News

2024

Nov 2024 - Matias has officially started his MSc project in the lab!
Oct 2024 - Elin visited Stockholm University to be part of a dissertation committee during a PhD defense on leaf beetle microbiomes.
Oct 2024 - Elin and Charlotte travelled to Umeå to visit SLU and Göran Spong, our collaborator in the wolverine project. Charlotte stayed to prepare lots of samples in the lab!
Oct 2024 - Madde travelled to Spain for 2 weeks to do field work, collecting samples from wild horses. It was a very successful trip!
Oct 2024 - New preprint on diet-microbiome associations in giraffes.
Oct 2024 - New preprint for an R package to analyze ecological communities.
Oct 2024 - Ester has officially started her postdoc in the lab!
Sep 2024 - Elin gave an invited talk about wildlife hologenomics at the very first SciLifeLab Planetary Biology conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Sep 2024 - New paper on the Hawaiian honeycreeper phylogeny, insect diet, plant diet, and microbiomes accepted in Ecology and Evolution!
Sep 2024 - Two new guest researchers, Marta Garrigós and María Dolores (Lola) Barón Rodriguez, are joining the lab this autumn. Lola is studying preen gland microbiomes of birds and Marta is studying gut microbiomes of mosquitoes.
Aug 2024 - New paper about the functions of animal microbiomes accepted in Functional Ecology!
June 2024 - Madde, Charlotte and Elin traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark to participate in the Applied Hologenomics Conference. Madde and Charlotte got great feedback and discussions at their posters!
May 2024 - Congratulations Charlotte Enkvist who is starting her PhD in the group this summer!
May 2024 - Congratulations to Dr. Ester Martínez Renau, who was awarded a postdoc scholarship from the Lawski Foundation! Ester will join the lab in the autumn.
May 2024 - Matteo successfully presented and finished his Erasmus project on animal gut microbiomes in captivity!
May 2024 - Charlotte Enkvist successfully presented her Master's thesis about sand lizard microbiomes!
May 2024 - New collaborative paper about hologenomics published in TREE!
Apr 2024 - Catarina Cunha joined the lab to work on the flycatcher microbiome project in the molecular lab and the field.
Apr 2024 - Madeleine van Well Bergström joined the lab for a project on feralization on the horse microbiome.
Mar 2024 - Elin gave an invited talk about her career in academia during a career event organized by Uppsala University students (Bio-dagarna).
Feb 2024 - Matteo Resca joined the lab for a literature project on microbiomes in captive animal species.
Feb 2024 - Elin gave a talk about coprophagy at the local Revolution conference and it was voted the best talk! Charlotte presented a poster about sand lizard microbiomes and got great comments!
Feb 2024 - New preprint on functions of wild animal microbiomes using omics data.
Jan 2024 - Elin had a lovely trip to Madrid, Spain, invited by David Canal and team members at the Natural History Museum. Will collaborate on a project related to flycatchers, aging, and gut microbiota.
Jan 2024 - Elin spent a day at Skansen zoo doing radio interviews about the role of gut microbiomes in animal conservation.

2023

Dec 2023 - Editorial and Special Issue on the Evolutionary Significance of Animal Microbiomes now published in Journal of Evolutionary Biology!
Nov 2023 - Perspective paper accepted in Molecular Ecology!
Nov 2023 - Awarded a 4-year Starting Grant from the Swedish Research Council! I will set up my lab at Uppsala University.
Oct 2023 - Awarded a research grant from the Foundation for Zoological Research to work on the impacts of feralization on the horse microbiome!
Sept 2023 - New preprint on molecular ecology of microbiomes in the wild.
Sept 2023 - Attended the SciLifeLab Science Summit 2023 at Stockholm University.
Sept 2023 - Awarded 2 years of funding from the Birgitta Sintring Foundation!
Sept 2023 - Successfully completed fieldwork on wild horses and bison in the mountains of Riaño, Spain.
Aug 2023 - Co-organized a fun symposium on avian microbiomes at the EOU 2023 conference. Gave a review talk on the advancement of the field. We also organized a well-attended roundtable.
Jul/Aug 2023 - Moved to Sweden from the US! I’m now based at Uppsala University.
May 2023 - New paper on environmental microbiomes in Chernobyl accepted in Environmental Pollution!
April 2023 - New paper on how coprophagy rapidly matures gut microbiota accepted in Evolution Letters!
Feb 2023 - Roundtable proposal for EOU 2023 conference accepted!
Feb 2023 - New paper accepted in Journal of Heredity! This one was led by Kristina Paxton, evaluating honeycreepers’ transcriptome response to malaria, with important conservation implications.

