🔬🦠👶 This month we launched the NESTED study. We will recruit 30 children in London before they start nursery & follow them for 12 weeks after. We will examine whether their nasopharyngeal microbiome predicts common infections! @blizardinstitute.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

🤱Preterm birth is the top cause of child mortality. Our team from @qmulfmd.bsky.social report in @nejm.org that an antibiotic (cotrimoxazole) during pregnancy doesn't increase birthweight but may reduce preterm birth by 40%. Work ongoing to study maternal microbiomes! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Excited to be joining @ruairirobertson.bsky.social, @jenniepedley.bsky.social, Merrilees Roberts, Joanna Penso and Rhodri Hayward for an evening of gut based malarky. Thursday 12 June, free to attend, likely be refreshments of some kind, do come! @c19qmul.bsky.social @qmul-microbiome.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Microbes in space: how bacteria could help sustain long-distance space travel

So far, microorganisms have been research subjects or contaminants on space stations, but could they assist longer missions?

nature.com

Here we show that transmitting the Microbiome can transfer a host trait, independently of selection on the host genome. In mice, with selection for low activity levels. Correlates with levels of lactobacilli and indolelactate: transferring these alone also reduces activity.

Prof. Ruth Ley FRS@microbiome.bsky.social · 2y ago

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NEW COMMENT: Microbiome science needs more microbiologists @abaumler.bsky.social and Lauren Radlinski argue that integrating microbiologists and fundamental microbiological concepts should help advance microbiome science www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another really interesting microbiome paper worth checking out www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome

The Human Microbiome Compendium is a unified database of publicly available human gut microbiome 16S samples, built with the integrated data from hundreds of independent projects. The compendium is us...

cell.com

Final call for our #postdoc recruitment on #gut #microbiome, deadline in a week! Please share!🦋 #MicroSky #AcademicSky #GISky #PhDSky

Bjo:rn Schro:der@mucubacter.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are looking for 2 #postdoctoral fellows on #gutmicrobiota, #diet and the #gut mucosal barrier in #health and #disease! Details & Application: umustipendie.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!! #postdoc #postdocjob #academicjobs #MicroSky #GISky #Microbiome #MicroSky #AcademicSky #PhdSky

Yet another reason to thank your #microbiome! 🦠 🧪

Matilda's Lab@matildaslab.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm fascinated by the microbiome, the ecosystem of microbes that call us home. We're learning that they influence our health and our mood. Now, it seems that they may be the reason why humans developed big brains. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #microbiome #biology #science

🔬🧫 We have a funded PhD fellowship, co-supervised by myself, Tina Chowdhury & @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social that will involve developing novel organ-on-chip technologies to study the vaginal microbiome. Deadline 6th January! www.cpm.qmul.ac.uk/cdt/applicat...

PhD Projects for 2025 Entry: QMUL Centre for Predictive in vitro Models

The Centre for Predictive in vitro Models (CPM) represents multidisciplinary research focusing on the development and use of predictive in vitro models at Queen Mary University of London. This incorpo...

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☕ Drinking coffee is associated with significant changes the gut microbiome, particularly increased Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus, & elevated quinic acid in blood. Importantly, this is replicated across geographies. Interesting work from @cibiocm.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coffee consumption is associated with intestinal Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus abundance and prevalence across multiple cohorts - Nature Microbiology

Coffee consumption is associated with the presence and abundance of a specific member of the human gut microbiome, Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus, and changes to the plasma metabolome.

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A important discussion on scientists as political advocates www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists as political advocates

Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

science.org

🦠👬 Social networks influence your gut microbiome, including family, friends and even friends' friends. The more time you spend with someone, the more similar your microbiomes... Fascinating work from @fbeghini.bsky.social & @nachristakis.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks - Nature

An investigation into the relationship between network structure and gut microbiome composition among people living in 18 isolated Honduras villages reveals that strain-sharing can be mediated by...

nature.com

✖️->🦋 For all those migrating over here from Twitter/X, you can migrate all of your previous tweets to your bsky account for a small cost (~$5) using BlueArk! blueark.app

BlueArk

The new blue land is waiting for you. Bring your stories with BlueArk.

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#microbiome starter pack 1 & 2 by @claesengroup.bsky.social: ---- bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... #human #microbiome starter pack by @ruairirobertson.bsky.social: --- bsky.app/starter-pack... #MVIF starter pack by @microbiomevif.bsky.social: ---- bsky.app/start/did:pl...

🦠🔬🚨 I have created a starter pack for those involved in research related to human microbiomes (there are other excellent microbiome packs by @claesengroup.bsky.social but this differentiates human from environmental/plant microbiomes). Let me know if you would like to be added! go.bsky.app/3eeA7BP

🦋 Like many other scientists, I have moved over to the other platform (same handle). I will continue to tweet here as well, as science communication will remain as important here as ever. However, for unfiltered scientific content/engagement, the other platform seems promising!

💥Exciting #ERCResearch funded postdoc opportunities in my lab at @cruk-mi.bsky.social to study #NutrientHostMicrobiome interactions in #CancerImmunity in mice and humans. #CancerImmunology#MucosalImmunology#Microbiome ⏰Deadline: 1 December 2024 Apply👇 www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/recruitment/... ⏩RT

🔬🦠 Nice insights on next steps for microbiome-targeted therapies from @ArrietaLab @BackhedLab @Honda1Kenya & others. Lots of potential for phage, defined consortia, next-gen probiotics, postbiotics

🔬🦠 Nice insights on next steps for microbiome-targeted therapies from @ArrietaLab @BackhedLab @Honda1Kenya & others. Lots of potential for phage, defined consortia, next-gen probiotics, postbiotics

Thanks to @claesengroup.bsky.social for a great microbiome starter pack! There are currently 2 lists of excellent microbiome scientists to follow. Check them out! 🦠🧫🔬

Jan Claesen@claesengroup.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wow, Bluesky really took off in the last couple of days! The first microbiome starter pack is full now and I started a second one with non-overlapping profiles. Check out these people below and please let me know if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/6vPBEty

👋 Hello to all new followers! I am interested in how maternal microbiomes during pregnancy influence birth outcomes and how infant gut microbiome influence child growth and infection 💩🦠🫄👶. My research avails of large mother-infant cohorts in sub-Saharan Africa and in vitro models of the gut barrier

Wow, Bluesky really took off in the last couple of days! The first microbiome starter pack is full now and I started a second one with non-overlapping profiles. Check out these people below and please let me know if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/6vPBEty

A new bank of >2000 scientific/medical images and icons for free use in figures and presentations just released by @NIAIDNews @NIH. Very useful for early career researchers who can’t afford @BioRender https://bioart.niaid.nih.gov/

🍎🍕A nice summary of how diet can influence your immune system https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03334-0

🤯 Tuft cells act as regenerative stem cells in the human intestine! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07952-6

👶🦠Infant microbiomes have 5 different trajectories of development over the first 2 years of life, driven strongly by initial microbiome colonization and environmental exposures https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52561-6

📜📷 Check out our new paper from @ZvitamboZim @MangesLab @blizard_inst & others showing that microbiome composition at weaning affects efficacy of a nutritional intervention to reduce stunting. A bifidobacteria-dominant microbiome is not always...

Unfortunately, data around "Blue Zones" are flawed. Areas around the world with high numbers of centenarians and supercentenarians (>110 years old) are likely drievn by poor record national record keeping such as lack of birth...

🎓I am happy to support PhD applications for the Commonwealth Scholarships for students from eligible countries (deadline 15th October). If you have some experience with microbiome bioinformatics or with bacterial and human cell culture, send me your...