{"id":1125,"date":"2018-12-31T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanogaster.ibb-csic.info\/gonzalez_lab\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2019-01-25T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T07:49:07","slug":"2018-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanogaster.ibb-csic.info\/gonzalez_lab\/2018-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2018 was full of events, we would like to highlight the most positive ones!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Students awards and accomplishments<\/strong><br \/>\n\u272e Vivien Horvath, a 2nd year PhD student in the lab, won the Best Talk Award at the <em>XVIII Jornada de Biologia Evolutiva<\/em><br \/>\n\u272e Miriam Merenciano, a 3rd year PhD student in the lab, won the 3rd award at the<em> 1st IBE PhD symposium,<\/em> a <em>SMBE Travel award<\/em> to present her research at the SMBE annual meeting in Japan, and a <em>EMBO Short Term fellowship<\/em> to work with Philip Port on generating CRISPR mutants<br \/>\n\u272e Judit Salces, a postdoc fellow in the lab, was awarded a\u00a0<em>Juan de la Cierva<\/em> postdoc fellowship<br \/>\n\u272e Camillo Iacomettti succesfully defended his Master thesis at the University of Torino<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lab communication<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u272e We launched our new lab website: <a href=\"http:\/\/gonzalezlab.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/gonzalezlab.eu<\/a><br \/>\n\u272e We reached 1.000 Twitter followers:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GonzalezLab_BCN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GonzalezLab_BCN<\/a><br \/>\n\u272e We published three @biorxiv_evobio preprints, three journal publications, 2 publications ahead of print, we have two publications accepted, and five submitted manuscripts, in collaboration with Cristina Viera lab (U Lyon), Dmitri Petrov lab (Stanford University), Hadi Quesneville lab (URGI), and Diego Ayala lab (IRD).<br \/>\n\u272e We participated in 12 conferences, workshops &amp; seminars<\/p>\n<p><strong>Science outreach<\/strong><br \/>\n\u272e We are running the <em>Ciencia i Convivencia<\/em> project funded by the <em>Ajuntament de Barceolna<\/em><br \/>\n\u272e We are leading the citizen science project <em>Melanogaster catch the fly<\/em> funded by FECYT in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/lacienciaalteumon.cat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LCATM<\/a><br \/>\n\u272e We are part of the COST action <em>EuroScitizen<\/em> that aims at increasing evolutionary literacy in Europe<br \/>\n\u272e We are working on the production of a video to showcase our research on Anopheles in collaboration with Diego Ayala and <a href=\"http:\/\/lacienciaalteumon.cat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LCATM<\/a> funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/eseb.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESEB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Science networking<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u272e We have co-organized the first <a href=\"http:\/\/drogue.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DrosEU<\/a> summer school in Montpellier funded by the ESEB<br \/>\n\u272e Our Spanish Excellence Network <a href=\"http:\/\/adapnet.es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AdaptNet<\/a> was renewed by the Spanish goverment<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Institutional work<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u272e We have kick-started the <em>IBE PhD mentoring program<\/em> together with Elena Casacuberta, Marina Bras\u00f3 and Alex Mas<br \/>\n\u272e We have co-organized the <em>XVIII Jornada de Biologia Evolutiva<\/em> together with David Juan funded by the SCB<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2018 was full of events, we would like to highlight the most positive ones! 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