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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 2d

New paper out! 🎉 Our collab with Jorge & Amanda shows that Bifido can remotely control placental endocrine function (in 🐀) - modulating >400 proteins! 🚀 Published in J Transl Med - translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Gut microbes shaping the placenta - pretty amazing stuff! 🧫🤰

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James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

MMEG is coming to @unibirmingham.bsky.social in December - look out for some exciting announcements about the programme in the next few weeks! Abstract submission and registration is open 👇🏻

Applied Microbiology International @amiposts.bsky.social · Sep 1

Save the Date: #MMEG2025 is coming to Birmingham!

Join us on 15–16 December 2025 for the 31st edition of MMEG. This year's event is your chance to:
🔬 Share your research
🤝 Connect with peers
🦠 Discover the latest in molecular microbial ecology

Register now: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 9d

📢🚨 Check out @drgdavidson.bsky.social's 3-year senior PDRA role below @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social!
Super exciting project exploring wildlife ecology 🐾 and gut microbiome bioinformatics 🧬!
👉 Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18...
💬 Informal enquiries to Gabrielle welcome!

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 9d

Come join us 2-4th March 2026 for a cracking #microbiome conference in Hinxton UK! Speaker line up is AMAZING and lots of opportunities for ECRs for selected talks, flash talks and posters.

Bursaries are also available!

See details below 👇

Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventswcs.bsky.social · 9d

Showcase your microbiome research at our 2026 conference! #Microbiome26

Demonstrate how #genomics tools and technologies are contributing to a deeper understanding of the microbiome.

🗓️ 2-4 March
Submit an abstract by 24 November ✍🏼

📎 bit.ly/4kttBOX
#MicrobiomeSky #AcademicSky

Wellcome Connecting Science hybrid conference
Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease

Conference dates: 2-4 March 2026
Location: Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, UK and online

Bursary and abstract deadline: 24 November 2025
Registration deadline
In person: 2 February
Virtual: 14 February

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 10d

We were gutted that @eliza-coli.bsky.social’s stunning illustration wasn’t chosen for the front cover - I mean, just look at it! ✨

Working with Eliza was a joy & if you’re looking for a brilliant scientific illustrator to bring your projects to life, I can’t recommend her highly enough 🎨🧫🦠

Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 10d

Bifidobacteria co-evolve with their hosts - new research by the @halllab.bsky.social published in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social and illustrated by me!

Another #NotTheCover for the books, but in this case, it's really their loss 😋

🧫🧪🐡 #microbiome #cartoon

Colourful cartoon of a town feast, where all the townies are bifidobacteria, who are coloured to match the kind of (animal) houses they came from. The bacteria sat at a long dining table in the centre are eating lactose together and are using the same cutlery (or enzymes) to do this.. Lanterns light up the twilight as the sun sets. There are reptile houses, bee houses, monkey houses, chicken houses and all sorts of little surprises in the back (the whale and the rabbit buildings are my favourite)

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 22d

Such an engaged audience at #EESMicrobiome with lots of great questions after my talk!

Big thanks to the organisers for inviting me to present some of the teams recent early life #microbiome work.

Conference has been AMAZING so far!

EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 22d

🦠🔬 We’re starting #EESMicrobiome Session 3: Early life microbiome – development and impact

🔸Chaired by Tami Lieberman (MIT) & Mani Arumugam (University of Copenhagen)

🎤 First talk:
'Exploring early life microbiome interactions'
by Lindsay Hall @unibirmingham.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 An excellent opportunity for scientists in Africa, at all career stages, working on maternal & child microbiome research 🚨

📚 Blended learning (3 months) incl. prep modules, hands-on training (12-17 Apr 2026) & mentoring.

coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/human-...

Human Gut Microbiome Metagenomics – Africa — 20260412

Build skills in microbiome metagenomics, bioinformatics, and data interpretation to advance maternal and child health research

coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks Jose!

Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 28d

Excited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦

Key takeaways:
🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution
🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes
🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential

Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · 28d

Bifido adaptations across hosts

@halllab.bsky.social survey insects, reptiles, birds & mammals to uncover how Bifidobacterium adapts to hosts. Bifidobacterium & host exhibit strong co-phylogenetic associations, driven by vertical transmission & dietary selection
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Host-specific microbiome and genomic signatures in Bifidobacterium reveal co-evolutionary and functional adaptations across diverse animal hosts

Bifidobacterium are beneficial members of the microbiota across animal hosts. Kujawska et al. demonstrate that bifidobacteria have likely co-evolved more closely with mammals, particularly primates, a...

www.cell.com

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Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventswcs.bsky.social · 29d

Bursaries to support your participation at our Microbiome research conference! #Microbiome26

Get up to 50% off the conference registration fee - apply by 24 November 📩

Join us to explore the latest tools and approaches driving advances in the field.

