HoloGen Doctoral Network Retreat #2 – Barcelona! 🌞 All our PhD candidates together for the first time – a week of project presentations, hands-on workshops, industry talks, and an amazing sailing social on the Med. Science + collaboration + tapas = success! #HoloGen #PhDLife #Microbiome #MSCADN

🧪🌾 In collaboration with bioinformatician @trhvidsten.bsky.social, the team developed an interactive app that allows to explore seasonal gene activities and also to see which genes might be connected or influence each other. 🧬 Try the app out here👇: lauragarciaromanach.shinyapps.io/popul_r_mini/

🧪🌾 NEWS - A genetic roadmap across seasons 🧬 By comparing trees grown outdoors and in lab environments, they reveal seasonal genetic patterns and highlight both the strengths and limitations of lab-based experiments to study seasonality. 👉Read more here: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

Tree evolution is surprisingly quirky! 🌳 Trees are likely ancestral in many plant groups, often re-evolve on islands, and Arabidopsis can be made tree-like by tweaking a few genes. We revisited what genes really make a tree a tree using comparative genomics. @trhvidsten.bsky.social #trees #evolution

Check out this preprint of the first article for my PhD thesis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We've leveraged methods developed for multi-omics to investigate a holo-omic system (🐷🦠), and predicted host-microbiome interactions between important features for observed cross-omic data patterns 🔍📊

I really enjoyed this read ... what an exciting time! doi.org/10.1038/d415...

It is still possible to apply for PhD scholarships within computational host/microbiome genomics (hologenomics) at NMBU! The positions are part of @hologen.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline: January 17th. @microbesrule.bsky.social @sabinallarosa.bsky.social

We have over the past month or so published a nice bouquet of papers about the interaction between the Atlantic salmon, its gut microbiome and the feed it eats. 1/4

Thrilled to see this paper out! 🎉 We analyzed 470 (!) angiosperm genomes and identified and dated 132 whole-genome duplication events. Importantly, we observed that WGD occurrence dates are not randomly distributed, but clustered at times of major environmental upheaval.