From Oct 2023: Group Leader at the MELIS department of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
From Oct 2023: Dual affiliation at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.
From Dec 2018: ICREA Research professor.

2014-2023: Group Leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.
2011-2014: Postdoc in the laboratory of Prof. Blencowe, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
2011-2011: Postdoc in the laboratory of Prof. Fraser, Stanford University, USA.
2006-2010: PhD in Genetics in the laboratory of Prof. Garcia-Fernandez, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
2005-2006: Postgrad researcher in the laboratory of Prof. Penny, Massey University, Parlmerston North, New Zealand.
2004-2005:  Postgrad researcher in the laboratory of Prof. Arctander, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2000-2004: Diploma studies in Genetics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Evolution's Recipe Book: How ‘Copy Paste’ Errors Cooked Up the Animal Kingdom (15/04/2024)
To this day, more than 7,000 groups of genes can be traced back to the last common ancestor of bilaterians, according to a study of 20 different bilaterian species including humans, sharks, mayflies, centipedes and octopuses. 

Manuel Irimia recognised with award by Jesús Serra Foundation (10/10/2023)
ICREA Research Professor Manuel Irimia at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona has received a prize for his research on the mechanisms that regulate insulin secretion, work that could eventually help prevent the development of diabetes.

Seasonal and circadian genetic variation charted across the human body (13/02/2023)
A research team at the CRG have published research in PLOS Biology which details how the circadian and circannual cycles influence humans at the molecular level by measuring changes to the activity of genes inside cells across different types of tissues. 

‘Tiny but mighty’ gene fragments are crucial for maintaining blood sugar levels (09/02/2023)
A research team at the CRG has now discovered that microexons are also found in another type of cell that carries out highly-specialised functions within complex tissues and organs – endocrine cells in the pancreas.

Tiny gene fragments revealed as crucial new players in retinal development and vision (13/07/2022)
Researchers at the CRG reveal that Srrm3 is a master regulator gene crucial for the development of photoreceptors, cells in the back of the retina which capture and process light, sending signals to the brain that enable vision.

Act of sabotage determines mammalian embryonic development (12/04/2022)

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona made the discovery after creating an atlas of splicing events during the early development of cows, humans and mice.

 

Uncovering the mysterious role of microexons in human disease (14/12/2020)
Manuel Irimia, ICREA Research Professor at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant

 

The genomic keys to the origin of the vertebrates (21/11/2018)
An international team of scientists co-led by CRG researcher Manuel Irimia reports how more complex and specialised gene regulation proved to be pivotal in the origin of the vertebrates.

 

A genetic mutation in the biological evolution of animals helps to explain the origin of some human organs (12/12/2017)

This change, a random error in the evolutionary process that occurred over 700 million years ago, facilitated the connection of the gene networks involved in animal embryogenesis.

 

Manuel Irimia, CRG junior group leader, has been elected EMBO Young Investigator. He is one of the two researchers elected in Spain.

 

A new study revises the development and evolutionary origin of the vertebrate brain (28/04/2017)
Researchers have made the first detailed map of the regions into which the brain of one of the most closely-related organisms to the vertebrates is divided and which could give us an idea of what our ancestor was like.

 

'Yin and Yang' Switch Lies at the Heart of Animal Stem Cells (09/08/2016)
A molecular switch that flips between different versions of genes could be crucial for maintaining stem cells across all animals from simple flatworms to humans, according to a study from scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, published today, in the journal eLife.