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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Ester Martínez-Renau @estermart.bsky.social presents a poster on 'Early-life assembly of gut microbiota in Ficedula flycatchers: insights from a cross-fostering experiment'. 🐤🐦 Number 1005 at #ExE2026

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Gersende Feraud presents a poster titled 'Seasonal variation in the Przewalski’s horse gut microbiome'. 🐎 Number 1004 at #ExE2026

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social has a poster on 'Variation of the gut microbiota in wild and captive wolverines'. 🐺Number 1003 at #ExE2026.

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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. 🧬

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Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Welcome David to the group! 🥳

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

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Invisible allies: the role of microbes in biodiversity conservation – ISME

Convened by Madeleine van Oppen, Australia, and Elin Videvall, Sweden

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Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Today I had the chance to show some preliminary data from my wolverine #microbiome project at our program symposia Revolution @animecol-uu.bsky.social 🦠

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Happy to share the recent paper by Marta Garrigós et al. Effects of avian #Plasmodium exposure on the #microbiota of #Culex pipiens. 🦟🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Marta spent a month in our group at UU last year; great to see this published! @jmartinezpuente.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social

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Effects of avian Plasmodium exposure on the microbiota of Culex pipiens - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Effects of avian Plasmodium exposure on the microbiota of Culex pipiens

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

📢 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. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

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Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology - Uppsala University

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

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Katerina Guschanski @kguschan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Faces of different guenon species to show their morphological differences

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Our lab group went out to celebrate the recent big grant with some cocktails and delicious food! 🥂🎉 Qianrui, @estermart.bsky.social, @cenkvist.bsky.social, @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Excited to share that I was awarded a 6M SEK grant from Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development ! 🎉 The project is about the early-life gut #microbiome of reindeer calves, and how it's associated with their health and growth. 🦌🦠🧬

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

At a recent journal club, we discussed this paper on urban coyote #microbiomes and diet by Sugden et al., and I really enjoyed reading it. 😊 An altered microbiome in urban coyotes mediates relationships between anthropogenic diet and poor health. 🐺 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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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Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Come by mine and my groups posters on wild animal #microbiomes this afternoon!

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Maddi (Maji) @garate-olaizola.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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 · 17/08/2025

Wild Animal Microbiome Evolution (WAME) @stn-wame.bsky.social satellite meeting today prior to #ESEB2025 was fun!

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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Interested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Congratulations Gabriel Hedman Slottner on a successful MSc thesis presentation and defense! 🎉 #microbiome 🐸🌡️🦠

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Madeleine Van Well Bergström @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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 · 02/06/2025

We will look for a postdoc after the summer to start a new project on transmission of microbiota and antimicrobial resistance in lake flies. 🦠🧬🦟 It primarily involves experiments in the lab (transmission between predator-prey, vertical, species) and metagenomic sequencing to find AMR genes.

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Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

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 · 18/03/2025

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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Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Really cool PhD project with a fantastic group and PI 🙌 We have a great department with fun people like yours truly ☺️

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Gabriel presented a poster about the effects of temperature and diet on the gut #microbiome of Natterjack toad tadpoles! 🐸🌡️🥦🦠 At this early stage, he has only research plans, but results are coming soon! 🧬

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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

At 'Revolution' symposium today: Prof. Bengt Hansson went in depth on sex chromosome evolution in birds, very intriguing patterns of fussions & reduced recombination! 😮 And more talks from local researchers, ornithology, theoretical models, freshwater biodiversity... 💕👏

Bengt starting his talk "Evolution of complex avian sex chromosomes"

Bengt explaining the significance of sex chromosome research

Talks today:
Jacob Höglund - Anemia, malaria and sexual selection in great snipe
Julius Falck - Genome diversity and lark conservation
Maja Svedberg - How are the Lagopus birds doing? - A genomic and demographic investigation
Frank Johansson - Are species diversity and genetic diversity correlated?

More talks:
Olle Wickman - Behavioral niche partitioning along environmental gradients
Romain Dumont de Chassart - Taxonomy of Emberiza pallasi: An integrative approach
Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich - Something about butterflies and an unstarted VR proposal
Per Alström - A unified list of the birds of the world

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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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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Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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 · 12/02/2025

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 · 21/01/2025

Thanks @gmeric.bsky.social for coming over and visiting our lab group today! We had a great time, discussing microbiomes in both humans and wildlife over some coffee. 😊🦠🧬 @cenkvist.bsky.social @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social @estermart.bsky.social @matiasbeck.bsky.social

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Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

What an amazing two weeks it has been at the @evomics.bsky.social workshop. I cannot believe these two weeks went by so fast. Thank you so much again to all the organisers, TA's and faculty for putting in so much time and effort into this wonderful workshop.

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Erin Maybach @erinmaybach.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Week one in Český Krumlov ✅ #evomics2025

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Joshua Hufton @joshuahufton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

First field season of my PhD studying Swedish sand lizards (Lacerta agilis) 🦎 My work investigates epigenetic response in immune challenge experiments. Plenty more cool projects: hormones and coloration, microbiomes, egg incubation temperatures, telomeres

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In the Conservation Biology Seminar Series yesterday, visiting PhD student María Dolores Barón Rodriguez (Lola) gave a really interesting seminar about the preen gland #microbiomes of hoopoes, wood-hoopoes and hornbills. 🐦 She had a big audience too (not visible)!

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