Remembering sunnier days sampling newt microbiomes out on Dartmoor. But we did find this handsome common frog too that was clearly VERY happy to pose for a team photo.

Love this new paper from Carly Muletz Wolz and team. Filling important knowledge gaps about #amphibian 🐸 transcriptomic responses to #chytrid, but fascinating that the response differs depending on temperature.

New work from the group. #microbiomes #amphibiandisease #ranavirus

Yet MORE new work from the lab. This time it’s chytrid, led by the excellent @UK_PetDogPop #amphibiandisease

Postdoc alert! 2 ERC-funded positions available in my lab knowleslab.com. If you ♥️ host-microbe interactions, & wonder how they arise and influence fitness in wild animals, come join us... 1. w/ @SuseJohnston my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… 2. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… Please RT

Very proud of @UoExeterCEC and NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership researcher alice pawlik chairing the opening session of the Herp Workers Meeting Conference in Southport #HWM2020 Rob Gandola

Super proud moment as Izzie Jones gives her first departmental PhD seminar University of Exeter CEC @StuBearhop KRCEcological 🇺🇦

And completing the brace of Wild Microbiome Lab talks is alice pawlik talking about her recent amphibian adventures AND survey investigating the relationship between people and their ponds

Really pleased to begin fieldwork for our The Leverhulme Trust funded project in beautiful Iceland 🇮🇸 studying microbiome dynamics of migratory birds 🦠 🐦

Our study species is the light-bellied Brent goose. Iceland is an important stopover site where they build up reserves in preparation for migration to the Canadian High Arctic breeding grounds. This picture shows the ring IDs we use to track individuals over time and space

Yesterday we went north to explore the relatively remote area of Myrar and look for ringed light-bellied Brent geese. Weather was stunning 🌊

And that's a wrap! After a successful month of fuelling up, the Brents are on their way to Canada. We managed to get two last samples from some stragglers this morning, but now that's it until next year. Good luck on your journey Brents!

The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps nature.com/articles/s4155…

📢 Announcing the next set of talks in our WAME STN ESEB virtual seminar series! These talks will explore the importance of the microbiome in conservation with a fab lineup of speakers! April 18th at 15:00 BST (10:00 Eastern, 7:00 Pacific time). See link below 🦠👇

📢Reminder about this wild microbiomes and conservation seminar event this Thursday, free to join - just click on the zoom link in here to do so...

Thrilled to see this out in print! Here Kirsty Marsh, @StuBearhop and I discuss the importance of studying individual microbiome dynamics in natural systems, published in Trends in Microbiology Funded by the The Leverhulme Trust sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We're at BES 2024 in Liverpool! Double-whammy of talks by Xav Harrison and Natasha Hammond followed by a poster by Kirsty Marsh. What a day