Research
Scientific presentations
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Convention
During the 2nd Biodiversity Day, several CBB members presented their research in poster format, sharing progress on a variety of biodiversity-related projects. They contributed the following:
Tommaso Cancellario: “Biodumpy: A Python package for downloading comprehensive biological datasets”
Carolina de Oliveira Magalhães: “Workflow for using Nanopore technology to enhance dietary composition studies: the deep-water rose shrimp Parapenaeus longirostris as a case of study”
Claudio Padua: “Biases in conservation efforts and limited genetic data hinder protection of Mediterranean marine invertebrates”
Joan Díaz-Calafat: “Using flower eDNA metabarcoding to identify the effects of forest structure and microclimate on flower-visiting arthropods”
Joan Pons: “The genome sequence of Tethysbaena scabra (Pretus, 1991), the first known in the peracarid crustacean order Thermosbaenacea”
Laura Triginer-Llabrés: “Genome of Naufraga balearica, an endemic and monospecific plant of Mallorca”
Shantika Maylana Sastraprawira: “Population genetics of pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti), from West Papua, Indonesia: insights from mitochondrial DNA analyses and RADsequencing”
22nd May, 2025
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Convention presentations
The CBB organised the second edition of Biodiversity Day, a scientific convention dedicated to the study and dissemination of biodiversity research. The event brought together numerous researchers who presented their latest work. Among them, the following contributions were made by CBB:
Josef Thomas Greenhalgh: “Microplastics Under Review: How Research Has Evolved, and What Comes Next”
Karen D. Schöninger-Almaraz: “The genome sequence of Tethysbaena scabra (Pretus, 1991), the first known in the peracarid crustacean order Thermosbaenacea”
Lluís Moragues-Solanas: “Using Nanopore’s Adaptive Sampling to enrich metabarcoding reads to analyse diet composition in Parapenaeus longirostris”
Noemi Colinas: “Inhibition of sexual reproduction in rotifer populations: A transgenerational effect in relation to environmental predictability”
Tomás Golomb Durán: “Specifind: Automating Species’ Occurrence Discovery in Scientific Literature through NLP”
Tommaso Cancellario: “Balearica: A new platform for Balearic biodiversity data integration and research”
22nd May, 2025
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Seminar
The CBB organized a scientific event open to the Balearic community. This half-day meeting featured the following presentations:
Guillem Mateu (CBB-UIB): “Entre sediments i fanerògames: foraminífers, ecologia i migracions al Mediterrani”.
Samuele Voyron (Universidad de Turín): “The metabarcoding lab tales”.
Maria Barroso (CBB-UIB): “Variat poliquetil”.
Josef Greenhalgh (CBB-UIB): “How to conquer the world if you are a fish”.
April 10, 2025
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Seminar
The Balearic Biodiversity Centre (CBB) organized a scientific meeting open to the Balearic community. During the half-day event, experts from various disciplines shared their research:
Joan Fornós (CBB-UIB): ““Investigacions sobre el nivell marí a Mallorca durant el quaternari i el pliocè, mitjançant els espeleotemes freàtics de les coves litorals”.
Lluís Moragues (CBB-UIB): “Microbial detection in human tissue: the role of metagenomics and mitochondrial enrichment strategies”.
Antoni Far (CBB-UIB): “El estudio de plantas endémicas o como perder tus rodillas”.
6 de Marzo, 2025
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Workshop
Enrique Arboleda actively participated in the discussion forum “Invaders in the Balearic Islands”, part of a series of scientific Think Tanks organized by IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB). The event brought together more than 50 representatives from the scientific community and other social sectors to discuss the impact and management of invasive species in the Balearic archipelago.
January 16, 2025
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Seminar
The Balearic Biodiversity Center (CBB) organized a seminar featuring various talks on biodiversity and scientific tools:
Tommaso Cancellario: “Insights from the past: Invasion trajectory and niche trends of a global freshwater invader”.
Tomas Golomb: “Presentation of Specifind: Collection manager platform”.
Enrique Arboleda: “Talk on the three G’s: Genomes, Cats, and Curls”.
December 5, 2024