Alejandro Burga

@arburga

A.d.i.d.a.s. All day I dream about science. Group Leader at @IMBA_Vienna. Genomics & evolution. Peruano.

Vienna, Austria imba.oeaw.ac.at/research/aleja… Joined December 2011

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Alejandro Burga @arburga Nov 24, 2024

Looking for gift ideas for the holidays? 📚🎄 Great selection of books for kids about Darwin and Evolution. It's never too "early" to get started :) Thanks @b_mandl !

Benedikt Mandl @b_mandl Nov 24, 2024

I don’t believe in evolution.

#OnThisDay in #1859, Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species”. Suddenly, humankind held the key to understand the thread that runs through all life on Earth. There is nothing to believe about evolution: either you know about it, or not.

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Alejandro Burga @arburga Oct 22, 2024

Another "textbook" finding from the @PauliGroup! Congrats Andi and all the team once again :)

Alejandro Burga @arburga Oct 22, 2024

wow! incredible observation and implications for theevolution of multicellular organisms!

Alex Bisson @Archaeon_Alex Oct 21, 2024

This story started 5y ago with my lab. Spearheaded by fearless 1st authors @theopi and Olivia Leland. Theopi is now a PhD student at @BrownUniversity. Olivia is a physics PhD student at @BrandeisU, a self-taught biologist, and made us love soft matter. A (very long) thread (1/24)

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Alejandro Burga @arburga Oct 7, 2024

Amazing news! Congratulations to @gary_ruvkun and Victor Ambros! The power (and beauty) of nematode genetics :)

The Nobel Prize Verified account @NobelPrize Oct 7, 2024

BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

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Alejandro Burga @arburga Sep 20, 2024

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? 🤔This paradox concerns a wide range of protein complexes: if protein A needs B to function, and B needs A, how did the ‘loop’ begin? In our latest preprint, we explore this dilemma through the lens of what we 🩷 most—genetic conflict