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François Leulier @francoisleulier.bsky.social · 14h

This is our privilege to maintain our long lasting collaboration!

Laboratory of Gnotobiology @gnotobiology.bsky.social · 16h

What a privilege to host our wonderful collaborators - Renata C. Matos, Tiphaine Fargeot, and Jean-Louis Thoumas - from Dr François Leulier’s lab in Lyon, France! 🇫🇷✨ Big applause for their fantastic talks and discussions👏@francoisleulier.bsky.social @renatafcmatos.bsky.social @mbuavcr.bsky.social

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Renata C. Matos @renatafcmatos.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you all! We had a great time visiting you and @gnotobiology.bsky.social

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Dr Sudhanshu Shekhar @drsshekhar.bsky.social · 16h

Engaging and thought-provoking lectures! Thanks to all the speakers!

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Laboratory of Gnotobiology @gnotobiology.bsky.social · 16h

What a privilege to host our wonderful collaborators - Renata C. Matos, Tiphaine Fargeot, and Jean-Louis Thoumas - from Dr François Leulier’s lab in Lyon, France! 🇫🇷✨ Big applause for their fantastic talks and discussions👏@francoisleulier.bsky.social @renatafcmatos.bsky.social @mbuavcr.bsky.social

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Antimicrobial resistance #AMR @antimicrobial.bsky.social · 1d

Pioneering Norwegian research demonstrates that environmental criteria in antibiotic procurement can boost sustainability, reduce shortages, and protect public health.

#PublicHealth #AMR

doi.org/10.1016/j.pu...

Redirecting

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Laboratory of Gnotobiology @gnotobiology.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for being an important part of our team and for sharing such thoughtful insights into how the microbiota could influence brain function.

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Dr Sudhanshu Shekhar @drsshekhar.bsky.social · 3d

Great talk, Dr. Valášková 👏

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valaskova.bsky.social @valaskova.bsky.social · 3d

🧠🌿 The Microbiome: Invisible Wealth and Secret Allies of the Brain

Thank you to everyone who joined the Czech Night of Science 2025 in Dobruška! It was a pleasure to share insights into the fascinating connection between the gut and the brain 💫
@gnotobiology.bsky.social @mbuavcr.bsky.social

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Dr Sudhanshu Shekhar @drsshekhar.bsky.social · 4d

Spectacular 🎆

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 5d

Neonatal regulatory T cells persist into adulthood across multiple tissues with high enrichment in the skin
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Dr Sudhanshu Shekhar @drsshekhar.bsky.social · 4d

Science fiction has often been the pilot study for reality!

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Dr Sudhanshu Shekhar @drsshekhar.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, Arlo looks like he’s been singing on stage his whole life-total pro!

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Ulf R. Dahle @ulfdahle.bsky.social · 7d

The deadly Klebsiella pneumoniae can resist nearly all antibiotics. Colleagues found a new antibody that blocks its protective coat, helping the immune system clear the infection. This offers hope against the “silent pandemic” of #AMR.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Monoclonal antibodies protect against pandrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae - Nature

Capsule-specific human monoclonal antibodies are protective against bloodstream infection by Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 147 in a mouse model of septicaemia, and could provide a useful strategy against pathogens with antimicrobial resistance.

www.nature.com

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Dr Sudhanshu Shekhar @drsshekhar.bsky.social · 7d

It was great fun being part of this team!

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Laboratory of Gnotobiology @gnotobiology.bsky.social · 7d

Science doesn't stop at the lab🚀Our team, with guest storyteller Martin Hak, coorganized the #NightOfScience at Gymnázium Dobruška on 26.09.2025, giving students a glimpse into the fascinating world of microbial/gnotobiotic research✨Thanks to our team for making science sparkle @mbuavcr.bsky.social

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Antimicrobial resistance #AMR @antimicrobial.bsky.social · 9d

Horizon Europe has launched a €253M AMR partnership to accelerate innovation and move potential therapies closer to market. The first funding call, focused on treatments, will open in November following a pre-announcement in mid-October.
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Horizon Europe’s new antimicrobial resistance partnership looks to the market

Horizon Europe’s partnership for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research launched last week with a plan to bring Europe closer to finding new anti-microbial therapies in the next decade. With more of ...

