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Evgenii Protasov @evgenii-protasov.bsky.social · Aug 12

Trees also have a microbiome 🤓
#microbiology #microbiome
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A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees - Nature

Microbiome analyses of living trees show that a single tree can host approximately one trillion bacteria, with microbial communities distinctly partitioned between heartwood and sapwood and with minim...

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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · Aug 12

Microbiomes are the foundation of the biosphere. Hosts such as humans, bees, and plants have never been just hosts. They are complex units of biological organization upon which various forces act to shape composition, form, and function. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The disciplinary matrix of holobiont biology

Uniting life’s seen and unseen realms guides a conceptual advance in research

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Mike Jetten @msmjetten.bsky.social · Aug 13

#Methane filtration and metabolic cooperation of microbial communities in cold seep water columns from South China Sea
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Methane filtration and metabolic cooperation of microbial communities in cold seep water columns from South China Sea - Communications Biology

Metagenomic analysis of cold seep water columns reveals microbial diversity and metabolic interactions driving biogeochemical cycles, emphasizing key roles of methanotrophs and ecological stratificati...

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Aug 9

Engineering natural microbial communities: harnessing synthetic communities for bioremediation

#CurrOpinMicrobiol from Xihui Xu, Nanjing Agricultural University

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Engineering natural microbial communities: harnessing synthetic communities for bioremediation

Microbial bioremediation, a technology using microbial metabolism to degrade or transform environmental pollutants, has garnered significant attention…

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Aug 9

The mass spectrometry of microbiome-mediated metabolism of food: challenges and opportunities

#CurrOpinMicrobiol by @harshagouda.bsky.social et al from @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social

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The mass spectrometry of microbiome-mediated metabolism of food: challenges and opportunities

With the exception of molecules acquired through the lungs, skin absorption, or part of a medication regime, nearly all molecules in our bodies origin…

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Aug 8

Weekly Recap (Aug 2025, part 2): Metagenome assembly from nanopore reads, AI for single-cell analysis, GxE + epistasis in a vertebrate model, estimating GxE for polygenic traits, long-read alignment, agents, nf-core, ... doi.org/10.59350/004... #Rstats #nextflow 🧬🖥️🧪

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · Aug 6

💥Personalized C. difficile colonization risk prediction and probiotic therapy assessment in the human gut💥

I'm very excited about this work, driven by Alex Carr & co-supervised by @cdiener.com

@cp-cellsystems.bsky.social @isbscience.org @nitinbaliga.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell-systems...

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Personalized Clostridioides difficile colonization risk prediction and probiotic therapy assessment in the human gut

Carr et al. show how microbial community-scale metabolic models (MCMMs) predict personalized Clostridioides difficile colonization risk and probiotic efficacy. MCMMs reveal key metabolic strategies ex...

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Marc-Emmanuel Dumas @marcedumas.bsky.social · Aug 4

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics

Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losse...

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Imperial Medicine @imperialmed.bsky.social · Jul 28

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Sir David Nabarro, Director of @imperial-ighi.bsky.social.

A dynamic British physician, he helped spearhead the @who.int response to #Malaria, #Ebola, and #COVID19.

Find out more about his incredible legacy(£)👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

Sir David Nabarro obituary: energetic global health expert

Dynamic British physician who helped to spearhead the World Health Organisation’s response to malaria, ebola and Covid-19, dies aged 75

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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · Jul 21

⏳ Don’t miss it! Submit abstracts & scholarship apps for Microbiome Metabolism & Metabolites by Sept 23 (11:59 PM MT).
📍 Jan 19-22, 2026 | Banff, Canada
👉 keysym.us/KSMicroMetab26
#KSMicroMetab26 #Microbiome #Metabolomics @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social ‪@inesthiele.bsky.social

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Pieter Dorrestein @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social · Jul 21

I am so excited about this meeting. I will cover the discovery of 10,000s new metabolites, including an entirely new class of molecules. Looking forward to hearing and discussing your science on microbiome metabolites and metabolism.

Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · Jul 21

⏳ Don’t miss it! Submit abstracts & scholarship apps for Microbiome Metabolism & Metabolites by Sept 23 (11:59 PM MT).
📍 Jan 19-22, 2026 | Banff, Canada
👉 keysym.us/KSMicroMetab26
#KSMicroMetab26 #Microbiome #Metabolomics @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social ‪@inesthiele.bsky.social

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Maciek Wiatrak @macwiatrak.bsky.social · Jul 21

💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve.

Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Jul 21

Experimental evolution in an era of molecular manipulation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Experimental evolution in an era of molecular manipulation - Nature Reviews Genetics

In this Review, Ascensao and Desai discuss how methodological advances in genotype and phenotype manipulation are transforming experimental evolution approaches and providing new insights into the und...

