D- and L-lactate consumers in the human gut are taxonomically, biochemically, and energetically different https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685474v1

We selected the laziest mouse at each round to inoculate the next batch of germfree mice: over rounds of selection and passaging, behavior shifted without changes to the mouse genome: rdcu.be/eM3rO 🦠🧫

Nature research paper: Elementary 3D organization of active and silenced E. coli genome go.nature.com/4n1DTY7

FlaPro - a pipeline for quantifying silent and stimulatory flagellins in the human gut - reveals how the flagellome shifts in inflammatory bowel diseases. Congrats to @anya-bogdanova.bsky.social on her first preprint from the Ley Lab @microbiome.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reminds me of: "Beer and other alcoholic beverages may have played a pivotal role in cementing human societies through the social act and rituals of drinking..." (Libkind et al, PNAS, 2011)

Now online! Structure and infection dynamics of mycobacteriophage Bxb1

Come join us this Friday for another Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series talk by Dr. Andrey Kruglov from the Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin ▶️More info: shorturl.at/0S9AB 📆: Friday 14th March, at 3pm 📍: MPI-Bio room 0A01 #DSSS

Please spread the word🙏: [PhD Position in Computational Evolutionary Transcriptomics] If you are interested in doing a PhD in gorgeous Scotland on 'Why embryo development goes wrong sometimes?', please consider applying and join our wonderful team in Dundee! www.dundee.ac.uk/phds/opportu...

Cross-kingdom-mediated detection of intestinal protozoa through NLRP6 @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

We're once again hosting the Human #Microbiome conference at @embl.org, organized by Ami Bhatt, Nicola Segata, Mani Arumugam and Peer Bork! We always have a great lineup of speakers, so register now and think about an abstract to submit (abstract submission deadline in June)

So excited to share this latest work by @kelseyhuus.bsky.social !!! She shows that flagellin in the human gut affects whether or not people develop fever in response to vaccine, and the amount of flagellin reflects diet

Clinically relevant eukaryotes quantified from stool metagenomes

📣 Researchers, share your work at #ISMBECCB2025! Submit abstracts for in-progress, unpublished research; or studies published in the last 18 months. 📅 Submission deadline: April 17, 2025 📥Submit now: https://t.ly/kaRxY #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology

Excited to see how Nearest Balance, our compositional data analysis method, came in handy for defining #microbiome dynamics in our one-sided host-microbiome selection experiment!