Events

24 June 2021

Webinar: Harnessing the Hologenome for our Sustainable Future

In keeping with this year's World Microbiome Day theme of 'Sustainability', four UCPH-led holo-projects brought you a webinar highlighting how research of both the microbiome and the host animal, insect or plant can be used to explain the world around us with a new lens.

Learn more and watch the talks here

27 April 2021

1st HoloFood Co-LAB (virtual)

We've created a place for people with different perspectives to come together to share the same vision - at the world's first virtual HoloFood CO-LAB: a collaborative experience where answers are in search of questions, and where we don't show and tell - we show and prove. The workshop was aimed at industry specialists from across the food industry.

Click here to watch the recorded talks

10-13 June 2019

1st HoloFood / EMBL-EBI training course (UK)

This course covered the use of publicly available resources to manage, share, analyse, and interpret metagenomics data, including marker gene, whole gene shotgun (WGS), and assembly-based approaches.

Click here for training materials

2022 Events

31st Oct - 4th November 2022

Online: Genome-resolved metagenomics bioinformatics course

HoloFood partners at EMBL-EBI were teaching on the Genome resolved metagenomics bionformatics course. Learn about the tools, processes, and analysis approaches used in the field of genome-resolved metagenomics. This course will cover the use of publicly available resources to manage, share, analyse, and interpret metagenomics data, focussing primarily on assembly-based approaches. The virtually-delivered content involved participants learning via pre- recored lectures and live presentations, followed by live Q&As with the trainers. Practical experience can be developed in group activities and in computational exercises run using containerised tools on our virtual training infrastructure. Access the course materials here.

14th - 19th August 2022

ISME 18th International Symposium of microbial ecology, Lausanne, Switzerland

HoloFood researchers Varsha Kale and Germana Baldi from EMBL-EBI presented posters at the International Symposium of Microbial ecology (ISME) in Switzerland in August 2022. They shared their work progress so far on both chicken and salmon shotgun metagenomic analysis. More information on ISME.

27th - 29th June 2022

Paving the Microbiome Way for Improved Food Systems - Microbiome Support final year conference, Brussels Belgium

HoloFood Scientific Manager Antton Alberdi (UCPH) presented at the final year conference for the Microbiome Support project. He presented both in the session "MicrobiomeSupport & the innovation projects putting research into practice " and "
Microbiomes for the primary production and environmental health". For more info on the event please click here.

4th May 2022

May 4th, 2022 Life Science Across the Globe (LSAG)- virtual

HoloFood partner Rob Finn (EMBL-EBI) was a guest speaker at the virtual Life Science Across the Globe event where he also presented the hologenomic approach utilised within HoloFood for sustainable aquaculture practices and feeding solutions in salmon farming. For more info click here.

11th - 12th April 2022

Congress on Gastrointestinal Function

HoloFood Scientific Manager Associate Professor Antton Alberdi, from the Center of Evolutionary HoloGenomics, University of Copenhagen gave an invited talk at the 2022 Congress on Gastrointestinal Function virtually. His talk was on "Unveiling the impact of host-microbiota interactions on animal biology through hologenomics." For more information on the congress please click here.

2021 Events

18th - 20th November 2021

DVG Vet Congress, Berlin, Germany

HoloFood PhD candidate Yada Duangnumsawang from Freie Universität Berlin presented a poster at the DVG Vet Congress in Berlin. Her poster was entitled "The effects of age, gender, breed and feed additives on ileal histomorphology and gene expression of broilers" and covered her work on the chicken component of the HoloFood project. For more information on the congress please click here.

12th - 16th October 2021

European Multicolloquium of Parasitology, Belgrade, Serbia

Postdoctoral researcher Jaelle Brealey from NTNU gave an invited talk entitled "Microbiome inception: an intestinal cestode causes a hierarchical landscape of distinct microbial communities nested within the host", covering her work on the salmon component of the HoloFood project. Please click here for details of the conference.

4th - 7th October 2021

Aquaculture Europe 2021, Madeira, Portugal

Researchers from the HoloFood project gave presentations and posters at the Aquaculture Europe conference in Madeira. Postdoctoral researcher Jaelle Brealey from NTNU presented "Microbiome inception: an intestinal cestode causes a hierarchical landscape of distinct microbial communities nested within farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmon salar)". Also presenting was the scientific manager for HoloFood Morten Limborg on "Applied HoloGenomics: Leveraging Microbiota Services through holo-omic analyses in farmed fish". You can read his guest blogpost of the conference here or see details of the conference here.

9th - 11th September 2021

ESVCN Congress (Virtual Event)

PhD candidate Yada Duangnumsawang from Freie Universität Berlin, had the opportunity to give an online presentation at the 25th anniversary of the ESVCN conference held virtually. Her talk was on her work on the poultry component of HoloFood, specifically "The effects of age, gender, breed and feed additives on ileal histomorphology and gene expression of broilers". For further information and details on the congress please click here.

23rd June 2021

Symposium HUPLANTcontrol. & MicrobiomeSupport (Virtual event)

HoloFood communication manager Anna Fotakis presented the HoloFood project, including recent highlights and milestones alongside researchers from the three other "sister" projects - SIMBA, MASTER and Circles. The presentations were streamed live.