2022

Nov 2022 - Our symposium “Eco-evolutionary dynamics of avian microbiomes” now officially accepted at the EOU conference 2023! Looking forward to meeting all interested in the microbiomes of birds!
Oct 2022 - Paper on avian malaria and microbiomes, led by Amanda Navine, now accepted in Molecular Ecology!
Sep 2022 - Had a great time visiting IEG, Uppsala University, Sweden for three weeks.
Sep 2022 - Gave a talk on Avian Microbiomes and Malaria in Hawaii at the Wildlife Malaria conference 2022, held in Bielefeld, Germany.
Aug 2022 - Newly published paper on how individual transcriptomes of Hawaiian mosquitoes respond to infection with malaria parasites, excellent work led by Dr. Ferreira.
Jun 2022 - New commentary about personalized gut microbiomes in baboons out in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Feb 2022 - Gave a talk about Giraffe diet and microbiomes at the Revolution 2022 conference in Uppsala (virtually). Was even awarded the best talk, what an honor!
Feb 2022 - New preprint out! Mosquito transcriptional responses to Plasmodium relictum.
Feb 2022 - Invited to talk about avian microbiomes at the Ornithological Colloquium seminar series hosted by the Institute of Avian Research in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Jan 2022 - New preprint out! Impact of radiation on Chernobyl wetland microbiomes.

2021

Nov 2021 - Gave a talk about Giraffe Diet and Microbiome at the Animal Microbiome Research Group Meeting, a two-day annual online meeting with exciting microbiome research.
Oct 2021 - Awarded funding from the Foundation for Zoological Research, Sweden.
Oct 2021 - Completed the 7-month long Postdoc Career Success Programme offered through Uppsala University.
Aug 2021 - Amanda Navine won the Robert B. Perry award at AOS for her presentation on our work with avian malaria and the gut microbiome; congrats!
Aug 2021 - The Avian Microbiome Symposium at AOS 2021 was a great success! Organized together with Brian Trevelline and Kevin Kohl. 18 invited speakers and a subsequent Roundtable discussion.
Jun 2021 - Collaborative paper about host-associated marine microbes accepted in PLOS Biology!
Jun 2021 - Moved to Providence, Rhode Island!
Apr 2021 - Won a grant from PacBio to sequence long-read metagenomic microbiome data!
Apr 2021 - Presented an invited keynote lecture at the CSBSP9 conference, broadcasted from Vilnius, Lithuania.
Apr 2021 - Our Symposium “A bird’s eye view of the microbiome” was selected as one of the top-ranked proposals for AOS 2021! Our round-table proposal was also selected (!), which means there is going to be a lot of bird microbiome discussions at the next AOS meeting.
Mar 2021 - Gave an invited talk about microbiomes at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Cross-Center Seminar.
Feb 2021 - Had a lot of fun participating in the two-day-long conference Revolution at Uppsala University where I gave a talk about avian malaria transcriptomics.
Feb 2021 - Gave an invited talk at the California Academy of Sciences virtual genomics hour.
Feb 2021 - New paper about the Hawaiian Plasmodium relictum transcriptome now accepted in Ecology and Evolution!
Jan 2021 - Gave a virtual talk at the Conservation Biology group at Uppsala University.
Jan 2021 - New nominated affiliation with the Smithsonian: Research Associate. “Research Associates are senior experts in their field who maintain a formal scholarly affiliation with the Smithsonian.”
Jan 2021 - Started my new Postdoc position with Dr. Kartzinel at Brown University! This 3-year fellowship is funded by the Swedish Research Council and hosted through Uppsala University (Dr. Guschanski).
Jan 2021 - Started as Associate Editor for Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources.

