Clàudia Fontserè

Chromatin spatial analysis by METALoci unveils sex-determining 3D regulatory hubs - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology METALoci, a new three-dimensional genome computational tool, reveals a major rewiring of regulatory interactions during sex determination. By combining this method with transgenic models, the authors ...

🔊💥 How is sex determined? How is it encoded in the #3Dgenome?

Read all about it in our last paper!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s been looong but feels satisfying to see this finally out.

(With CapelLab, @dariloops.bsky.social Lab and @mamartirenom.bsky.social Lab)

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Muere Josefina Castellví, pionera de la investigación antártica, a los 90 años La bióloga y oceanógrafa dirigió la primera base española en la Antártida

Especialista en bacteriología marina, la pasión de Josefina Castellví por el estudio de bacterias en ambientes extremos la llevó a interesarse por el continente blanco, al que llegó por primera vez en 1967. El pasado lunes falleció a los 90 años

👋 Hi #AcademicSky!

Together with @smbe-idea.bsky.social I’m organizing a symposium at #SMBE2026 (Copenhagen) 🇩🇰

🌈 Our mission is to 𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 & 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

📣 Call for abstracts 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡
⏰ Deadline: 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟯

✨ Hope to see you there! 😉

@official-smbe.bsky.social

Just a few more days to submit abstracts to #SMBE2026 in beautiful Copenhagen.

🗓️Deadline 3nd February

We are organizing
S01: Evolutionary-informed management of vulnerable populations in a rapidly changing world.

Hope to see many of you there!

1/7 🧬 New preprint!

What is it like to have one of the highest genomic diversities among metazoans?

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Organisers - Claudia Fontsere — Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Female) - Hernán E. Morales — Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Male) - Mirte Bosse — A-Life, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands & Wageningen University & research, Netherlands (Female) - Christina Hvilsom — Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Female) Invited Speaker - Cock van Oosterhout — School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich Research Part, UK (Male)

Organisers
- @claudiafontsere.bsky.social | @hologenomics.bsky.social
- @hernmoral.bsky.social | @hologenomics.bsky.social
- Mirte Bosse | @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
- Christina Hvilsom | @hologenomics.bsky.social

Invited Speaker
- Cock van Oosterhout | @ueaenv.bsky.social

SMBE2026 Symposium 1 Evolutionary-informed management of vulnerable populations in a rapidly changing world

SMBE2026 Symposium 1

Evolutionary-informed management of vulnerable populations in a rapidly changing world

📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts

📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026

🔊New perspective piece out @genomebiolevol.bsky.social.

"The Genomic Kaleidoscope: On the Hidden Dimensions of Within-Species Genomic Diversity" 💡🌀🌈
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Co-led with @mbrasovives.bsky.social and @diegoharta.bsky.social

Check out our thread! 🧵👇 (1/n)

What a course!🧬🦣

Thanks to this amazing team of instructors @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social & @hernmoral.bsky.social for delivering such a great first edition of the #Museomics course.
Thanks to everyone who has joined us this week and good luck with your data!💯

We are extremely happy to have kicked off this first edition of the #Museomics course with @hernmoral.bsky.social @claudiafontsere.bsky.social & @jazminrm.bsky.social and a great group of participants working on very different systems!

#Museomics #aDNA #Bioinformatics

I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

"...researchers who invest time in their students tend to lead more-productive, more-collaborative groups and attract stronger future students than those who do not." "Time spent with the next generation of scientists is an investment."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓

I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.

👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏

Gone With the Wind: Exploring a Vanished Rock Dove, Columba Livia, Hybrid Zone in the Sahara Desert In this study, we tested the hypothesis of the existence of a hybrid zone between two differentiated rock dove lineages, which may contribute significantly to their divergence. By analyzing newly gen...

New rock dove paper!🕊️
Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species
*please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase
@trstngnthr.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes?
Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :)

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Please reach out if you have any questions!

Expertly led by @claudiafontsere.bsky.social now published in Molecular Ecology! 🥳
Learn why from a genetic perspective whooping cranes should remain protected due to loss of genetic diversity and accumulation of inbreeding and load
#popgen #consgen
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is now published at #MolecularEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check it out!

Navigating #motherhood and academia:
Attending our 1st conference #ESEB2025 as a family with our 10mo baby.
I am disappointed with the organization for not providing childcare for <3yo babies.
Academia should do better for the ✨inclusivity✨ of (lactant) mothers.
See you in P03.148 on thursday!

📌 Museomics symposium
Claudia Fontsere — Poster P03.148 (Thu)
From almost extinct to rescued? Temporal dynamics of genomic erosion after demographic recovery

⚠️There's two days left to submit abstracts for this years #ICAZ-AGPM meeting. We're looking forward to welcoming you here in Copenhagen in October! @icaz-news.bsky.social.

SIBE summer school SIBE SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 7th − 11th September 2025 FERRARA (ITALY) Overview The analysis of genomic data has become increasingly feasible, even in non-model organisms, thanks to the “omics” revolution...

I'll be teaching in the SIBE Summer School in Ferrara, from the 7th to 11th of September.
Great place to learn about PopGen, comparative genomics and ✨Conservation Genomics✨
🚨Deadline to apply: 11th of May🚨
sites.google.com/view/sibesum...

See you there!

a baby is being held by a woman with a pink ribbon on it ALT: a baby is being held by a woman with a pink ribbon on it

First day at the office after maternity leave...

The effect of different milk pretreatment methods on microbiome community development during Herrgårds cheese production and ripening. One of the biggest challenges for dairy producers is the substantial variability in final product properties caused by changes in the production environment. In cheese production, this variation is in...

🧀 New preprint drop: adventures in the cheese microbiome! 📝

We tracked microbiome dynamics across 14 production steps of industrial Herrgårds cheese (Swedish classic 🇸🇪🧐).
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
(1/7)

Check out the paper 👇🏻

So grateful and proud to be part of this group effort.

🚨 New preprint!
We analyzed 39 bird genomes—including 3 Mauritian species that bounced back from the brink of extinction—to explore genomic erosion in a comparative framework.
🧬🦜🧩
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#consgen #popgen
@claudiafontsere.bsky.social

President Illa: "Oferirem més de 70 places a investigadors d'excel·lència que puguin veure coartada la seva llibertat acadèmica als Estats Units"

Milers d’investigadors veuen coartada la seva llibertat acadèmica i fins i tot la seva integritat física arreu del planeta. Que farà el Govern?

Seria d’agraïr que la política de #recerca del país no estigués basada en mesures efectistes (i cíniques si em permeteu).

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govern.cat/salapremsa/n...

🚨Paper alert🚨
Birds, conservation and genomics, you shouldn't miss it 😉

Join us for a week of working with genomics data derived from natural history collection, aka #museomics

Museomics: An Introduction to Genomic Analyses of Natural History Collections 3-7 November To foster international participation, this course will be held online

🧬Interested in #Museomics?
Join us to learn how to generate & analyse genomic data from natural history collections with hands-on bioinformatics workflows @hernmoral.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @hologenomics.bsky.social

👉 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...