Always fun catching up with the HoloRuminant H2020 consortium. General Assembly with team NMBU Torgeir R Hvidsten Ove Øyås 🇺🇦 and Wanxin

Such a huge honour to receive an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant #ERCCoG to explore the enigma of oxidative lignocellulose degradation in anaerobic environments. Big thanks to everyone who has made this success possible! NMBU Phil b. Pope The PEP group

Delighted to see that our Populus super-pangenome study is featured as the cover story in the latest issue of Molecular Plant!

AlphaFold3 is out with improvements on structural models that include DNA/RNA and small molecules. Unfortunately, there is no code, no binary to run at scale and only a limited webserver. Why even publish? nature.com/articles/s4158…

Oh nice! nature publishes another amazing advertisement for an amazing product masquerading as a scientific publication with no code, no model & a webserver that allows 10 queries at a time from a billion dollar company. But it's "gold" open access folks! Rejoice!

How did these authors miss the opportunity to paraphrase Watson and Crick? “It has not escaped our notice that these findings have implications for the capabilities of large language models/AI”. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Open PhD position in computational microbiome research, covering population cohorts, microbial ecology, epidemiology & multi-omic integration. In HoloGen EU doctoral network / international applicants are eligible. Turku, Finland. PM for details.

Congratulations!!! This is the worst kept secret in all of ML.

Check out our new review on promising methods for analyzing omics data from matching host and microbiome samples (holo-omics)! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… with: https://genomic.social/@cmkobel Idun Maria Tokvam Burgos Ove Øyås 🇺🇦 Phil b. Pope Velma Aho

In a perfect microbial world we would all work with genomes/MAGs/isolates…but we are not there yet, and the old workhorse 16S rDNA gene still has a role to play. If you missed Ove Øyås 🇺🇦 poster at #ISME19 check out the preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super excited to be part of the new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions doctoral network HoloGen MSCA Doctoral Network that will train the next generation of researchers in hologenomics! Look out for positions in the coming weeks.

Check out these exciting HoloGen MSCA Doctoral Network #PhDposition's Turun yliopisto - University of Turku! 👇💻🧬💩 ats.talentadore.com/apply/1-2-full… Please also note Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PhD's have a mobility rule ➡️can't have lived/worked in host country for >12 months within the 3 years before Sept 2024.

We have an open position! We are seeking a doctoral candidate who will do #metabolomics and multiomics research related to #microbiota-host interactions in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions doctoral network HoloGen MSCA Doctoral Network 3 year fully funded position! afekta.com/news/open-posi…

We are looking for two PhD students to join our NMBU team to explore host-microbe interactions using genomics. The positions are part of HoloGen, a MSCA Doctoral Network. HoloGen MSCA Doctoral Network Phil b. Pope Sabina Leanti La Rosa Apply here: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Another exciting #phdpositions advert up for our HoloGen MSCA Doctoral Network Doctoral network! Check out the details below 😃👇

We are seeking a PhD student within comparative evolutionary genomics. What happens with gene regulation after the genome is doubled? Help us find out using RNA-seq, ATAC-seq and Hi-C data! Supervisors: Torgeir R Hvidsten and Simen Rød Sandve jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillin…

Are you interested in learning about microbes living in the salmon gut? Then check our new paper by Sabina Leanti La Rosa JacobAgerbo 🐟 🦠 Simen Rød Sandve Morten T Limborg and Phil b. Pope nature.com/articles/s4156…

A fishy tale about the the Salmon Microbial Genome Atlas is now out in Nature Microbiology. We hope this culture and genome biobank provides a functional resource to the community and supports the next generation of salmon gut microbiome projects. nature.com/articles/s4156…

4 years of collaboration has poured into this resource! Massive thanks to Sabina Leanti La Rosa and Arturo Vera for driving this and of course all our partners coming from NMBU and abroad Simen Rød Sandve Torgeir R Hvidsten Morten T Limborg Molecular Systems Physiology Group Stefan Bertilsson

We are seeking three PhD students within computational biology/bioinformatics at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences: Comparative evolutionary genomics: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j… Host-microbe interactions using genomics: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j… Deadlines: October 31st.