MC Audet
mcaudet.bsky.social
MC Audet
@mcaudet.bsky.social
Associate Professor, School of Nutrition Sciences, University of Ottawa | Neuroscientist 🧠 who loves microbes 🦠, food 🥑, skiing ⛷️ and cats 😸.

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Congratulations to @szczepanska.bsky.social for successfully defending her MSc thesis today! 👏 🎉 👏 A big thank you to the examiners K. Power and C. Matar for the insightful questions and great discussion and to C. Tugault-Lafleur for chairing the defense.
August 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This week is #uograd25 week at University of Ottawa. Congratulations to all 2025 graduates and a special bravo to Dr. Chinonye Udechukwu from @uottawamed.bsky.social, the first PhD student to graduate in the Audet Lab! 👏👩🏻‍🎓🎉
June 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Excited to share with you our systematic review and meta-analysis on the cholinergic system in schizophrenia, just published in Molecular Psychiatry. 🧠
May 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Great representation of the lab this week at the DOHaD Canada / CNPRM Conference. Congratulations to Caroline, Victoria, Elyse, and Amy for presenting their research exploring the relationships between diet and mental health during the perinatal and neonatal periods! 🍇 🤰 🧠 🐭
May 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Congratulations @kconnor.bsky.social! 🎉
LA-DOHaD Regional Society congrats Dr. Kristin Connor for the Nick Hales Award, awarded by the International DOHaD Society in 2025. @dohadcanada.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT!
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More info 👇
March 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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🚀 Interested in the interactions of xenobiotics with the gut microbiome? Join us @quadraminstitute.bsky.social to apply precision microbiome assays to xenobiotics. Apply by 28 May 2025. 👉 quadram.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
#microbiome #PrecisionNutrition #metaproteomics #metabolics #metagenomics
Group Leader in Functional Microbiome Research - Quadram Institute
Applications are invited for a Group Leader in Functional Microbiome Research to join the laboratory of Professor Daniel Figeys at Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), based in Norwich, UK. Background:...
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May 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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This is devastating for women’s health research globally, given the influential work by WHI

🔪 Another attack on women

🚫 Fewer discoveries to understand female biology, health & disease

🚫 Fewer diagnostics, therapeutics, preventions

💀More disease, suffering, death

www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
On this #InternationalWomenDay where I feel it is more important than ever to advocate and fight for women, I would like to give a big shout-out to the strong and incredible women of the Audet Lab I have the chance to work with. Well done ladies! 👏🧠💪
#IWD2025
March 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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March 7 is the date! #StandUpForScience 📣 @standupforscience.bsky.social Check out the updated website with details for your state capital. Hey CU and CO colleagues, scientists, and citizen supporters!! @cumedicalschool.bsky.social 12-4pm Denver at the capital 🩺🧬🧠 See you there!
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February 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Interested in exploring the functions of the microbiome? Check out PhyloFunc, a novel functional beta-diversity metric that incorporates #microbiome phylogeny to inform on #metaproteomic functional distance. @promiselab.bsky.social
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
PhyloFunc: phylogeny-informed functional distance as a new ecological metric for metaproteomic data analysis - Microbiome
Background Beta-diversity is a fundamental ecological metric for exploring dissimilarities between microbial communities. On the functional dimension, metaproteomics data can be used to quantify beta-...
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
📣 Come work with us and join the School of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Ottawa!

We are seeking a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Bioactive Nutrients to Support the Gut-Heart-Brain Axis to lead groundbreaking research on nutrition and its impact on 🦠, 💙, and 🧠 health.

How to apply:
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Bioactive Nutrients to support the Gut-Heart-Brain Axis
Job Family: Academic Leadership and Faculty Union affiliation: APUO Faculty/Department: Faculty of Health Sciences_Full Time Professors Campus: Lees Campus Date Posted: January 21, 2025 Applications m...
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January 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Taking 5 min from my 2-week 🎅 Holidays break 🥂 to share our new review out today 🤓 the hard work of 3 super talented 🧪 PhD students *Béatrice *Laura & *Valérie covering implication of 🧠 #vascular #BBB cells in #anorexia #stress #depression #Parkinson #Alzheimer

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Neurogliovascular alterations in brain pathologies across lifespan
Neurological and psychiatric illnesses present significant challenges across different stages of life. Adolescence is associated with a high incidence…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 27, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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🎉 Excited to share our lab's latest research! 🚀 Extracellular vesicles from Ligilactobacillus strains inhibit Salmonella & Campylobacter, reducing growth & virulence. A new frontier in antimicrobial therapies! 🧫✨ #Postbiotics #antimicrobial #GutHealth rdcu.be/d4dSr
Ligilactobacillus-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Inhibit Growth and Virulence of Enteric Pathogens
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December 20, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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🚨 Our lab's latest report! 🚨 Microbiota-derived extracellular vesicles (MEVs) deliver neuroactive compounds across the gut-brain axis, new insights into gut-brain communication and potential psychobiotic therapies! 🧠🦠 #GutBrainAxis #Psychobiotics doi.org/10.1128/spec...
Multi-level analysis of gut microbiome extracellular vesicles-host interaction reveals a connection to gut-brain axis signaling | Microbiology Spectrum
Microbiota-released extracellular vesicles (MEVs) have emerged as a key player in intercellular signaling. In this study, a multi-level analysis revealed presence of a diverse array of biologically ac...
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December 20, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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🚨 Exciting update from the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (@isnpr.bsky.social)! We’ve published the first-ever guidelines for clinical trials in Nutritional Psychiatry. A 🧵 on what we did and what this means. 🧠🥗
🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39654150/
Methodological and reporting recommendations for clinical trials in Nutritional Psychiatry: Guidelines from the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research - PubMed
Research on nutraceutical and dietary interventions in psychiatry has grown substantially, but progress is hindered by methodological inconsistencies and limited reporting standards. To address this, ...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 16, 2024 at 8:43 AM
For my first post here, I am very pleased to share that I received the Dean's Award of Excellence 2024 for Education from the uOttawa Faculty of Health Sciences.

Thank you to everyone who nominated me and most importantly, to the students I have been teaching and mentoring throughout the years.
December 7, 2024 at 12:45 AM