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Dr Sudhanshu Shekhar @drsshekhar.bsky.social · 21d

Pleased to share that my perspective on the therapeutic potential of the nasal microbiota in treating chronic rhinosinusitis has been included in a recent article in New Scientist Magazine 👇 @newscientist.com @mbuavcr.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2494...

Can a strange new treatment finally relieve chronic sinus infections?

Constant loss of smell, facial pain and a blocked nose are a reality for the 10 per cent of people living with chronic rhinosinusitis, a disease long-neglected by research. Targeting the nasal microbi...

www.newscientist.com

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Ulf R. Dahle @ulfdahle.bsky.social · 17d

The group in #brianhie.bsky.social at Stanford used AI to design the first-ever functional bacteriophages. AI can explore countless phage genomes in silico, speeding discovery of new alternatives to antibiotics. A breakthrough for #AMR, but also raises ethical & safety questions. #AI #Biotech

Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 21d

In a new preprint from @brianhie.bsky.social's lab, the team reports the first generative design of viable bacteriophage genomes.

Leveraging Evo 1 & Evo 2, they generated whole genome sequences, resulting in 16 viable phages with distinct genomic architectures.

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Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 19d

(edited repost) Thrilled to see our computational work on adaptive shaping of behavior (we call it outcome-based curriculum learning) in PLoS Comp Biol! @wl-tong.bsky.social, @gautamreddy.bsky.social & I formalize curricula in any RL task that can be framed as sequential simple-to-complex behavior.

Adaptive algorithms for shaping behavior

Author summary Animals are commonly trained by ‘shaping’ their behavior using a sequence of simpler tasks towards a complex behavior. Numerous schools of thought have proposed heuristics for shaping b...

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The RESISFORCE Network 🇳🇴🇨🇦🇮🇳🇧🇷🇺🇲 @resisforce.bsky.social · 20d

See our 2024 symposium recording here.
AMR: "Wake-up call" or "Dream on"?
www.odont.uio.no/english/abou...

Antimicrobial resistance: “Wake-up call” or “Dream on”? - Faculty of Dentistry

This crucial question framed the recent symposium organized by the NORSE and RESISFORCE networks in collaboration with the AMR Centre at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH). The symposium ...

www.odont.uio.no

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The RESISFORCE Network 🇳🇴🇨🇦🇮🇳🇧🇷🇺🇲 @resisforce.bsky.social · 20d

Program for our joint event with the NORSE network on October 24th in Oslo.

www.fhi.no/en/ab/confer...

International Symposium – Science, Trust, and Democracy: Communicating Health Challenges in a Polarized Era

How do we communicate health challenges at a time when trust is under pressure and misinformation spreads faster than a virus?

www.fhi.no

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Antimicrobial resistance #AMR @antimicrobial.bsky.social · 19d

New study: NAPs haven’t always led to quick reductions in antibiotic sales. But they may still strengthen infection prevention & control, surveillance, and stewardship. With clearer goals, these efforts could hopefully deliver lasting gains against AMR. #AMR #IPC
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Impact of implementation of World Health Organization National Action Plans on antibiotic rates: a time series analysis of 37 countries | Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge Core

Impact of implementation of World Health Organization National Action Plans on antibiotic rates: a time series analysis of 37 countries

www.cambridge.org

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 21d

In healthy preterm and full-term infants, a single dose of clesrovimab reduced the incidence of RSV-associated medically attended lower respiratory infection & RSV-associated hospitalization, with a safety profile similar to that of placebo @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Dr Sudhanshu Shekhar @drsshekhar.bsky.social · 20d

Every time I watch George Carlin, I am reminded how rare it is to be both hilarious and profoundly wise. Absolute legend.

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Laboratory of Gnotobiology @gnotobiology.bsky.social · 20d

🎉 Many congratulations to our brilliant PhD student Anna Michl for winning the Best Poster Award at the INTER MICRO Conference in Liblice, Czechia! 🏆👏 We’re proud of her research and the recognition it’s receiving on the global stage. 🌍 #Microbiology #WomenInSTEM #INTERMICRO @mbuavcr.bsky.social

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