Isabel Almudí Cabrero

Investigadora programa Beatriz Galindo

Scopus Author ID: 25930802100

Board member of the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology (SESBE)

Research group: EvoDevo-CAT

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística Edifici Prevosti, Av. Diagonal, 643
+34 934021148
ialmudi(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Evolution and Development (Master in Genetics and Genomics)

Developmental Biology (discussion groups)

Genetics (lab)

Academic Training

Biologia . Universitat de Barcelona . 2004 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Biologia . Universitat de Barcelona . 21/10/2009 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Understanding the origin of a new visual system

Adaptations to aquatic and aerial environments

The origin of wings in insects

Phenotypic plasticity in mayflies

Projects

The evolution of new organs during insects conquest of the sky (mayFLYeye) . 2023 - 2028 . Ref.101043751 . Unió Europea . PI: Isabel Almudi Cabrero

La conquista del cielo: el origen de las alas en insectos . 2021 - 2022 . Ref.IN[21]_CMA_BIO_0056 . Fundación Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) . PI: Isabel Almudi Cabrero

Los nuevos ojos de las efímeras como modelo para entender el origen, función y el potencial adaptativo de las novedades morfológicas . 2021 - 2024 . Ref.PID2020-116041GB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Isabel Almudi Cabrero

H2020-MSCA-IF-2014_ST (Marie Sklodowska-Curie) EvoNovo 657732 . 2016 - 2018 . Ref.657732 . Comisión Europea . PI: Isabel Almudí, Fernando Casares

Ayudas para Incentivar la Consolidación Investigadora 2023: ENTENDIENDO LAS BASES DE LA QUIMIOPERCEPCION EN EL AGUA: LAS BRANQUIAS DE INSECTOS ACUATICOS COMO ORGANOS QUIMIOSENSORIALES . 2024 - 2026 . Ref.CNS2023-145403 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Isabel Almudi Cabrero

Journal Publications

Almudi, Isabel; Vizueta, Joel; Wyatt, Christopher D. R.; de Mendoza, Alex; Marletaz, Ferdinand; Firbas, Panos N.; Feuda, Roberto; Masiero, Giulio; Medina, Patricia; Alcaina-Caro, Ana; Cruz, Fernando; Gomez-Garrido, Jessica; Gut, Marta; Alioto, Tyler S.; Vargas-Chavez, Carlos; Davie, Kristofer; Misof, Bernhard; Gonzalez, Josefa; Aerts, Stein; Lister, Ryan; Paps, Jordi; Rozas, Julio; Sanchez-Gracia, Alejandro; Irimia, Manuel; Maeso, Ignacio; Casares, Fernando (2020). Genomic adaptations to aquatic and aerial life in mayflies and the origin of insect wings. Nature Communications, 11(2631) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2041-1723

Isabel Almudi; Carlos A Martín-Blanco; Isabel M García-Fernandez; Adrián López-Catalina; Kristofer Davie; Stein Aerts; Fernando Casares (2019). Establishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution. Evodevo . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2041-9139

Pedro Gaspar; Isabel Almudi; Maria DS Nunes; Alistair P McGregor (2018). Human eye conditions: insights from the fly eye. Human Genetics . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-018-1948-2 . ISSN: 0340-6717

Montserrat Torres-Oliva; Isabel Almudi; Alistair P McGregor; Nico Posnien (2016). A robust (re-) annotation approach to generate unbiased mapping references for RNA-seq-based analyses of differential expression across closely related species. Bmc Genomics . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-2646-x . ISSN: 1471-2164

Maarten Hilbrant; Isabel Almudi; Daniel J Leite; Linta Kuncheria; Nico Posnien; Maria DS Nunes; Alistair P McGregor (2014). Sexual dimorphism and natural variation within and among species in the Drosophila retinal mosaic. BMC Evolutionary Biology . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0240-x . ISSN: 1471-2148

Isabel Almudi; Ingrid Poernbacher; Ernst Hafen; Hugo Stocker (2013). The Lnk/SH2B adaptor provides a fail-safe mechanism to establish the Insulin receptor-Chico interaction. Cell Communication and Signaling . https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-811X-11-26 . ISSN: 1478-811X

Saad Arif; Sophie Murat; Isabel Almudi; Maria DS Nunes; Diane Bortolamiol-Becet; Naomi S McGregor; James MS Currie; Harri Hughes; Matthew Ronshaugen; Élio Sucena; Eric C Lai; Christian Schlötterer; Alistair P McGregor (2013). Evolution of mir-92a Underlies Natural Morphological Variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.02.018 . ISSN: 0960-9822

Almudi, I.; Corominas, M.; Serras, F. (2010). Competition between SOCS36E and Drk modulates Sevenless receptor tyrosine kinase activity. Journal of Cell Science, 123, pp. 3857 - 3862 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0021-9533

Almudí, I.; Stocker, H.; Hafen, E.; Corominas, M.; Serras, F. (2009). SOCS36E specifically interferes with Sevenless signaling during Drosophila eye development. Developmental Biology, 326(1), pp. 212 - 223 . ISSN: 0012-1606

Orathai Kamsoi; Alba Ventos-Alfonso; Fernando Casares; Isabel Almudi; Xavier Belles (2021). Regulation of metamorphosis in neopteran insects is conserved in the paleopteran Cloeon dipterum (Ephemeroptera). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0027-8424

Others Publications

Fernando Casares; Isabel Almudi (2016). Fast and Furious 800. The Retinal Determination Gene Network in Drosophila . In Organogenetic Gene Networks . Springer . https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-42767-6_4

Isabel Almudi; Juan Pascual-Anaya (2019). How Do Morphological Novelties Evolve? Novel Approaches to Define Novel Morphologies . In Old Questions and Young Approaches to Animal Evolution . Springer . https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-18202-1_6

Almudi, I. (2020). Mayflies: an emergent model to investigate the evolution of winged insects . Company of Biologists . https://thenode.biologists.com/mayflies-an-emergent-model-to-investigate-the-evolution-of-winged-insects/research/

Almudi, I. (2020). Mayflies take off: a new model to study insect evolution . Springer Nature . https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/mayflies-take-off-a-new-model-to-study-insect-evolution?channel_id=521-behind-the-paper

Almudi, I. (2019). Maria Sibylla Merian, la científica que dibujó la vida de los insectos . Universidad Pablo de Olavide . https://www.upo.es/diario/11-febrero/2019/02/maria-sibylla-merian-la-cientifica-que-dibujo-la-vida-de-los-insectos/

Relevant Activities

Recommender (tareas Editoriales) de Peer Community In Zoology

Recommender (tareas Editoriales) de Peer Community In Genomics

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