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Slipa Kanungo @slipakanungo.bsky.social · Jul 20

Wrapping up the coolest Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses at @gimmfoundation.bsky.social Portugal! Over this course, I had 2min flash talks on my PhD work, presented 2 posters and designed group projects. Thank you @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social #Waldan Kwong and #Martin Blaser for the guidance.

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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Jun 27

Fresh from the press (from my brother Joao Xavier)

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

Ecological management of the microbiota in patients with cancer

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology - This Review synthesizes the current understanding of host–microbiota dynamics in patients with cancer and proposes to integrate microbiota management...

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Lisa Maier Lab | Tübingen @lisamaierlab.bsky.social · Jun 19

Big thanks to scientific writer Libera Lo Presti for this great little piece on our recent work exploring how proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and pH affect human gut microbes.
Check it out here: go.nature.com/4lf6jNk

The pill that might be relieving your heartburn but killing your gut microbes

Why drugs commonly used against heartburn harm your gut microbiome

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · May 1

Do people in the same household share strains when they have the same species?

How many cells transmit when a strain is shared?
Can strain composition be dynamic when species composition is stable?

We answer these and related questions for the facial skin microbiome in our latest paper.

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Goemans Lab @goemanslab.bsky.social · May 7

How the @embo.org postdoctoral fellowship helped me in developing my academic career... happy to see my profile featured on the EMBO website!
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From Fellowship to Frontline: Camille Goemans’ Mission to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance – People – EMBO

An interview with Camille Goemans, tenure-track assistant professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland and former EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow

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EMBL @embl.org · Jun 16

Congratulations, Edith Heard, former EMBL Director General!

She was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours List in the UK 👏

#kingshonours

www.embl.org/news/awards-...

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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Jun 17

Bacteria Talk each other? Yes, they do! Interested investigating how bacteria communication affects gut Microbiota community function, checkout our proposed PhD project and apply here gimm.pt/course/phd-p...

GIMM PhD Studentships 2025 – GIMMGIMM PhD Studentships 2025 – GIMM

Thank you very much for your generous donation and for sharing your testimony.We hope to more people feel inspired to join this mission of discovery and innovation!

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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Jun 17

Call for our new PhD program is open. Come join one of our labs at Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine - Lisbon-Oeiras, Portugal. Help us spread the word

Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine @gimmfoundation.bsky.social · Jun 6

Exciting opportunities are now available!
GIMM offers a distinctive PhD Program designed to attract & cultivate highly skilled researchers in biology & biomedicine.

Deadline: July 9
👉 Apply now! gimm.pt/education-and-training/phd-program/

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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Jun 1

Call for Group Leaders - Join us at GIMM, 7 days till the deadline!

Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine @gimmfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 15

We’re hiring: GIMM is launching its first call for Group Leaders.

Looking for scientists ready to push boundaries, ask bold questions & build the future of biomedical discovery.

🔗 gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...
📅 Apply by June 8

#ScienceJobs #GroupLeader #BiomedicalResearch

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Mar 5

1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.

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

Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment - Nature

In the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment, diploid yeast evolve to be tetraploid under selection for larger multicellular size, revealing how whole-genome duplication can arise due to its...

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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Mar 30

Great Microbiology meeting at the EMBL

Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · Mar 26

Join our favorite microbiology meeting! Fantastic talks, poster sessions, new technologies, and all the hot areas of microbiology in a great environment - experts in cell & systems biology, microbiomes, environment & evolution, pathogenesis, phage & antibiotics
DON’T MISS abstract deadline, April 1

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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · Mar 26

Join our favorite microbiology meeting! Fantastic talks, poster sessions, new technologies, and all the hot areas of microbiology in a great environment - experts in cell & systems biology, microbiomes, environment & evolution, pathogenesis, phage & antibiotics
DON’T MISS abstract deadline, April 1

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Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · Mar 18

More important now than ever before: vilcek.org/prizes/vilce...

Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise - Vilcek Foundation

The Creative Promise Prizes are awarded to young immigrant professionals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement early in their careers.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 26

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Laila: orcid.org/0000-0001-80...

Registrations until 28th March.

#SymbioSky #MicroSky

Laila Partida-Martinez is the director and principal investigator at Cinvestav-Irapuato. She is interested in fungal-bacterial interactions, plant-microbe interactions, microbial ecology and natural products produced by microorganisms.

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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Mar 22

Follow @symbnet.bsky.social to hear about the speakers of our Symbnet Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses for PhD students - July 2025 Portugal

symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 19

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Jewelna: noguchi.ug.edu.gh/fellows/dr-j...

#SymbioSky #MicroSky

Jewelna Akorli is a Principal Investigator and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellow at the University of Ghana. Her work centers on mosquito-associated endosymbionts and variations in vector competence in natural mosquito populations.

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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Mar 21

Interesting story on challenges and promises of microbial engineering
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The researchers on a quest to protect the gut from antibiotics

The crucial drugs can have unintended consequences. Innovative therapies could shield the microbiome from their effects.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 21

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Takema: bpri.aist.go.jp/en/staff/fuk...

@fkttkm.bsky.social

Registrations until 28th March.

#SymbioSky #MicroSky

Takema Fukatsu is a Prime Senior Researcher at the Bioproduction Research Institute, AIST. He uses experimental evolutionary approaches to study associated mechanisms and functions of microbial symbioses in insects.

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 19

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Jewelna: noguchi.ug.edu.gh/fellows/dr-j...

#SymbioSky #MicroSky

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 19

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symbnet.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social · Mar 19

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Aileen: www.berasateguilab.com/people

Aileen Berasategui - Molecular and Chemical Ecology of Symbiotic Interactions. Aileen Berasategui is an Assistant professor at the Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research focuses on the chemical ecology and evolution of insect-microbe symbioses, currently focusing on the interaction between fungi, insects, and their host plant.

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ASM @asm.org · Feb 15

ASM stands firm in its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as such efforts are critical to advancing the microbial sciences for everyone. Read our statement: asm.org/Press-Releas...

ASM’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The American Society for Microbiology stands firm in its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as such efforts are critical to advancing the microbial sciences for everyone.

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htw @heniek-htw.bsky.social · Mar 14

Present study, the feed incorporated Enterococcus faecium probiotic converts the precursor L-dopa to dopamine with high efficiency to produce significant amounts of dopamine within the gastrointestinal tract.

htw @heniek-htw.bsky.social · Mar 14

Use of a microbial #endocrinology designed #dopamine producing #probiotic to control #gut neurochemical levels associated with the development of gut #inflammation
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Peter Lind @peteralind.bsky.social · Mar 13

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated.
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Postdoctor, 2 years, in predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance

The Department of Molecular Biology seeks a postdoctoral researcher who will work with forecasting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance. The employment is full-time for two yea

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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Mar 16

Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses - Oeiras Portugal. Students from all over the world are eligible, we sponsor selected students. Please Repost!
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PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025

Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) & Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) July 06...

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Nancy Moran @nancy-moran.bsky.social · Mar 11

Hi BlueSkyers! I'm an evolutionary biologist, microbiologist, entomologist, lover of nature, and long-time researcher on symbiosis.

I'm realizing that BlueSky is useful and generally non-toxic so here I am (having quit Facebook in Jan 2017, and Twitter in Oct 2022).

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Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com · Mar 10

New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities

Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01163-0In this Review, Iliev, Ananthakrishnan and Guo explore the gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease, highlighting bacterial and fungal components, immune…

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