Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Highlighting another recent paper from the lab in Science Advances on engineering a gut probiotic to modulate GLP-1 levels and ameliorating colitis. Led by Leonie Brockmann & @carlottaronda.bsky.social . @columbiasysbio.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social 🧬🦠💊 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

New discovery in ulcerative colitis: a bacterial toxin that kills macrophages and increases inflammation, which could be the foundation for a new treatment science.org/doi/10.1126/... science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

Back-to-back recognition! 💪🏼 A huge shoutout to Arnau @arnauvich.bsky.social and Jeroen Raes for once again making @clarivate.com global #HighlyCited2025 list! 🌍✨ @viblifesciences.bsky.social @vibmicrobes.bsky.social clarivate.com/highly-cited...

Interested in #drugs, #microbiome and #antibiotic resistance, then check out our paper on the effects of over 300 drugs on the gut microbiome. Exciting results as well on the role of antibiotic resistance defining how microbiomes respond to drugs. @quadraminstitute.bsky.social rdcu.be/eMmcT

Another great day at #UEGWeek 2025! 🎉Congratulations to our colleague Jorge Vazquez Castellanos for presenting his exciting work on microbial dysbiosis, inflammation, and the gut–brain axis in IBS at the United European Gastroenterology Week in Berlin🇩🇪 @myueg.bsky.social @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to our colleague @arnauvich.bsky.social for presenting his research on FODMAP restriction and gut microbiota in IBS patients at United European Gastroenterology Week 2025 in Berlin🇩🇪👏! #UEGWeek @myueg.bsky.social @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

The most interesting report of the week (IMHO) 🧵

Super happy to share our latest preprint in #liverdisease & #gut microbiota mechanisms. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share that our manuscript on strain-level gut microbiome variation across diverse populations and human phenotypes is out today in @cellpress.bsky.social Curious about how strain diversity relates to human traits? Follow this thread! 🌍 (1/n) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🦠🧬🖥️ New Bakta DB v6.0 released! After a year, it was time for a Bakta database update - and it's a huge one: - IPS: 330.9M - PSC: 135.3M - PSCC: 37M doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 👇 1/6

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Nature research paper: Macrophages recycle phagocytosed bacteria to fuel immunometabolic responses https://go.nature.com/3XmyOPD

Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!

A must-read for any microbiome researcher 🦠📐and a new addition to our #bestpractices series Planning and describing a microbiome data analysis by @amydwillis.bsky.social and @davidandacat.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're hiring a postdoc!🚨 Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease. 🔬Requirements: - PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field - Expertise in omics - Strong publication record Apply now!🌟 jobs.vib.be/j/69697/post... @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

Excited to share our MicrobiomeBenchmarkData preprint, addressing compositional data analysis for microbiome DA. This Bioconductor package features 3 datasets with biological ground truths. Spoiler: simple methods like LEfSe, Wilcoxon, RNA-seq methods performed well www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A big congratulations to our incredible team at RaesLab! We’re excited to share that two of our colleagues, Arnau @arnauvich.bsky.social and Jeroen, have been honored on the global #HighlyCited2024 researchers list by @Clarivate🤩🙌🏼 @viblifesciences.bsky.social clarivate.com/highly-cited...

Although I'm not a big fan of individual recognitions in science- collaboration and teamwork are the real driving forces- I'm honored to be recognised as #HighlyCited2024 by Clarivate. Grateful to all colleagues, mentors and collaborators who made this happen.