Dear SPAAM Community members, We are excited to share with you the latest SPAAM Newsletter! Inside, you’ll find: - updates on events and workshops - funding/research opportunities - latest publications We hope you enjoy this edition! www.spaam-community.org/assets/media...

Great News! The Ricardians are one step closer to recreating Richard III’s unique brand of halitosis! 🏺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Genomic imputation can boost dataset quality and benefit research on wild populations. In hihi, we found high #imputation accuracies despite a small reference panel of high-fecundity individuals. Imputation improves downstream #ConservationGenomics analyses. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What can a million-year-old mammoth teach us about microbes? 🦠 From pathogens to commensals, this new study reconstructs the oldest known host-associated microbial DNA. #MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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

One of the seminal projects from my Genomics Aotearoa Postdoc position with Associate Professor Kim Handley is now published online at @isme-microbes.bsky.social Communications!! 🥳🦠 "Salinity-driven niche differentiation within the aquatic Luna-1 subcluster"

In the thick of the 2025 @femsmicro.org Postdoc Summer School in Ohrid, meeting amazing colleagues and ready for a week of solid learning

Trying to get better at updating my new website, so here is the latest blog post! #eseb2025 anniegwest.wixsite.com/anniegwest/p...

Relatable #eseb2025

If you're interested in bears, metagenomics, or struggling to understand a kiwi accent, come sit in on my @eseb2025.bsky.social ESEB Barcelona talk Monday morning at 11:30 in room 116 :D

Thoroughly enjoying the @eventswcs.bsky.social K-mers for Biodiversity workshop this week, complete with extensive k-mer history, hands-on practical exercises, showcasing the latest software, and meeting people from all over the world. What a blast! (pun intended...)

Our team on Te Kākahu/Chalky Island have recaptured male #kakapo Te Awa, who's been missing for 6 years having dropped his transmitter. He was in great condition and it's good to have track of him again with a possible breeding season next year. 📷: Petrus Hedman #conservation #parrots #birds

Working in animal #aDNA? Present your research at our first AaRConference!

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Mar-Jun). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals