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Raes Lab @raeslab.org · 9d

Another great day at #UEGWeek 2025! 🎉Congratulations to our colleague Jorge Vazquez Castellanos for presenting his exciting work on microbial dysbiosis, inflammation, and the gut–brain axis in IBS at the United European Gastroenterology Week in Berlin🇩🇪 @myueg.bsky.social @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

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Raes Lab @raeslab.org · 10d

Huge congratulations to our colleague @arnauvich.bsky.social for presenting his research on FODMAP restriction and gut microbiota in IBS patients at United European Gastroenterology Week 2025 in Berlin🇩🇪👏! #UEGWeek @myueg.bsky.social @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 7

The most interesting report of the week (IMHO) 🧵

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 6

New @nature.com
The possibility that lithium deficiency is a driver of Alzheimer's disease. Experimental model shows Li depletion impedes amyloid clearance, and repletion in humans could be achieved with low doses
nature.com/articles/s41...

Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease - Nature

Lithium has an essential role in the brain and is deficient early in Alzheimer’s disease, which can be recapitulated in mice and treated with a novel lithium salt that restores the physiological level.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 6

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New hope for Alzheimer’s: lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice

Studies in rodents and humans suggest that low levels of the metal contribute to cognitive decline.

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Cristina Legido-Quigley @legidoquigley.bsky.social · Jul 24

Super happy to share our latest preprint in #liverdisease & #gut microbiota mechanisms.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Background: Alcohol overuse disrupts liver function and alters microbial gut communities, with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) accounting for half of all liver-related deaths worldwide. Bile acids...

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Sergio Andreu-Sanchez @seandreu.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thrilled to share that our manuscript on strain-level gut microbiome variation across diverse populations and human phenotypes is out today in @cellpress.bsky.social
Curious about how strain diversity relates to human traits? Follow this thread! 🌍 (1/n)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Global genetic structure of human gut microbiome species is related to geographic location and host health

The human gut harbors thousands of microbial species, each exhibiting significant inter-individual genetic variability. Although many studies have ass…

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Oliver Schwengers @oschwengers.bsky.social · Mar 6

🦠🧬🖥️ New Bakta DB v6.0 released!

After a year, it was time for a Bakta database update - and it's a huge one:
- IPS: 330.9M
- PSC: 135.3M
- PSCC: 37M

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Bakta database

This data repository contains the mandatory DB for Bakta. It is available in two versions: the default (db.tar.gz or) and a lightweight alternative (db-light.tar.gz). Bakta is a tool for the rapid & s...

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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · Mar 6

Citation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A designed synthetic microbiota provides insight to community function in Clostridioides difficile resistance

Clostridioides difficile, a major cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, is suppressed by the gut microbiome, but the precise mechanisms are not ful…

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Nature @nature.com · Feb 27

Nature research paper: Macrophages recycle phagocytosed bacteria to fuel immunometabolic responses

https://go.nature.com/3XmyOPD

Macrophages recycle phagocytosed bacteria to fuel immunometabolic responses - Nature

Phagocytosed bacteria can serve as an alternative nutrient source for macrophages, influencing their metabolic and immune responses through the recycling of microbial components, with the process regulated by nutrient-sensing mechanisms and bacterial viability.

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · Feb 21

Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Feb 21

A must-read for any microbiome researcher 🦠📐and a new addition to our #bestpractices series

Planning and describing a microbiome data analysis by @amydwillis.bsky.social and @davidandacat.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Planning and describing a microbiome data analysis - Nature Microbiology

We provide guidance on the planning, execution and description of statistical analyses in microbiome studies.

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Raes Lab @raeslab.org · Feb 20

We're hiring a postdoc!🚨

Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease.

🔬Requirements:
- PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field
- Expertise in omics
- Strong publication record

Apply now!🌟 jobs.vib.be/j/69697/post...
@vibmicrobes.bsky.social

Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics of the human gut microbiome - VIB

About the Lab Thelab of JeroenRaes(VIB, KU Leuven) is home to a vibrant, dynamic and international group of researchers in the field of gut microbial ecology and its clinical applications

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Levi Waldron @leviwaldron1.bsky.social · Feb 19

Excited to share our MicrobiomeBenchmarkData preprint, addressing compositional data analysis for microbiome DA. This Bioconductor package features 3 datasets with biological ground truths. Spoiler: simple methods like LEfSe, Wilcoxon, RNA-seq methods performed well www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Commonly used compositional data analysis implementations are not advantageous in microbial differential abundance analyses benchmarked against biological ground truth

Previous benchmarking of differential abundance (DA) analysis methods in microbiome studies have employed synthetic data, simulations, and "real data" examples, but to the best of our knowledge, none ...

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Raes Lab @raeslab.org · Nov 21

A big congratulations to our incredible team at RaesLab! We’re excited to share that two of our colleagues, Arnau @arnauvich.bsky.social and Jeroen, have been honored on the global #HighlyCited2024 researchers list by @Clarivate🤩🙌🏼 @viblifesciences.bsky.social

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Highly Cited Researchers | Clarivate

The Highly Cited Researchers 2024 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and ...

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Arnau Vich @arnauvich.bsky.social · Nov 21

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Arnau Vich @arnauvich.bsky.social · Nov 20

Although I'm not a big fan of individual recognitions in science- collaboration and teamwork are the real driving forces- I'm honored to be recognised as #HighlyCited2024 by Clarivate. Grateful to all colleagues, mentors and collaborators who made this happen.

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