Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics

Hologenomik - forstå det vigtige samspil mellem dig og dine mikroorganismer

💡Want to learn more about the interplay between you and your #microbes?🦠

Our skilled researchers Prof. Tom Gilbert, Assoc. Profs. @sandrabandersen.bsky.social and Morten Limborg are teaching at Københavns Folkeuniversitet three weeks in November🤩

Read more and sign up 👇

@dg.dk @ucph.bsky.social

Amazing presentation of an exciting project 🤩

YouTube video by 3D'omics 3D'omics - Challenges and Solutions

🚨 More news today!

We are excited to share our new video 📽️ presenting the *challenges and solutions* of the last 4 years!
Check it out on youtube!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWeq...

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨

3D'omics introduces #Micro-scale #spatial #metagenomics — a method to reveal the high-resolution spatial biogeography of gut microbiomes.
🧵👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reconstructing maize domestication Assistant Professor Jazmín Ramos Madrigal has been awarded a prestigious grant for her project “Reconstructing the chronology of selection during maize domestication through genotype imputation of anc...

🚀Grant news

Congrats to Assist. Prof. @jazminrm.bsky.social for being awarded a prestigious Independent Research Fund Denmark grant for her project:

🌽“Reconstructing the chronology of selection during maize domestication through genotype imputation of ancient genomes.”

@dg.dk @ucph.bsky.social

Frontiers | Sea urchin holobionts: microbiome variation across species, compartments and locations in Paracentrotus lividus and Arbacia lixula Understanding holobiont dynamics is essential for unraveling the complex interactions between marine hosts and their microbiota. Sea urchins play pivotal rol...

“Recently, greater emphasis has been placed on the concept of #holobiont in marine ecosystems. This concept refers to a biological unit composed of a host and its microbiota, as they coexist and interact“ www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Thanks to everyone who came by our minilab at tonight’s #CultureNight 🌟

So much fun and engagement 🤩

Extracting DNA from strawberries 🍓 tasting edible insects 🦗and looking at orchid seeds 🌱 in the microscopes were some of our more popular hands on this year 🌟

@dg.dk @ucph.bsky.social

✨Don't forget to stop by our fun minilab at Copenhagen Culture Night tomorrow!

@dg.dk @ucph.bsky.social

✨We hope to see you at Copenhagen Culture Night Friday Oct 10th 18-23🤩

✨This year our mini-lab hands on activities are:
🍓Extracting DNA from strawberry
🔬Looking at tiny orchid seeds in stereo microscopes
🦗Tasting edible insects
🦠Learning about cool phages
🌸Cute stickers and microbe quiz🎨

@dg.dk

🔁Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open.

We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.

🗓️Deadline: October 15th

More info: smbe2026.org/symposia
@official-smbe.bsky.social

Bakteriofagen - en vild virus, der kan redde os alle

🤩 #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

The Earth Hologenome Initiative: Data Release 1 AbstractBackground. The Earth Hologenome Initiative (EHI) is a global endeavor dedicated to revisit fundamental ecological and evolutionary questions from

📣Another publication from our amazing researchers and colleagues: The Earth Hologenome Initiative: Data Release 1

@ehologenome.bsky.social 🦠💡

Find it in
@gigascience.bsky.social
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📣 New Paper Alert!
We're super excited for this resource for #Hologenomic #research to be out and open source for everyone to use 🦠

Symposia - SMBE 2026 - Copenhagen Denmark SMBE 2026 Symposia Check deadlines and important dates below.  Days Hours Minutes Seconds Conference Symposia We are now accepting proposals for symposium for the 2026 Annual meeting taking place in C...

🚨 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

Colleagues please share with your network 🤗 #SMBE #SMBE2026

Symposia - SMBE 2026 - Copenhagen Denmark SMBE 2026 Symposia Check deadlines and important dates below.  Days Hours Minutes Seconds Conference Symposia We are now accepting proposals for symposium for the 2026 Annual meeting taking place in C...

📣 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

Well done @hernmoral.bsky.social 🤩

🎤 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

Genome engineering in biodiversity conservation and restoration Nature Reviews Biodiversity - This Perspective argues for the use of genome engineering for restoring species genetic diversity and increase species resilience to environmental change. Genome...

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

Theory of host-microbe symbioses: Challenges and opportunities Growing insight into microbial symbioses highlights the need to model these systems mathematically. We discuss three areas requiring theoretical advan…

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...

Metagenomic spaces: a framework to study the effect of microbiome variation on animal ecology and evolution Abstract. Microorganisms are essential for the normal functioning of most vertebrates. Hence, identifying and measuring the factors that shape host-associa

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/...

An illustration of silhouettes of five people in a family holding hands. There are illustrations of microbes inside their guts

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

The microbiota vault initiative: safeguarding Earth’s microbial heritage for future generations - Nature Communications Nature Communications - The microbiota vault initiative: safeguarding Earth’s microbial heritage for future generations

🌍🦠 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

Human microbiome pioneer to deliver World Microbiome Day lecture | Penn State University Curtis Huttenhower, professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the Harvard School of Public Health, will deliver a lecture to the Penn State community in honor of World Microbiome Day. T...

🎙️ 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...