Formal announcement of the 15th installment of the International Gut Microbiology Symposium series, running from June 1st to 3rd 2027: www.abdn.ac.uk/events/confe... We will look forward to welcoming old friends and new to Aberdeen next summer.

I still contend that >90% of the benefit of writing a review isn't the audience. It's for the author going through the literature, finding gaps in knowledge, learning how experiments are done, etc. It really isn't about writing a review. It's about doing the review yourself. AI can't do that for you

Excellent article on quantitative production of fermentation products by the microbiota. Key takeaway: microbial fermentation products may be more important in mice than humans, amplifying microbiome effects in mice. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Quantifying the varying harvest of fermentation products from the human gut microbiota

Fermentation products are the most abundant gut microbial metabolites absorbed by the host, with important dose-dependent consequences for health. In this study, we present a systems-level analysis in...

cell.com

The landscape of microbial associations in human cancer www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... TLDR -- most cancers do not have microbiomes...but a few do have consistent microbe associations (i.e., colorectal and oral cancers). Make sense!

The landscape of microbial associations in human cancer

Differences between cancer types, infectious disease, and potential prognostic markers are uncovered by studying microbes within cancer DNA.

science.org

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Professor Lesley Hoyles@bugsinyourguts.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK-wide microbiome innovation network Microbiome-Net. I'm looking forward to representing and furthering the East Midlands Microbiome Research Network's contributions to research, innovation and policy. www.liverpool.ac.uk/microbiome-i...

Hope this is useful - consensus statement "Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies" rdcu.be/er3Io

Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies

Nature Microbiology - In this Consensus Statement, the authors outline strategies for processing, analysing and interpreting low-biomass microbiome samples, and provide recommendations to minimize...

rdcu.be

EDITORIAL: Ensuring rigour of low-biomass microbiome research Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪

Our latest editorial is now online, in advance of our February issue that will be available next week. Brain microbiome: is it all in our heads? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Brain microbiome: is it all in our heads?

In their September 2018 Editorial, The Lancet Infectious Diseases discussed the over-reaching inferences leading to suggestions of a placental microbiome, and touched on how the same extrapolations we...

thelancet.com

If this could be circulated to all of my recent grant funding panels, that would be great 😄

Lauren Radlinski@laurenradlinski.bsky.social · 2y ago

Microbiome science needs more microbiologists- A new commentary authored by myself and @abaumler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Frustrating - I reviewed a paper that was highly problematic, mainly in scientific rigour undermining most of the conclusions, so I recommend Reject. However the editor decides to Revise presumably due to the more positive comments from reviewer 2... /1

Interested in being and editor for the journal 'Microbial Genomics' @MicrobioSoc : microbiologysociety.org/news/society...?

Abigail was just the greatest. I miss her.

Leibniz Institute DSMZ@leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social · 2y ago

To honour Abigail A. Salyers (1942-2013), who is considered as the mother of microbiome research, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces salyersiae (DSM 41770) after her. #WomenInScience #antibiotics #antibioticresistance #microbiome #microbiology

last couple days to apply (for free! from anywhere in the world!) to the Sanger 2025 PhD Programme — Deadline: 28th November 2024 (09:00 GMT) For more info, visit www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...

Hot off the press: "Fecal microbial load is a major determinant of gut microbiome variation and a confounder for disease associations" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... See below for @suguru-nishijima.bsky.social 's thread on the preprint! #microsky #microbiome

Fecal microbial load is a major determinant of gut microbiome variation and a confounder for disease associations

The microbiota in individual habitats differ in both relative composition and absolute abundance. While sequencing approaches determine the relative a…

sciencedirect.com

Suguru Nishijima@suguru-nishijima.bsky.social · 3y ago

Excited to share our latest preprint on a novel computational tool to predict fecal microbial load solely from relative species profiles! Our study revealed that fecal microbial load is a substantial confounder in microbiome-disease association studies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paperboy, turnstile operator, shelf stacker, pipe grinder, pet shop boy, rose breeder, field hand, warehouse dispatcher, and medical laboratory scientific officer (trainee). And I gave it all up for a life of studying poop. It's a strange universe.

Paul Gardner@ppgardne.bsky.social · 2y ago

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: - Farm hand (fencing, thistle cutting, scrub cutting, mustering) - Forestry work (pruning, donkey) - Crutching

After editing, this very short letter to New Scientist is even shorter now. But I think it gets the point across! @faecalmatters.bsky.social

For anyone interested, The Microbiologist has published a couple of short articles summarising a nice recent chat I had with Yang Yue from UEA, including some musings on microbiome research, and networking/public engagement opportunities for ECRs: www.the-microbiologist.com/alan-walker/...

Alan Walker | Author | The Microbiologist

University of Aberdeen, UK

the-microbiologist.com