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

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/...

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

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Postdocs and early career folks - this is a truly wonderful opportunity to spend time in Berlin, gain time to think, and expand your network! call.wiko-berlin.de/procedure/65...

You also don't have to do an editor's job of deciding if a paper "fits" or is "impactful enough" for their journal, because you're a scientist and not a marketing agent for the publisher.

Timothy O'Leary@timothyoleary.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dear peer reviewers everywhere: sometimes we feel pressure to find issues with a submission as a demonstration of diligence. But we have to recognise this is a mistake: picking random and sometimes incoherent holes in research add confusion, generates unnecessary work and encourages defensive

Dear peer reviewers everywhere: sometimes we feel pressure to find issues with a submission as a demonstration of diligence. But we have to recognise this is a mistake: picking random and sometimes incoherent holes in research add confusion, generates unnecessary work and encourages defensive

So tired! thank you for making life less shit

Magnus Palmblad@magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 4w ago

Tired of AI-generated figures? I asked our talented scientific illustrator Manon Zuurmond to draw some of the instruments and lab equipment we missed in NIH's otherwise fantastic BioArt resource. First batch now available as CC BY. Free for everyone to use in publications: github.com/Center-for-P...

It’s wild how we have gone from ‘Hmm I wonder if the authors actually read the paper’ to ‘Hmm does this paper even exist’ when reviewing manuscripts #AI #scientificIntegrity

Very proud of this preprint out of my lab, our first (of hopefully many) host-microbe spatial transcriptomics paper. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing insights into P. aeruginosa biology and chronic airway disease @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk

A new analysis demonstrates how kidney-infiltrating T cells might contribute to kidney injury in patients with lupus, phage therapy switches off malicious E. coli to calm colitis in Crohn's disease, and more this week in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine. https://scim.ag/4aDHuYt

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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Can microbiome tests tell you what's living in your gut? 🦠 Can they provide diets personalised to your resident microbes? 🥑 Dr Nick Ilott joined presenter Greg Foot and Dr Fred Warren on the Sliced Bread Podcast to discuss! Listen now 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @nickilott.bsky.social

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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Tune in this Thursday 2nd July to #BBCRadio4 #SlicedBread to hear our discussion on at-home microbiome tests for personalised diet plans - interested to hear what made the final edit 😬

We are always excited by the success of members of @dunnschool.bsky.social! Huge congratulations to Profs Emma Slack @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social and Kevin Foster on their election as members of @embo.org Both are microbiome leaders – and both are stars www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

Emma Slack and Kevin Foster elected members of EMBO - Dunn School

Both researchers are leaders in the rapidly growing field of the human gut microbiome.

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Great news! Congratulations to Emma Slack (@mucosalimmunology.bsky.social) and Kevin Foster for this very well deserved honour www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

Emma Slack and Kevin Foster elected members of EMBO - Dunn School

Both researchers are leaders in the rapidly growing field of the human gut microbiome.

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The Dunn School, Oxford@dunnschool.bsky.social · last mo.

We are always excited by the success of members of @dunnschool.bsky.social! Huge congratulations to Profs Emma Slack @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social and Kevin Foster on their election as members of @embo.org Both are microbiome leaders – and both are stars www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

CarveMe-GutMicrobes: Automated Metabolic Model Reconstruction for Gut Microbial Species and Communities www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

10 years ago, the air outside Aldgate School didn’t meet legal limits. Children were breathing polluted air every day. I made it my mission to change that. Here’s the difference our bold policies have made ⬇️

Small seed grants lead to massive discoveries! Dr Sun used preliminary data from a study funded by #PSCSupport to secure a prestigious MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship. He’s now diving deep into genetic drivers of primary sclerosing cholangitis. pscsupport.org.uk/research-wev...

Worth waiting for! Happy World Microbiome Day everyone!

Oxford Centre for Microbiome Studies@oxmicrobiome.bsky.social · last mo.

🍿 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! 👇

Kieron Dyer joined Sky Sports to talk about why he's backing @PSCSupportUK for @BigGive's #SmallCharityWeek! Thanks to our incredible donors we've reached our goal and accessed all our match funding 🎉 but you can still donate (and boost your donation by 25% with Gift Aid!)🔗 youtu.be/ksvI6Ud3pfw

Kieron Dyer Speaks to Sky Sports About Rare Autoimmune Liver Disease (PSC) for Small Charity Week

England footballing legend and liver transplant recipient Kieron Dyer joined Sky Sport to speak passionately about his personal journey with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) and to champion our…

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Spatially resolved profiling of extracellular vesicles in tissues with Spatial-EV-seq www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spatially resolved profiling of extracellular vesicles in tissues with Spatial-EV-seq - Nature Biotechnology

Spatial-EV-seq reveals spatial patterns of extracellular vesicles in tissues.

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Out Now! Bacteroides fragilis toxin promotes gall bladder cancer in mice #MicroSky

Bacteroides fragilis toxin promotes gall bladder cancer in mice

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 25 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02404-5Binding between bacterial membrane-bound lytic murein transglycosylase D (MltD) and host transmembrane serine protease 13 (TMPRSS13) potentiates the tumorigenic effects of Bacteroides fragilis toxin through JAK2–STAT3 signalling and myeloid-derived suppressor cell recruitment in gall bladder cancer.

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Football legend & PSC transplant patient Kieron Dyer went on @tSHandJ to back our @biggive #SmallCharityWeek campaign! 😭❤️ Having his voice championing our rare disease community means everything. Shortly after this interview WE HIT OUR TARGET! (1/2) #LetsBeatPSC

#WorldMicrobiomeDay 11 countdown 💩 Today, Rahul from OCMS answers questions about the #gutmicrobiome and #mentalwellbeing. 🧠 This is our final FAQ video before World Microbiome Day — thanks for following along and stay tuned for the finale 📽️ .

The gut microbiome and mental wellbeing 🧠

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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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#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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Another chapter of my thesis is out! We asked whether we could pair proteome-wide AlphaFold screening with Tn-seq to identify biologically relevant protein-protein interactions. We identify ClcR (formerly YerH) as a component of the Rod complex in Gram-positive bacteria. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A broadly conserved gram-positive lipoprotein regulates cell elongation | PNAS

The cell wall peptidoglycan (PG) protects virtually all bacteria from osmotic lysis and specifies cell shape. Synthesis of this exoskeleton is carr...

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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 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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As we approach World Microbiome Day, the team at the Oxford Centre for Microbiome Studies are answering your questions about all things gut bacteria, poo, diet, probiotics, viruses, the immune system, health, disease, research methods and more! 🦠🍏🔬💩

Oxford Centre for Microbiome Studies (@oxmicrobiome.bsky.social)

Driving microbiome insights. Original research and supporting collaborations. https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/ocms https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxmicrobiome University of Oxford

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Interesting new preprint on using MICOM to predict responders/non-responders to FMTs 👇 "Metagenome-scale Modeling to Assess Microbiome Metabolic Complementarity for Precision Microbiota Transplantation Therapies" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Metagenome-scale Modeling to Assess Microbiome Metabolic Complementarity for Precision Microbiota Transplantation Therapies

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) holds therapeutic promise beyond recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, but clinical outcomes remain unpredictable, in part because existing computational...

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