Our modest step to understand the impacts of human genetics on a very understudied group of gut microbes — the mycobiome, a community of fungi that live in hosts and Earth’s ecosystems. Art by the 1st author’s mum 🎭 @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social @erdavenport.bsky.social www.psu.edu/news/eberly-...

Connection among gut fungi, genetics and disease risk in humans identified | Penn State University

A new genome-wide study by researchers at Penn State uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in the fungal component of the human microbiome —...

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Hard problems, meaningful work. The lab seeks molecular biologists, entomologists, geneticists, cell biologists, and symbiosis enthusiasts. Researchers will have the important role to decipher the reproductive manipulation tactics of bacteria in animals. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Researcher - Bordenstein Lab

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New collaborative study with Rachel Maccann & colleges! We show gut microbiota differences in people with HIV are linked to subclinical CVD, diet & inflammation, highlighting the microbiome’s role in cardiovascular risk. 🦠❤️ @svhglibraries.bsky.social @jidjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/infd...

With Elke Arendt's team, we show how bioprocessed brewer’s spent yeast boosts protein quality & gut microbiome health! 🦠 ✔️ 2x higher protein digestibility ✔️ DIAAS = 98.2% (good quality protein) ✔️ Increases alpha diversity & beneficial gut bacteria A step toward sustainable, functional food! 🌱

@junhuili.bsky.social meta-meta-analyzed over 36,800 gut microbiomes across CRC, CD, UC, IBS, PC, and COVID-19, revealing shared disease-associated microbiome signatures. Findings highlight oral commensal bacteria establishing in the gut, potentially altering microbiome dynamics and disease links.

Disease-associated microbiome signature species in the gut

Abstract. There is an accumulation of evidence that the human gut microbiota plays a role in maintaining health, and that an altered gut microbiota (someti

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🦠 New collaborative study in Gut Microbes led by Liam O'Mahony's lab reveals that lower microbial capacity for tryptophan production and metabolism may impair immune regulation, increasing the risk for severe outcomes in #COVID-19 patients and and Long COVID. doi.org/10.1080/1949...

It's published 🎊 with a powerful quote from Woese: “Science is an endless search for truth. Any representation of reality we develop can be only partial. There is no finality....There is only deeper understanding, more revealing and enveloping representations.” 2004 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The disciplinary matrix of holobiont biology

Uniting life’s seen and unseen realms guides a conceptual advance in research

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Seth Bordenstein@symbionticism.bsky.social · 2y ago

A new collaborative piece - The Disciplinary Matrix of Holobiont Biology - comes out on Friday. Here’s a snippet about it at my LinkedIn page, why I wrote it, and why the international team is an essential part of the story. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...