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Microorganisms
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Cristiana Sigona (IBE): “Keep a beginner’s mind to be always ready to learn”
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Blai Vidiella (IBE): «Terraforming the Earth means fighting against the changes that humans have already caused in the planet»
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The origin of chromatin occurred between one and two billion years ago in microbes
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The intestinal microbiota as a shield against alcohol
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A database collects genomes of bacteria and their hosts for the development of antibiotics
![Abeoforma whisleri is a single-celled marine protist important in scientific research to understand the origins of animals. A. whisleri cells were transformed with plasmid DNA encoding a fluorescence protein to label the A. whisleri nuclei in green, enabling an experimental model systems team to better study the life cycle of this organism. | Picture by Sebastian. R Najle and Elena Casacuberta.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/protists_2000x1125px-398x224.jpg)
Researchers develop a set of genetic tools to study the origin of animals
![Increases in aridity such as those expected from climate change could dramatically alter and even endanger ecosystems in arid areas of our planet. | Picture by Parsing Eye from Unsplash.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Desert-Photo-by-Parsing-Eye-on-Unsplash-398x224.jpg)
A global map of the planet’s desertification
![Microomics, the second CRG spin-off, has just received two important grants.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Microomics-398x224.jpg)
Microomics: next-generation sequencing to analyze the microbiome
![Wolbachia bacteria uses a number of strategies to manipulate cockroach reproduction to its own benefit.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Txus_Calligrapha_IBE_2000x1125-398x224.jpg)
Studying the evolution of unisexuality in beetles
![Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, researcher at IBE, was the mission commander of the latest 'trip to Mars' in Astroland, where he collected environmental samples to analyse.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/astroland-2000x1125-398x224.jpg)
A scientific field trip to Mars… on Earth
![Choanoflagellates and friends: the unicellular organisms Salpingoeca rosetta (Arielle Woznica and Nicole King, UC Berkeley), Capsaspora owczarzaki (Helena Parra and Núria Ros, IBE) and Sphaeroforma arctica (Omaya Dudin, IBE) were some of the protagonists of this conference.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/foto-choanoflagelats-398x224.jpg)