Clàudia Fontserè
@claudiafontsere.bsky.social
Conservation genomics and popgen.
Currently MSCA Postdoc at Globe Institute @hologenomics.bsky.social (Copenhagen) 🐦🐺
Former PhD and PostDoc at Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (Barcelona) 🐵
Currently MSCA Postdoc at Globe Institute @hologenomics.bsky.social (Copenhagen) 🐦🐺
Former PhD and PostDoc at Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (Barcelona) 🐵
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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
- @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
December 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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
- @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
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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
Evolutionary-informed management of vulnerable populations in a rapidly changing world
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
December 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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
Evolutionary-informed management of vulnerable populations in a rapidly changing world
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
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🔊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)
"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)
Validate User
doi.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🔊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)
"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)
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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!💯
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!💯
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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!💯
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!💯
Reposted by Clàudia Fontserè
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
#Museomics #aDNA #Bioinformatics
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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
#Museomics #aDNA #Bioinformatics
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I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
Reposted by Clàudia Fontserè
"...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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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.
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"...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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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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 🙏
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 🙏
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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 🙏
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 🙏
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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...
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...
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...
doi.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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...
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...
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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!
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!
August 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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!
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!
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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/...
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/...
August 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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/...
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/...
August 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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!
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
Claudia Fontsere — Poster P03.148 (Thu)
From almost extinct to rescued? Temporal dynamics of genomic erosion after demographic recovery
August 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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!
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!
Reposted by Clàudia Fontserè
📌 Museomics symposium
Claudia Fontsere — Poster P03.148 (Thu)
From almost extinct to rescued? Temporal dynamics of genomic erosion after demographic recovery
Claudia Fontsere — Poster P03.148 (Thu)
From almost extinct to rescued? Temporal dynamics of genomic erosion after demographic recovery
August 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📌 Museomics symposium
Claudia Fontsere — Poster P03.148 (Thu)
From almost extinct to rescued? Temporal dynamics of genomic erosion after demographic recovery
Claudia Fontsere — Poster P03.148 (Thu)
From almost extinct to rescued? Temporal dynamics of genomic erosion after demographic recovery
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⚠️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.
The extended deadline for abstract submission for the next #ICAZ working group meeting on #Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics and Morphometrics (AGPM) is Friday, 16th of May.
You have just over two weeks!
sites.google.com/palaeome.org...
sites.google.com/palaeome.org...
You have just over two weeks!
sites.google.com/palaeome.org...
sites.google.com/palaeome.org...
May 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
⚠️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.
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!
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!
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...
sites.google.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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!
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!
First day at the office after maternity leave...
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
media.tenor.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
First day at the office after maternity leave...
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🧀 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)
We tracked microbiome dynamics across 14 production steps of industrial Herrgårds cheese (Swedish classic 🇸🇪🧐).
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
(1/7)
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...
www.biorxiv.org
April 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🧀 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)
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.
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
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
April 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Check out the paper 👇🏻
So grateful and proud to be part of this group effort.
So grateful and proud to be part of this group effort.
Reposted by Clàudia Fontserè
🚨 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
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
April 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🚨 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
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
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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).
🧵
govern.cat/salapremsa/n...
Seria d’agraïr que la política de #recerca del país no estigués basada en mesures efectistes (i cíniques si em permeteu).
🧵
govern.cat/salapremsa/n...
President Illa: "Oferirem més de 70 places a investigadors d'excel·lència que puguin veure coartada la seva llibertat acadèmica als Estats Units"
govern.cat
April 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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).
🧵
govern.cat/salapremsa/n...
Seria d’agraïr que la política de #recerca del país no estigués basada en mesures efectistes (i cíniques si em permeteu).
🧵
govern.cat/salapremsa/n...
🚨Paper alert🚨
Birds, conservation and genomics, you shouldn't miss it 😉
Birds, conservation and genomics, you shouldn't miss it 😉
🧬🌍 Happy to see our latest paper out at @royalsocietypublishing.org
We show how genetic risks in endangered species can stay hidden due to a time-lag between demographic collapse and genetic loss. Work led by amazing MSc students Xufen Liu and Ester Milesi #ConservationGenomics
Pic by David Stowe
We show how genetic risks in endangered species can stay hidden due to a time-lag between demographic collapse and genetic loss. Work led by amazing MSc students Xufen Liu and Ester Milesi #ConservationGenomics
Pic by David Stowe
March 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🚨Paper alert🚨
Birds, conservation and genomics, you shouldn't miss it 😉
Birds, conservation and genomics, you shouldn't miss it 😉
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Join us for a week of working with genomics data derived from natural history collection, aka #museomics
🧬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...
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...
Museomics: An Introduction to Genomic Analyses of Natural History Collections
3-7 November To foster international participation, this course will be held online
www.physalia-courses.org
March 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Join us for a week of working with genomics data derived from natural history collection, aka #museomics
Reposted by Clàudia Fontserè
🧬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...
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...
Museomics: An Introduction to Genomic Analyses of Natural History Collections
3-7 November To foster international participation, this course will be held online
www.physalia-courses.org
March 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🧬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...
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...