<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>General Updates on Méric Lab</title><link>https://mericlab.com/categories/general-updates/</link><description>Recent content in General Updates on Méric Lab</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-GB</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0100</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://mericlab.com/categories/general-updates/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>EMBO 2026 "Microbiomics" workshop</title><link>https://mericlab.com/blog/embojuly2026/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://mericlab.com/blog/embojuly2026/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Over the last 2 weeks at the University of Bath, we hosted an &lt;strong&gt;EMBO Practical Course on &amp;ldquo;Computational and experimental microbiomics&lt;/strong&gt;, organised by Phil Ingham, Edan Foley, Tom Williams and Tiffany Taylor. &lt;a href="https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-microbiomics"&gt;Link here&lt;/a&gt; (maybe it will die at some point?)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I had the privilege to teach a bunch of really brilliant and talented early career researchers from all around the world about general microbiome analysis methods, as well as a very fun tutorial along with Edan Foley on the transcriptomics of zebrafish in response to conventional microbiome colonization. We also hosted very talented speakers from the field, including Mathieu Groussin, Pauline Scanlan, Bastien Boussau and others.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New podcast from the Milner Centre for Evolution, Bath</title><link>https://mericlab.com/blog/milner_podcast/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://mericlab.com/blog/milner_podcast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I was featured in podcast from the Milner Centre for Evolution (now &lt;a href="https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-for-evolution/"&gt;Centre for Evolution; CEvol&lt;/a&gt;) at the University of Bath. Prof Turi King, director of the CEvol, and I discussed about our research and the microbiome in general, under the theme &amp;ldquo;Understanding the Complexities of the Human Gut Microbiome&amp;rdquo;. It&amp;rsquo;s published on many platforms (&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plf3R6ncp5M"&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt;, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc) and an embedded version should work below:&lt;/p&gt;
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