Finally out! 🥂 link.springer.com/article/10.1... We used 3 different methods to profile fecal DNA and analysed how gut microbiome composition and human cell fractions define disease severity in IBD pediatric patients. Many thanks to my supervisor Moran Yassour and our collaborators 🧵⬇️

Our team is very well represented at 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 conference this week! Here’s where you can find us 👇 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟵 – Session 1 🍼 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗹𝗮 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗵𝗮: "Mom Matters: Maternal influences on infant gut microbiome and health in 714 mother-infant pairs in the Lifelines NEXT cohort"

RNA virus Journal Club is on! 🌳March 17th | Tuesday, 10 AM Berkeley time / 18 PM CET 🕰️ You've probably heard about the meta-virus resource? We will get to dive into metaVR database & huge viral diversity within thanks to @mattlabguy.bsky.social 🥳 All welcome! Details ⬇️ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social

Updated link to the 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘀📚: zenodo.org/records/1898...

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁! After years of work, I'm excited share our manuscript "𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆-𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝘁 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁: 𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻, 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀". doi.org/10.64898/202... A thread🧵👇 (1/11)

Prophages of infant-derived Bifidobacterium longum subspecies employ antagonistic and synergistic strategies to persist in their host https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.18.706556v1

Out now!!

New pre-print out \o/ All about CRISPR, metagenomes, and what you learn when you collect (a lot of) spacers from natural communities, with @apcamargo.bsky.social @urineri.bsky.social @lhug.bsky.social but also Uri Gophna, Nikhil George (not on Bsky I think) & others at JGI doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Early-life development of the gut virome and plasmidome: A longitudinal study in cesarean-born infants