Treza Manousaki is a Researcher on Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics at IMBBC|HCMR. She is involved in sequencing and analysing genome references from nonmodel species trying to link genome evolution to species adaptations. Currently, she is serving as co-chair for the Elixir Europe (https://elixir-europe.org/) priority area of Biodiversity, Food Security and Pathogens and as Chair of the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA – https://www.erga-