#proudteam here! Nicola Segata received the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for Biological Sciences. He was awarded the prize "for his scientific achievements in the field of microbial genomics and for being considered a pioneer of strain-level metagenomics." mag.unitn.it/premi-e-rico...

🎉 Exciting news from our lab! cFMDv1.3.2 is now live. This release marks a significant expansion of cFMD: 📊 681 newly integrated food metagenomes from 22 public datasets 18,180 total MAGs across 4,125 metagenomes 54 countries (now including 🇲🇦) 100+ food-related studies 1/3

🎉 Exciting news from our lab! cFMDv1.3.2 is now live. This release marks a significant expansion of cFMD: 📊 681 newly integrated food metagenomes from 22 public datasets 18,180 total MAGs across 4,125 metagenomes 54 countries (now including 🇲🇦) 100+ food-related studies 1/3

🥁 NEW study @vheidrich.bsky.social et al. on oral and gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @cellpressblue.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-press-b... 👏 Kudos to all the authors and collaborators! [illustration by Betina Servaes] 1/n

🥁 NEW study @vheidrich.bsky.social et al. on oral and gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @cellpressblue.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-press-b... 👏 Kudos to all the authors and collaborators! [illustration by Betina Servaes] 1/n

Excited to share my summer plans! 🌞 This summer, 3 incredible microbiome study curation teams we'll be selecting, curating, reviewing, analyzing, & expanding two key microbiome databases: cMD & BugSigDB. A huge thank you to @cibiocm.bsky.social & @bioconductor.bsky.social for making this possible.

We have an unusual situation this year: we have more mentors than usual for our current number of Singletons! Please share the link with your network! We will match up as many as we can! #ASMicrobe #MicroSky 🦠🧪🔬

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Microbe @asm.org attendees! The matching registration form is locked but you can still join the community! forms.gle/5roddkPnjuBt... Join us on Slack and IRL. We often gain up to an additional 50% more people after we've made matches! #ASMicrobe #MicroSky 🔬🧪🦠🏳️‍🌈

#IHMC2026 starts this week in Seoul 🇰🇷 If you're attending, do not miss to hear more about our work from: @vheidrich.bsky.social who will be presenting the poster [ABST-000189, P1-024]: Improving Bacterial Strains Reconstruction and Microbiome Transmission Inference from Metagenomes 1/2

June is right around the corner and the #MVIF 50 program is officially out! 🤩 Highlights: 🇧🇩 Dipto Kundu 🇸🇪 @joseecologist.bsky.social Keynote: 🇺🇸 @julesdeep.bsky.social Talks: 🇺🇸 Samuel Degregori 🇺🇸 Anna Samarra 🇨🇳 Dehan Cai

New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT microbiomedigest.com/2026/05/29/m... • root microbiome/ @algazuccaro.bsky.social   • gut microbiome-epigenetics/ @gangfang.bsky.social   • resistome annotation/ @bigdatabiology.bsky.social   • invitation for #MVIF 50🎂 / @microbiomevif.bsky.social & more. Happy Friday!

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See you next week at MVIF! Global microbiome Advancing microbial ecology, microbiomes, and One Health in Africa: From regional initiatives to pan-African flagship programs – Mohamed Hijri – The ISM…

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May 27 and 28 at @sns.it Nicola Segata will talk about metagenomics of the human microbiome, from fundamental research to clinical applications! More info about the event: www.sns.it/en/node/1100...

Gut-brain and beyond: Interorgan Communication in Health and Disease | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore

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#proudteam here! @msabrysarhan.bsky.social won the Open Research Award of EURAC Research (both the jury's award and public voting award). Congrats to all the awardees! Read more: eurac.edu/en/magazine/...

#MeetTheLab @msabrysarhan.bsky.social works on his postdoc (joint w/ #EURAC) on ancient diet & microbiomes. How to overcome failure in science? I like a lot what Robert Frost said: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

Listening #miGutHealth talks! Right now: Metagenomics of the human microbiome to support precision nutrition strategies by Nicola Segata

Today is reserved for the #miGutHealth symposium on Diet, Stress and Lifestyle as Risk Factors in IBD: Nicola Segata will be there to discuss the latest insights from microbiome research into IBD Free registration: 2ynuk6ex.forms.app/ibdsymposium More info: www.migut-health.eu

How well do ARG detection pipelines agree when applied to the same data? Spoiler: not very well. In our new preprint, we ran 10 pipelines on 270M microbial unigenes from GMGCv1. The same data can support conflicting biological conclusions! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Next week (May 10–12), we're at #CSMicrobiome2026 in 🇧🇪Bruges Catch us at 2 posters: 👉P1.063 @vheidrich.bsky.social presenting our work on interpersonal strain transmission 👉P2.079 Riccardo Vanini on salivary metagenomics cell-press-symposia.com/microbiome-2... cc @cellpressevents.bsky.social

New paper out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social! Microbes evolving with modern lifestyles 🧬🦠 S. copri uses PerR to manage oxygen stress, but some strains acquired OxyR via HGT, boosting oxygen tolerance. These strains are enriched in industrialized populations. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Biogeography-associated emergence of enhanced oxygen tolerance in the abundant human gut commensal Segatella copri

El Mouali and Tawk et al. characterize the oxygen-tolerance response in the human gut-residing bacterium Segatella copri. They identified a subset of strains that acquired an additional oxygen regulat...

