The Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine
@ucsfmicrobiome.bsky.social
We support a community of researchers at @UCSF who explore the human microbiome’s potential to predict, prevent and treat a wide range of diseases.
Lynch Lab research, led by postdoc Rebecca Knoll, reveals how the elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor combination therapy transforms microbiome dynamics in individuals with cystic fibrosis, providing insights into host-microbiome interactions and therapeutic modulation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CFTR modulator therapy drives microbiome restructuring through improved host physiology in cystic fibrosis: the IMMProveCF phase IV trial - Nature Communications
Here, in a clinical trial, the authors show that CFTR-modulator therapy reshapes the lung and gut microbiomes in cystic fibrosis, reducing bacteria such as Staphylococcus in the lungs and Escherichia ...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Lynch Lab research, led by postdoc Rebecca Knoll, reveals how the elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor combination therapy transforms microbiome dynamics in individuals with cystic fibrosis, providing insights into host-microbiome interactions and therapeutic modulation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
From postdoc to CEO: Nikole Kimes, a former member of Sue Lynch's lab, shares an exciting advancement for allergic disease prevention through microbiome intervention. #CareerPathways #MicrobiomeMedicine #BCMM www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
Siolta Therapeutics Reports Positive Phase 2 Results from the ADORED Study
/PRNewswire/ -- Siolta Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech company developing first-in-class live biotherapeutic products (LBPs), today announced positive...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
From postdoc to CEO: Nikole Kimes, a former member of Sue Lynch's lab, shares an exciting advancement for allergic disease prevention through microbiome intervention. #CareerPathways #MicrobiomeMedicine #BCMM www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
👩🔬 Ready to dive into the future of microbiome science? Join us for the "Engineering Microbiomes" Symposium on Feb 3, 2026, a hybrid event with an exciting lineup of speakers!
✨ Network, learn, and be inspired by top scientists at UCSF and beyond.
Sign up here: microbiome.ucsf.edu/events/bcmm-...
✨ Network, learn, and be inspired by top scientists at UCSF and beyond.
Sign up here: microbiome.ucsf.edu/events/bcmm-...
BCMM Symposium | The Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine
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November 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
👩🔬 Ready to dive into the future of microbiome science? Join us for the "Engineering Microbiomes" Symposium on Feb 3, 2026, a hybrid event with an exciting lineup of speakers!
✨ Network, learn, and be inspired by top scientists at UCSF and beyond.
Sign up here: microbiome.ucsf.edu/events/bcmm-...
✨ Network, learn, and be inspired by top scientists at UCSF and beyond.
Sign up here: microbiome.ucsf.edu/events/bcmm-...
🎉 Excited to be part of the Bay Area Science Festival
bayareascifest.bsky.social! Join us tomorrow for a fun-filled day of science-packed activities, including exploring exhibits featuring microbial foods and human microbes. Grab your own science-inspired Pokémon cards! 🧫✨ #BASF2025 #MicrobialFun
bayareascifest.bsky.social! Join us tomorrow for a fun-filled day of science-packed activities, including exploring exhibits featuring microbial foods and human microbes. Grab your own science-inspired Pokémon cards! 🧫✨ #BASF2025 #MicrobialFun
Bay Area Science Festival (@bayareascifest.bsky.social)
The Bay Area Science Festival returns on October 25th, 2025!
Sign up for our newsletter at https://www.bayareasciencefestival.org/newsletter/ and be the first to hear about festival news and events....
