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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · 5d

✨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🎨

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · 5d

🔁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

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · 20d

🤩 #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...

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Bakteriofagen - en vild virus, der kan redde os alle

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · 27d

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

@ehologenome.bsky.social 🦠💡

Find it in
@gigascience.bsky.social
👇

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

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · 27d

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

holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · 28d

Methods paper was just published from @hologenomics.bsky.social - "a robust, cost-effective, scalable and automation-friendly nucleic acid extraction procedure to generate high-quality #hologenomic data" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Robust, Open‐Source and Automation‐Friendly DNA Extraction Protocol for Hologenomic Research

Global efforts to standardise methodologies benefit greatly from open-source procedures that enable the generation of comparable data. Here, we present a modular, high-throughput nucleic acid extract...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Hernán E. Morales @hernmoral.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 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

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...

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · 28d

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 💡

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 29d

📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.

🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3

More information: smbe2026.org/symposia

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Jazmín Ramos Madrigal @jazminrm.bsky.social · Sep 4

@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

Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · Sep 2

📣 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

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...

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · Sep 2

Colleagues please share with your network 🤗 #SMBE #SMBE2026

Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · Sep 2

📣 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

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...

smbe2026.org

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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · Aug 25

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....

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

#ESEB2025

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · Aug 19

@hologenomics.bsky.social is well represented at this #ESEB2025 week!

Today @hernmoral.bsky.social and @jrotwitguez.bsky.social presented their exciting research!!

#hologenomics

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · Aug 19

Well done @hernmoral.bsky.social 🤩

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Hernán E. Morales @hernmoral.bsky.social · Aug 17

🎤 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

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Hernán E. Morales @hernmoral.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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Pamela Ferretti @pamferretti.bsky.social · Jul 9

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...

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…

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Jul 8

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/...

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

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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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

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MicrobiomaHub-CSIC @microbiomacsic.bsky.social · Jun 28

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

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Jack A Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social · Jun 27

🌍🦠 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

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

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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · Jun 16

🎙️ 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...

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...

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Danmarks Grundforskningsfond @dg.dk · Jun 20

📸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...

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · Jun 4

Thanks for sharing ☀️

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3D'omics @3domics.bsky.social · Jun 3

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

Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · Jun 3

Please listen and share it with your network @ucph.bsky.social, @dg.dk, @ehologenome.bsky.social, @3domics.bsky.social, @holobiontbiology.bsky.social, @hologen.bsky.social
microbial-connections.simplecast.com/episodes/how...

What if microbes control your thoughts? Studying evolution and ecology from a holobiont perspective | Microbial Connections

What if microbes control your thoughts? From shrews to newts to humans, microbes have been shaping life for millions of years. But their influence goes beyond digestion—some even impact behaviour, dom...

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