📣 Our lab is recruiting postdocs to lead new fully funded projects on mechanisms of microbiome–gut–brain signaling & microbial regulation of brain–body interactions in disease, w supportive clinical collaborators. Expertise in gut–brain, systems neuro, or neuroimmunology preferred. Please email 📧

Excited to share new work by Guli Agirman + co that identifies a direct mechanism linking gut microbial imidazole propionate to stress! 🧠🦠 Btw this image was made by Nano Banana Pro 🍌. First time I've gotten a model to accurately generate a science graphic 🤯 authors.elsevier.com/a/1mA5M6t8JE...

Excited to share our recent publication in this month's issue of mBio, based on my PhD research. We show that replication of 𝘛. 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘪 is required to trigger a localized immune response in the brain! 🧠 bit.ly/3TA9ALj

Toxoplasma gondii parasites induce a localized myeloid cell immune response surrounding parasites in the brain during acute infection | mBio

Toxoplasma gondii is a brain-infecting parasite, and the mobilization of peripheral immune cells to the brain is critical for controlling T. gondii infection. However, the initial events driving these...

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Thrilled to share this collaborative work by Kristie Yu, Francis Chandra, Amina Schartup and teams @Scripps_Ocean and @UCLA showing that an engineered gut bacterium can be used to reduce the neurotoxic effects of dietary methylmercury www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

An engineered gut bacterium protects against dietary methylmercury exposure in pregnant mice

Yu and Chandra et al. engineered a commensal gut microbe, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, to detoxify methylmercury (MeHg). The engineered bacterium reduces MeHg in the intestinal lumen, limits its accu...

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Maternal microbiome is a cornerstone of maternal and fetal health. https://buff.ly/431YoNu @stephorch.bsky.social‬ & @pipethero.bsky.social highlight gut microbiome x environmental interactions at the maternal-fetal interface that influence the brains of pregnant people and developing offspring.

Curious about how the gut microbiome modulates the neurological health of pregnant women and their offspring? Check out my recent review with @pipethero.bsky.social out now @jclinical-invest.bsky.social! 🦠🤰👶🧠 www.jci.org/articles/vie...