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October 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🎉 Excited to be part of the Bay Area Science Festival
bayareascifest.bsky.social! Join us tomorrow for a fun-filled day of science-packed activities, including exploring exhibits featuring microbial foods and human microbes. Grab your own science-inspired Pokémon cards! 🧫✨ #BASF2025 #MicrobialFun
bayareascifest.bsky.social! Join us tomorrow for a fun-filled day of science-packed activities, including exploring exhibits featuring microbial foods and human microbes. Grab your own science-inspired Pokémon cards! 🧫✨ #BASF2025 #MicrobialFun
Shoutout to everyone who came through for the BCMM and @immunox.bsky.social social hour! Chill vibes, fun games, and good times with the community. 🙌🧬 #UCSF
October 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Shoutout to everyone who came through for the BCMM and @immunox.bsky.social social hour! Chill vibes, fun games, and good times with the community. 🙌🧬 #UCSF
Come visit the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine at the Bay Area Science Festival @bayareascifest.bsky.social on October 25th! A fun, educational experience for families and friends. Discover the microbes that surround us and live inside us, and learn how they impact our health. 🔬🧫
September 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Come visit the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine at the Bay Area Science Festival @bayareascifest.bsky.social on October 25th! A fun, educational experience for families and friends. Discover the microbes that surround us and live inside us, and learn how they impact our health. 🔬🧫
🚀 Ignite Talk Highlight: Kai Trepka @ BCMM
Today at our monthly Ignite talks, Kai Trepka, a PhD student from Peter Turnbaugh’s lab, delivered an engaging talk on popular sweet treats-microbiome associations and their role in human health. 🍫🎂 #MicrobiomeResearch #UCSF
Today at our monthly Ignite talks, Kai Trepka, a PhD student from Peter Turnbaugh’s lab, delivered an engaging talk on popular sweet treats-microbiome associations and their role in human health. 🍫🎂 #MicrobiomeResearch #UCSF
September 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
🚀 Ignite Talk Highlight: Kai Trepka @ BCMM
Today at our monthly Ignite talks, Kai Trepka, a PhD student from Peter Turnbaugh’s lab, delivered an engaging talk on popular sweet treats-microbiome associations and their role in human health. 🍫🎂 #MicrobiomeResearch #UCSF
Today at our monthly Ignite talks, Kai Trepka, a PhD student from Peter Turnbaugh’s lab, delivered an engaging talk on popular sweet treats-microbiome associations and their role in human health. 🍫🎂 #MicrobiomeResearch #UCSF
🚀🔬Exciting news: GRC has chosen microbiome editing as the focus of its inaugural Microbiome Editing Gordon Research Conference! This 5-day event offers cutting-edge talks, poster sessions, and mentorship opportunities. Don’t miss this opportunity! www.grc.org/microbiome-e...
2026 Microbiome Editing Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Microbiome Editing will be held in Pomona, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🚀🔬Exciting news: GRC has chosen microbiome editing as the focus of its inaugural Microbiome Editing Gordon Research Conference! This 5-day event offers cutting-edge talks, poster sessions, and mentorship opportunities. Don’t miss this opportunity! www.grc.org/microbiome-e...
The Computational Core at BCMM is hiring a Research Assistant (Junior/Assistant Specialist) to support bioinformatics for microbiome research projects (16S, ITS2, metagenomics, RNA-seq).
🔗 Apply here: aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05786
Please share with your network!
🔗 Apply here: aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05786
Please share with your network!
BCMM Computational Hub – Research Assistant (Junior/Assistant Specialist)
University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!
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September 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The Computational Core at BCMM is hiring a Research Assistant (Junior/Assistant Specialist) to support bioinformatics for microbiome research projects (16S, ITS2, metagenomics, RNA-seq).
🔗 Apply here: aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05786
Please share with your network!
🔗 Apply here: aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05786
Please share with your network!
We are thrilled to launch the Microbiome Data Analysis Workshop Series with about 30 BCMM trainees! In this first session, Lu Yang shared tools to transform raw data into biological insights. #PracticalLearning
September 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
We are thrilled to launch the Microbiome Data Analysis Workshop Series with about 30 BCMM trainees! In this first session, Lu Yang shared tools to transform raw data into biological insights. #PracticalLearning
We’re excited to welcome Monet Yuan, a graduate student in the Biomedical Sciences program and a member of the Roan Lab, as our new BCMM Trainee Ambassador! Starting in October, she’ll team up with Margôt Bacino to support and empower our amazing trainee community.
September 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We’re excited to welcome Monet Yuan, a graduate student in the Biomedical Sciences program and a member of the Roan Lab, as our new BCMM Trainee Ambassador! Starting in October, she’ll team up with Margôt Bacino to support and empower our amazing trainee community.
UCSF’s DREAM Challenge microbiome dataset, now part of NSF’s NAIRR Pilot, offers >3,500 vaginal microbiome samples to advance AI-powered health research. Explore the resource: pretermbirthdb.org/mod/resources.
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September 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
UCSF’s DREAM Challenge microbiome dataset, now part of NSF’s NAIRR Pilot, offers >3,500 vaginal microbiome samples to advance AI-powered health research. Explore the resource: pretermbirthdb.org/mod/resources.
