Our research in a nutshell
A keystone gene shapes food-web stability
This video summarizes the paper lead by postdoc Matt Barbour showing that a gene involved in a plant’s chemical defense against herbivores has a disproportionate effect in the stability of an entire food web (Science 2022).
The origin of the eukaryotic cell as a phase transition
This article in the international version of the Spanish newspaper El País highlights the findings by Jordi and colleagues Enrique Muro, Fernando Ballesteros, and Bartolo Luque on the emergence of the eukaryotic cell as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition (PNAS 2025).
Indigenous languages as reservoirs of unique medicinal knowledge
Jordi and postdoc Rodrigo Cámara-Leret are interviewed by Kensy Cooperrider in his podcast Many Minds about their paper published in PNAS (2021) showing that each indigenous language brings unique insights about the medicinal services provided by biodiversity.