📎bit.ly/4kttBOX
#MicrobiomeSky #AcademicSky

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Aug 17

Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com!

We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨

Huge team effort!

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

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Aug 13

🧠🌍 Free Online Symposium
African Microbiomes & Mental Health
📅 29 Sept 2025 | 🕒 14:00 SAST / 13:00 BST
🔗 Register or submit an abstract: forms.gle/8WBZnimr3xui...
🎤 Join leading researchers, clinicians & lived experience experts.
🌟 Submit an abstract for a 10-min spotlight talk!
📄 Speaker info below

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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome.
💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia
📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025
🌍 Int’l applicants welcome!
Application link below.
#microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky

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Professor Lesley Hoyles @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social · Aug 5

Interested in bacteriocins targeting Gram-negative bacteria causing UTIs? Come and work with me and PI @davidnegus.bsky.social as a research assistant on a 12-month project, funded by The Urology Foundation. #UTIsky

Research Associate:Clifton Campus

vacancies.ntu.ac.uk

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Jul 3

Great fun as always for the @imibirmingham.bsky.social summer school - and some excellent(!) questions from the students!

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Jul 3

Ah - thanks for the shoutout @aislingbrady.bsky.social 😁

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Jul 1

Barnstorming talk by @coytelab.bsky.social at the @imibirmingham.bsky.social seminar series today!

🧬 “An ecosystem on a leash: understanding the drivers of gut microbiome dynamics”

Thanks for making the trip down from Manchester and sharing some super cool published & preliminary data! 🚀

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Jul 1

Really excited that you're joining us in Brum Ed!

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Jun 30

Exciting webinar on AI & Health Data coming up! 🧠💻

Featuring @unibirmingham.bsky.social & UK Dept for Business & Trade

Explore clinical & public health research, collab opportunities & more.

🗓️ July 15 | 10:00–11:30am EST
🔗 lu.ma/9v8i0fdl

#AI #HealthData #UKResearch #UoB #DBT #DigitalHealth

AI & Health Data Webinar · Luma

We invite you to attend this webinar on AI & Health Data Applications for Health Interventions, Clinical Trial Acceleration, and Regulation for AI in…

lu.ma

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Institute of Microbiology and Infection @imibirmingham.bsky.social · Jun 30

Newly published study by Prof Lindsay Hall @halllab.bsky.social and Prof Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social finding that antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus bacteria are common in premature babies
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/wi...

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Jun 27

Huge thanks to the @halllab.bsky.social team – and especially to @hannahtriv.bsky.social – for putting together this fantastic slide, which the whole group worked on during our away day this week! Great to see everyone’s creativity and collaboration in action 🤩

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Jun 27

🌍 #WorldMicrobiomeDay 2025
At @halllab.bsky.social we’re uncovering how microbes - right from day one - help shape the gut, strengthen immunity, and protect against infection.
We're exploring how, when, and which microbes colonise - in order to develop interventions for a healthier start to life.

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Jun 23

Amazing to see this now published! Congrats to @lisalamberte.bsky.social and @wvschaik.bsky.social - on leading this important #microbiome study on #AMR and Staphylococcus haemolyticus in the preterm gut 👇

Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · Jun 23

I am delighted that our manuscript 'Staphylococcus haemolyticus is a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes in the preterm infant gut' is now published.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Big thank you to all co-authors, particularly @lisalamberte.bsky.social and @halllab.bsky.social

Staphylococcus haemolyticus is a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes in the preterm infant gut

Staphylococcus haemolyticus is an important cause of sepsis in preterm infants, with gut colonization being recognized as a risk factor for infection. To better understand the diversity of S. haemo...

www.tandfonline.com

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thanks Josie!

Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Jun 10

Grateful to WIRED Consulting and @gatesfoundation.bsky.social for spotlighting our work.
📸 Beautiful photography by Ruth Samuels – please check out her work.

Looking forward to continuing conversations around global health, equity, and #microbiome research. More soon!

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