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

Nature research paper: Supervised learning in DNA neural networks

go.nature.com/4mOb9lH

📢 New paper in @nature.com

Microbes rock 🎸🤘 with sulfide and iron minerals

I am very excited to share our recent study, which describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism ⚡⚡⚡🦠🧫⚡⚡⚡

🆕 Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - MISO

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

Two vaccine candidates using mRNA technology elicit a potent immune response against HIV

go.nature.com/4ov7WZI

An analysis in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows that near-national-scale losses of bird diversity greatly exceed losses recorded at the local scale in Colombia, suggesting that extrapolations from local studies will severely underestimate biodiversity losses. go.nature.com/3HbRv3s 🧪

My thanks go out to the many people that have been involved over the years! @halllab.bsky.social, John Penders & Nils van Best, @raymondkiu.bsky.social & Magda & Antia, @lucyicm.bsky.social & @cassiebakshani.bsky.social, @ptchiv.bsky.social, @envsysmicro.at

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Finally, we demonstrate experimentally that E. coli supplies cysteine to auxotrophic B. bifidum, enabling cooperative degradation of 2'-fucosyllactose (the predominant HMO), thereby promoting mutual benefits.

We developed new computational approaches that deepened our understanding of early-life microbiota dynamics 👍

Then, evolutionary-guided genome analysis revealed that the co-existence of Bifidobacterium & E. coli is driven by shared selective pressures, promoting cooperation in HMO degradation 🤝

In this longitudinal cohort of initially exclusively breastfed & term-born infants - E. coli strains persist in individuals and co-exist with dominant Bifidobacterium.

Excited to finally share results from my first post-doc @halllab.bsky.social 🫡

E.coli commonly occurs in infant gut microbiota, yet its role during healthy development has been disregarded. In our pre-print, we reveal its fundamental involvement in HMO-degradation.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our latest, out today in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social Bacteriocin production facilitates nosocomial emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium www.nature.com/articles/s41... @idpittstop.bsky.social

Interested in the influence of the infant microbiome on health? Quickly interrogating non-model organisms using omic approaches?

A new publication, describing genome-scale resources in bifidobacteria, is now available online: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

#microbiome #microsky

This week @science.org Sarfatis, Moffitt et al. from @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org
Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#microsky #microbial #microbiology #genomics
#transcriptomic 🦠🧫

Excited to share our opinion piece with the KC Huang Lab.
Check it out here:
Harnessing gut microbial communities to unravel microbiome functions
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
@typaslab.bsky.social

Delighted to share the first peer-reviewed paper from our team @camvetschool.bsky.social where we investigate the ecological dynamics of Enterobacteriaceae in the human gut #microbiome: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

Host metabolism balances microbial regulation of bile acid signalling | @nature.com

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

1/ 🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 We’re thrilled to share our latest work exploring microbiome & genomic #Bifidobacterium co-evolutionary & functional signatures across diverse animal hosts. This has been a long time coming, & huge credit to Magda for her incredible hard work as first author! 🐾✨👇

Yes please <3

🚨 PhD Opportunity @halllab.bsky.social!
🔬 Decoding Early Life Microbiota & Host Interactions
🧬 Ideal for those with bioinformatics/microbiome experience
🌍 Open to international candidates (MSCA mobility rules apply).
📅 Deadline: 18th Dec
🌐 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...