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Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social · Aug 28

Season 5 is going to start 🔜

Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...

@kathlemon.bsky.social ‬ @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · Aug 28

Many congrats Alex, SongCan, Marc and the entire team! You rock :) (microbes as well, of course!)

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Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our recent paper by @julkras.bsky.social provides further insights into the metabolism of sulfoquinovose in humans and lab mice, and its prebiotic potential.

🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Sulfoquinovose is exclusively metabolized by the gut microbiota and degraded differently in mice and humans - Microbiome

Background Sulfoquinovose (SQ) is a green-diet-derived sulfonated glucose and a selective substrate for a limited number of human gut bacteria. Complete anaerobic SQ degradation via interspecies metab...

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · Jul 29

Congrats Franklin and team - brilliant work 👌

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Nela Nikolic @nelani.bsky.social · Jun 12

New paper out: E.coli uses the MazEF toxin-antitoxin system to help defend against RNA phages
tinyurl.com/RNAphage
The project that made it through maternity leave, pandemic, three institutions, an international move, and even unemployment 💪
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
#Resilience #ResearchJourney

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · Jun 6

If you are into #posttranscriptional modifications, gut #inflammation, #immunology or #gutmicrobiome check out our latest work @jem.org 👇

Big team effort @miershawig.bsky.social
@connyves.bsky.social

Big thanks to @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding!

Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · Jun 5

[email protected] group shows that RNA editing of the #actin cross-linker FLNA is similarly regulated in mice & humans and that the targeted induction of edited FLNAR in myeloid cells governs resistance to DSS-induced #colitis, revealing its potential in #IBD therapy rupress.org/jem/article/...

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ASM @asm.org · May 28

Understanding microbiota resilience in the face of imbalances is crucial for maintaining host health. This #mBio review explores microbiota resilience, emphasizing the interplay between microbial communities and host-driven environmental controls. asm.social/2qW

During homeostasis, host-driven habitat filters, such as the maintenance of anoxia by epithelia β-oxidation and stable iron levels through dietary intake, curate a diverse microbiota dominated by beneficial obligate anaerobic primary fermenters. Upon onset of diverse inflammatory intestinal disease states, including inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer, host habitat filters become compromised. Inflammation-driven increases in luminal oxygen levels favor facultatively anaerobic pathobionts at the expense of commensal obligate anaerobes. In parallel, host nutritional immunity factors, such as lactoferrin, sequester iron to defend against potential bacterial pathogens. These environmental perturbations can drive the microbiota to an imbalanced, pro-inflammatory dysbiosis. However, a resilient microbiota can withstand or rapidly recover from these perturbations until host habitat filters are restored. The mechanisms that mediate this resilience and restoration of host habitat

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Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social · May 21

New preprint @julkras.bsky.social et al.

We show that degradation of sulfoquinovose, ubiquitous in plants and algae, is a core function of the cow rumen microbiome

and describe novel SQ-metabolizing taxa.

🐄🧫🦠 #microbiomesky #microsky

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · May 21

Extensive richness and novel taxa of sulfoquinovose-degrading bacteria in the cow rumen https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.655074v1

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ASM @asm.org · Apr 14

📢 Call for papers! Submit your research to #mSystems' new collection on Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Contribute systems-level insights into microbial communities, evolution and ecosystems. Submit now: asm.social/2mq

New call for papers from mSystems! Submit your research on Microbial Ecology and Evolution.

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · Apr 8

Check out this great #PhD opportunity at our School and join our growing #Microbiology team 👇

Nela Nikolic @nelani.bsky.social · Apr 2

Another PhD opportunity to join the growing Microbiology community in Southampton 💪 🦠 🔬
Interested in how bacteria adapt to challenges like temperature changes and antibiotics? Join my lab at UoS to explore the role of accessory elements!
tinyurl.com/PhDbacteriaUoS
Apply here: tinyurl.com/MicroUoS

Accessory Genomes and Evolutionary Strategies of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Accessory Genomes and Evolutionary Strategies of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Biological Sciences @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social · Apr 7

🎉 Congrats to Luis Guerra & Ahmed Dawoud on their new paper in General and Comparative Endocrinology!
They explore ligand-gated ion channels across Platyhelminthes—diversity, evolution in nematodes & sex-specific expression. 🔬🧬 #science #research
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Global analysis of ligand-gated ion channel conservation across Platyhelminthes

Ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) are critical for neurotransmission, mediating responses to neurotransmitters and hormones, and influencing diverse p…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · Mar 27

In this role, you will collaborate closely with teams developing and integrating innovative #imaging approaches, as well as with #immunologists, to address fundamental questions about microbial communities in the gut and their interactions with the immune system.

Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · Mar 27

📣 Exciting opportunity! We're hiring a #postdoctoral fellow in #gutmicrobiome research to explore the activity and function of the gut microbiome in situ and its regulation by the immune system.🦠🔬

Post based at @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social

Apply here 👇
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) in Microbiology/Microbiome

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Gut Microbiome Group, School of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton. The University of Southampton is a wor...

jobs.soton.ac.uk

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Rasmus Kirkegaard @kirk3gaard.bsky.social · Mar 21

Want @nanoporetech.com data for benchmarking microbe related stuff? Check our data for pure cultures,
@zymoresearch.bsky.social mocks and metagenomes ( github.com/Kirk3gaard/M...). Basecalled reads with methylation is in @enasequence.bsky.social . Eventually the pod5s might go there as well.

GitHub - Kirk3gaard/MicroBench: Overview of our data for microbial genomic benchmarking

Overview of our data for microbial genomic benchmarking - Kirk3gaard/MicroBench

github.com

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · Mar 16

I will have a post doc position opening soon - gut microbiome w/ microscopy and microbial ecology techniques - pls tell them to drop me a line at [email protected] if interested

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Biological Sciences @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social · Mar 13

We are having a brilliant time at #winchestersciencecentre today for #SOTSEF #bsw25 Brains 🧠🤯 Bones 🦴 Beans 🫘 Plants 🌿 Ears 👂Phages @phagecollection.bsky.social Bugs 🧫🦠 @ukbiofilms.bsky.social & Worms 🔬 LOTs and LOTS of children and LOTs of sciencey fun! 🥳 🥼🧪🥽 #citizenscience #scienceforall

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · Mar 13

Our group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social spent the day at our #ScienceFestival telling kids how important and cool are microbesµbiomes. 🦠🧫

Lets hope the importance of science will never be forgotten by the new generations!

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Jeff Thompson @echinerd.bsky.social · Mar 12

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · Mar 11

📢Join us for the upcoming webinar by Prof. Ted Dinan on the Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry.

🌍 Theme: Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry
📅 Date: 13:00 (GMT) March 24, 2025, Online (Zoom)

🔗 Register here: www.oaepublish.com/webinars/mrr...

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · Mar 8

Come check this out if you are in the south of England 👇🏻🦕

Neil Gostling/EvoPalaeoLab @neilgostling.bsky.social · Mar 8

We have a rich fossil heritage on the south coast, marine reptiles, dinosaurs, the first humans on these islands... And everything in between. Come and find out about it at our new exhibition, running from April 4th to June 1st.
godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/exhi...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · Mar 3

for mouse studies: OligoMM12 Oligo Mouse Microbiota - standardized and covers broad range of functions

www.dsmz.de/collection/c...

Leibniz Institute DSMZ: Oligo Mouse Microbiota

www.dsmz.de

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · Feb 28

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

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Pat Schloss @patschloss.bsky.social · Feb 27

The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio

The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations, socioeconomic pr...

journals.asm.org

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Jack A Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social · Feb 3

We have received many questions in the last week about some of the content on our website being under review. @asm.org

asm.org/Press-Releas...

ASM Responds to Member Questions About Executive Orders

Our modified pages are back up or in the process of being restored. ASM has not retracted or altered any research articles, scientific papers or peer reviewed articles on our website.

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Christina (Chris) Tobin Kahrstrom @microchris.bsky.social · Jan 30

Out now in @nature.com: Gut microbiome diversity across African populations - a valuable resource for further research and foundational for global health equity. 🧪

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

Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa - Nature

A cross-sectional study from four African countries shows the importance of investigating the gut microbiome in previously under-represented populations and provides a framework for equitable microbio...

www.nature.com

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