Roberto Feuda

Associate Professor and the University of Bologna @robertofeuda.bsky.social

[Roberto Feuda @RobertoFeuda]

A productive month for the lab — between new preprints and papers!

Monoaminergic neurons evo and devo https://t.co/N1gPXTGB3D

https://t.co/sxakVt7zKA

Opsin evolution in plankton
https://t.co/vAKn2CwV1F

Mosquito Cell Atlas (small contrib.)
https://t.co/ciNJe1G8jp

[Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome]

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.
🧵
https://t.co/6IRqoouGg6

[Roberto Feuda @RobertoFeuda]

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: https://t.co/smg2vtmbrR

[Vengamanaidu M @Venky_MVN]

Interested in microRNAs, early animal evolution, and RNA biology? We’re recruiting a @BBSRC ‑funded Postdoctoral Research Associate @BristolUni.
Apply by 14 May 2026 👇
https://t.co/SR9e15mazk

[Roberto Feuda @RobertoFeuda]

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. https://t.co/e0KHBu67Kz

[Roberto Feuda @RobertoFeuda]

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 )
https://t.co/bN9CYl5CfR

[Roberto Feuda @RobertoFeuda]

@atitheb thank you!

[Roberto Feuda @RobertoFeuda]

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 😄
https://t.co/d03ZCZqtuM

[Nadav Shai @nadavshai]

🦟 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: https://t.co/Al71BarC4T

[Roberto Feuda @RobertoFeuda]

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! https://t.co/Q7AoDBiYo5

[Roberto Feuda @RobertoFeuda]

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 https://t.co/72ofdum091 and email me!

[Roberto Feuda @RobertoFeuda]

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. https://t.co/N1gPXTH8Tb

[Roberto Feuda @RobertoFeuda]

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: https://t.co/LMbQLFTdfz

[Yi-Jyun Luo @YJ_Luo]

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. https://t.co/09ZAyDMnzC

[Eileen Furlong @Eileen_Furlong]

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
https://t.co/suXvTWjVaP

[Atitheb Chaiyasitdhi @atitheb]

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.

https://t.co/UFtmi2adAR

[EvomicsLab @EvomicsLab]

📢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.
https://t.co/5DIxohkIV7

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

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.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Johnny Cash and John Denver perform "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in their only performance together (1978)

[Steve Kelly @Steve__Kelly]

It has been a while… but an updated, faster & more accurate version of OrthoFinder is now out!

Scales to thousands of species on conventional compute resources with higher accuracy than ever before and the same data rich fully phylogenetic outputs

👉https://t.co/VivnkqSyKs