Habitat degradation is a lead cause of biodiversity erosion around the globe. But how does it affect the microbial community associated with species leaving in degraded habitats? We investigate this point in our latest preprint. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great to see this published, with some interesting topics from colleagues, including chapters with ex-postdoc Federica Valerio , as well as Victoria Twort #Wolbachia #Methods #Screening #Sweep

2-year postdoctoral researcher position open in project on the evolutionary history of #Lepidoptera and #Trichoptera Luomus University of Helsinki Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland. Researchers interested in morphology and fossils are encouraged to apply!
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📣 #Researchers working with #metagenomics you don’t want to miss these amazing #guidelines on everything from designing #fieldwork to #bioinformatics analyses 🤩👏🧬🦠
Well done Ostaizka, Antton Alberdi, Rob Dunn et al!

I might have asked this before 😃 What sequencing companies do you use and recommend? Ones that can do for example wgs, rads, metabarcodes, bisulfite, pacbio. Preferably in Europe. I’m updating my list and would love to hear other people’s recommendations 🧬🧪 Please share too☺️

Our one and only Simon Gaultier defending his dissertation ⚔️ on the effects of #anthropogenic stressors such as #windenergy on #bats . He’s doing a fantastic job blowing 💨 everyone away with his findings 😉 Turun yliopisto - University of Turku Luomus Luomus_zoology

Phylogenomics approach on geometrid moths solves the long-standing problem on Orthostixinae lineage! Leidys Murillo-Ramos leading wonderful work that offers new insights on the origins of this megadiverse lineage Luomus @lepPhylo Victoria Twort Pasi Sihvonen

One week to apply and join us. We are looking for a #postdoc to work on #insect #biodiversity and #ecology using #MachineLearning to extract #trait information.

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POST-DOC POSITION

3 year post-doc on functional validation of molecular/cellular mechanisms linked to salmon pubertal timing

Helsinki, Finland (world's happiest country 6 yrs running)

Starts: 7-12/2023

Links to other eco & evo research in the group

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A visit to Berlin to meet colleagues at Leibniz-IZW and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Had a fantastic chat with Dr. Frieder Mayer about the mess known as Genus Myotis. These 🦇 are truly putting the species concept to test! 😀Luomus HiLIFE_Helsinki BatLabFinland

Are you in #Finland and curious about #bats ? Fly (😉🦇) on over to an open-session on “Bats in a changing world” “Lepakot muuttuvassa maailmassa” 29 March, 17-18:30. Talks by Katarina Meramo Kati Suominen will be in Finnish. Info: societasfff.fi/toiminta/kokou… Luomus University of Helsinki

With plenty of colleagues, we are happy to introduce bioconvert, a software to convert bioinformatics files from one format to another. bioconvert currently includes 50 formats and 100 converters.

We are unbelievably close to having 7000 silhouettes! phylopic.org/images

Only a few days to apply to this position in my group University of Helsinki OEB-ResPrg #Symbiosis #microbiota #Communities #insect

Big @batsgoviral week! In PNASNews and Science Advances we test how to prevent zoonotic #spillover by interrupting virus transmission in bat reservoirs. Short story: culls didn’t reduce spillover but altered rabies spatial spread; transmissible vaccines may be a solution. A 🧵.

The latest version of the Batnames database has just been released, and there are now *1462* species of bats recognized! batnames.org

Quite big changes to the Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland call, but they are mostly based on feedback from researchers. A much shorter time from submission to decision (great!) but there's a danger people leave writing to over Xmas, aka.fi/en/about-us/wh…

I want to talk today about a methodological issue in #genomics research that has been around a long time but is still a major problem.
The reason is that today I reviewed another manuscript that has this exact problem.

Welcome to Luomus seminar to hear the talk by post doc Victoria Twort from BatLabFinland!
- Unlocking the past: What can aDNA tell us about Myotis evolutionary history.

📅 Wed Feb 22
⏲️ 10:00 AM (EET)
Zoom link: helsinki.zoom.us/j/64317185928?…

Life Sciences University of Helsinki
#aDNA #bats #Collections

Thesis defense of BatLab -member Anna Blomberg on bat white-nose disease at Turun yliopisto - University of Turku tomorrow Feb 17th. Luomus #bats utu.fi/fi/ajankohtais…