A Professor in Evolutionary Biology at Aarhus University, Trine works on ecology and adaptation in terrestrial invertebrates, mostly spiders, and on host-symbiont interactions and the role of microbial symbionts in mediating adaptive responses to the environment (she/her).

@TrineBilde / https://bio.au.dk/forskning/forskningscentre/centre-for-ecological-genetics/

Postdoctoral research associate at the University Medical Center Groningen (The Netherlands). While Johannes is currently working on the role of the gut microbiome in cancer immunotherapy, he recently did a postdoc working with the Amboseli Baboon Research Project to investigate the relative contribution of the external environment, social interactions and host demographics in shaping the wild baboon gut microbiome over time (he/him).

Molecular ecologist from the University of Exeter. Xav is interested in how skin-associated microbial communities protect amphibians from disease, and the potential importance of the gut microbiome for nutritional health in birds. Happiest when chasing geese around Iceland (he/him).

Ecologist working on host-symbiont relationships at the University of Oxford. Sarah’s work aims to understand the processes that generate natural variation in the mammalian gut microbiome, and the physiological and fitness consequences this variation has for the host. She often uses wild rodents to address questions in this area (she/her).

Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Copenhagen. Aoife is an Evolutionary ecologist working with the Earth Hologenome Initiative to address questions about the interaction between gut microbiomes and ecological niches of wild vertebrate (she/her).

@aoifeleonard1

Postdoctoral research at the University of Lausanne. Florent is mainly interested in documenting and understand the evolutionary roots of host specificity in mammalian gut microbiota (he/him).

Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh. Amy is a disease ecologist working with the Soay Sheep Ecology Within Project to investigate causes and consequences of gut microbiota community dynamics in wild mammals (she/they)

@arsweeny / amysweeny.me

An evolutionary and conservation ecologist at UEA, David is working on understanding the causes and consequences of variation within and among populations. Ongoing research focuses on ageing, including how the gut microbiome changes with/may contribute to this within natural populations (he/him).

@DSRichardson68

Postdoctoral research fellow at Brown University and Uppsala University. Elin is interested in multiple aspects of animal microbiomes, including microbiota assembly and maturation, and their influence on host health and evolution. (she/her)

@ElinVidevall / http://www.videvall.com/

Postdoctoral research associate at the University of East Anglia. Sarah is broadly interested in how microbes shape host evolution. She is currently using a long-term study on the Seychelles warbler to investigate how gut microbiome variation is linked to individual fitness and senescence in the wild (she/her).

Mark is a parasitologist who studies both parasitic nematodes and the microbiome of wild rodents. His recent work has focussed on the immune response of wild animals and how these affect parasites, the microbiome, as well as the host (he/him).

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. Klara is a host-microbe ecologist, with a particular interest in the causes and consequences of individual variation in natural populations. Her previous work focussed on individual variation in the immune response in a wild rodent model system. Her current focus is on individual variation in the gut microbiome, again, in a wild rodent model system (she/her).