Thanks to @AuraRaulo for a really fabulous start to our AMRG workshops yesterday! We got a grand tour of dyadic modelling applied to microbiome data and plenty of code to play with! 🐭 💻

That's a wrap! What an invigorating two days of amazing microbiome science 🤩 🦠 A huge thanks to all of our speakers and attendees for making the meeting so enjoyable 🙏 , and for those interested who missed the meeting you can join us here! amrg.mystrikingly.com/

For our final two sessions of the day we are discussing some important topics in the field, starting with an intro by @ferocious_sloth on DEI in microbiome work (@MicroSocEquity) and how we can be more proactive in building in these considerations as researchers.

Closing our a fabulous day of talks is @AoifeLeonard1, a postdoc at the U of Copenhagen introducing us to the groundbreaking @EHologenome initiative and the benefits of a hologenomic approach 🌎

Next up we have PhD student @sophieteullet of Montpelier University presenting an investigation of convergent dietary adaptations via the gut microbiome of ant-eating mammals 🐜 😋 🍎

After some engaging discussion with all speakers, we're back on for our last talk session of the meeting! Kicking us off is @webbshasta from U of Calgary with the timely topic of resilience of the microbiome following environmental disturbances in white-faced capuchins 🐒

Switching it up to an avian system, @sarahfworsley1 will close out our first session of the day with some fascinating work on the relationships between the gut microbiome and host senescence in the Seychelles Warbler 🐦 ⌛️

And now @ScienceGalSal is sharing some insights from her dissertation work into the captive-wild dichotomy and environmental influence on the gut microbiome using ring-tailed lemurs 🦠

Giving us even more food for thought on social interactions and the microbiome, next up is @AuraRaulo presenting some neat results on transmission ecology of the microbiome in wild wood mice 🐭

Carrying on with the rodent theme, next up @HannaBensch will share her work on the microbiome of social mole-rats 😁