Horizon 2020 project 3D'omics

11/19/21 • 37 min

In this episode, we catch up with associate professor Antton Alberdi and get an overview of what it takes to write such a monumental project application, as well as what the project is actually about. Lots of teamwork and interdisciplinarity, from trial design, to collecting biological samples of host and their gut microbiome, processing them in many ways to obtain a variety of data types, to the actual bioinformatics data analysis. This is a very ambitious but also fun and collaborative project, and guess what? They are looking for motivated and talented postdocs to join their team! If you are interested, or just want to follow the progress of the project, make sure you check them out at www.3domics.eu and follow them on the various social media platforms (info can be found on their website).

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Earth Hologenome Initiative

We had a chat with our very first guest, Aoife Leonard, who told us about her ambitious project called Earth Hologenome Initiative.
She is busy managing the project and preparing very cool sampling kits to send out to collaborators collecting samples around the globe.
The idea is to collect samples in the field, all over the world, from animals and their microbes, and send the kit back for sample processing and genomic data generation.
Then, these data can be used in a very powerful way together with any other data collaborators might be collecting, from ecology to behaviour, adaptations, and evolution.
Check out and follow the project here:
On Twitter: @AoifeLeonard1 and @EHologenome
By e-mail: [email protected]
EHI website: www.earthhologenome.org
Intro and outro music credits:
Hopeful Journey
by Scott Holmes Music
(Music is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License)

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In this episode, we chat with Raphael Eisenhofer about all things marsupial! From evolution, to the joys of field work to some pretty cool molecular biology research on pouch microbiome. Raphael has been doing this amazing work for the past two years and now he joins CEH to work on Convergence Hologenomics.