🤩 #Phages are popular! Once again this year we're proud to see that our senior researcher @bentpetersen.bsky.social has a waiting list on his popular course at Københavns Folkeuniversitet with the Danish title: "Bakteriofagen - en vild virus der kan redde os alle"💡 fukbh.dk/program/natu... @dg.dk

📣Another publication from our amazing researchers and colleagues: The Earth Hologenome Initiative: Data Release 1 @ehologenome.bsky.social 🦠💡 Find it in @gigascience.bsky.social 👇

📣 New Paper Alert! We're super excited for this resource for #Hologenomic #research to be out and open source for everyone to use 🦠

🚨 The #SMBE2026 website is live! 🚨 The call for symposia is now open ➡️ smbe2026.org/symposia/ 📅 Opens: Sept 1, 2025 📅 Closes: Oct 15, 2025 📢 Results: Nov 3, 2025 We can’t wait to welcome you to beautiful #Copenhagen 🌍✨ @official-smbe.bsky.social #evolution #science

We can't wait to be part of organising the #SMBE2026 conference in Copenhagen next summer 🤩 Hope to see you there 🤗 and please help shape the scientific content by submitting symposia proposals and share with your network 💡

@official-smbe.bsky.social is coming to Copenhagen next year! 🇩🇰 And we’re looking for your symposium ideas to help us shape the content of this meeting. Submit your proposal now (link 👇). The deadline is October 15th. #SMBE2026

📣 The Call for Symposia for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2026 Annual Meeting is now open. 🌍 The meeting will be in Copenhagen June 28th to July 2nd 🖊️ We invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of SMBE 2026 Best the organisers

Seaweed aquaculture eyes holobiont optimization. More evidence that breeding programs are starting to get on top of it. Host-Microbiome Ecology in a Seaweed Holobiont: Current Understanding, Technological Advancements, and Manipulation Approaches papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

💡Today senior researcher Binia De Cahsan Westbury shares her museomic insights into temporal genomic change @eseb2025.bsky.social 🤩 #ESEB2025

@hologenomics.bsky.social is well represented at this #ESEB2025 week! Today @hernmoral.bsky.social and @jrotwitguez.bsky.social presented their exciting research!! #hologenomics

🎤 Symposium: Evolution in Small Populations I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse 🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115 Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week! @hologenomics.bsky.social

🔗 Read the full Perspective 👇 tinyurl.com/33nm48vd Free access here: rdcu.be/ewMBq @hologenomics.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social

Our article on the challenges and opportunities in studying host-microbe symbioses is now published in Cell Host & Microbe! @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Microbes shape animal lives—but how do we measure their role in host evolution? We introduce a new framework to explore how microbial communities vary, evolve, and impact vertebrate hosts Alberdi et al. @hologenomics.bsky.social @mgroussi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

What microbes shared between parents and children? And what microbes are shared between grandparents, parents and children? 👪 Take part in our PEARL-AGE study to help us find out ➡️ buff.ly/48aGnwP @earlhaminst.bsky.social‬ ‪@nnuh.bsky.social‬

Happy #MicrobiomeDay to all! 🦠🔬 Let's celebrate the invisible architects of our world, from shaping ecosystems to influencing human and animal health, the microbiome continues to reveal its profound impact. @csic.es

🌍🦠 World Microbiome Day shout-out: we’ve just unveiled the Microbiota Vault—a planetary backup for microbial diversity. Built on equitable, One Health values & linked to the new IUCN SSC Microbiomes. Read our Nature Comms piece: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #MicrobiotaVault #Conservation #WMD2025

🎙️ INVITATION to A Special Lecture for World Microbiome Day | Register here: lnkd.in/ejPZMxgP Join us on JUNE 27th at 10 AM EDT for a pivotal webinar featuring Professor CURTIS HUTTENHOWER, a renowned authority in computational biology and microbiome science. www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...

📸Are you a researcher in Denmark with a powerful photo that captures your science? For the eighth year in a row, the DNRF invites you to bring your research into focus through our annual photo competition. 👀Deadline Sept. 23, 2025. dg.dk/en/dnrf-phot...

Are you here for the microbes? Listen to this fun podcast!

🎧What if #microbes control your thoughts?🦠💡 New and last episode out of the 1. season of our #podcast #MicrobialConnections🦠 @ehologenome.bsky.social and @hologenomics.bsky.social researcher Antton Alberdi shares how he study #ecology and #evolution from a #holobiont perspective 🤩 Link 👇 @dg.dk

🐂Skal vi have store pattedyr tilbage i den danske natur? Jens-Christian Svenning, @econovoau.bsky.social og Tom Gilbert, @hologenomics.bsky.social var med til debat i Videnskabernes Selskab videnskab.dk/naturvidensk...

Using museum specimens for microbiome analyses? We tested it out - and it seems these samples could be an untapped resource for understanding host-microbe interactions! ⬇️

🌱Are you joining #BloomFestival this weekend? Don't miss out on this great research walk with @hologenomics.bsky.social's researcher Claudia Romeu💡 🦠 Claudia will talk about her #research on the #squirrel #microbiome and how this might help the red squirrel in competition with the grey 🐿️ @dg.dk

Second podcast recording of the day. Guests are Dr. Seth Bordenstein and Dr. Nichole Ginnan of Penn State. Topic is a new article from the One Health Microbiome Center, describing how to look at the biosphere through the One Health lens, with plenty of discussion of holobionts.

