The annual Kennedy Institute Student Symposium (#KISS2026) was a huge success last week! Special shoutouts go to the PhD students in our lab - Catherine (1st year) & Rachel (3rd year) for being a runner-up and winner in their respective PhD cohort presentations🥳👩‍🔬💪 @kiroxford.bsky.social

We were delighted that Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu was the keynote speaker at our Student Symposium. Professor Dame Uchegbu introduced her pivotal work developing nanoparticles to make medicines with fewer side effects. She talked about her journey to commercialisation & her 'fabulous career!'

🔬 🧫 🧬 🩻 Applications are now open to study at NDORMS next year! 🥼 🩺 🎓 Join us at our world class University of Oxford research institutes, the Kennedy @kiroxford.bsky.social and the Botnar @botnaroxford.bsky.social for your DPhil! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study

Thrilled to share that I won an award for best presentation at the annual Kennedy Institute Student Symposium (#KISS2026) last week! It was great to present my PhD story so far and to hear all about everyone’s exciting work! One more year of the PhD and one more KISS to go🥳🧠 @kiroxford.bsky.social

We had a fantastic time at the annual Kennedy Lab to Clinic conference earlier this month! We especially loved the “Microbial Effects on Disease” session and the conference dinner in the natural history museum! Looking forward to next year👩‍🔬🧫🧬 @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social

The Gut Florists were back in action again at Greenman festival a few weeks ago for some public outreach! The paint your own gut bacteria canvases went down especially well and we had a great time chatting to the public! 🏕️👩‍🔬🎶 @kiroxford.bsky.social @oxmicrobiome.bsky.social @dunnschool.bsky.social

As Autumn closes in, it’s time for a quick recap of summer in the lab! We had great fun at our Powrie Lab garden party (thanks to Fiona for hosting us all!) and also enjoyed seeing the eclipse from South Park!☀️

British summer means making the most of the sunny weather whilst we can! This week we had a quick break away from the lab for a successful punting trip (with only a few near misses of almost falling in…) along the River Cherwell!☀️🚣‍♂️👒 @kiroxford.bsky.social

It was an honour to present my PhD work at #ICMI2026 in Montreal last week! I had the best time listening to some fantastic talks from leading mucosal immunologists and it was great to discuss my work with everyone!🇨🇦👩‍🔬☀️ @societymucosalimm.bsky.social @powrielab.bsky.social

Last week several lab members were in Montreal for #ICMI2026! We had a fantastic time listening to the amazing talks about the lastest work in the mucosal immunology field & were thrilled to share our work via some great posters and talks!🇨🇦👩‍🔬 @societymucosalimm.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social

We had a great time at the Kennedy retreat last week! There were lots of great talks from each of the KIR labs, a treasure hunt, and even a choir performance! Thanks to all the organisers for a great 2 days☀️ @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social

In case you missed it‼️ The wonderful @nickilott.bsky.social from @oxmicrobiome.bsky.social & our lab made an appearance on BBC Radio 4's Sliced Bread last week!📻 The episode gives a great run down on gut microbiome testing kits🦠🧑‍🔬 Catch up on the episode here! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Sliced Bread - Sliced Bread - Series 17 - Gut Microbiome Tests - BBC Sounds

Can a test tell you what's living inside your gut - and what to do about it?

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The Sagittarius Team won an OUH Award for Excellence for transforming care for people experiencing a relapse of ulcerative colitis! This approach creates a win–win–win partnership: faster high-quality care; more NHS capacity; & advancing translational research. www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ndorms-...

NDORMS team wins Award for Excellence for transforming ulcerative colitis care

The Sagittarius Team, a pioneering partnership between the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) has been recognised with the OUH Award for Excellence 2026 for transforming care f...

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Can a gut microbiome testing kit really tell you what's living in your gut – and what you should eat? 🦠 🌽 Dr @nickilott.bsky.social from the Oxford Centre for Microbiome Studies joined BBC Radio 4's Sliced Bread to separate the evidence from the marketing. Listen at: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Sliced Bread - Sliced Bread - Series 17 - Gut Microbiome Tests - BBC Sounds

Can a test tell you what's living inside your gut - and what to do about it?

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🍿 The wait is over... Premiering for #WorldMicrobiomeDay: A Day in the Life of a Poo Sample 💩🎬 Go behind the scenes and discover what really happens after a stool sample is donated, and how it supports microbiome research at Oxford. Watch now! 👇

Day in the life of a poo sample 💩

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Super exciting work from our close collaborators in the Uhlig group highlighting a link between the recently discovered IL-10 autoantibodies in IBD patients and HLA-DRB1*01:03! Congratulations to everyone involved - go check out the paper here!🎉 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @kiroxford.bsky.social

Interleukin-10 Autoantibodies and HLA-DRB1*01:03 in Inflammatory Bowel Disease | NEJM

Neutralizing autoantibodies against interleukin-10 can result in a phenocopy of monogenic defects of interleukin-10 signaling in children and may be associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)...

