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Torgeir R. Hvidsten

@trhvidsten.bsky.social
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Bioinformatics, Hologenomics, Gene regulatory networks, Comparative regulomics; in plants, salmonids and more. Professor at Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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Bioinformatics Advances @bioinfoadv.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🧫 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: "Omnicorr: An R-package for visualizing putative host-microbiome interactions using multi-omics data"  Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag057 Authors include: @cmkobel.bsky.social, @sabinallarosa.bsky.social, @trhvidsten.bsky.social
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 24/10/2025
🧪🌾PAPER - What makes a tree a tree?🧬 Read the paper by @siribirkeland.bsky.social and @trhvidsten.bsky.social with contributions from several UPSC researchers. By comparing dozens of genomes, they offer fresh insights into the genetic foundations of woodiness and perenniality in angiosperms.
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Opinion: Genomic studies hint at what makes a tree a tree (Trends Plant Sci) @siribirkeland.bsky.social @trhvidsten.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/yXVfgnP #PlantaePSRW
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Opinion: Genomic studies hint at what makes a tree a tree | Plantae
This is such an engaging and though-provoking review article. I’d love to ask a group of students to think about what makes a tree a tree, including such questions as: How do we define trees?
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Trends in Plant Science @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
January Issue.Read FREE:What genes make a tree a tree?(cover); Phosphorus acquisition and pathogen defense:synergies vs.Trade-offs;Sustained cereal bowl under growing temperatures of climate change;Evolution of sTyr peptides,receivers&activators &much more www.cell.com/trends/plant... #plantscience
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HoloGen MSCA Doctoral Network @hologen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
HoloGen Doctoral Network Retreat #2 – Barcelona! 🌞 All our PhD candidates together for the first time – a week of project presentations, hands-on workshops, industry talks, and an amazing sailing social on the Med. Science + collaboration + tapas = success! #HoloGen #PhDLife #Microbiome #MSCADN
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 02/09/2025
🧪🌾 In collaboration with bioinformatician @trhvidsten.bsky.social, the team developed an interactive app that allows to explore seasonal gene activities and also to see which genes might be connected or influence each other. 🧬 Try the app out here👇: lauragarciaromanach.shinyapps.io/popul_r_mini/
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POPUL-R: A transcriptional roadmap of the yearly growth cycle in Populus trees
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 02/09/2025
🧪🌾 NEWS - A genetic roadmap across seasons 🧬 By comparing trees grown outdoors and in lab environments, they reveal seasonal genetic patterns and highlight both the strengths and limitations of lab-based experiments to study seasonality. 👉Read more here: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Figure illustrating the annual growth cycle in a juvenile aspen tree made by Domenique André.
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Siri Birkeland @siribirkeland.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Tree evolution is surprisingly quirky! 🌳 Trees are likely ancestral in many plant groups, often re-evolve on islands, and Arabidopsis can be made tree-like by tweaking a few genes. We revisited what genes really make a tree a tree using comparative genomics. @trhvidsten.bsky.social #trees #evolution
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Jenny Merkesvik @jennymerkesvik.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Check out this preprint of the first article for my PhD thesis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We've leveraged methods developed for multi-omics to investigate a holo-omic system (🐷🦠), and predicted host-microbiome interactions between important features for observed cross-omic data patterns 🔍📊
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Integrative holo-omic data analysis predicts interactions across the host-microbiome axis
Understanding the interplay between host organisms and their microbiomes is central to the development of sustainable food systems. However, high dimensionality and spurious associations remain major ...
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Torgeir R. Hvidsten @trhvidsten.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I really enjoyed this read ... what an exciting time! doi.org/10.1038/d415...
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How quantum mechanics emerged in a few revolutionary months 100 years ago
It began with concerns about the orbits used to explain the motion of electrons in atoms — but quantum theory ended up upending reality itself.
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Torgeir R. Hvidsten @trhvidsten.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It is still possible to apply for PhD scholarships within computational host/microbiome genomics (hologenomics) at NMBU! The positions are part of @hologen.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline: January 17th. @microbesrule.bsky.social @sabinallarosa.bsky.social
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Two PhD scholarships within computational host/microbiome genomics (hologenomics) (268532) | Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Job title: Two PhD scholarships within computational host/microbiome genomics (hologenomics) (268532), Employer: Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Deadline: Friday, January 17, 2025
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srsandve.bsky.social @srsandve.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We have over the past month or so published a nice bouquet of papers about the interaction between the Atlantic salmon, its gut microbiome and the feed it eats. 1/4
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Fabricio Almeida-Silva @almeidasilvaf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thrilled to see this paper out! 🎉 We analyzed 470 (!) angiosperm genomes and identified and dated 132 whole-genome duplication events. Importantly, we observed that WGD occurrence dates are not randomly distributed, but clustered at times of major environmental upheaval.
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