I lead a young research group of enthusiastic biologists and data scientists interested in understanding how animal-microbiota interactions shape ecological and evolutionary processes.
Data generation manager for HoloFood and project and outreach manager for 3D’omics. I like people, processes and efficiency.
My research is focused on understanding how animal-microbiota-environment interactions affect animal behaviour and its implication for animal ecology and evolution.
I am involved in optimising the lab procedures for the 3D’omics project, which aims to generate a 3D reconstruction of the animal-intestinal microbiota interactions.
My research focusses on addressing eco-evolutionary questions about the interaction between ecological niches and gut microbiomes of vertebrates as part of the Earth Hologenome Initiative.
I'm fascinated by the co-evolution of microbes with their hosts. My research seeks to understand what these intimate relationships mean for animal health and evolution, with a particular focus on wild mammals.
I'm an ecologist with knowledge on statistical modelling and data analysis. Currently, my research mainly focuses on studying microbial species distributions and diversity, as well as host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions.
My research focuses on how the hologenomic approach can be applied in the conservation of endangered animal species by pre-conditioning the microbiome of captive-bred individuals prior to their release into the wild.
My PhD focuses around the role of gut microbiomes in species adaptation. Particularly, looking at metagenomic and taxonomic profiles of these communities and how they form/shape adaptive process to novel environmental conditions.
I am interested in applying a hologenomic approach in animal production to understand how pre- and probiotics affect host and gut microbiota interactions towards improving animal welfare.
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The focus of my PhD research is behavioural hologenomics. Thus, I investigate how the gut microbes associated to a certain host affect its brain – hence, behaviour – using a hologenomic approach.
My PhD focuses around the ecological role of dry-stone walls on the preservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. I’m particularly interested in characterizing trophic interactions through metabarcoding.
I'm studying how climate change is affecting bat hibernation and what changes in the transcriptome and metabolome are happening due to the prolonged winter inactivity.
Based at the University of Porto, the research of my Ph.D. focuses on the impacts that anthropogenic habitats have on the diet, microbiome, and genome of fire salamanders in the north-western Iberian Peninsula.
I work on the HoloFood project where I process chicken gut samples to help illuminate diverse relationships between hosts and microbiomes in response to different dietary items.
With a love for learning, DIY-projects, and microbiology, I assume the role as research assistant, where I help implement and optimise the AlberdiLab laboratory protocols for automation purposes.
I am an ecologist working on the 3D'omics project, implementing molecular techniques to unveil the three-dimensional conformation of animal-microbiota multi-omic interactions.
I am setting up a gut-on-a-chip model to study animal-microbiota interactions of different species during healthy and diseased steady states.
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While being a Bioinformatics student at KU, Nuria worked on the implementation of Holoflow - our in-house pipeline for hologenomics data generation and analysis.
Martina contributed to the automatisation of laboratory procedures and took part in the development of the Earth Hologenome Initiative
Evie visited us twice to generate metabarcoding and shotgun metagenomic data from bat faeces.
Matteo visited us to work on the bioinformatic analysis of ancient coprolites of bronce age dogs.
Nerea visited us to perform metagenomic analysis of tawny owl faecal samples and cloacal swabs.
Álvaro visited us to generate DNA metabarcoding data from mycorrhizal samples from Greenland.