7th - 11th June 2021

Holistic Bioinformatic Approaches used in Microbiome Research (Virtual event)

HoloFood researcher Varsha Kale (EMBL-EBI) presented a poster at the Holistic Bioinformatic Approaches used in Microbiome Research event organised by the Bioinformatics Virtual Coordination Network (BVCN). Her poster presented the latest work on the workflows and results of the microbiome analysis and genome catalogue from the HoloFood research datasets. For more information please click here.

5th - 7th June 2021

5th International Conference on the Responsible Use of Antibiotics in Animals (Virtual conference)

HoloFood Scientific Manager Antton Alberdi presented at the International Conference on the Responsible Use of Antibiotics in Animals, during the plenary session on "Minimising and Containing antimicrobial use and resistance: Innovative Research Directions". For more information click here.

5th - 7th May 2021

6th International Symposium on Genomics in Aquaculture (GIA2020) (Virtual event)

HoloFood Scientific Manager Morten Limborg presented at the GIA 2020 on the applications of hologenomic approaches within aquaculture as used within the HoloFood project.

22nd April 2021

Bioinformatics for BioBusiness (B4BB) (Virtual event)

EMBL-EBI leader Rob Finn presented at the Bioinformatics for BioBusiness (B4BB) where amongst many things he also mentioned the HoloFood database under preparation and the resource of generating such large datasets for enabling SMEs to harness the power of big data. The event was jointly hosted by EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute and Medicines Discovery Catapult to promote the power of bioinformatics in driving the success across the life science business sectors. For more information please click here.

24th - 25th March 2021

Animal Microbiome Congress 2021 (Virtual event)

Both Scientific managers of HoloFood, Associate Professors Antton Alberdi and Morten Limborg presented at the Kisamo Animal Microbiome Congress. The congress aimed to unlock the full functional potential of animal microbiome research to support commercialisation and achieve sustainability goals.

2020 Events

27th November 2020

EHU/UPV European Night of Researchers

HoloFood partners from EHU/UPV participated in the online European Night of Research. For more information please click here.

16th - 17th November 2020

MicrobiomeSupport Trans-sectorial Workshop

This online event showcased MicrobiomeSupport's efforts on future microbiome innovations, their importance and enabling legislation. Associate Professor Morten Limborg (University of Copenhagen) spoke on behalf of HoloFood about "Unlocking the functional potential of microbiomes in the BlueBio sector". For more information please click here.

5th November 2020

Radio Interview

Tune in on Denmark's DR P1 popular science radio show 'Vildt Naturligt' where HoloFood scientific manager Morten Limborg talks about HoloFood, hologenomics and aquaculture! To listen to the interview please click here.

5th - 9th October 2020

Biodiversity Genomics 2020

HoloFood PhD student Sofia Marcos (EHU/UPV) presented the latest of her work on "Imputation-based genotype study of two broiler breeds using data from shotgun sequenced intestinal samples" on the online conference on Biodiversity Genomics. For more information please click here.

27th June 2020

World Microbiome Day "Diversity"

HoloFood is proud to have participated in this year's World Microbiome Day with the special theme of diversity. Check out our blog and twitter with a special #DiversityMatters HoloFood entry.

2019 Events

4th - 6th November 2019

Symposium on Gut Health in Production of Food Animals, St Louis, Missouri, USA

HoloFood partners presented a poster at the Symposium on Gut Health in Production of Food Animals in St Louis Missouri. "The aim of the meeting is to discuss the role of good health in animal production and the dynamic and essential role the gut plays in it. The symposium will include all species in animal agriculture and cover different aspects of the gut and important factors in gut health maintenance and disease." For more information please click here.

25th - 26th September 2019

European Research and Innovation Days, Brussels, Belgium

HoloFood presented its research to the public during the EXPO Science is Wonderful! From a microbiome research for sustainable food solutions like HoloFood, to down global warming, facilitating human life in space and so much more… it’s all part of the variety of activities schools, families and young people can discover at the event. Through hands-on experiments, live demonstrations, face-to-face chats with researchers, Science is Wonderful! shows how science impacts our daily lives.

23th - 24th September 2019

Elixir - Food and Nutrition Kickoff Workshop, Netherlands

Partners from HoloFood presented at the Food and Nutrition Kickoff Workshop in the Netherlands. For more information please click here.

4th - 12th September 2019

EMBO FEBS Lecture Course on the new microbiology, Spetses Island, Greece

HoloFood Representation at EMBO FEBS Lecture Course on the new microbiology. For more information please click here.

9th July 2019

37th International Society for Animal Genetics Conference, Lleida, Spain

HoloFood researchers attended and presented their work at the ISAG 2019 in Lleida, Spain. For more information please click here.

27th June 2019

World Microbiome Day

On World Microbiome Day we celebrate all things microbe, all around the world and we introduce international microbiome researchers to the public to raise awareness of the vibrant and diverse world of microbes. This year's theme is the fight against antibiotic resistance. Follow events and details around the world at www.worldmicrobiomeday.com or by following the hashtag #WorldMicrobiomeDay

10th - 13th June 2019

22nd European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition, Gdańsk, Poland

"These Partners from HoloFood attended and presented their work on HoloFood at the European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition (ESPN) in Poland. "These meetings, held every two years, are the most significant forum for the exchange of information on and discussion of poultry nutrition issues in Europe, and are one of the most influential gatherings of their kind in the word.

Events organised or attended by HoloFood partners

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