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Ffion Hammond's research focus is antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and she studies how drug-resistant pathogens like Klebsiella pneumoniae interact with the gut microbiome and host immune system, in the context of antibiotic treatment.

#WorldMicrobiomeDay 11 countdown 💩 Today, Ffion from Powrie lab discusses: 🧼 "Are cleaning products harmful to our gut microbiome?" 👨🏼‍🔬 Follow along as Oxford scientists answer your questions about the human microbiome — one short video each day until World Microbiome Day. ⚠️ see comments 🪥 & 🐾

Are cleaning products harmful to our gut microbiome? 🧼

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Autoantibodies neutralizing IL-10 in #IBD, particularly in patients carrying the IBD-associated HLA-DRB1*01:03 allele @nejm.org @carroll-lab.bsky.social www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... preview by @casanovalab.bsky.social

#WorldMicrobiomeDay 3️⃣ countdown 💩 Today, Kate and Holly from OCMS answer: 🦠 “How do diet and fibre affect the #microbiome?” 👩🏻‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬Follow along as Oxford scientists answer your questions about the human microbiome — one short video each day until World Microbiome Day.

The microbiome and diet 🌽

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#WorldMicrobiomeDay 5️⃣ countdown 💩 Today, OCMS scientist Holly answers: 🦠 “What is a healthy #gutmicrobiome?” Follow along as Oxford scientists answer your questions about the human microbiome — one short video each day until World Microbiome Day. youtu.be/lsPkZf-nS0M?... @hollyroach.bsky.social

What is a healthy microbiome? 🥦

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#WorldMicrobiomeDay 6️⃣ countdown 💩 Today, OCMS scientist Holly answers: 🦠 “Why do we #fart?” Follow along as Oxford scientists answer your questions about the human microbiome — one short video each day until World Microbiome Day. youtu.be/JLZlqarEjlQ?... @hollyroach.bsky.social

Why do some people fart more than others? 💩

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#WorldMicrobiomeDay 7️⃣ countdown 💩 Today, Chik On from OCMS answers: 🦠 “Can #fermentedfoods change your microbiome?” 👩🏼‍🔬Follow along as Oxford scientists answer your questions about the human microbiome — one short video each day until World Microbiome Day. Chik On Choy is the OCMS Project Manager

Can fermented food change your microbiome? 🧀

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#WorldMicrobiomeDay 8️⃣ countdown 💩 Today, Isaac from OCMS answers your questions about about how we study the #gutmicrobiome 🦠 👨🏼‍🔬 Follow along as Oxford scientists answer your questions about the human microbiome — one short video each day until World Microbiome Day. @isaac-dennis.bsky.social

How do you research the gut microbiome? 🔬

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#WorldMicrobiomeDay 9️⃣ countdown 💩 Today, Uzma from OCMS answers: 🪥 "Is the #oralmicrobiome linked to #Alzheimer's disease" 👨🏼‍🔬 Follow along as Oxford scientists answer your questions about the human microbiome — one short video each day until World Microbiome Day. @uzmakhan.bsky.social

Is oral health linked to Alzheimer's disease? 🦷

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#WorldMicrobiomeDay 2️⃣ countdown 💩 Today, Holly from OCMS answers: 🦠 “Where does our #microbiome come from?” Follow along as Oxford scientists answer your questions about the human microbiome — one short video each day until World Microbiome Day. @hollyroach.bsky.social

Where do our gut microbes come from? 🦠

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Throwing it back to Day 2 of KIPS, with more excellent postdoc talks and a great keynote from Kevin Foster! It was also announced that Ffion won the award for the best long talk!🥳 Thanks to the fantastic postdoc committee for organising two great days of science!👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 @kiroxford.bsky.social

📽️ Excited to be filming with @ndorms.bsky.social for our #WorldMicrobiomeDay event. Starring 🦠 💩 👩🏼‍🔬 🧑🏻‍🔬

Dr Natasha Fisher-Pearson won an Excellent Poster Award at the International Human Microbiome Consortium in Seoul for her work on how well human microbiomes engraft on transplant. Congratulations Natasha @natashafp.bsky.social @ihmc2026seoul.bsky.social #IHMC2026 #microbiome #FMT #metagenomics

Thanks for your questions about the human microbiome! 🦠 📽️ From 15 June, Oxford microbiome scientists will answer your human microbiome questions — one short video a day. And on World Microbiome Day, we have something special to release. Possibly too special. #WorldMicrobiomeDay