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
at Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Reposted by Torgeir R. Hvidsten
🧪🌾PAPER - What makes a tree a tree?🧬
Read the paper by @siribirkeland.bsky.social and @trhvidsten.bsky.social with contributions from several UPSC researchers.
By comparing dozens of genomes, they offer fresh insights into the genetic foundations of woodiness and perenniality in angiosperms.
Read the paper by @siribirkeland.bsky.social and @trhvidsten.bsky.social with contributions from several UPSC researchers.
By comparing dozens of genomes, they offer fresh insights into the genetic foundations of woodiness and perenniality in angiosperms.
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
An updated perspective: what genes make a tree a tree? #plantscience
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🧪🌾PAPER - What makes a tree a tree?🧬
Read the paper by @siribirkeland.bsky.social and @trhvidsten.bsky.social with contributions from several UPSC researchers.
By comparing dozens of genomes, they offer fresh insights into the genetic foundations of woodiness and perenniality in angiosperms.
Read the paper by @siribirkeland.bsky.social and @trhvidsten.bsky.social with contributions from several UPSC researchers.
By comparing dozens of genomes, they offer fresh insights into the genetic foundations of woodiness and perenniality in angiosperms.
Reposted by Torgeir R. Hvidsten
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Opinion: Genomic studies hint at what makes a tree a tree (Trends Plant Sci) @siribirkeland.bsky.social @trhvidsten.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social)
buff.ly/yXVfgnP
#PlantaePSRW
buff.ly/yXVfgnP
#PlantaePSRW
Opinion: Genomic studies hint at what makes a tree a tree | Plantae
This is such an engaging and though-provoking review article. I’d love to ask a group of students to think about what makes a tree a tree, including such questions as: How do we define trees?
buff.ly
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Opinion: Genomic studies hint at what makes a tree a tree (Trends Plant Sci) @siribirkeland.bsky.social @trhvidsten.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social)
buff.ly/yXVfgnP
#PlantaePSRW
buff.ly/yXVfgnP
#PlantaePSRW
Reposted by Torgeir R. Hvidsten
January Issue.Read FREE:What genes make a tree a tree?(cover); Phosphorus acquisition and pathogen defense:synergies vs.Trade-offs;Sustained cereal bowl under growing temperatures of climate change;Evolution of sTyr peptides,receivers&activators &much more www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#plantscience
#plantscience
January 15, 2026 at 10:28 AM
January Issue.Read FREE:What genes make a tree a tree?(cover); Phosphorus acquisition and pathogen defense:synergies vs.Trade-offs;Sustained cereal bowl under growing temperatures of climate change;Evolution of sTyr peptides,receivers&activators &much more www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#plantscience
#plantscience
Reposted by Torgeir R. Hvidsten
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
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
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
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
Reposted by Torgeir R. Hvidsten
🧪🌾 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/
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
🧪🌾 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/
Try the app out here👇: lauragarciaromanach.shinyapps.io/popul_r_mini/
Reposted by Torgeir R. Hvidsten
🧪🌾 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...
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
🧪🌾 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...
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...
Reposted by Torgeir R. Hvidsten
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
An updated perspective: what genes make a tree a tree? #plantscience
An updated perspective: what genes make a tree a tree?
We learn early on how to tell trees apart from other plants. However, it has proved hard to distinguish trees from other plants at the genetic level, and it is believed that there are no unique ‘tree genes’. With the rapid increase in available tree genomes, we can perform new comparative and evolutionary analyses of plant life histories and growth forms. Here we provide a fresh perspective on the genetic foundation for woodiness and perenniality in angiosperms by analyzing selection pressures and gene family evolution in the rosids using genomic data. We examine genes distinguishing trees from herbs and discuss future directions for uncovering the genetic factors that define a tree in this new era of tree genomics.
dlvr.it
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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
Reposted by Torgeir R. Hvidsten
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 🔍📊
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
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 🔍📊
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 🔍📊
I really enjoyed this read ... what an exciting time!
doi.org/10.1038/d415...
doi.org/10.1038/d415...
How quantum mechanics emerged in a few revolutionary months 100 years ago
It began with concerns about the orbits used to explain the motion of electrons in atoms — but quantum theory ended up upending reality itself.
doi.org
January 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I really enjoyed this read ... what an exciting time!
doi.org/10.1038/d415...
doi.org/10.1038/d415...
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
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
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
The positions are part of @hologen.bsky.social
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Deadline: January 17th. @microbesrule.bsky.social @sabinallarosa.bsky.social
Reposted by Torgeir R. Hvidsten
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.
1/4
1/4
November 27, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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.
1/4
1/4
Reposted by Torgeir R. Hvidsten
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.
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
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.
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.