New in Nat Comm Pathogenic E. coli use protein FimH to grab onto the gut lining New microgels mimic the mannose binding sites—acting as “decoys” to drag bacteria away and protect the intestine in IBD Adherent-invasive E. coli (AIEC), enriched in Crohn’s disease, are a key target for this strategy

If you have ever wondered what might happen to short chain fatty acids made by the microbiome. Here is a large class of metabolites and how they link to biology. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Delighted to announce the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting: Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection. Join us in Breckenridge in May 2026!! You can check out the program and amazing lineup of speakers below: keysym.us/KSAntibiotics26 #KSAntibiotics26

Why are certain vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) strains taking over hospitals? Emergent lineages make bacteriocin T8—giving them a gut colonization edge over older strains Microbial competition shapes nosocomial evolution Mills et al Nat Microbiol #VRE #AMR www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read our latest #perspective on small intestinal microbiota, published with @SpringerNature in @NatRevGastroHep. #GutMicrobiota #MicrobiomeScience #Smallintestine Perspective👉 rdcu.be/dXQ6y

Free access to 2,656 metabolites from 9 platforms measured at 56 time points and covering 6 challenges "suffered" by 15 healthy volunteers: The HuMet Repository - Watching human metabolism at work www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... All data provided in an interactive repository: humet.org

Happy to announce that MEDI, our method to quantify dietary intake through metagenomics is out now. 🧬 🧪🧫🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #metagenomics #microbiome #microbiomesky So what is MEDI? A combination of two things:

A link between yogurt intake and reduce risk of colon cancer, from cohort of over 130,00 participants, with inverse relationship to Bifidobacterium in gut microbiome www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... open-access

Scripps Research awards 2024 Collaborative Innovation Fund grants to three teams pioneering high-risk, high-reward research. Projects include next-gen antibiotics to combat superbugs, rewiring protein interactions for new therapies, and advancing safer genome editing.

OUT NOW: SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome @harriswang.bsky.social & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sugar cravings? Your gut may be the basis erictopol.substack.com/p/how-our-gu...

Our technique for studying strain-level IgA binding in the microbiome is out now at @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social! Fascinated by IgA since Sean Spencer told me about it, here we make some fundamental discoveries about strain-level IgA dynamics in the healthy human gut (1/5) doi.org/10.1038/s415...

We showed that #metaproteomics based "Stable isotope fingerprinting can directly link intestinal microorganisms with their carbon source and captures diet-induced substrate switching in vivo" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Great work by Angie Mordant and Alfredo Blakeley-Ruiz @alfredob.bsky.social

At npjAMR we are looking for an early career researcher to take on a dual role of Social Media Editor and Trainee Associate Editor. Lots of training and support provided to develop skills in editing. Details, contact info and how to apply in the link below.Pls repost! www.nature.com/npjamar/edit...

Infection and Immunity has a call for papers on Women’s Health and the Development of Microbiota in Childhood. For details see journals.asm.org/journal/iai/...

How does the immune system make "decisions" at mucosal barriers? My new perspective explores how seeing strategic cell interactions through the lens of game theory could reveal fresh insights into mucosal immune homeostasis and disease. 🧵 1/7 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Quite a comprehensive piece of work: "Gut physiology and environment explain variations in human gut microbiome composition and metabolism." www.nature.com/articles/s41... Definitely worth checking out if you work on animal microbiomes, especially in the gut

Resistance to one antibiotic can make bacteria resistant or sensitive to another antibiotic, opening paths for combinatorial treatments. A study in Nature Microbiology presents an approach to systematically discover and understand such antibiotic relationships. https://go.nature.com/49of3Mk 🧪

📖 New paper from the Pamer lab! Qiwen Dong and collaborators showed that the avirulent C. difficile isolate ST1-75 outcompetes virulent C. difficile to protect mice from colitis, likely by depleting amino acids. ST1-75 has biotherapeutic potential for recurrent CDI! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Amino acid is a major carbon source for hepatic lipogenesis. #CellMetabolism "This study uncovers the significant role of amino acids in hepatic lipogenesis and suggests a previously unappreciated nutritional intervention target for MASLD." Open Access www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Looking forward to presenting to the @microbiomevif.bsky.social peeps tomorrow on our emergent My Digital Gut platform! Here are the deets: cassyni.com/events/MiLJ3...

Finally, this great effort for the Klebsiella community is out! Congrats to daniela Rothschild & @fnobrega.bsky.social

📢 World-leading Immunologists. The Nossal Endowed Chair of Immunology has just been announced @wehi-research.bsky.social. This is your chance to move (or return) to Australia to do ground-breaking research and join a thriving environment for discovery and translation.

Professorship of Infection / Immunity up for grabs in @cambridgeuni.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49381/

First-of-its-kind Online marketplace for sharing tissues, organs and other biological materials. @science.org By @arukon0.bsky.social #scisky #news #science www.science.org/content/arti...

Excited to share our study led by @SakenovaNazgul! We used chemical genetics to identify and understand cross-resistance & collateral-sensitivity (CS) between antibiotics and reduced AMR development with CS drug pairs @embl.org with @camille_goemans @EPFL_en www.nature.com/articles/s41...