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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Maddi (Maji) @garate-olaizola.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

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Madeleine Van Well Bergström @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

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Madeleine Van Well Bergström @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social · Jun 19

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! 🐦🐣

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Nov 25

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · May 21

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

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Madeleine Van Well Bergström @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social · Mar 25

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Mar 24

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. 😊

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Madeleine Van Well Bergström @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thank you Guillaume! 😊🐴

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Madeleine Van Well Bergström @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thanks!! 😄

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Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social · Mar 22

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

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Madeleine Van Well Bergström @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Feb 14

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

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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · Feb 14

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🎉🙌

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

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Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social · Feb 13

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

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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · Feb 13

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! 💪

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

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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · Feb 12

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! 🤩

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Feb 10

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

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…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Mattias Siljestam @msiljestam.bsky.social · Jan 15

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

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Madeleine Van Well Bergström @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social · Jan 15

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

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Joshua Hufton @joshuahufton.bsky.social · Jan 15

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · Jan 14

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

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