Exciting to see this launch today! This research is an excellent example of using plant science to improve human health, and highlights the value of BBSRC’s long-term investment in plant and nutritional science🍅🔬

Excited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦 Key takeaways: 🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution 🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes 🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential

🚨 New pre-print from the lab! We performed a large-scale meta-analysis of the uncultured gut #microbiome in >10,000 metagenomes enabling us to identify a new candidate biomarker of health. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a #Metagenomics Research Scientist to join the Laboratory of Dr Falk Hildebrand @bioinf.bsky.social to study diet impact on the gastrointestinal microbiome. 💷 £37,500 - £42,000 🗓️ Apply by 30 September 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/uwqGQQm

🆕 Blog! PhD student Glória Máté-Koncz explains the science of how we digest beans and how we study the digestion process here at the Quadram Institute 🫘 buff.ly/xuq1lcB

Check out this week's blog from Dr Emily Jones at the @quadraminstitute.bsky.social to hear about her trip to Brussels for the Microphysiological Systems World Summit 2025. Great to see microbiology research in Norwich being shared with international audiences! www.cmi-norwich.ac.uk/presenting-n...

📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝 We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors! We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... cc @teamthomma.bsky.social

To promote the collection, I’ve launched a designer clothing line where synthetic biology meets aesthetics. I will give out 100 free limited edition shirts to the first who retweet and order with their handle in the name! Available here → nickdesnoyer.com 🧵(6/7)

Introducing the 1,000 Flower Collection 🧬🌹 I’m creating 1,000 genetically designed flowers each crafted with new colors, patterns, and shapes. Here’s how I’m making it happen… and how you can join me on this journey 🧵(1/7)

📢 New preprint alert! We used comparative genomics on 72,000+ bacterial genomes to uncover the genetic basis of microbial adaptation to multicellular hosts—plants and animals alike. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper on Pseudomonas intra-genus competition in SynComs on Arabidopsis roots is now out @plosbiology.org ! 🎉 If you want to chat about the story, visit poster 374 tomorrow, Thursday #2025ISMPMI journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Our researchers are running a study to assess different ways of helping vegans increase their daily intake of essential nutrients 🌿 ✅ If you’d like to help us, register to take part 📣 Please RT and share! ➡️ buff.ly/4c2yGsP

Some gut microbes can absorb and help expel ‘forever chemicals’ from the body, research shows

Excited to share some key details on our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com reporting intra-cellular accumulation of #PFAS (aka forever chemicals) by certain human gut bacteria. #microsky #mevosky #microbiomesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gut bacteria to the rescue! 🦠✨ They can shield us from harmful chemicals—and the latest study from Kiran Patil's lab (@kiranrpatil.bsky.social) uncovers how. We’re proud to have contributed to this exciting work! #Microbiome #Detox www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beautiful work from my friend @kiranrpatil.bsky.social . Gut bacteria can accumulate Forever chemicals and help us get rid of them! Happy we could contribute! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔍 Read: Within minutes of exposure, these bacterial species tested soaked up between 25% and 74% of the introduced PFAS. phys.org/news/2025-06...

Gut Bacteria Can Protect Against Forever Chemicals Scientists have discovered that certain microbes living in our intestines can absorb toxic "forever chemicals" called PFAS, potentially offering a natural defense against these widespread pollutants. Researchers at the University of Cambridge…

Latest study from the lab is online today (and another will be out tomorrow, stay tuned:)). We profiled effect of >1700 chemicals (drugs, pesticides,...) on secretion of amines (involved in gut-brain and gut-immune axis. ) by human gut bacteria. Brilliant work by @skamrad.bsky.social and Tara Davis

Scientists discover protection from PFAS chemicals #Cambridgeshire #BBCNews 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

A new study has found that toxic PFAS could be absorbed by a gut microbe, potentially protecting us from a range of health issues associated with ‘forever chemicals’. www.ukri.org/news/gut-bac... @mrc-tu.bsky.social

Certain gut bacteria can absorb and help remove PFAS chemicals from the body, suggesting a potential role for the microbiome in mitigating PFAS exposure and its associated health risks.

🆕 New UK study highlights how food structure plays a key role in digestion and health 🍽️ buff.ly/lQkUJys

Friends from the MPMI committee. Your vote matters. The race is really tight, but I will testify based on personal experience that Wenbo is actively contributing to the MPMI committee, an advocate for diversity and a supporter for early career scientists including me. www.ismpmi.org/members/Page...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Autocycler, the automated successor to Trycycler from @rrwick.bsky.social has a pre-print out - overall, pretty awesome performance (and is very easy to use) github.com/rrwick/Autoc...