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📢 Open Positions 📢
We're hiring motivated PhDs & Postdocs to join a cutting-edge research program @VIBLifeSciences @ugent
🔬in vivo CRISPR screens
💻Multi-omics, Modelling & Deep Learning
🧬Macrophages, Liver homeostasis, Regeneration & Metastasis
💶ERC AdG, FWO & Cancer Grant
We're hiring motivated PhDs & Postdocs to join a cutting-edge research program @VIBLifeSciences @ugent
🔬in vivo CRISPR screens
💻Multi-omics, Modelling & Deep Learning
🧬Macrophages, Liver homeostasis, Regeneration & Metastasis
💶ERC AdG, FWO & Cancer Grant
August 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
📢 Open Positions 📢
We're hiring motivated PhDs & Postdocs to join a cutting-edge research program @VIBLifeSciences @ugent
🔬in vivo CRISPR screens
💻Multi-omics, Modelling & Deep Learning
🧬Macrophages, Liver homeostasis, Regeneration & Metastasis
💶ERC AdG, FWO & Cancer Grant
We're hiring motivated PhDs & Postdocs to join a cutting-edge research program @VIBLifeSciences @ugent
🔬in vivo CRISPR screens
💻Multi-omics, Modelling & Deep Learning
🧬Macrophages, Liver homeostasis, Regeneration & Metastasis
💶ERC AdG, FWO & Cancer Grant
As researchers, we know reproducibility is key to scientific progress. NIST’s rigorously analyzed stool reference material is a big step forward for the microbiome field. #GutMicrobiome
www.nist.gov/news-events/...
www.nist.gov/news-events/...
NIST Releases Reference Material to Aid Gut Microbiome Research
Researchers hope this material will help usher in a new era of diagnostics and treatments involving the gut microbiome
www.nist.gov
August 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As researchers, we know reproducibility is key to scientific progress. NIST’s rigorously analyzed stool reference material is a big step forward for the microbiome field. #GutMicrobiome
www.nist.gov/news-events/...
www.nist.gov/news-events/...
Big news! The Biomedical Data Translator Consortium has launched Translator—an open-source platform that connects and harmonizes complex biomedical data. Shoutout to BCMM’s Sergio Baranzini for helping drive this innovative tool. Check it out: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Announcing the Biomedical Data Translator: Initial Public Release
The growing availability of biomedical data offers vast potential to improve human health, but the complexity and lack of integration of these datasets often limit their utility. To address this, the ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
August 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Big news! The Biomedical Data Translator Consortium has launched Translator—an open-source platform that connects and harmonizes complex biomedical data. Shoutout to BCMM’s Sergio Baranzini for helping drive this innovative tool. Check it out: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The Lynch lab’s latest research delves into the gut microbiome’s influence on peanut oral immunotherapy outcomes. The study identifies specific bile acids and microbial metabolic signatures that predict treatment success. #Microbiome #AllergyResearch #UCSF rdcu.be/ewbEn
Gut microbial bile and amino acid metabolism associate with peanut oral immunotherapy failure
Nature Communications - Peanut oral immunotherapy (POIT) can treat peanut allergy, but only a subset of patients achieve lasting remission. Here, the authors show that POIT efficacy is associated...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Lynch lab’s latest research delves into the gut microbiome’s influence on peanut oral immunotherapy outcomes. The study identifies specific bile acids and microbial metabolic signatures that predict treatment success. #Microbiome #AllergyResearch #UCSF rdcu.be/ewbEn
Reflecting on our incredible BCMM Retreat at Chaminade Resort & Spa! Over 60 participants shared cutting-edge research, fostered collaborations, and enjoyed fun activities. Excitedly planning the next one! 🌟 #BCMMRetreat #UCSF
July 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reflecting on our incredible BCMM Retreat at Chaminade Resort & Spa! Over 60 participants shared cutting-edge research, fostered collaborations, and enjoyed fun activities. Excitedly planning the next one! 🌟 #BCMMRetreat #UCSF
🌍🎉 Happy World Microbiome Day! At the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine @UCSF, we’re dedicated to understanding and harnessing the power of microbiomes to improve human health. Join us in celebrating the tiny organisms that make a huge difference! #WorldMicrobiomeDay #UCSF
June 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🌍🎉 Happy World Microbiome Day! At the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine @UCSF, we’re dedicated to understanding and harnessing the power of microbiomes to improve human health. Join us in celebrating the tiny organisms that make a huge difference! #WorldMicrobiomeDay #UCSF