Or as Brene Brown wrote “You can either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behavior"

Gold thesis titles in this thread 🤣

A great honour to receive the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Jian Zhou Medal last night from the Minister Mark Butler and AAHMS President Prof Louise Baur, alongside the other amazing medalist Prof Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg

Congratulations Dr Lizzie Kleeman, Dr Carol Gubert, @anthonyjhannan.bsky.social & co-authors 👏👏👏 Thank you for the invitation for @rikeish.bsky.social and I to help with the #microbiome analysis requested by reviewers - a pleasure to work with you as always @natureportfolio.nature.com

Congratulations to our PhD student Evany Dinakis who completed her final milestone today, delivering a fantastic presentation 👏👏👏 an example of great science communication skills + great science #microbiome #bloodpressure @monashuniversity.bsky.social

If you missed Dr Chudan Xu's talk on what happens when we don't eat enough fibre, the preprint is now live 👇 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #EESMicrobiome @events.embl.org

Big thank you to @events.embl.org, @cibiocm.bsky.social, @borklab.bsky.social, Mani Arumugam & @amibhatt.bsky.social for a wonderful microbiome conference #EESMicrobiome My team and I had a great time, learned lots, met lots of inspiring researchers & made friends ✅ @monashuniversity.bsky.social

Thank you so much for having me @events.embl.org What a great conference this has been! We are definitely coming back 🤩 #eesmicrobiome

Proud of our team members Dr Chudan Xu and Phoebe Cheong for being brave and asking (great) questions at @embl.org #EESMicrobiome 👏👏👏

Incredibly honoured to be the recipient of the 2025 Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Jian Zhou medal aahms.org/news/two-pio... Presenting on this topic tomorrow at @embl.org #EESmicrobiome in the beautiful Heidelberg @monashuniversity.bsky.social

#GloMiNe recordings now available!! @cassyni.bsky.social ▶️ cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomi... YouTube ▶️ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @microbiotavault.bsky.social #MVIF Thanks @tosina.bsky.social for putting all up.

I’m here 🙌 🥳 If someone wants to catch up for coffee or a meal tomorrow let me know @borklab.bsky.social @cibiocm.bsky.social @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social

Starting my journey from Australia to Heidelberg 🇩🇪 to the @embl.org Human Microbiome conference It’s not every day we get the chance of 4 days of human microbiome research 🤩🤩🤩 I’m so excited Still chance to attend it online 👇 www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social talks about Preserving microbial diversity: An Australian perspective

#microsky #gastrosky 🧪

Our new @natrevgastrohep.nature.com review is now online "Parental diet and offspring health: a role for the gut microbiome via epigenetics" Co-authors Chaoran Yang, @mattsnelson.bsky.social & Sam El-Osta A fascinating area of research with lots of potential nature.com/articles/s41...

✨Pacific Session speakers✨ Gloria Dominguez-Bello Adrian Egli Safarina Malik @meghanazad.bsky.social ‬ Thomas Sharpton @gilbertjacka.bsky.social David Mills Kate Bowerman Takuji Yamada @fzmarques.bsky.social ‬ @calumwalsh.bsky.social 3/3

#MeetTheSpeakers #GloMiNe2025 Pacific event closing talks: Preserving microbial diversity: An Australian perspective by @fzmarques.bsky.social and Rational Engineering of Live Bacterial Therapeutics from a Human Microbiome Biobank by @calumwalsh.bsky.social 10/10

So proud 🤩 well done @rikeish.bsky.social and Malindi That’s our 2nd RCT and 5th human study, aimed at producing high quality evidence of how the gut #microbiome contributes to #bloodpressure

🌟 Thanks to everyone who joined our ECI Networking Event! We loved seeing such vibrant discussions on career development and research, led by the brilliant @fzmarques.bsky.social, @milesdeblasio.bsky.social and Rebecca Ritchie. Here’s to more collaboration and connection! 💬🔬 #CSANZ2025

🚨 Happening now at #CSANZ2025! Join the ECI panel in Mezzanine 3 for a lively discussion on the pros & cons of doing an overseas postdoc 🌏🔬Hear real experiences, ask questions, and get inspired! @fzmarques.bsky.social @dr-yktham.bsky.social

Huge thank you to our amazing panellists for such thoughtful and inspiring conversations at today’s ECI Luncheon session 🙌 Over 50 attendees joined us to hear about the real pros & cons of doing an overseas postdoc #CSANZ2025 @fzmarques.bsky.social @dr-yktham.bsky.social @milesdeblasio.bsky.social

Congratulations to @rikeish.bsky.social for winning the ISHR Postdoctoral publication prize for his paper “Gut Microbiota Metabolites Sensed by Host GPR41/43 Protect Against Hypertension” published in Circulation Research 👇 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... (I received it on his behalf 🙂)

🎙️ INVITATION to A Special Lecture for World Microbiome Day | Register here: lnkd.in/ejPZMxgP Join us on JUNE 27th at 10 AM EDT for a pivotal webinar featuring Professor CURTIS HUTTENHOWER, a renowned authority in computational biology and microbiome science. www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

