Madeleine Van Well Bergström

Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology - Uppsala University Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits.

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The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

Thanks #ESEB2025 for a great conference!

Our group had a lot of fun meeting people, learning new things, and talking about our research!

@madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social
@estermart.bsky.social
@cenkvist.bsky.social
@matiasbeck.bsky.social

Madeleine Van Well Bergström @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social presents a poster about feralization of the horse gut microbiome. P01.101. #ESEB2025

Animal Ecology on tour! 🦎🐟🐔🦠📈 Some masters, PhDs and post-docs (and more!) from Uppsala University are enjoying #ESEB2025 in the warm Barcelona🌞 @joshuahufton.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social @estermart.bsky.social @msiljestam.bsky.social

We have spent the last week on fieldwork, sampling #reindeer calves. 🦌

We've been in the mountains in Jämtland, at the Tåssåsen Sámi reindeer herding community. Fantastic experience being part of the calf marking event. #microbiome

Reindeer calf

Madde @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social and I are preparing for fieldwork in the mountains with these guys. 🦌🏔️🥰
Photo by Ingebjørg Helena Nymo.

Interesting microbiome work on the flycatchers conducted by @estermart.bsky.social coming soon 🦠🥳

Thanks to the @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social and @elinvidevall.bsky.social I had the great experience of participating in the fieldwork on Öland where we collected data from pied and collared flycatchers for the flycatcher project at Uppsala university! 🐦🐣

Hi all,
I am back again on blue sky after some time of dwindling Twitter engagement.

My group studies #microbiomes of wild animals, we have exciting projects in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians.

We are based at Uppsala University, Sweden. @animecol-uu.bsky.social

www.videvall.com

We got great results on the bioanalyzer today from the genomic and metagenomic museum samples! 🧬

Thanks to @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social! Now we're looking forward to send these off for sequencing; they're part of a small pilot project.
#microbiome #metagenome #hologenome

Thanks Elin for the great supervision throughout the project!! 😄🦠

Congratulations @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social for successfully presenting and defending her MSc thesis last week! Well done! 📄🐎🦠🧬

Our lab group went out to celebrate at a local restaurant afterwards. 😊

Thank you Guillaume! 😊🐴

Thanks!! 😄

Got to meet Suki the wolverine female at Vildriket, Järvsö. Have lots of samples from her and her boyfriend Sid, but he was too comfortable sleeping in the sun to come out ☀️

Thanks @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social for the video

Last month was filled with exciting events! I attended and presented a poster at the Oikos meeting Sweden at the Natural History museum in Stockholm. I also helped organized our internal conference at EBC, where I also presented a talk 😄🦠🐴
@nordicoikos.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social

. @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social also gave a great talk about feral horse gut microbiomes! 🐎🦠🧬

Axel and Olle receiving Best Talk award! Axel - Genome evolution in guenons and its role in species diversification Olle - Behavioral niche partitioning along environmental gradients

Madeleine showing her certificate for Best Poster on horse gut microbiome

Anna got the Funniest Talk award for a talk on correlation & causation with a fun data-driven example

Per awarded the Prettiest Talk prize, for introducing us to an upcoming unified bird species list AviList

We finish the symposium with awards 🏆:

Best talk - @axeljensen.bsky.social and Olle Wickman (tied in votes)
Best poster - @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social
Funniest talk - Anna @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social
Prettiest talk - @peralstrom.bsky.social

Thanks to our organizers for an awesome event🎉🙌

Had a really fun organizing and presenting my PhD topic at our internal conference at @animecol-uu.bsky.social

Helena starting her talk "Songbird MHC – so similar, yet so different, to that of other birds"

Helena explaining the experiment testing MHC-I molecule's binding ability

Various talks

This morning at our 'Revolution' symposium: we started with a fascinating talk by Prof. Helena Westerdahl on MHC diversity in songbirds at diff. levels: genomic organization, expression and antigen presentation 🛡️🧬

Talks with diverse topics and study systems followed, many from MSc students! 💪

Looking much forward to 'Revolution', our annual programme symposium, that will be happening over the next two days 🎺🤘

Profs. Helena Westerdahl and Bengt Hansson from @biologylu.bsky.social will join as invited speakers, warm welcome! 🤩

Diet-microbiome covariation across three giraffe species in a close-contact zone The biodiverse group of ruminant mammals are entirely dependent on their gut microbiota to extract energy and nutrients from their foods, making these…

Happy to share our latest paper! "Diet-microbiome covariation across three giraffe species in a close-contact zone" 🦒 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Published in Global Ecology and Conservation. #microbiome #diet #giraffe #conservation

Had a nice time presenting my postdoc project at Evolution in Sweden.

Nuclear Cooperation as a Driver of Evolutionary Transitions in Fungi 🍄

Showing how cooperation between nuclei can drives #evolutionarytransitions in individuality using #mathematicalmodelling

#heterokaryosis
#adaptivedynamics

Had a great time at the Evolution in Sweden Conference @scilifelab.se!

Presented a poster about my MSc focusing on The Impacts of Feralization on The Horse Gut Microbiome 🐴🦠

#microbiome #gut-microbiome
#feralization

Had a great time presenting my work @Evolution in Sweden.

Epigenetic regulation of immune response in the Swedish sand lizard 🦎

#hostparasite #sexspecific #epigenetics #reptiles
#immunity

Elin, Madde, Ester, and Matias from the Videvall lab at the Evolution in Sweden 2025 conference. 😊
@madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social @estermart.bsky.social @matiasbeck.bsky.social #microbiome #evolution

Julbord celebration

A very merry Christmas to our colleagues and friends! God jul och gott nytt år! ✨🎅🎁🎄

Photo from our julbord/Christmas dinner (photo courtesy Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich)

Group at dinner

Our lab had a nice dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant in Uppsala last week 😊💛

Animal Ecology at Uppsala University @animecol-uu.bsky.social Julbord (Swedish Christmas Dinner) last week. 🎅🎄

Lots of food, and our lab definitely represented with the most Christmas-themed outfits. 😄🦌☃️🎄 @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social