Elin Videvall

Excited to announce that I am organizing a symposium on "Microbiomes in Conservation" at #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand together with Madeleine van Oppen. Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15! isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi... @isme-microbes.bsky.social

Last week, visiting PhD student Daniel Ramirez (Dani) from the Natural History Museum in Madrid gave a presentation about the work he's been doing here in our lab group. Dani is studying early-life #microbiome development in pied flycatchers. 🐦

Made Halloween-themed fika for our Animal Ecology program! 🎃👻🐈‍⬛

I've complained on here a few times about synteny plots that are harder to read than they need to be. I decided it was time to actaully do something about it: introducing SynTangle, a tool for untangling whole-genome synteny plots github.com/Hanliconius/... 1/

In 2002, success rate at the ERC starting grant was 14%. This already felt too low to both panel and applicants, but was constrained by government funding. Well, 5 years later, it is now projected to be 5%. This is not sustainable.

Interested in the role of gut microbiomes in bird thermal resilience? 🥚⚡🐣🌡️🐥🧫 Come join us as a #postdoc in the #HOTGUT project at @biologylu.bsky.social ! Supervisor me, @cyanistesnord.bsky.social as co-supervisor. 💫 Please spread! Apply here 👇: lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

New lab group photo, we're a lot of people currently! 😊 What a privilege working with all these talented students and young scientists. 💛

Earlier this week, visiting PhD student Emma Little from Oregon State University gave a presentation to our lab group about cladoseqR. It's a new analytic method on how to incorporate the microbial phylogeny in #microbiome analysis. 🧬💻 We had a great discussion!

Last week, I returned from an incredible roadtrip in Queensland, Australia! 🌏🐨🦘 Saw so many unique animals and beautiful nature! It was definitely a trip of a lifetime! What a fantastic country and landscape 😍 Attached a few pics, (blurry because screenshots from videos).

Thanks #ISME20 from the Videvall lab for a great conference! We had a lot of fun, meeting new and old friends, learning about various microbes, and presenting our research. @isme-microbes.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social @estermart.bsky.social

The legendary Margaret McFall-Ngai 👀 gives the final plenary of #ISME20, titled 'Beginning a partnership and keeping it faithful: lessons from the squid-vibrio symbiosis'. 🦑❤️🦠

Our session on #microbiomes in conservation at #ISME20 is officially done! Full morning and afternoon today with a great lineup of speakers! Thanks to all who presented their important research, it was great to see such a broad diversity of topics and hosts! 🙏 #InvisibleAllies🦠

@noahfierer.bsky.social gives a wonderful morning lecture about Antarctic soil microbes and how the field of microbial ecology has advanced, as the Winogradsky award presentation. #ISME20

Maureen O'Malley gives a great and thought-provoking keynote titled 'Ecology versus medicine in microbiome research'. #ISME20

Reposting for the #ISME20 crowd - If you (or anyone you know) is looking for a postdoc, please come chat to me in Auckland!

Pilar López Hernández is currently presenting her poster "Could aquatic insects spread AMR?" #ISME20

@estermart.bsky.social is presenting her poster on gut microbiota in a flycatcher cross-fostering experiment! Right now in the Animal Microbiome session. #ISME20

Valerie McKenzie starts the second part of the Animal Microbiome session with a great talk on wildlife microbiomes, focused on toads and parrots. #ISME20

Graeme Attwood opens the Animal Microbiome session with a talk on the ruminant microbiome. #ISME20

Wanda Markotter gives the Monday morning plenary about #OneHealth and preventing future pandemics. #ISME20

Wanda Markotter gives the Monday morning plenary about #OneHealth and preventing future pandemics. #ISME20

A phylogeny of the Hawaiian honeycreepers reveals how 60 species radiated out from a single rosefinch-like ancestor over a 1-million-year period between 2.5 million and 3.5 million years ago. Just 17 taxa remain—and most are endangered. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/3nfH50ZxWv7

Gut microbes may help wild horses evolve to survive harsh Canadian winters | Science News | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Congrats Spain! 🥳⚽🏆

I've sometimes wondered if there are additional reasons why bacteria thrive inside mammal guts, and this is a fascinating answer to that question. 👀

#ExE2026 So many animal microbiome talks that it has become a standing joke of the conference. 😅 Sorry on behalf of WAME and the workshop. We love these talks though! 😊

What a fabulous excursion we had yesterday to Lizard peninsula! Perfect weather and gorgeous views. Seals, choughs, and a kestrel. 🦭🐦☀️ Lovely break in the middle of the conference week. #ExE2026 Special thanks to @erikpostma.bsky.social for herding the big group.

The #ExE2026 conference is officially starting today! @erikpostma.bsky.social introduces ExE with the analogy of the goldilocks fairy tale, with it being 'just right', or "lagom" as we say in Swedish. 😄

I did an interview on the MVIF podcast with @pamferretti.bsky.social about wild animal microbiomes, for anyone interested! 🦠🧬

The WAME workshop is starting! Will be a fun and interesting day! #ExE2026 #microbiome @stn-wame.bsky.social

The US government is entering a partnership to store frozen cells and other biological samples from endangered and threatened species with Colossal, a private company best known for claiming to "de-extinct" dire wolves. Story by me & @catrineinhorn.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Rzhfw

We're currently four people from Videvall lab traveling from Sweden to Cornwall, UK to participate in the Wild Animal Microbiome Evolution workshop and the #ExE2026 conference! 😊🧳 @stn-wame.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social @estermart.bsky.social

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

We had a fun summer lab meeting last Friday at my place! 😊☀️

Thanks to Kasun Bodawatta @kbodawatta.bsky.social for visiting us at @animecol-uu.bsky.social Uppsala University! Kasun gave a very interesting talk about eDNA methods, such as using mosses, to survey the local flora and fauna. 🧬