Animal Microbiome Research Group

Announcement: the 3rd meeting will be **postponed** until fall 2023! If you already filled out our interest form we will touch base in a few months. If you haven't yet, but are interested in joining or presenting, please fill out the form in the link below!

📢 It’s that time again! The Animal Microbiome Reserach Group is planning its 3rd virtual meeting for this coming April. Interested in attending? Have a short talk you’d like to give? Fill out this form to join and stay in the loop: forms.gle/3gp9KkghsftBRE…

We are very excited to announce our virtual symposium series, kicking off on 12 Aug with an exciting line-up focussed on longitudinal dynamics of the microbiome 🕐🦠 To register: bit.ly/3Jax6s3 To learn more: wamestn.com/events Hope to see you there!

Check out this recent paper published in Animal Microbiome by Animal Microbiome Research Group member @anniegwest & colleagues. They investigated the #GutMicrobiome of the threatened takahē & discuss biogeographic patterns and conservation implications. animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Some exciting news from a member of the animal microbiome research community! Congratulations on your new position, Dr. @lauragrieneisen! 🦠🧫🧬

What shapes gut microbiomes of Alaska's brown bears? Location, location, location! Congratulations to Sarah Trujillo on publishing her first thesis chapter. file:///C:/Users/dlaffert/Downloads/journal.pone.0266698.pdf

Check out their super paper if interested in these methods nature.com/articles/s4139… And watch this space for more workshops in the future!

Thanks to @AuraRaulo for a really fabulous start to our AMRG workshops yesterday! We got a grand tour of dyadic modelling applied to microbiome data and plenty of code to play with! 🐭 💻

For #InternationalWomensDay2022, revisit this special issue (2021) of Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology that focused on Women in Microbiome in Health and Disease. #Microbiome #WomenInSTEM frontiersin.org/research-topic…

The summary of the 2021 Animal Microbiome Research Group meeting is now published in @evanthro, written by @webbshasta @M_Stothart & @sophieteullet! To learn about the meeting, exciting #ECR work, how the group functions & how to join, check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

The Black Microbiologists Association @BlackInMicro was formed in response to underrepresentation of #Black researchers in #Microbiology. Check out the work this group is doing to promote #Equity for Black researchers: blackinmicrobiology.org #BlackHistoryMonth

🗣️ #BlackHistoryMonth starts tomorrow, which serves a reminder that our work as #Scientists intersects with history, social (in)equity, discrimination & progress. Learn more about #MicrobesAndSocialEquity by visiting sueishaqlab.org/microbes-and-s…

Check out this cool #NewPaper led by Animal Microbiome Research Group member @TatianaMurill16 and co-authors. They investigate the relationship between dietary shifts. social interactions, and the #GutMicrobiome in red-fronted lemurs. #ECR nature.com/articles/s4370…

Excited to share our new preprint evaluating the impact of ionizing #radiation on the environmental #microbiomes of Chernobyl wetlands. ☢️🦠 Radiation had impacts on beta diversity (not alpha)! Very fun collaboration with @pabloburraco and @GOrizaola! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It has been excellent seeing the flurry of tweets from organisers announcing their #eseb2022 symposia! 🤩 Have a look at the programme and start thinking about your abstract 🤔 👉eseb2022.cz/en/symposia

New for 2022: I’m now an Editor at Animal Behaviour. Excited to get to read loads of social behaviour submissions. ECRs hoping to get some experience reviewing – ping me with your area of expertise and I'll do my best to send a paper your way.

Pretty cool metagenomic run of pangolin's feces on the @nanopore GridION! 💩🦠 Quite degraded sample but a (not expected) N50 of 2.5 kb! And more than 1 Gb in 2 hours! Great start! 🧬✅ #metagenomics #ConvergeAnt

🗣️ Animal Microbiome Research Group members @arsweeny @sarahfworsley1 & @AwfulDodger are organizing a session at #ESEB2022 focusing on drivers & evolutionary consequences of #Microbiome variation. Learn more about submitting an abstract & attending here: eseb2022.cz/en/call-for-ab…

I am happy to announce that I am recruiting 2 postdocs for projects involving mathematical models and microbial evolution. The deadlines are coming up soon. Read more at these links . umu.se/en/work-with-u… umu.se/en/work-with-u…. .

Join us for our first talk of this spring's speaker series! @DrSueIshaq will talk about microbes as a nexus of env, bio, and social research! Register here to join us for FREE on Weds. 12 pm ET: sueishaqlab.org/2022/01/10/reg…