Welcome to the website of the Videvall Lab! We are based at Uppsala University. More specifically, in the Animal Ecology program, Department of Ecology and Genetics, at the Evolutionary Biology Centre in Uppsala, Sweden.
Our research explores molecular interactions between wild animals and their microbiomes. We use various DNA sequencing techniques and bioinformatic tools to study these microbial communities and how these are shaped by the diet and the genomes of their animal hosts. We collaborate with several international colleagues on interesting projects in evolutionary biology and conservation genetics. For more information about our work, please see the Research page.
We are funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR), Birgitta Sintring Foundation, Magnus Bergvall’s Foundation, the Foundation for Zoological Research, and the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas).
News
2026
Jan - Elin gave a popular science presentation to scholarship donor Birgitta Sintring and her family.
Jan - Elin was part of the PhD thesis evaluation committee for Lorenzo Assentato, BMC, UU, who defended his thesis on insect gut microbiota.
Jan - Alina Fomin started a MSc thesis project on sand lizard microbiomes, with Mette Lillie as main supervisor and Elin as co-supervisor.
2025
Dec - Elin was part of the PhD thesis evaluation committee for Shuowen Cao, SLU, who defended her thesis on salmonid gut microbiota.
Nov - Elin was appointed SciLifeLab Group Leader!
Nov - Elin gave a talk about the evolutionary hologenomics pilot project.
Nov - Elin gave a talk about the upcoming reindeer project.
Oct - Elin was awarded a 6M SEK Formas career grant!!
Oct - Ramin joined the lab as a research assistant.
Sept - Marta’s new paper about Culex pipiens microbiota is now accepted in Scientific Reports!
Sept - Qianrui joined the lab as an MSc student.
Aug - Elin, Charlotte, Ester, Madde, and Matias traveled to Barcelona to participate in ESEB2025 ! We presented five posters, one each, at the Microbiome symposium, and Elin gave a brief talk at the WAME satellite meeting. We had a lot of fun meeting new and old colleagues!
ESEB2025 Videvall Lab
Jul - Elin and Madde traveled to the mountains in Jämtland to conduct fieldwork on reindeer calves together with the Sámi reindeer herders and researchers from SLU and Norway (short news video in Swedish).
Jul - Ester finished two months of fieldwork on flycatchers in Öland!
Jun - Gabriel successfully presented his MSc project on gut microbiome responses to diet and temperature in natterjack toad tadpoles!
Jun - New paper on flycatcher microbiomes accepted in Ardeola: International Journal of Ornithology!
Jun - Matias successfully presented his MSc project on host genome-microbiome interactions in feral chicken populations!
Jun - Madde spent a few weeks doing fieldwork on the island of Öland to help in the flycatcher microbiome project.
Jun - Madde, Charlotte, and Matias were awarded travel stipends from WAME to participate in ESEB 2025!
Mar - Madde successfully presented her MSc project about feralization of horse gut microbiomes!
Feb - Elin, Madde, Charlotte, and Gabriel participated in (and organized) the internal Revolution 2025 conference! Gabriel presented his first poster, Charlotte talked about her PhD project, and Madde won a prize for best poster!
Feb - Paper on giraffe diets and microbiomes accepted in Global Ecology and Conservation!
Feb - Madde participated in the Oikos Sweden 2025 conference and was awarded 3rd prize for best poster!
Jan - Elin was awarded a smaller project grant from Magnus Bergvall’s foundation!
Jan - Gabriel has officially started his MSc project in the lab!
Jan - Elin, Madde, Ester, and Matias participated in the Evolution in Sweden 2025 conference at Linköping University. Madde presented a poster on horse microbiomes.
Jan - Charlotte participated in the Workshop on Genomics 2025 in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic.