Madeleine Van Well Bergström

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

07.07.2025 09:53 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Reindeer calf

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

23.06.2025 13:46 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

19.06.2025 13:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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! 🐦🐣

19.06.2025 13:38 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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

25.11.2024 12:26 — 👍 38    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

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

21.05.2025 18:22 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

25.03.2025 12:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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. 😊

24.03.2025 08:44 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

Thank you Guillaume! 😊🐴

25.03.2025 12:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!! 😄

25.03.2025 12:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

22.03.2025 16:54 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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

18.03.2025 14:52 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

14.02.2025 07:05 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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🎉🙌

14.02.2025 15:08 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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

13.02.2025 18:53 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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! 💪

13.02.2025 12:11 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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! 🤩

12.02.2025 12:23 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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

10.02.2025 13:23 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

15.01.2025 17:04 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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

15.01.2025 16:01 — 👍 22    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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

15.01.2025 14:53 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

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

14.01.2025 10:32 — 👍 28    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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)

24.12.2024 12:52 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Group at dinner

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

10.12.2024 16:14 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

18.12.2024 11:36 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0