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François Leulier @francoisleulier.bsky.social · Jun 28

A Drosophila single-cell 3D spatiotemporal multi-omics atlas unveils panoramic key regulators of cell-type differentiation: Cell
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A Drosophila single-cell 3D spatiotemporal multi-omics atlas unveils panoramic key regulators of cell-type differentiation

This work introduces Flysta3D-v2, a 3D spatiotemporal multi-omics database that spans Drosophila development from embryogenesis to metamorphosis. Through the integration of multimodal data, we detail ...

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Jun 28

Does using ChatGPT change your brain activity?

A preprint suggesting that the brains of people writing an essay with ChatGPT are less engaged than are those without any online tools for the task may be generating too much attention given the size of the study…
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Does using ChatGPT change your brain activity? Study sparks debate

Scientists warn against reading too much into a small experiment generating a lot of buzz.

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MRC Toxicology Unit @mrc-tu.bsky.social · Jun 27

Happy World Microbiome Day! The Patil Lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit are fascinated by how our microbiome interacts with chemicals in our environment including in food, medicines and pollutants.

Brush up on your knowledge with these great figures made by @rhboston95.bsky.social

What does your gut microbiome do?
- Help to break down food and its components
- Protects your gut from pathogenic bacteria
- Help to shape and regulate your immune system
- Produce bioactive molecules, like short-chain fatty acids to support your gut cells
- Synthesize essential vitamins

The importance of the microbiome by the numbers
- 10-100 trillion symbiotic microbial cells in each person
- >10,000 different microbe species
- The genes in our microbiome outnumber the genes in our genome by about 100 to 1
- Up to 90% of disease can be linked back to the gut microbiome

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EMBO @embo.org · Jun 28

Looking for a #LifeSciences postdoctoral #opportunity? 🧪 Have a look at the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships for internationally mobile scientists in #Europe and globally.

Apply before 11 July: www.embo.org/funding/fell...
#research #funding #postdoc

Fellowships, grants and career support – Postdoctoral Fellowships – EMBO

Supporting internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers in Europe and around the world

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Zoe Hall @zoehall-icl.bsky.social · Jun 24

Enjoying #metabolomics2025 in Prague! Just presented some of our work on #massspec imaging of #liver fibrosis! @gruevska.bsky.social

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NYU Pain Research Center @nyupainresearch.bsky.social · Jun 12

Fascinating work on neuropathic pain! Researchers found peripheral nerve injury enhances 4E-BP1-dependent protein synthesis in spinal microglia, pushing them to a reactive state and promoting pain. Excitingly, inhibiting this process reversed pain www.jci.org/articles/vie...

JCI - 4E-BP1–dependent translation in microglia controls mechanical hypersensitivity in male and female mice

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Raes Lab @raeslab.org · Jun 4

📄 New collaborative publication:

"Dietary convergence induces individual responses in faecal microbiome composition"
Astrid Vermeulen et al., now in eGastroenterology.
🔗 egastroenterology.bmj.com/content/3/2/...
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Dietary convergence induces individual responses in faecal microbiome composition

Background Dietary variation has been identified as a key contributor to microbiome diversification. However, assessing its true impact in a cross-sectional setting is complicated by biological confou...

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Jatin Nagpal @jatinnagpal.bsky.social · Jun 4

Microbiome for the clinicians | Cell

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The microbiome for clinicians

Preclinical studies suggest a rapidly growing potential for the application of microbiome research in improving patient outcomes. This perspective lays out the potential steps that can be taken toward...

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jun 4

Microbial siderophores for One Health
#Pseudomonas

@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion by Zhong Wei et al with @rkmicrobes.bsky.social @veraeva.bsky.social

www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Microbial siderophores for One Health

One Health is an integrative concept striving for healthy environments, animals, and humans. Microbes play a fundamental role for this concept as they are key drivers of ecosystem stability and host h...

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Professor Lesley Hoyles @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social · Jun 1

I wouldn't be in the position I'm in now if I hadn't actively sought out and embraced change.

The only issues arise when people don't get that it's possible for a person to excel in more than one specialisation. The term "generalist" seems to be a dirty word in certain academic circles.

Nature @nature.com · May 30

The further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be

https://go.nature.com/44VjEW9

Shifting research focus comes with the risk of reduced impact

An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents shows that the further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be.

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · May 13

An integrative genomic and chemical similarity approach linking fungal secondary metabolites and biosynthetic gene clusters

bioRxiv from @rokaslab.bsky.social

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An integrative genomic and chemical similarity approach linking fungal secondary metabolites and biosynthetic gene clusters

Fungi are well known to biosynthesize structurally complex secondary metabolites (SMs) with diverse bioactivities. These fungal SMs are frequently produced by biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). Linkin...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Apr 30

To restore the gut microbiome after antibiotics, the right diet (rich in carbohydrates, low in fat) was a better approach than fecal microbial transplants (in the experimental model)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice - Nature

Experiments in mouse models show that proper recovery of the intestinal microbiota following depletion, with or without faecal microbiota transplant therapy, is dependent on syntrophic interactions th...

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