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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 13d

🧪🦠🖥️🧬🧫🔬 The Roadmap for equitable use of public microbiome data -including the Data Reuse Information Tag (DRI)- by the #DataReuseConsortium.
Must read if you use or produce microbiome data!

Kudos to the Data Reuse Core Team for their hard work!

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A Roadmap for equitable use of public microbiome data published in Nature Microbiology by The Data Reuse Core team @alexjprobst.bsky.social @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social Cristina Moraru @geomicrosoares.bsky.social @folker.bsky.social Anke Heyder

and a QR code that takes you to the webpage of the manuscript

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Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · 13d

The #EESMicrobiome in Heildeberg has been a blast! Inspiring talks and top discussions with peers 🤩 and I got to present some of our latest research at the Disease Systems Immunology group regarding 🌱fiber and 🦠 gut microbes!
@events.embl.org

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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 22d

🦠🌍 Welcome to Day 2 of #EESMicrobiome
We’re kicking things off with Session 2: Functional insights into microbial communities 🧬

🔹 First talk:
“Small proteins of the human microbiome and beyond”
by Luis Pedro Coelho – Queensland University of Technology

Stay tuned for more exciting science!

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Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you very much! Highly appreciate the positive comments from someone with your knowledge in the specific field 😁

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katammp.bsky.social @katammp.bsky.social · Sep 3

Nice paper on the temporal dynamics of early infancy. Once again, it was shown that Escherichia & Klebsiella correlate with higher ARG load, and their abundance is in turn negatively associated with Bifidos. Kudos to the authors for the excellent paper!
rdcu.be/eDRPa

Temporal dynamics and microbial interactions shaping the gut resistome in early infancy

Nature Communications - Here the authors show that antibiotic resistance genes peak in the gut at the age of 6 months, and that beneficial bifidobacteria produce aromatic lactic acids that actively...

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Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social · Sep 1

Temporal dynamics and microbial interactions shaping the gut resistome in early infancy - Nature Communications

Here the authors show that antibiotic resistance genes peak in the gut at the age of 6 months, and that beneficial bifidobacteria produce aromatic lactic acids that actively inhibit antimicrobial…

www.nature.com

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Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · Sep 2

This sounds like a very cool project and, at the same time, very relevant research! Best of luck!

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · Sep 1

🍼 Antibiotic resistance starts early

A study of infant gut bacteria found antibiotic resistance genes appear within the first week of life, peaking at 6 months.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Microbiome 🧪

Temporal dynamics and microbial interactions shaping the gut resistome in early infancy - Nature Communications

Here the authors show that antibiotic resistance genes peak in the gut at the age of 6 months, and that beneficial bifidobacteria produce aromatic lactic acids that actively inhibit antimicrobial resi...

www.nature.com

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Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · Sep 1

However, E. coli and other ARG-rich species can be controlled through 🧪 aromatic lactic acids = metabolites produced by early life associated bifidobacteria! The same bifidobacteria species that have been previously linked to health and are boosted by breastfeeding 🤱

Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · Sep 1

We followed infants from birth till 5 years of life, and found that 🧬 antimicrobial resistance genes are most abundant at 6 months. The early life resistome was linked to the deliver mode and was largely driven by E. coli 🦠

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Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · Sep 1

👶 Curious about infant gut microbiota and 🧬 antimicrobial resistance? Have a look at our recent publication @natcomms.nature.com
#microbiome #infantgut #AMR
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Temporal dynamics and microbial interactions shaping the gut resistome in early infancy - Nature Communications

Here the authors show that antibiotic resistance genes peak in the gut at the age of 6 months, and that beneficial bifidobacteria produce aromatic lactic acids that actively inhibit antimicrobial resi...

www.nature.com

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Meriel J. Bittner @merielj3.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thrilled to share our #Comment in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
A collaborative effort by a fantastic group of researchers across disciplines!

💬We explored how interdisciplinary microbiology can thrive when early-career researchers are included and supported.

📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · Aug 26

Soil is the most diverse microbial ecosystem, which makes microbiome studies with shotgun sequencing extremely tricky!
In our last paper @imetascience.bsky.social, we show that co-assembly increases gene and genome recovery
tinyurl.com/59t4z8fh
#soilmicrobiome #metagenomics

Unveiling soil microbial diversity through ultra‐deep short‐read metagenomic sequencing and co‐assembly

By combining ultra-deep short-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing with 5-sample co-assembly across 600 agricultural soil samples, we significantly enhanced the representation and recovery of microbia....

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · Jul 29

@theipcinfo.bsky.social warns: the worst-case scenario of #famine is unfolding in #Gaza.

Mass starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths.

@who.int calls for urgent access for food and medical aid into Gaza at scale.

Ceasefire.
Peace is the best medicine!

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Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · Jul 26

Diving into the HMO and fiber degradation potential of the infant gut microbiome during weaning 👶 great work led by Yunjeong So at Maher Abou Hachem’s lab and I am happy to be part of it! #microbiome

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Jul 25

Dual human milk oligosaccharide-fibre utilisation drives gut microbiome selection during weaning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666491v1

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Wannes Nauwynck @wannesn.bsky.social · Jul 24

New Review Out!
We explore how droplet microfluidics is opening new doors in microbial ecology - enabling single-cell functional insights into growth, metabolism & interactions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fems...
#MicrobialEcology #DropletMicrofluidics #Microbiology

Droplet microfluidics for single-cell studies: a frontier in ecological understanding of microbiomes

Abstract. Recent advances in single-cell technologies have profoundly impacted our understanding of microbial communities—shedding light on cell-to-cell va

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Maria Papadatou @marypapadatou.bsky.social · Jul 16

Extraordinary keynote lecture by Prof. Chris Greening @greening.bsky.social about Microbial oxidation of atmospheric trace gases: from enzymes to ecosystems.
#FEMS2025 @femsmicro.org

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Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · Jul 16

I had the great pleasure to present our soil prokaryotic genome catalogue yesterday at #FEMS2025 and showed how we try to bring some light in the microbial dark matter 😄 a lot more to come!
@femsmicro.org

Maria Papadatou @marypapadatou.bsky.social · Jul 15

@ioannachatzig.bsky.social presented her work dealing with New insights on the phylogeny and function of the agricultural soil microbiome during the Session of “Microbial dark matter - knowing the unknown”.
#FEMS2025 @femsmicro.org

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Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · Jul 14

And here we go… #FEMS2025 @femsmicro.org

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Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · May 7

Super exciting talk on dark matter of metagenomes, proteins and viromes by Nikos Kyrpides from @jgi.doe.gov
#MicroSky #metagenomes

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Ioanna Chatzigiannidou @ioannachatzig.bsky.social · May 7

Time for our yearly #DTU microbes conference and we have a great program this year! 🦠🎤 #microbiology

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Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social · Feb 3

🔊🔊We're putting together a series on inequalities associated with academic mobility.

If you're a microbiologist and would like to share your experiences with visa difficulties, travel-related funding, mandated academic mobility requirements, etc, please write at [email protected].

#Academia #Mobility

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WHO @who.int · Feb 11

It is International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Gagandeep Kang’s research on enteric infections has contributed to the rotavirus vaccine rollout in #India, protecting millions of children and shaping a healthier future. for all.

🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

When you have women leaders in science, they think about problems differently.

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