Torgeir R. Hvidsten
trhvidsten.bsky.social
Torgeir R. Hvidsten
@trhvidsten.bsky.social
Bioinformatics, Hologenomics, Gene regulatory networks, Comparative regulomics; in plants, salmonids and more. Professor
at Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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HoloGen Doctoral Network Retreat #2 – Barcelona! 🌞

All our PhD candidates together for the first time – a week of project presentations, hands-on workshops, industry talks, and an amazing sailing social on the Med. Science + collaboration + tapas = success!

#HoloGen #PhDLife #Microbiome #MSCADN
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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🧪🌾 In collaboration with bioinformatician @trhvidsten.bsky.social, the team developed an interactive app that allows to explore seasonal gene activities and also to see which genes might be connected or influence each other. 🧬

Try the app out here👇: lauragarciaromanach.shinyapps.io/popul_r_mini/
POPUL-R: A transcriptional roadmap of the yearly growth cycle in Populus trees
lauragarciaromanach.shinyapps.io
September 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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🧪🌾 NEWS - A genetic roadmap across seasons 🧬

By comparing trees grown outdoors and in lab environments, they reveal seasonal genetic patterns and highlight both the strengths and limitations of lab-based experiments to study seasonality.

👉Read more here: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
September 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Tree evolution is surprisingly quirky! 🌳 Trees are likely ancestral in many plant groups, often re-evolve on islands, and Arabidopsis can be made tree-like by tweaking a few genes. We revisited what genes really make a tree a tree using comparative genomics. @trhvidsten.bsky.social #trees #evolution
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Check out this preprint of the first article for my PhD thesis!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We've leveraged methods developed for multi-omics to investigate a holo-omic system (🐷🦠), and predicted host-microbiome interactions between important features for observed cross-omic data patterns 🔍📊
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It is still possible to apply for PhD scholarships within computational host/microbiome genomics (hologenomics) at NMBU!

The positions are part of @hologen.bsky.social

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Deadline: January 17th. @microbesrule.bsky.social @sabinallarosa.bsky.social
Two PhD scholarships within computational host/microbiome genomics (hologenomics) (268532) | Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Job title: Two PhD scholarships within computational host/microbiome genomics (hologenomics) (268532), Employer: Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Deadline: Friday, January 17, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
January 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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We have over the past month or so published a nice bouquet of papers about the interaction between the Atlantic salmon, its gut microbiome and the feed it eats.

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November 27, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Thrilled to see this paper out! 🎉

We analyzed 470 (!) angiosperm genomes and identified and dated 132 whole-genome duplication events. Importantly, we observed that WGD occurrence dates are not randomly distributed, but clustered at times of major environmental upheaval.
November 24, 2024 at 10:30 AM