Thrilled to share my first first-author paper published online today in @cellpress.bsky.social! 🎉 In this study, we show that milk osteopontin protects from severe lower respiratory infections by altering the neonatal gut microbiome. 🔗 Read here: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Let's dive in! 🧵 1/

Milk osteopontin alters the infant microbiome to drive DC hematopoiesis and disease tolerance

Milk-derived osteopontin confers protection from viral or bacterial severe lower respiratory illness by altering the neonatal gut microbiome.

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Today, I successfully defended my Doctoral Thesis titled, “Understanding how #breastmilk composition alters neonatal #immune trajectory and alters susceptibility to acute #respiratory tract #infections”. 🍾