🌱 We're hiring! Join our team as a PhD candidate to explore plant–microbiota host specificity. Plant biology/microbiology background needed; bioinformatics skills a big plus💻! Apply by mid-June. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #uubeta #plantmicrobiome #microbiota

New opinion paper from the lab! www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Join us at CafeSynthetique on 2 June with talks from Wes Roberston @mrclmb.bsky.social 'Synthetic genomics for microbiome reprogramming' and SonjaBlasche @sonjablasche.bsky.social @mrc-tu.bsky.social 'milk kefir🥛 in fermented food applications' Register here 🦠👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/engin...

Wonder the "chemicals" between gut bug pairs? Check out this new preprint lead by @skamrad.bsky.social and am honored to contribute!

Frustrated that MCMCtree does not have complex substitution models? The IQ-tree team has now developed IQ2MC, an interface for seamless integration of IQ-tree's substitution models with MCMCtree's fast Bayesian pipeline for clock dating. Read the preprint here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Happy to share the first preprint from my lab. Great work by Lewis Fisher and collaboration with Jukka Corander www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine (GIMM) is one of the best research institutes in Portugal. It's currently recruiting for three Group Leaders (junior or senior) across different areas, including systems biology and bioinformatics. gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵

Semi-automated workflow for high-throughput Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation. Summary of our efforts to accelerate plant transgenics with the @earlhaminst.bsky.social Biofoundry. Now published in @theplantjournal.bsky.social. #PlantScience #Synbio onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share “Bin Chicken”, substantially improving genome recovery through rational metagenomic assembly. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, it recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 novel phyla. doi.org/10.1101/2024... @wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT 🧵1/6

Our latest preprint is on BioRxiv: Impact of low-calorie sweeteners on gut bacteria is modulated by common xenobiotics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @mrc-tu.bsky.social @kiranrpatil.bsky.social #microsky #microbiomesky (1/5)

New online! A new strain of thought in gut metagenomics

Congrats Paloma!!! @paduba.bsky.social so well deserved!!!🎉🎉

Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses - Oeiras Portugal. Students from all over the world are eligible, we sponsor selected students. Please Repost! gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

Tired of fragmented bacterial GWAS workflows? Try BaGPipe (Bacterial GWAS Pipeline)—a fully automated, flexible Nextflow pipeline integrating Pyseer for streamlined association studies. Reproducible. Scalable. Efficient. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Nextflow #BacterialGWAS #AMR #Bioinformatics

I've spent some time updating my two Nextflow-based bacterial QC pipelines (bacQC and bacQC-ONT). It'd be great to get some feedback. github.com/avantonder/b... github.com/avantonder/b...

🦘✂️ Thanks to @cziscience.bsky.social , @wytamma.bsky.social and I are writing the next version of the Snippy bacterial variant calling pipeline. We want your input on what features s it will have. Please fill out this (longish) survey to help make Snippy great again! forms.gle/YJP6WQjsk8KK...

🚨 We’re hiring–please spread the word! 🚨 Our lab at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social is looking for a pre-doc intern to join our research on plant immunity. If you’re a current undergrad/master’s or recent graduate interested in gaining research experience, please apply! tatsuyanobori.com

Have you had a good mentor that has influenced you or your career in a profound way? Here’s how to show your gratitude - the Nature Award for mentoring in science is open for nominations! This year our focus is on mentors in the UK #academicSky 🧪 www.nature.com/nature/award...

📌Vacancy at the University of Amsterdam! Join us at the Green Life Sciences with three open positions by my colleagues. 🌱🌻 1/3 PhD position on "Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience" in the group of Dr. Kathrin Wippel: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

If you're into evolution and genomics, the EcoEvo Genomics GRC this summer is promising to be really good. And I'm not just saying this because I'm speaking at it! www.grc.org/ecological-a...

The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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!

This summer's GRC on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics: unique opportunity to compare and contrast methods, paradigms, and datasets 4 microbial and eukaryotic systems. I am thrilled to be co-chairing this with @samyeaman.bsky.social and welcome you to join us! www.grc.org/ecological-a...

Brochado and Maier labs in Germany are looking for a PhD student to study horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. ENDAMR Marie Curie doctoral network (endamr.eu) - an amazing opportunity to work with top scientists in the field all around Europe! www.cmfi.uni-tuebingen.de/mariecuriephd