💡Interested in cool #plant #fungi #symbiosis?🌱🦠 @Naturmødet this weekend you can chat with @hologenomics.bsky.social researcher Ida Hartvig about fascinating #orchid #seeds & #mycelia symbiosis at stand 63🤩 📣Saturday 4pm you can join Ida for her presentation on "The secret life of Orchids" @dg.dk

🎉 Fantastic start to the @hologen.bsky.social in sunny Copenhagen! From 5-9th May we had a week of training, talks & new connections - including our 1st #HoloGen Symposium. Brilliant energy from our new PhD cohort - excited for the impactful years ahead! 💥 #Hologenomics #Microbiome #PhDLife #MSCADN

📣 #Free event about #microbes👏 #Ecology & #Cocktails: Without microbes, animals can't do much🦠 By Professor Tom Gilbert followed by an ecology open #mic night🎤 and an interactive #art activity Join for free on May 15 at 18-24 @Huset, musikcafeen Read more 👇 huset.kk.dk/events/ecolo... @dg.dk

💡🎧How can a #microbe responsible for #ulcers be either beneficial or harmful? Why are fewer children infected today and what does that mean for our #health? Sandra Breum Andersen gives us the answers in the latest #MicrobialConnections episode👇 microbial-connections.simplecast.com/episodes/how...

🧀 New preprint drop: adventures in the cheese microbiome! 📝 We tracked microbiome dynamics across 14 production steps of industrial Herrgårds cheese (Swedish classic 🇸🇪🧐). www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... (1/7)

With @hologenomics.bsky.social, we sampled each step of the process to see how microbial communities evolve. Spoiler alert: Even in a stable, well-behaved system, we found some surprises... 👀 (3/7)

I'm looking forward to this seminar! Tune in to hear a bit about our work uncovering the evolutionary dynamics of genomic erosion www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... #popgen #consgen @hologenomics.bsky.social

🧪🔭 🧠💻Forskningens døgn er spækket med spændende, interessante og opsigtsvækkende events, som du kan opleve i dag og hele ugen frem til på søndag. Se programmet her 👉 forsk.dk?b_start:int=...

We teamed up with our friends at @ucsandiego.bsky.social to show how jumbo #phages – huge viruses that infect bacteria – use sneaky tricks to attack bacteria. This knowledge could be used to leverage them as a tool to fight antibiotic resistance. Read more here: ow.ly/6VLa50Vucc5 🦠🧬

🧀What do cheese, sourdough, & yogurt have in common? #Microbes!🦠 🎧Listen to postdoc Veronica Sinotte in this episode of our podcast #MicrobialConnections as she explains how #FermentedFood is actually "controlled rot" & how it might have evolved💡 microbial-connections.simplecast.com/episodes/fer...

Holobiont on display at the @theguardian.com in a top 10 list for #invertebrate of '25. Beautiful imagery here! "Coral #holobiont didn’t conquer nutrient-poor waters through competition, but through cooperation – creating abundance out of extreme scarcity." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Considering the #holobiont’... the assemblage of the host plant along with its associated microbiota...our view of the plant’s responses has expanded to include the microbiome of the epiphytic and endophytic microbiota (e.g., bacteria, fungi, viruses)" www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26...

The orange-bellied parrot is predicted to go extinct by 2038. We tracked >200 years of genomic erosion. Here’s what we found 🧬🦜 #ConservationGenomics #consgen #popgen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... pic by Marc Gardner

🧀What do cheese, sourdough, & yogurt have in common? #Microbes!🦠 🎧Listen to postdoc Veronica Sinotte in this episode of our podcast #MicrobialConnections as she explains how #FermentedFood is actually "controlled rot" & how it might have evolved💡 microbial-connections.simplecast.com/episodes/fer...

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Maria Gloria: sites.rutgers.edu/mgdblab/ Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Karen: molbio.uoregon.edu/guillemin/ Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

📣First #podcast episode out of #MicrobialConnections! 🦠Listen to Morten Limborg explain the perspectives of #holobiont #biology and how it can transform our #food systems to become more #sustainable 💡 🎧 microbial-connections.simplecast.com/episodes/how... @dg.dk, @ucph.bsky.social

💡How can diapers help researchers dive into #microbes' influence on #digestion, #diet and human #health?🦠 🎧Listen to the 2nd episode of our podcast #MicrobialConnections with researcher Henrik Roager @ucph.bsky.social! Listen here: microbial-connections.simplecast.com/episodes/how... @dg.dk

Others recognize this, but broad advocacy will help for many still focused on the macro level of environmental disruptions. Life in a global change era will need a holobiont level understanding for holistic management of biodiversity 🪱🦠 academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses - Oeiras Portugal. Students from all over the world are eligible, we sponsor selected students. Please Repost! gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

🧬Interested in #Museomics? Join us to learn how to generate & analyse genomic data from natural history collections with hands-on bioinformatics workflows @hernmoral.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @hologenomics.bsky.social 👉 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

💡How can diapers help researchers dive into #microbes' influence on #digestion, #diet and human #health?🦠 🎧Listen to the 2nd episode of our podcast #MicrobialConnections with researcher Henrik Roager @ucph.bsky.social! Listen here: microbial-connections.simplecast.com/episodes/how... @dg.dk

DNA preservation in archaeozoological caribou ribs from West Greenland Inuit hunting camp shows better quality in newly excavated samples and reveals bone degradation processes in museum storage nature.com/articles/s42... @nationalmuseet.bsky.social @hologenomics.bsky.social @amresearch.bsky.social

New paper out! 📄 My first adventures in (ancient) metagenomics. 🦠 “Exploring DNA degradation in situ and in museum storage through genomics and metagenomics” www.nature.com/articles/s42... Curious about the water color painting (see ALT text)? 🦌 Thread (Bluetorial?) with findings! 🧶👇 (1/n)

PhD position in bean palaeogenomics!🌱 Join our group at @hologenomics.bsky.social , U. of Copenhagen. The PhD, funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation, will study bean domestication and its coevolution with rhizobia using ancient and modern genomes. Apply by March 16: tinyurl.com/24uzrj2f Please share!