Dr. Gloria Fackelmann
@fackelmeister.bsky.social
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Marie Skłodowska Curie #postdoctoral fellow at the Segata Lab of Computational #Metagenomics @cibiocm.bsky.social, University of Trento, Italy. Major research topics: #microbiome & #microplastics. https://gfackelmann.github.io/
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TODAY at #EESMicrobiome
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On Wednesday, 17 Sept.
from 16h
don't miss Flash talk (ft) session 1
and Poster (p) session 1

and meet our lab members:
@fackelmeister.bsky.social
@vheidrich.bsky.social

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EMBL event program
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Our scientific organisers opened ‘The human microbiome’ symposium by giving us a brief update on their most recent work 🦠 #EESMicrobiome

🔹Mani Arumugam, University of Copenhagen
🔹Ami Bhatt, Stanford University School of Medicine
🔹Peer Bork, EMBL Heidelberg
🔹Nicola Segata, University of Trento
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NEXT WEEK we are at #EESMicrobiome in Heidelberg @events.embl.org

Full program: www.embl.org/about/info/c...

On Tuesday, 16 Sept.
see you at Session 1
from 15:30
✨Liviana Ricci will give a talk "Microbial strain transmission between infants in nurseries drives gut microbiome development"

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The human microbiome
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Reposted by Dr. Gloria Fackelmann
cibiocm.bsky.social
On Wednesday, 17 Sept.
from 16h
don't miss Flash talk (ft) session 1
and Poster (p) session 1

and meet our lab members:
@fackelmeister.bsky.social
@vheidrich.bsky.social

2/3
EMBL event program
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Huge congrats to @seandreu.bsky.social and the whole team! 🥳 So glad to have been a part of this exciting work that focused on the links between gut #microbial #genetic variation at the #strain level and a whole slew of host #phenotypes and geography. Read more @cellpress.bsky.social!
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In this study just published at npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, we collected dental swab samples from dogs to shed light on the hardly studied dog dental plaque microbiome (1/7)
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🌟New Year, New Resolutions!🌟

🌱As we kick off the year, many people take part in challenges like Veganuary, aiming to try out a plant-based diet.

📄Let’s dive into how different diets shape our gut health and the diversity of the microbiome based on a recent paper published by @cibiocm.bsky.social
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#Diets affect the gut #microbiome, e.g. red #meat is a driver of #omnivore microbiomes linked to poor cardiometabolic #health, inflammatory bowel #disease, colorectal #cancer & low short-chain fatty acids; #vegan ones are linked to favorable markers: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #plant-based #nutrition
Gut microbiome signatures of vegan, vegetarian and omnivore diets and associated health outcomes across 21,561 individuals - Nature Microbiology
Using 21,561 individuals, the authors present a cross-sectional study of how gut microbiome signatures are associated with dietary intake patterns and with host health outcomes.
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Reposted by Dr. Gloria Fackelmann
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A study in Nature Microbiology suggests that consuming more healthy plant-based foods could increase the proportion of gut microbes that favour human health. The findings are based on an analysis of more than 21,000 vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores. https://go.nature.com/40kHGqN 🧪
This is figure 5, which shows the contribution of food microbes to the gut microbiome across diet patterns.
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Thank you for inviting us to write this Research Briefing! It was a lot of fun and a welcome change to write in what we hope is more widely accessible format! I always enjoy reading the "behind the paper" sections because it sheds light on the authors' insight that one doesn't usually have.
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Thank you! Subgroups are not something we looked into, but we did consider hPDI (healthy plant-based diet index). This correlates with the same microbes regardless of diet pattern so in theory, omn eating more veg could have similar microbes as vegans. In practice though, omn have the lowest hPDI.
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This work wouldn’t have been possible without collaboration! 💪 Kudos and thanks to the team at CIBIO and ZOE (most aren't on bluesky, so not tagged here) @cibiocm.bsky.social @fasnicar.bsky.social
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Summary: The inclusion/exclusion of major food groups leaves its mark on the gut #microbiome via potential selection & food-to-gut acquisition esp from #dairy but also from fruit/veg, highlighting the role of agricultural practices in westernized gut microbiomes. 9/10
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Interestingly though, the most prevalent food microbes in vegans are soil microbes sometimes used in agriculture as N-fixing plant-growth promoters🌱 8/10
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Using the database of food-specific microbes #cFMD, we found that the greatest number of microbes may be derived from dairy, then fruits/veg and finally meat. Since vegans don’t eat dairy, they harbored the fewest food microbes. 7/10
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🍎🥑🥕Diversity of plant-based foods in one’s #diet can play a role in shaping the gut #microbiome, regardless of diet pattern. However, in practice, omnivores consume a significantly less plant-diverse diet than #vegans or #vegetarians. 6/10
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By correlating gut microbes with various host #cardiometabolic markers, we found vegan signature gut #microbes to be most favorable in terms of cardiometabolic #health, followed by vegetarians, trailed by omnivores. 5/10
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#Dairy microbes distinguish vegan from vegetarian gut #microbiomes, esp Streptococcus thermophilus, a common dairy starter. 4/10
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