you're all about instrumentation, software dev, super-resolution and single molecule studies and you're driven by innovation in optics and biology, I'd love to see your application!

https://t.co/lsgOv2G56Z

[Leo Otsuki @LeoOtsuki]

Very happy to share our manuscript on positional memory, in which we ask how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury.
https://t.co/shd1dXgR1a
A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura and Elly Tanaka @Tanaxolotl @IMPvienna!
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[Francisco Falcon @FcoJFalcon]

@Pabster212 gggenomes

[Francisco Falcon @FcoJFalcon]

@IntiOmics NextSeq? 🙃

[Francisco Falcon @FcoJFalcon]

@IntiOmics @illumina Nova-seq X ?

[Maya Voichek @MayaVoichek]

If Darwin's finches were transposons, and the Galapagos islands were the Drosophila ovary, this cool new paper is all about the diversification of their beaks!🦜Congratulations Kirsten, @juliusbrennecke and all co-authors for this tour-de-force! 🥳👏
https://t.co/ZLBG2n57YM

[IMBA imbavienna.bsky.social @IMBA_Vienna]

‼️ Breakthrough in evolutionary genetics ‼️

#Virus-like #transposons wage war on the species barrier 🧬🦠🪱🐠🪼 An all-IMBA paper #JustPublished in @ScienceMagazine

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/urXInQ713u

IMBA's Burga Lab @arburga with co-first authors @SonyaWiden & @CampoBes nail down a vector of #HorizontalGeneTransfer (#HGT) in eukaryotes:

The "culprits" are called #Mavericks - Ancient virus-like transposable elements

@viennabiocenter @TrainingVbc @oeaw

Link to the paper in Science ➡️ https://t.co/NX6IxAOC89

More on the Burga Lab's research ➡️ https://t.co/6YKmA5cXK0

Congratulations to all authors: Sonya Widen, Israel Campo Bes, Alevtina Koreshova, Pinelopi Pliota, Daniel Krogull & Alejandro Burga on this groundbreaking work 🎉🎊

[Francisco Falcon @FcoJFalcon]

Giant genomes? Transposable elements? Check out our review on how recent advances might help us understand how animals transitioned from water to land. Written by @DiegoRTerrones, @Tanaxolotl and myself :).

[Diego Rodriguez-Terrones @DiegoRTerrones]

Excited to see that our review on the genome dynamics 🧬 of the vertebrate water-to-land transition 🐠➡️🦎 is out now in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development !

@FcoJFalcon @Tanaxolotl @IMPvienna

https://t.co/Fs4mOAiizD

[Leon Eyrich Jessen @jessenleon]

In #Bioinformatics, we train years and years and years to be able to do really complicated bio #dataScience in not that long time. So if I run an analysis and deliver results which goes in the #research paper, then yes, I do expect a co-authorship (1/n)

[Alejandro Burga @arburga]

Bioinformatician - Job alert: Are you passionate about genomics, development and evolution? Please consider this joint position with amazing colleagues @jwjach and @NRivron

[Francisco Falcon @FcoJFalcon]

@rm0sher @TransposableMan @GIRInst_org Otherwise I would try and manually annotate them with a self alignment in blast (looking for inverted repeats), a global search maybe using blastx and maybe using a protein domain search (https://t.co/mcoLh3oL3x) (2/2)

[Francisco Falcon @FcoJFalcon]

@rm0sher @TransposableMan @GIRInst_org DFAM has a search engine that could probably work, although I couldn't find any plant annotations in there. Another option but limited is using RepeatExplorer through their Galaxy pipeline (tutorial included) https://t.co/plj5Nt1uHQ. (1/2)

[Francisco Falcon @FcoJFalcon]

Amazing work by @tbrown91 and @egypsci assembling Pleurodeles genome. Undoubtedly a very valuable resource for salamander researchers and evolution aficionados. Congratulations to all authors! :)

[TheYunLab @MaxYunLab]

And it is finally out: Proud to present our giant P.waltl genome assembly: https://t.co/dGX3141dk0 with @asimonstockholm @niche_leigh @DcGenomeCenter Huge tx to all authors and collaborators! @CRTDpress @mpicbg @PoLDresden

[Leo Otsuki @LeoOtsuki]

Four posters from ⁦@Tanaxolotl⁩ lab at today’s #ISDB2021 poster session!! For development, evo-geno and regeneration in axolotl and mouse: 🏃‍♀️🏃🌪 posters 233 (⁦@Fernand75413566⁩), 360 (⁦@FcoJFalcon⁩), 365 (⁦@Nasechkas⁩) and 389 (⁦@LeoOtsuki⁩) 🦎🐭🙌