Alejandro Berrio Escobar

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Habemus Shiny

We’re excited to announce the deployment of a new interactive Shiny app designed to make exploring our single-cell RNA-seq datasets easier and more intuitive for all our echino-community. It has been built using the powerful Seurat framework in R and hosted on our Shiny Server, this app provides a user-friendly interface for researchers to: • …

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Wray and McClay labs at DBSUMI 2025

From April 2-5, 2025, our lab packed bags full of new data and headed to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, for the 28th Developmental Biology of Sea Urchins and other Marine Invertebrates (DBSUMI XXVIII) conference. This meeting was held at the famous Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). This gathering is an event for researchers studying the developmental biology …

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Dave and Alejo Take a Research Trip to Villefranche-sur-Mer

  With the purpose of understanding the mechanisms of sea urchin development, our researchers, Alejo and Dave, embarked on a four-week journey to the town of Villefranche-sur-Mer. They went to investigate the mechanisms of gene expression between the vegetal and animal sections of the sea urchin embryo of Paracentrotus lividus. This embryo has a pigmented …

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