Well done to Dr Hiba Shareefdeen on defending her PhD thesis today. Thanks to co-supervisor Paul Ross and examiners Heather Allison and Cormac Gahan. @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social

What role does the microbiome play in the action of pre- pro- post- and syn-biotics? Is it an actor or a stage? @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Ciara Tobin (and my co-supervisor ⁦‪@AShkoporov‬⁩) on conducting her PhD viva today. We’re so proud of what she’s done on crAssphage across multiple disciplines. ⁦‪@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social

Nice to be quoted in this article by Carl Zimmer in the NYT yesterday @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/h...

What were the highlights of 2024 in biotic science? Hear ISAPP's current and past Presidents discuss this topic with the ISAPP podcast hosts. They chat about dietary data in biotics studies, progress on probiotics for preterm infants, and more.
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This study by Nati Rios Colombo shows how off-target effects compromise treatment of C. difficile in a bacterial community
Full article: Synergistic and off-target effects of bacteriocins in a simplified human intestinal microbiome: implications for Clostridioides difficile infection control

Feel like this paper slipped under the radar on ‘the other platform’ so giving it another airing here. Phage can significantly remodel the bacteriome in faecal samples - yet another confounder 🙄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First post on a lovely story from the lab that shows that Faecalibacterium prausnitzii can package its own genome in bite-size segments in phage-like capsids
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