2020

15 Dec 2020 - New paper about uropygial gland microbiomes accepted in Journal of Avian Biology!
This study marks a personal milestone for me with 20 peer-reviewed papers published!
23 Nov 2020 - Accepted an invitation to become Associate Editor for the journals Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources!
18 Nov 2020 - Joined the Earth Hologenome Initiative management.
6 Nov 2020 - Editorial paper about benefits sharing published in Molecular Ecology.
18 Sep 2020 - New paper about gut microbiome dysbiosis published in Microbiome!
17 Aug 2020 - Started an Avian Microbiome Slack discussion channel together with Gabrielle. Open to all researchers around the world working with microbiomes of birds.
13 Aug 2020 - Gave a talk titled “Introduction to Avian Microbiome Research” at NAOC 2020.
28 Jul 2020 - Accepted an invitation to join the junior Editorial Board of the two journals: Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources.
28 Jul 2020 - A paper I published in Molecular Ecology last year has been awarded runner-up to the Harry Smith Prize in Molecular Ecology !
8 June 2020 - Awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship (3 years) from the Swedish Research Council !
2 Apr 2020 - New perspective paper on gut microbiome development now accepted in Molecular Ecology !
3 Mar 2020 - Currently working from home due to the Covid-19 epidemic. Feel free to reach out via email/Skype/Zoom!
26 Feb 2020 - Received an AOS Postdoctoral Research Award !
12 Feb 2020 - Our Workshop “Introduction to microbiome study design and analysis“ and Round-table discussion “The avian microbiome“ were both selected for NAOC 2020 !
12 Feb 2020 - Our Symposium “A bird’s eye view of the microbiome” was selected as one of the top-ranked proposals for NAOC 2020 !
15 Jan 2020 - Participating in the weekly Landscape Genomics course together with the CCG lab.

2019

23 Dec 2019 - New paper accepted in The American Naturalist!
9 Dec 2019 - Attended the virtual workshop “Deciphering the Microbiome” and had a great time discussing microbiome questions with other researchers.
3 Dec 2019 - Gave a talk “Avian gut microbiomes and host health” at a Microbiome meeting in Panama
15 Nov 2019 - New preprint! Early-life gut dysbiosis linked to mass mortality in ostriches
5 Nov 2019 - New paper published in PeerJ about genomics of host-pathogen interactions !
18 Aug 2019 - Invited to give a talk at the large evolutionary congress ESEB 2019 in Turku, Finland.
19 July 2019 - Our recent Molecular Ecology paper was highlighted in their Spotlight section.
17 June 2019 - Attended the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Animal-Microbe Symbioses in Mount Snow, VT and presented a poster.
15 June 2019 - Attended the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) in Animal-Microbe Symbioses in Mount Snow, VT and presented a poster.
13 June 2019 - Gave a seminar and visited Scott Edward’s lab at Harvard University.
15 May 2019 - New preprint on genomics of host-pathogen interactions!
9 Apr 2019 - Guided tour at Sylvan Heights Bird Park. Great place doing lots of important conservation efforts and outreach.
8 Apr 2019 - Gave an invited seminar at East Carolina University and met with several interesting students and faculty members.
27 Mar 2019 - New paper on the development of gut microbiota in ostriches now published in Molecular Ecology!
11 Jan 2019 - New review paper on avian malaria genomics published in Trends in Parasitology!

