Annie G West
@anniegwest.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ University of Edinburgh 🦠 Ancient Microbiomes 🧬 Dabbling in PopGen 🐻 Population Declines 🐾 previously @ University of Auckland 🇳🇿 Avid hiker and book worm 🐛 https://anniegwest.wixsite.com/anniegwest
Couldn’t be happier about contributions by group members at #ICP2026 #museomics session! @markella-morait.bsky.social presented on oral #microbiome evolution in mammals, @johnlrichards.bsky.social talked about historical #AMR & @anniegwest.bsky.social had a poster on microb in declining populations
Great intro from @kguschan.bsky.social on the wonderful world of museomics at #ICP2026 @palaeogenomics.bsky.social. My poster is tonight if you want to come have a chat, stop by board 160 😁
My main PhD paper is out on bioRxiv! 🎉 The microbiomes of wild animals, besides the gut, remain unexplored. To help remedy this, we used museum-preserved dental calculus to characterise the oral microbiome of 34 diverse mammal species. 💀🦠🦷 Read here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Dear SPAAM Community members, We are excited to share with you the latest SPAAM Newsletter! Inside, you’ll find: - updates on events and workshops - funding/research opportunities - latest publications We hope you enjoy this edition! www.spaam-community.org/assets/media...
SPAAM Newsletter #7
Hello from the SPAAM Steering Committee!
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Great News! The Ricardians are one step closer to recreating Richard III’s unique brand of halitosis! 🏺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The oral microbiome of King Richard III of England
Metagenomic investigation of archaeological dental calculus has provided insights into the changing oral health, disease, and diet of past human societies, but little is known about the oral microbiot...
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Genomic imputation can boost dataset quality and benefit research on wild populations. In hihi, we found high #imputation accuracies despite a small reference panel of high-fecundity individuals. Imputation improves downstream #ConservationGenomics analyses. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
High Imputation Accuracy Can Be Achieved Using a Small Reference Panel in a Natural Population With Low Genetic Diversity
Genotype imputation, the inference of missing genotypes using a reference set of population haplotypes, is a cost-effective tool for improving the quality and quantity of genetic datasets. Imputation...
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What can a million-year-old mammoth teach us about microbes? 🦠 From pathogens to commensals, this new study reconstructs the oldest known host-associated microbial DNA. #MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Ancient host-associated microbes obtained from mammoth remains
Ancient genomic studies have extensively explored human-microbial interactions, yet research on non-human animals remains limited. In this study, we a…
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📣Another publication from our amazing researchers and colleagues: The Earth Hologenome Initiative: Data Release 1 @ehologenome.bsky.social 🦠💡 Find it in @gigascience.bsky.social 👇
The Earth Hologenome Initiative: Data Release 1
AbstractBackground. The Earth Hologenome Initiative (EHI) is a global endeavor dedicated to revisit fundamental ecological and evolutionary questions from
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One of the seminal projects from my Genomics Aotearoa Postdoc position with Associate Professor Kim Handley is now published online at @isme-microbes.bsky.social Communications!! 🥳🦠 "Salinity-driven niche differentiation within the aquatic Luna-1 subcluster"
New publication!
One of the seminal projects from my Genomics Aotearoa Postdoc position with Associate Professor Kim Handley is now published online at ISMEJ Communications. The background behind this particular paper is that we found clear niche differentiation of two Actinomycetota sister lineages (Aquiluna and Rhodoluna) across the saline divide of the Waiwera River estuary. As both lineages were initially described and isolated from freshwater environments, this natural population represented a great opportu
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In the thick of the 2025 @femsmicro.org Postdoc Summer School in Ohrid, meeting amazing colleagues and ready for a week of solid learning
Trying to get better at updating my new website, so here is the latest blog post! #eseb2025 anniegwest.wixsite.com/anniegwest/p...
ESEB2025 Barcelona
This was my very first ESEB conference, and as a microbial ecologist I was thoroughly impressed with the breadth of research and fields showcased this year! The Guschanksi group was (almost) out in fu...
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If you're interested in bears, metagenomics, or struggling to understand a kiwi accent, come sit in on my @eseb2025.bsky.social ESEB Barcelona talk Monday morning at 11:30 in room 116 :D
Thoroughly enjoying the @eventswcs.bsky.social K-mers for Biodiversity workshop this week, complete with extensive k-mer history, hands-on practical exercises, showcasing the latest software, and meeting people from all over the world. What a blast! (pun intended...)
Our team on Te Kākahu/Chalky Island have recaptured male #kakapo Te Awa, who's been missing for 6 years having dropped his transmitter. He was in great condition and it's good to have track of him again with a possible breeding season next year. 📷: Petrus Hedman #conservation #parrots #birds
Working in animal #aDNA? Present your research at our first AaRConference!
The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Mar-Jun). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals
