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Virtual Symposium: Virome Ecology & Evolution
Join us for the 5th WAME virtual symposium where we will go beyond the bacterial microbiome and hear three exciting talks about the virome!
Virtual Symposium: The Microbiome & Conservation
Organisers: Dr Klara Wanelik & Prof David Richardson
EOU: Eco-evolutionary dynamics of avian microbiomes
Join WAME members at the 14th European Ornithologists' Union Congress! More information can be found here!
There will be an exciting programme for the symposia and meeting as a whole for those interested in avian and microbiome research!
Virtual Symposium: Microbiome-Mediated Behaviour in Animals
Organisers: Elin Videvall & Sarah Worsley
Virtual Symposium Series: Host specificity of the animal gut microbiome
Join us for our second virtual symposium focussed on host specificity of the microbiome. See below for a description of our exciting line-up and to register for the event!
Organisers: Florent Mazel & Johannes Björk
ESEB 2022 Congress Symposium: Microbiomes in the wild: the drivers and evolutionary consequences of microbiome variation
We are delighted to be hosting a symposium at this year’s ESEB Congress. Please join us on August 15th on day 1 of the ESEB 2022 congress for a full day of wild microbiome content!
Virtual Symposium Series: Longitudinal Dynamics of the Microbiome
Understanding how and why microbiomes vary over time is crucial for understanding their relationships to their hosts and the environment in which the host resides. In this symposium, we will hear three exciting talks spanning empirical and computational approaches to tackling classifying the longitudinal dynamics of these complex communities. See below for event programme and registration!
Organisers: Sarah Knowles & Amy Sweeny
Virtual Symposium Programmes
Host specificity of the animal gut microbiome
Zoom: https://unil.zoom.us/j/96982396155
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Philippe Engel, University of Lausanne
Keynote: Evolution and ecology of host-specific gut microbiota in social bees
In this talk I will discuss recent findings from genomic and experimental studies that advance our understand of how gut microbial communities in social bees have evolved.
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Elizabeth Mallot, Washington University
Dietary diversity and gut microbial plasticity in platyrrhine monkeys
In this talk I examine the relative contributions of diet and phylogeny to the gut microbiome of closely related platyrrhine monkeys, and investigate the association between dietary flexibility (or omnivory) on gut microbial diversity.
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Oren Kolodny, Hebrew University
Who is the microbiome’s host? And why is it such a mess?
I’ll present findings regarding fruit-bat microbiome composition which suggest that in certain respects the host, from an ecological perspective, is the bat colony and not merely the individual.
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