Today I went to my daughter’s childcare to talk to the toddlers about heart health and gut microbes ❤️ They were very excited to tell me about their fav fruits and veggies Big thanks to @cibiocm.bsky.social for the toy microbes 🦠🙏 @monashuniversity.bsky.social

Love this quote by Ed Catmull (Pixar) “If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they’ll screw it up. But if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they’ll make it work.” Team psychological safety is one of the key elements of building great teams

Our paper published in Card Res and our new trial were featured in the Herald Sun today 👇👇👇 Link to newspaper: www.heraldsun.com.au/health/diet/... Link to paper: academic.oup.com/cardiovascre... Link to trial: www.marqueslab.com/trials

It was graduation day today 🤩 Congratulations to Dr Chudan Xu & 2 of honours students who graduated today 🤩 and a big thanks to our amazing team for helping to celebrate it (wait until she sees her desk tomorrow 🥹) @monashuniversity.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social

Found this awesome paper on building a positive research culture - worth a read "Leaders with empathy and respect, who prioritize people and understand boundaries, set the foundations for a positive research culture." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is in line with building a psychological safe research culture, that is fundamental for innovation and impact www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

You can also read about our vision, mission and strategy, and how it aligns with our values and stakeholders (summarised in the figure below) on our website www.marqueslab.com/manual

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become" James Clear We just updated our #labmanual after our team revisited our key values: -Respect -Curiosity -Fulfilment Read about the behaviours expected & how they apply to DEI at www.marqueslab.com/manual

Our review on the gut-heart axis published in Circ Res is now out www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... We cover gut #microbiome, 'leaky gut', foods & metabolites, +++ Congratulations @mattsnelson.bsky.social @rikeish.bsky.social and our co-authors 👏

#microbiome #bloodpressure #hypertension #microbiota #shortchainfattyacids #dietaryfibre

Our latest paper is out in Cardiovascular Research We used a genetics approach to provide human evidence of gut-to-host crosstalk in how blood pressure is regulated Authors include Leticia Camargo Tavares, @mattsnelson.bsky.social @rikeish.bsky.social academic.oup.com/cardiovascre...

The FONS Early Career Taskforce is excited to invite you to our online Networking Masterclass with @fzmarques.bsky.social 📆THIS WEDNESDAY at 1 pm (AEST)! All welcome but registration required: tinyurl.com/networkingma... We look forward to seeing you there! Please share with your networks!

This is incredible.

💚 “I still have scars that will never go away.” At just 31, Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer—despite being so young and living a healthy lifestyle. (1/4)

Last week we had our lab planning day 🤩 2025 motto - let's work together (w each other within & outside the lab & our communities) inspired by Adam Grant's quote “Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by product"

Next month marks 10 years of my stage 3 #ovariancancer diagnosis 🙏 I recently had the honour to share my story with @curecancer.bsky.social, via the work my colleague and friend Dr @jessholien.bsky.social is leading in this area 👇👇👇 www.curecancer.com.au/blog/prof-fr...

Delighted to share perspective piece @CircAHA on history of resistant HTN with @adinaturcu.bsky.social. In the US, it was 1st defined by JNC V report. Back then, RH need combination of diuretic+2 drugs: BB, vasodilator, CCB, or ACEI. We have come a long way! #Cardiosky #Nephsky tinyurl.com/3tttvaye

Hi friends, can anyone recommend a reliable wrist band for continuous heart rate monitoring for a trial please? Thank you 🙏

Our editorial "Fiber, Fatty Acids, and Blood Pressure: A Gut-Level Solution is now published in #CircRes @ahajournals.bsky.social 👇 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... Highlighting a fantastic paper by @fzmarques.bsky.social 👇 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Congrats @rikeish.bsky.social for your immunofluorescence image making it to the cover 👏👏👏 www.ahajournals.org/journal/res Also read the ‘Meet the first author’ and accompanying editorial (thanks @annetkiraboc1.bsky.social 👏👏👏) Paper and 🧵 👇 www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....

Thanks to @JAHA_AHA for recognising our HFpEF #microbiome paper as one of the JAHA’s Top Ten Research Impact Articles for 2024 Full list 👇https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.124.040732 Our paper 👇 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34212778/

Interesting breakdown by @fzmarques.bluesky.social & @rikeish.bsky.social on how the gut #microbiome shapes #bloodpressure of their paper published in #CircRes. 📝 Blog: www.marqueslab.com/post/underst… 📄 Paper: www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/�#Hypertensionrtension @ahajournals.bsky.social

@rikeish.bsky.social & I wrote a short blog about the key lessons from our paper published in Circulation Research, looking into how the gut #microbiome regulates #bloodpressure via gene-by-environment interactions Paper: www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... Blog: www.marqueslab.com/post/underst...

Out now in @nature.com: Gut microbiome diversity across African populations - a valuable resource for further research and foundational for global health equity. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Grateful to my mentors @fzmarques.bsky.social Dr Joanne O'Donnell and Charles Mackay who helped guide this work and to all co-authors for the support and funding bodies NHMRC, Heart Foundation Australia, @monashbiol.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social