Chris Stewart
@stewartlab.bsky.social
Professor of Human Microbiome Research at Newcastle University. Using 'omics and organoids to study diet-microbe-host interaction. Microbiome; Microbiology; preterm infant; necrotising enterocolitis; inflammatory bowel disease; cancer. He/Him
Let Lister Fellow @stewartlab.bsky.social inspire you to apply for the Lister Prize 2027. "In Newcastle we say, 'Shy bairns get nowt.' This sums up my experience with the Lister Prize. It took three tries but I eventually succeeded." Full story 👀 lister-institute.org.uk/research-pri...
Rejection is part of science. So is resilience. 🔬 Tim Blower and @stewartlab.bsky.social share how setbacks helped shape their careers. We don't talk about this enough. 🔁Please repost and share your own stories of defeat or bouceback. Break the stigma! lister-institute.org.uk/news/resilie...
🚨 A new piece of the preterm gut microbiome puzzle just fell into place! Bifidobacterium metabolise human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) in early life — shaping immunity, supporting gut development, and protecting against diseases like necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Clostridia from preterm infants metabolize human milk oligosaccharides to suppress pathobionts and modulate intestinal function in organoids - Nature Microbiology
Clostridium perfringens lacking perfringolysin O toxin isolated from preterm infants metabolizes human milk oligosaccharide disialyllacto-N-tetraose to produce metabolites that promote the growth of c...
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📣 The Whelan lab is hiring a bioinformatics postdoc 📣 Together with @fabricejpierre.bsky.social, we are offering a 1-year bioinformatic PDRA position in comparative genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. To find out more please visit whelanlab.co.uk/contact/. Applications close 3 April 2026!
Research Associate in Microbial Genomics:Manchester
This postdoctoral research position is part of a Cystic Fibrosis Canada Early Career Investigator Award funded for 3-years led by Dr. Fabrice Jean-Pierre and Dr. Fiona Whelan. The aim of this project is to identify the genetic changes that arise in the Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome following perturbations – such as antibiotic treatment – in an in vitro system. The PDRA will use a large dataset of P. aeruginosa genomes and experimental metadata to predict key mutationsto the organism.
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A new probiotic in development? 🦠👶 Clostridium perfringens isolated from preterm infants metabolizes human milk oligosaccharide to promote commensal Bifidobacteria, inhibit pathogens and suppress inflammation in organoids Interesting work from @stewartlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Clostridia from preterm infants metabolize human milk oligosaccharides to suppress pathobionts and modulate intestinal function in organoids - Nature Microbiology
Clostridium perfringens lacking perfringolysin O toxin isolated from preterm infants metabolizes human milk oligosaccharide disialyllacto-N-tetraose to produce metabolites that promote the growth of commensal bifidobacteria, inhibit pathogens and suppress inflammation in an organoid model.
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I have an open BBSRC PhD position in my lab at @northumbriauni.bsky.social to start Oct 2026 This exciting project will focus on the Resistance, resilience, & redundancy in the human gut microbiome This is part in collaboration with the fantastic @stewartlab.bsky.social Project details ⤵️ 1/2
Introducing a new gut microbiology journal, aptly titled Gut Microbiology. All Article Publishing Charges (APCs) are waived for 2 years! Please send your exciting research our way. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/gut-...
The @stewartlab.bsky.social use systems biology and cutting-edge human intestinal organoid models to understand diet-microbe-host interaction across the life course, with the ambition to discover novel therapies to improve gut health. www.ncl.ac.uk/medical-scie... www.neonatalresearch.net
Introducing a new gut microbiology journal, aptly titled Gut Microbiology. All Article Publishing Charges (APCs) are waived for 2 years! Please send your exciting research our way. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/gut-...
Led by Emily Wroot, I present our recent Comment in @natmicrobiol.nature.com "Opportunities for microbiome-based therapeutics in preterm infants" Hopefully this provides a timely insight for clinicians and researchers interested in preterm infants, and beyond! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Opportunities for microbiome-based therapeutics in preterm infants - Nature Microbiology
Microbial-based and microorganism-targeting therapies are emerging to prevent or treat preterm infant complications, but more preclinical research and clinical evidence is needed.
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Many congratulations @stewartlab.bsky.social on this amazing achievement - so richly deserved - #BlavatnikAwards Life Sciences Laureate 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 🎉 Very happy for you and great interview 👇🏾
The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.In our latest blog post we catch up with #BlavatnikAwards Life Sciences Laureate @stewartlab.bsky.social, who recently attended the Blavatnik Awards ceremony and public symposium and gave talks about his preventive health work on preterm infant microbiomes 🫄👶 lister-institute.org.uk/congratulati...
In our latest blog post we catch up with #BlavatnikAwards Life Sciences Laureate @stewartlab.bsky.social, who recently attended the Blavatnik Awards ceremony and public symposium and gave talks about his preventive health work on preterm infant microbiomes 🫄👶 lister-institute.org.uk/congratulati...