2018

01 Nov 2018 - Participated in the international Wildlife Malaria conference taking place in Beijing, China this year. I gave a presentation about avian malaria transcriptomics and had a wonderful time meeting with several new and old colleagues.
26 July 2018 - New paper on sex-biased gene expression in the Common Whitethroat published in Genes.
15 July 2018 - Work trip to Hawaii to visit field sites, conservation breeding facilities, and participate in a meeting in our joint project on avian malaria in Hawaii.
9 July 2018 - Moved to Washington, DC, USA and started a new position as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Conservation Genomics!
30 May 2018 - Invited to Bielefeld University, Germany to give a seminar about malaria transcriptomics and met with several people to discuss animal microbiomes as well.
25 May 2018 - Was properly celebrated with a 4 hr-long doctoral conferment ceremony in Latin in the Lund cathedral, together with the other newly graduated Doctors. Given a ring, a wreath, and a diploma, cannons were fired, orchestras were playing, a formal banquet was held in the evening, and lots of people cheered us on when walking in procession. Thank you Lund University! [Photos]
3 May 2018 - Visited Curator Susan Perkins and her lab members, at AMNH, in New York City where we discussed science over pizza and beer, and visited parts of the ornithology collection.
30 Apr 2018 - Was given a fantastic guided tour of the large Hawaiian Honeycreeper collection at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, by Helen James and Rob Fleischer
27 Apr 2018 - Was invited to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, to give a Friday seminar about avian malaria transcriptomics and discussed science with several interesting people.
6 Apr 2018 - Successfully defended my dissertation and received my PhD degree!
5 Apr 2018 - Organized a full-day symposium on Host-Microbe Interactions in association with my PhD defense with eight invited speakers.
4 Apr 2018 - As is tradition in Lund, I have now nailed my PhD thesis to the oak tree!
28 Mar 2018 - Finally official: I have accepted a Postdoctoral research position at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC! Will start a 3-year NSF-funded postdoc at the Center for Conservation Genomics to work on the genomics of avian malaria in Hawaii.
16 Mar 2018 - Gave a talk about "Twitter as a tool in science communication" during a workshop at the annual BLAM conference, in Lund, Sweden.
13 Mar 2018 - PhD thesis now printed! It includes ten finished papers of which seven are already published.
23 Feb 2018 - Posted our new work on gut microbiota development in ostriches to bioRxiv.

2017

19 Dec 2017 - My first single-author paper now accepted in Microbial Genomics!
21 Nov 2017 - Visited Prof. Luc Lens and Dr. Jan Engler at Ghent University, Belgium to give a seminar about avian malaria transcriptomics and discuss future collaboration.
16 Nov 2017 - Paper on thiamine genes in malaria parasites accepted in Parasitology.
6 Nov 2017 - Paper evaluating the accuracy of cloacal and faecal samples to measure gut microbiomes accepted in Molecular Ecology Resources.
30 Oct 2017 - Paper about direct PCR of gut microbiomes accepted in mSystems.
4 Oct 2017 - Visited Dr Alexander Suh and colleagues at Uppsala University and gave a seminar about Dual transcriptomics of birds with malaria.
27 Sep 2017 - Posted our new preprint about Direct PCR of gut microbiomes to bioRxiv.
7 July 2017 - Posted our new preprint about avian gut microbiome sampling to bioRxiv.
29 May 2017 - Spent one week in Gothenburg, participating in the meeting Host-pathogen co-evolution in the genomic era with Prof. Scott Edwards.
22 Mar 2017 - Gave a talk about Dual transcriptomics of birds with malaria at the smaller conference: Ecology meets Epidemiology at Linnaeus University, Kalmar.
17 Feb 2017 - Paper about de novo transcriptome assembly of the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium ashfordi accepted in Molecular Ecology.
9 Feb 2017 - Attended the Swedish Oikos Congress 2017 at Lund University.
6 Feb 2017 - Paper about transcriptomics of urban birds accepted in Scientific Reports.
22 Jan 2017 - Three weeks of organizing and teaching in the Workshop on Genomics 2017 in Český Krumlov, Czech Republic.

2016

22 Oct 2016 - Three weeks of visiting the Knight lab at UCSD, San Diego, US and discuss microbiome analyses.
24 Sep 2016 - Three weeks of field work with ostrich chicks in South Africa.
31 Aug 2016 - Deposited our new manuscript about the transcriptome of Plasmodium ashfordi at bioRxiv.
9 Aug 2016 - Won first prize in the "Conservation ecology and biodiversity research" category in the BMC Ecology Image Competition 2016.
23 Jun 2016 - Accepted invitation to teach as instructor again in the Workshop on Genomics 2017 in Český Krumlov, Czech Republic.
13 Apr 2016 - Paper about butterfly monitoring published in Nature Conservation.
4 Apr 2016 - Paper about malaria genomics accepted in Genome Biology and Evolution.
10 Mar 2016 - Gave a talk about malaria transcriptomics at BLAM 2016.
25 Feb 2016 - Organized a seminar on Human Evolution with invited speaker Prof. Svante Pääbo.