Title: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics Between Vertebrates and Their Gut Microbiomes

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Antton Alberdi is an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, where he heads an interdisciplinary research team focused on exploring animal-microbiota interactions within ecological, evolutionary, and applied frameworks. Their investigations employ a diverse set of advanced techniques, such as multi-omics analysis, laser microdissection, and gut-on-a-chip models. Antton serves as the coordinator for the H2020 RIA project 3D'omics, and he is the founder of the Earth Hologenome Initiative.

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Antton will introduce their interdisciplinary work to disentangle ecological and evolutionary interactions between vertebrates and their gut microorganisms, including global observational analyses of +200 vertebrates through the Earth Hologenome Initiative, animal experimentation projects aimed at establishing causal relationships between microbiota variation and animal phenotypes and fitness, as well as gut-on-a-chip and micro-scale spatial metagenomic approaches to understand the mechanistic processes wiring such interactions.