Congratulations Chris Stewart, 2025 Blavatnik Laureate for Life Sciences – Lister Institute
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We had the pleasure of interviewing Chris earlier this week for the Lister Institute blog, and were excited to learn about his team's new preprint: a game-changer in understanding how human breast milk influences the infant microbiome.
Chris Stewart@stewartlab.bsky.social · 2y agoIntroducing our latest preprint which discovered Clostridium sp. grow on HMOs. Using computational and experimental approaches we show this has beneficial consequences for the developing microbiome and the host. But there is nuance. A 🧵... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🎉 Congratulations to @stewartlab.bsky.social who has been named the Life Sciences Laureate at the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK 🎖️ Read more 👇 www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl... #WeAreNCL
Huge congratulations to our colleague Professor Chris Stewart on receiving the esteemed Life Sciences Laureate at the Blavatnik Awards 2025! This is a first for @newcastleuni.bsky.social and we couldn't be more proud of Chris & his ground-breaking research! tinyurl.com/LaureateAward
Human microbiome researcher honoured with prestigious award
A leading young scientist is the first at Newcastle University to win an esteemed Blavatnik award.
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Congratulations to AMI member Dr Christopher Stewart of @newcastleuni.bsky.social who has been named as a finalist in the eighth Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK! He is the 2023 winner of AMI’s WH Pierce Prize for microbiology. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/ami-mem...
AMI member Christopher Stewart named as finalist in 2025 UK Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Applied Microbiology International member Dr Christopher Stewart of Newcastle University has been named as a finalist for the eighth Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK. He is the 2023 win...
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Fabulous meeting in Hong Kong by the New Cornerstone Science Foundation. It was great to meet so many researchers in person whose work I have admired for some time. Thanks for having me!
Introducing our latest preprint which discovered Clostridium sp. grow on HMOs. Using computational and experimental approaches we show this has beneficial consequences for the developing microbiome and the host. But there is nuance. A 🧵... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pleasure to attend and learn about the fantastic on-going research 🙂
Quadram Student Forum (QSF)@quadramsf.bsky.social · 2y agoWe also were happy to welcome our keynote speaker @stewartlab.bsky.social from @newcastleuni.bsky.social to speak about his work on diet-microbe-host interactions in early life as well as his career progression and advice for our student collective
We also were happy to welcome our keynote speaker @stewartlab.bsky.social from @newcastleuni.bsky.social to speak about his work on diet-microbe-host interactions in early life as well as his career progression and advice for our student collective
Human Milk: the Original Superfood & Personalized Medicine Happy to share that my @gairdnerawards.bsky.social lecture is now available online: youtu.be/d6BrlTmmmBY?... #breastfeeding #microbiome #breastmilk 🧪
"Human Milk: the Original Superfood & Personalized Medicine" - Dr. Meghan Azad
YouTube video by CanadaGairdnerAwards
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My RSS feed, including the pubmed search “gut microbiota”, hasn’t updated for a few days
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JOB CLAXON! I am recruiting a post-doctoral researcher on a BBSRC-funded project (36 months) on the genetics and functional genomics of vancomycin resistance in enterococci. Further details here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please DM or email me if you want to discuss this post.
Research Fellow - Department of Microbes, Infections and Microbiomes - 104864 - Grade 7
This exciting BBSRC-funded project aims to mechanistically characterise the fitness costs associated with vancomycin resistance in the Gram-positive opportunistic pathogens Enterococcus faecalis and E...
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Congratulations to all 2025 Microbiology Society Prize Winners, particularly U Birmingham colleague @halllab.bsky.social for the Peter Wildy prize 'for outstanding contributions to microbiology education, communication of microbiology to the public'. microbiologysociety.org/news/society...
Prize winners 2025
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New fully funded PhD studentship focused on breast milk and infant microbiome at Newcastle University. Applications close December 13th. Feel free to contact me if interested. Please RT eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Unravelling how human milk bioactive components modulate the infant gut microbiome at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Unravelling how human milk bioactive components modulate the infant gut microbiome at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Paper 2: Probiotics have similar impacts regardless of gestational age www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Impact of probiotics on gut microbiome of extremely preterm or extremely low birthweight infants - Pediatric Research
Pediatric Research - Impact of probiotics on gut microbiome of extremely preterm or extremely low birthweight infants
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Two new open-access papers from the group, largely showing so-called "negative results", but with important connotations for the care of preterm infants at risk of NEC. Paper 1: Milk microbes are not associated with NEC www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Human milk microbiota, oligosaccharide profiles, and infant gut microbiome in preterm infants diagnosed with necrotizing enterocolitis
Masi et al. show that mother’s own milk bacterial composition and load are not altered in preterm infants diagnosed with necrotizing enterocolitis. Milk microbiome, human milk oligosaccharide, and pre...
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