It was a pleasure hosting Jasper Verwilt @JVerwilt from Sleegers Lab @SleegersLab in our lab for 3 weeks, focusing on establishing a Nano3PCR-seq protocol to capture cell-free RNA biomarkers in human biofluids — Jasper it was great having you with us, hope to see you again!🚀

New preprint released 🪇

Which tRNAs are used by ribosomes during translation?

We introduce tRIBO-seq, a nanopore method to sequence ribosome-associated tRNAs and track how the active tRNA pool changes across stress conditions.

biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

A thread 🧵

(7/8) Overall, tRIBO-seq provides a simple way to profile the active tRNAome, capturing abundance, modifications and fragmentation from actively translating ribosomes.

(8/8) This project was co-led by Mie Monti and Hasan Yilmaz in a fruitful collaboration between the @NovoaLab, @ImmaginaBiotech and the #AnaSoares Lab.💃

Please join us in congratulating Gregor @GDiensthuber
on successfully defending his PhD 🎓 A proud moment for the whole lab 🧬 Thanks for being such a great colleague and lab mate! We’re excited to see where your science takes you next! 🚀

Last week our Lab participated in the @CRGenomica
PhD Symposium! Huge congrats to Cristina Petrella and Leda Katopodi for their successful talks, and @GDiensthuber for reaching the final stage of his PhD! Big thanks to the CRG and the PhD community for a science-packed event👏

It was our pleasure to host James Bryson (BRIC, Copenhagen) at @CRGenomica through the EU-LIFE Postdoctoral Exchange Program! Thanks to James for presenting his work on advanced CRISPR tools for epitranscriptomic research, and to @EULIFE_news for this opportunity!🧬✈️#EULIFE #CRG

🧬 New review on nanopore base-calling models is out!
Congrats to Sonia Cruciani (former Novoa Lab PhD, now postdoc at the Deplancke Lab, EPFL) and @EvaMariaNovoa
📖 Read it here:nature.com/articles/s4158…
👏👏👏

🧬Novoa Lab had a great time at the Genome Biology Program Retreat'25!
Big thanks to the organisers for such an inspiring and fun event 👏
Congrats to @mie_monti for being part of the organising team and to @oguzhanbegik for giving a fantastic talk!

@mie_monti Always great to connect and share science with colleagues from the Genome Biology Program at
@CRGenomica ! 🧫🔬🏝️

Novoa Lab joined the PRBB Open Day 2025🔬🧬🌊 @the_prbb to share our passion for RNA research with the public. Thanks to everyone who came to explore science with us and thanks organisers for making this event possible! #PRBBOpenDay #OpenScience

A little lunch selfie to mark our return online after summer break! 🌱 Exciting projects ahead—stay tuned for updates from the Novoa Lab🤙🏻

Fresh preprint from the @NovoaLab!😀📌 Do you want to barcode up to 96 #RNA samples in your #nanopore flowcells? How well do RNA #modification-aware models perform? What if there is #noBasecallingModel for your modification-of-interest? Find it out here!😊biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Last month, the @NovoaLab attended the Premis Nacionals de Recerca ceremony to celebrate @EvaMariaNovoa receiving the National Young Researcher Award!🎉👏
Huge congratulations again, Eva - an incredible and well-deserved recognition! 🧬🏆

Another epic Novoa Lab retreat in the books!
A big thank you to everyone who made it such a success — from the science-packed discussions and hands-on workshops to the brainstorming, games, sunny pool sessions, and delicious BBQs. And special thanks to the organizers!