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🎓 PhD Talks #3 An inside look at the ideas, projects & findings of PhD students, presented by the #UniTrento researchers themselves. Speakers #3 are our lab members: Linda Cova Amin Haghparast @marconiroberta.bsky.social Thomas Barbazuk 🔗 eventi.unitn.it/en/phd-talks-3 #proudteam

And then we got creative, the children colored a fantastic bacteria sheet from the American Museum of Natural History’s Microbes Coloring Book: www.amnh.org/explore/olog... I’m happy to have opened a small door into science for these children. 2/3

4 days to go until the 19th Annual International Biocuration Conference! Join the global biocuration community in Cape Town 🇿🇦 for a week of learning, collaboration & innovation www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/training/19t... #IBC2026 #Biocuration2026

NEXT WEEK Chioma Onyido and I are happy to be part of #IBC2026 where we will share our #BugSigDB @bioconductor.bsky.social experience!

International Biocuration Conference 2026@intbioconf2026.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🧬 Workshop @ #IBC2026 | Cape Town Community-Driven Biocuration for Microbiome Research 📅 Apr 20, 2026 | 👩‍🔬 Dr S. Ugarcina Perovic & Ms Chioma Oselu ⚠️ Conference registration required 📝 Register: www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/worksho...

I had the joy of giving a kindergarten workshop: “Bacteria in and around us!” 🦠✨ To spark their imagination and start our discussion, I showed them the beautiful @contamclub.bsky.social 2026 calendar, full of vividly colored and uniquely shaped bacterial colonies. 1/3

This week at #MicrobiomePTSummit2026 Nicola Segata will share our latest human microbiome findings. See you in Lisbon 🇵🇹 Full program here: events.biodata.pt/event/6/page... cc @biodata.pt

3rd Microbiome PT Summit

Welcome to the 3rd Microbiome PT Summit We are delighted to welcome you to Lisbon for a two-day meeting of leading scientists, clinicians, and industry partners to discuss the latest developments in m...

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#MVIF 48 starts next week! Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-48 ⭐️ Highlights: 🇺🇸 Rachel R. Rock 🇺🇸 @pamferretti.bsky.social ⭐️ Keynote: 🇦🇺 @pam-engelberts.bsky.social and @jamesvolmer.bsky.social ⭐️ Talks: 🇨🇳 Linxing Chen 🇨🇳 Zhemin Zhou 🇦🇺 Hoai-An Nguyen

🥁PhD defense on Monday (April 13) by Michal Punčochář and his work on the human #microbiome transmission supervised by Nicola Segata & @fasnicar.bsky.social We're looking forward to Michal's final PhD exam& discussion w/ Ami Bhatt Shinichi Sunagawa Luigi Nezi Massimo Pizzato

🥁PhD defense on Monday (April 13) by Michal Punčochář and his work on the human #microbiome transmission supervised by Nicola Segata & @fasnicar.bsky.social We're looking forward to Michal's final PhD exam& discussion w/ Ami Bhatt Shinichi Sunagawa Luigi Nezi Massimo Pizzato

I'm very honored to have been selected to join 75 Nobel Laureates and 600 Young Scientists for the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting #LINO75! Huge thanks to the @ec.europa.eu's #MSCA for the nomination and to the great team at @cibiocm.bsky.social lab for supporting me along my journey!

Have you listened to the #MVIFconversations podcast? There is a new episode where @cpavloud.bsky.social and I talked to @merenbey.bsky.social about open source, mentoring, and believe me it's a GREAAAT one!!

Microbiome Virtual International Forum@microbiomevif.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#MVIFconversations podcast episode 3 with @merenbey.bsky.social is OUT! ▶️ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1Cke... ▶️ Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/podcasts/81c... ▶️ Apple Music: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... ▶️ YouTube podcast: youtu.be/-qC3qSU884U?... 1/2

Today at #MBTL2026 during Session 13: Computational, Integrative and AI Tools for Meta-Omics 🦠 Riccardo Vanini will talk about the gut microbial proteases in inflammatory bowel disease 🤝 Nicola Segata will give a keynote on human-to-human microbiome transmission #metagenomics #MicrobiomeToLife