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Last week: #NNDC2026 in DC. Tomorrow: @hsph.harvard.edu Nutrition Round Table. Next Monday: I’ll be speaking at #HNRCA @tufts.edu — link in comments. Strong momentum in food data science. Good to see this community finally scaling!🤗

❄️Snow blizzard day = good moment for a team update❄️ I am very proud of the work done by this cohort of postdocs. Of the five abstracts we submitted to the @netscisociety.bsky.social Conference, all were accepted, with three contributed talks and two lightning talks. 👇 Abstracts below in the 🧵

To understand how food molecules shape the gut #microbiome and human health, we need to go beyond species abundance and adopt a mechanistic, system-level view powered by #NetworkScience Happy to share our first concrete step in this direction: 📄 shorturl.at/XkyUM

Happy to share our recent review in @ai.nejm.org summarizing the discussions from the master class “Artificial Intelligence and Network Medicine: Path to Precision Medicine”, sponsored by the #Menarini Foundation last year in Milan

📣 🎙️ Recordings from #RiDaysEU: "Making the EU the most attractive place for Life Science" available here 👇 www.youtube.com/live/XWen3QB... #LifeSciences #Food2030EU #OneHealth #AIforHealth @eu-life.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @erc.europa.eu

A few shots from “Making the EU the most attractive place for Life Sciences” at the #EU Research & Innovation Days 2025. Looking forward to the next R&I agenda for the food systems! #RiDaysEU @eu-life.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @erc.europa.eu

Join us for the European Research & Innovation Days 2025 (16–17 Sept, Brussels & online). I will be speaking at the plenary “Making the EU the Most Attractive Place for Life Sciences. Register here 👇 🔗 research-innovation-community.ec.europa.eu/events/34Hci... @ec.europa.eu @erc.europa.eu

Thank you, Cassandra, for having me on the Foodie Pharmacology Podcast! 👉 👇 Listen to our chat here 👇 👈 www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-zi...

🎥 My recent talk "AI for Food Processing" is now available online as part of the Mass General McCance Center for Brain Health Seminar Series. 👇👇👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3UQ... @mgbresearch.bsky.social

This was fun! Today on @koreajoongangdaily.com www.joongang.co.kr/article/2535...

🧪 Last week @mgbresearch.bsky.social visited our Lab to talk about the “Nutrition Dark Matter” and why food chemistry might matter more than calories. 🔗 Read the Q&A: mgriblog.org/2025/06/13/n... @harvardmed.bsky.social @gordanaispirova.bsky.social @salvod-lombardo.bsky.social

Happening Today @ Precision Nutrition Forum and PREDIMED Omics Symposium 2025 @hsph.harvard.edu 👏@gordanaispirova.bsky.social 👏

🫵 Check Bonnie's Poster Today at #Nutrition2025 @nutritionorg.bsky.social 👇 "Associations of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids With Smoking-Related Epigenetic Alterations" cdmcd.co/d6mPBa

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑? We looked for answers through data science. Using multimodal AI models, we show the opportunities and limitations of current approaches. 📄 Read: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17087 💻 Code: github.com/menicgiulia/...

Gordana Ispirova, Michael Sebek, Giulia Menichetti Informatics for Food Processing https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17087

Gordana Ispirova, Michael Sebek, Giulia Menichetti: Informatics for Food Processing https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17087 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17087 https://arxiv.org/html/2505.17087

Nutrition in Medicine article by Giulia Menichetti, PhD, Albert-László Barabási, PhD, and Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD: Chemical Complexity of Food and Implications for Therapeutics nej.md/3EEDtq4 @menicgiulia.bsky.social #MedSky #EndoSky #GastroSky

Beautiful work from Salvo, who joined our Lab this April. Looking forward to mapping how food molecules modulate our health together!

Incredibly honored to see our work featured in the New England Journal of Medicine. Grateful to an outstanding team and collaborators who made this possible. A milestone we’ll never forget. @mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social @nunetsi.bsky.social

Today, in Parma, at the heart of the food valley 😉

Thank you, Ilaria Iacoviello , for the great interview & your commitment to science! And to Fondazione Leonardo for making it possible. As for @menicgiulia.bsky.social , hearing her say these things fills me with pride every day. youtu.be/SkHrAXtvGXc

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

There's a wide range of "ultra-processed foods." A recent Nature Foods paper zoomed in on this www.nature.com/articles/s43... and the graph rankings are shown below from @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/whic...

Thank you to Dr. Bruce Levy & the 2024 Chair’s Research Award organizers for a fantastic event! Transitioning from physics to medical research has been a journey made possible by a culture of mentorship & support. Grateful to Dr. Dawn DeMeo, my 'medicine teacher.' Congrats to all awardees!

A paper in Nature Food presents GroceryDB, a dataset with more than 50,000 food items sold at major grocery stores in the US that uses big data to provide information on processing—categorized by store, food category and price range. https://go.nature.com/3E7DMZu 🔒

This seems to be a very practical resource. Love it. Important as the body of evidence linking consumption of ultra processed foods to adverse health outcomes is increasingly robust.

www.wbur.org/news/2025/01... @menicgiulia.bsky.social

Over 50,000 food items, 1,000+ ingredients analyzed, and one mission: helping you choose less processed foods, highlighted in Nature Food: 🍎🛒 @karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social @menicgiulia.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Nature Food: Our paper revealing the degree of food processing in 50K+ items sold by Walmart, Target & Whole Foods is just out! 🍎📊 PDF at barabasi.com/science/publ... See the data in action at www.truefood.tech Thank @menicgiulia, @BabakRavandi et al.

Estimated reading time: 30 minutes. Time to publication: 3 years 😅 'Prevalence of processed foods in major US grocery stores' is finally published in Nature Food! Read it here: rdcu.be/d55mU Thread coming soon 🧵—after I recover! 😉

A new resource rating >50,000 foods from 3 grocery stores (Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods) for degree of processing and breakdown of ingredients www.nature.com/articles/s43... Website for consumers www.truefood.tech

Training course "Introduction to Network Medicine" Join us! Applications are due by January 20! 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 www.diag.uniroma1.it/network_medi...

1/ 🎉 Happy New Year, everyone! 8 years ago, I was brainstorming BIG nutrition questions with colleagues—little did I know it would lead me across fields like cheminformatics, epidemiology, mass spectrometry, stochastic modeling, AI, and Network Science.

New computational package for #NetworkMedicine- %DiseaseModules, #DrugRepurposing and more: PDF at barabasi.com/science/public… GitHub :github.com/menicgiulia/Ne…

It was an honor to be part of the group of people who contributed to the success of Consulate General of Italy in Boston: Capital of Italian Creativity in the World, whose festival took place in recent days in the heart of Massachusetts, USA. 🇮🇹✨ @menicgiulia.bsky.social

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Join us tomorrow in Rome!

A big thank you to the team behind the Festival of Italian Creativity @ItalyinBoston. Special thanks to Consul General @ArnaldoMinuti and Prof. @paologau for the opportunity to join the panel on Women in Science and Technology. #ItalyinBoston

About last week…hopefully the first of a long series of panels on #AI & #Food! 🙌 Big Thank you 🙌 to Erika Marthins, Johnny Drain, UN @aiforgood.bsky.social #UN #aiforgood