Alba Sala Huerta

PhD Student at @IRBBarcelona @orozco_lab - she/her

[IRB Barcelona @IRBBarcelona]

🔎🧬#IRBBarcelona researchers led by Dr. Modesto Orozco develop an innovative computational model to precisely predict the position of nucleosomes in the genome.

👉The approach combines #MachineLearning techniques, signal transmission theory, and the physical properties of DNA.

📰@NAR_Open

➡️https://t.co/yCJq3idJ2x

📌DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae689

#IRBScience

[IRB Barcelona @IRBBarcelona]

🪻🔬Have you ever seen "Nucleosome Flowers"?

📸This is #April's outstanding #ImageoftheMonth, by @sala_huerta, from @orozco_lab!

🐍It represents Nucleosome periodicity represented with #Python.

Happy April! 🌻🎋

#WeAreIRB

[Orozco Lab @orozco_lab]

🚨 Post-doc positions available at our lab 🚨

Apply to work with us on novel therapeutic modalities involving xeno-nucleic acids!

Send your CVs to 📭 [email protected]

Please RT 🙏

[Orozco Lab @orozco_lab]

We have PhD positions open in biomolecular simulations of 🧬 nucleic acids! Looking for candidates with a solid physics background, willing to combine applied molecular biophysics with methods development. If you're interested, send CVs to 📨 [email protected]

[IRB Barcelona @IRBBarcelona]

☝️ This is the first #ImageoftheMonth on our new calendar!

📸 "Changing a Point of View", by @sala_huerta (@orozco_lab): shows the transformation of square space from Cartesian to Polar coordinate system using generative diagrams in #Python.

Happy 2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣! 🎊🎉🎉

#WeAreIRB

[Orozco Lab @orozco_lab]

🚨 We are recruiting ‼️ two ‼️ post-doctoral fellows to work on the application of machine learning for the representation of biomolecular interactions and on the development of theoretical tools for the representation of chromatin. (1/5)

[Orozco Lab @orozco_lab]

In addition to the ML position advertised recently, we are also looking for prospective PhD students with experience in multiscale or atomistic MD simulations, computational chemistry and biophysics, or statistical mechanics to join our group at IRB Barcelona. 🧑‍🔬 (1/2)

[Orozco Lab @orozco_lab]

Hello computational world, we're looking for ambitious PhD students willing to work on the next generation of machine-learned force fields for molecular simulations! 🤖🧬

If you're interested, send your applications to ➡️[email protected] 📪

[IRB Barcelona @IRBBarcelona]

🪐Coneix l'univers que hi ha al darrera de cada imatge del calendari 2022 de l'#IRBBarcelona.

🔬Petites obres d'art sorgides de la ciència de les nostres investigadores i investigadors. Mai no has vist un calendari tan especial!

🏃‍♀️Afanya't, que volen!

➡️https://t.co/etWZG6GK6t

[IRB Barcelona @IRBBarcelona]

🪐 ¡Conoce el universo que se esconde detrás de cada imagen del calendario 2022 del #IRBBarcelona!

Pequeñas obras de arte salidas de la #ciencia de nuestr@s investigadores. Nunca has visto un calendario tan especial... 😍

¡Corre, que vuelan!

➡️https://t.co/8cGhhfh5tk

[Orozco Lab @orozco_lab]

@iCERCA, a system that brings together all Catalan research institutes, including IRB Barcelona, is celebrating its 10+1 years! They made special t-shirts to reflect the different disciplines studied at its centres. Let's celebrate together with our lab members! #JoSocReCERCAire

[Orozco Lab @orozco_lab]

Last days to participate in IRB's Open Week! Follow the thread 👇

[IRB Barcelona @IRBBarcelona]

📢¡La Semana de Puertas Abiertas del #IRBBarcelona empieza mañana!

¡No te pierdas nuestras actividades presenciales y online: visitas, #InstagramLive con nuestr@s científic@s, mesa redonda con expertos en #cáncerdemama y mucho➕!

➡️ https://t.co/wRBuhIwsiy

#ExperimentaIRB

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[Orozco Lab @orozco_lab]

You're into the biophysics of nucleic acids 🧬 and you've been thinking about a 🖥️ post-doc? Consider coming to beautiful and sunny Barcelona!☀️

If you believe you'd make a good fit in our lab, please send your CV to 👉 [email protected]

[ESCI-UPF @ESCIupf]

🗞️@alex6mo i @lauraserrar han entrevistat Alba @sala_huerta, estudiant de doctorat a l'@orozco_lab de l'@IRBBarcelona, per parlar de la seva trajectòria i el seu camp de recerca #ScienceBits #ESCIUPFNews
https://t.co/z8PIh8Qgsx

[Orozco Lab @orozco_lab]

Along with our @BioExcelCoE partners, we've kept pushing the limits of supercomputing to help us understand and fight SARS-CoV-2 for almost a year now. We've learned a lot along the way - and results are finally taking shape, so stay tuned for updates!

[IRB Barcelona @IRBBarcelona]

👩‍🔬Per què tants descobriments de #dones #científiques han quedat desterrats en l'oblit?

És l'#EfecteMatilda.

🛑 @twitamit_es les rescata amb @NoMoreMatildas, posant-les en el primer pla que mereixen i fomentant la vocació científica en les nenes👏👏👏

👇https://t.co/3mggwxgA0Q

[Alba Sala Huerta @sala_huerta]

@Marianne_deVr @trevmanz Tough call between that one and baby shark

[Alba Sala Huerta @sala_huerta]

@trevmanz Still prettyyyyyy prettyyyyy nice

[Alba Sala Huerta @sala_huerta]

@markowetzlab Thank you @markowetzlab for these three amazing months!