Very excited to share this finding from my postdoctoral work that is now published in #ScienceAdvances. We show how the gut’s epithelium modifies enteric behaviors during nutritional adversity via distinct peptidergic signaling axes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Thread ⬇️ (1/n)

Great to see our review on microbiome, exposome and cognitive development out in @annualreviews.bsky.social. @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social #MicrobiomeSky #Gut-Brain

Did I just read the best abstract ever? 😁 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Imaging cellular activity simultaneously across all organs of a vertebrate reveals body-wide circuits. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“Recognising the “New Ireland” means embracing its diversity, not as a problem to manage, but as a strength to celebrate.” Well articulated by Prof. Lokesh Joshi. www.thejournal.ie/readme/racis...

💥 A gut microbe metabolite that drives #atherosclerosis? Yes—Imidazole propionate (ImP) triggers vascular inflammation without changing cholesterol. 🧪 We show the pathway—and how to block it. nature.com/articles/s41... #OpenAccess at @Nature @CNIC_CARDIO #CVD #immunosky #cardiosky #microbiomesky

New RESOURCE! Integrative genomic reconstruction reveals heterogeneity in carbohydrate utilization across human gut bifidobacteria @arzamasovalex.bsky.social @drlarsbode.bsky.social Andrei Osterman, Jeff Gordon & co #microbiomesky #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally online! Our latest research is out @nature.com: We show that non-antibiotic drugs can disrupt colonization resistance, raising the risk of enteric infections. rdcu.be/ewwrG

Exciting Senior Scientist 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 role available in my research group 🧠 🦠 - Closing date Tuesday 5th August 2025. Please Share @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @anatneuroucc.bsky.social Full details here my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

🧠 How does your gut talk to your brain? We’re diving into the Gut-Brain Axis at #BCNMicrobiome with two leading voices: Jane Foster from #UTSWMedCenter on Microbiome & Depression and @maburto.bsky.social on Microbiota-Brain Communication

Honoured and delighted to join the board of directors at ALBA Network. I look forward to contributing to the ALBA mission to promote equity and inclusion in neuroscience. @ucc.ie @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

Interested in microbiome GWAS and heritability studies? Check out our new Review in Nature Reviews Genetics! We explore key findings, challenges, and future directions of the field. rdcu.be/epoRR @blekhman.bsky.social @sambhawa.bsky.social and Dr. Kelsey Johnson.

When all this pollution is causing you headaches... 💪🦠

Exciting fundamental discovery! Early embryos fight bacteria WITHOUT immune cells Zebrafish, mouse, and human embryos use epithelial cells (trophoectoderm)—not immune cells—to engulf and destroy 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪 and 𝘚. 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴 Hoijman Lab Barcelona 🇪🇸 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘦 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is so cool - octopus can sense microbiomes: sending a gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/s...

A connectomic resource for neural cataloguing and circuit dissection of the larval zebrafish brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.10.658982v1

A Perspective article by @lilykeane.bsky.social, Gerard Clarke & @jfcryan.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social proposes that microbiota–microglia cross-talk may have major implications for our understanding of neurological disorders and neuropsychiatric disease #immunosky #microsky #microbiome

Microbiome for the clinicians | Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Congratulations to APC's @jatinnagpal.bsky.social, @maburto.bsky.social, Koushika Chandrasekaran, Alexandre Cergneux & @drmoralesgarcia.bsky.social - INSPIRE MSCA who have won the Joint @ucc.ie Research Image of the Year for ‘Brain Pipelines’

Delighted to be awarded the joint @uccresearch.bsky.social image of the year for #zebrafish “Brain Pipelines”! Great Team Effort - @maburto.bsky.social, @drmoralesgarcia.bsky.social, Koushika and Alex. @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social, @researchireland.ie, @zebrafishrock.bsky.social

International Booker Prize 2025: Indian author and translators are first to win with a short story collection. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Grateful and proud to be among the 6 candidates on the ballot for joining the ALBA Network Board of Directors. 🗳️ Please vote and advance ALBA's actions for equity and diversity in neuroscience. Details: www.alba.network/elections @ucc.ie @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

🥁 NEW: Commentary in @cellcellpress.bsky.social! by @msabrysarhan.bsky.social Giacomo Antonello @whansi.bsky.social @cengoni.bsky.social @dmascalzoni.bsky.social @leviwaldron1.bsky.social Nicola Segata, Christian Fuchsberger www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 1/4

Live bacteria in gut microbiome dictate asthma onset triggered by environmental particles via modulation of DNA methylation in dendritic cells | Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Researchers have found a new ally in the fight against a serious liver disease: a symbiotic gut-dwelling fungus that produces a molecule shown to be capable of reversing disease progression in mice. scim.ag/42ZzVrC

In utero human intestine contains maternally derived bacterial metabolites | Microbiome microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Our children will face unprecedented exposure to weather extremes. Our paper led by Luke Grant and @wimthiery.bsky.social published in @nature.com shows that the generation of our children and grandchildren will be exposed to a lot more weather extremes than ours. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gut commensal Phascolarctobacterium faecium retunes innate immunity to mitigate obesity and metabolic disease in mice. | Nature Microbiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marie Howe wins the 2025 #Pulitzer Prize for poetry. vimeo.com/411239105

🚨 Out now! Chronostrain - a method to profile low abundance strains in longitudinal microbiome samples 🦠💻 @travis.gibsonlab.io @younhk.bsky.social @gibsonlab.io @harvardmed.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org #MicroSky 🦠 #MicrobiomeSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A symbiotic filamentous gut fungus ameliorates MASH via a secondary metabolite–CerS6–ceramide axis. | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The gut-brain axis mechanism of normal appetite induced by kynurenic acid | Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

To mark the centenary of James Baldwin, I wrote a short essay for @TheLancet. On what he's taught me about responding to pushback. To beware of "strategic ignorance" and "the imaginary line of selective judgment". James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Global genetic structure of human gut microbiome species is related to geographic location and host health | Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dethlefsen and Relman new #microbiome article is always an event www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Killing the Science Golden Goose | William G. Kaelin, Jr. www.amjmed.com/article/S000...

I am thrilled to share the first manuscript from the Wiles lab! We present "Phollow", an in vivo phage-tagging approach that enables direct observation of phage outbreaks with single-virion resolution by live imaging. Here some highlights 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phollow reveals in situ phage transmission dynamics in the #zebrafish gut #microbiome at single-virion resolution | Nature Microbiology doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Microbial community-scale metabolic models (MCMMs) map gut microbiome composition & dietary context to functional outputs, at scale. Here, we describe these emerging tools & their utility to both basic & translational microbiome research. @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A good primer about “language accuracy, quality of #microbiome analyses, and data and protocol availability, including detailed reporting of wet-lab and in silico protocols, all of which can critically enhance transparency and reproducibility”. microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Powerful @plosglobalpublichealth.org blog post by Ankita, an international student @mcgill.ca Invisible Baggage: The Mental Health Crisis Among International Students speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/04/11/i...

Excited to share our preprint on the South American MicroBiome Archive (saMBA)! 🌎🦠. We analysed one of the regions with the fewest microbiome samples but some of the highest biodiversities. 📄: shorturl.at/Lmvp5 🧵: What did we find—and why? Find out 👇 #microbiome #gut-microbiome (1/8)

“We report a novel imaging technique using a recently developed clearing reagent called LUCID that makes it possible to capture the complete cellular-resolution 3D structures of larval and juvenile zebrafish.” New work from Weinstein Lab at NIH 🐟

Fun to have contributed a little to this, led by the team of the incomparable Guoqiang Yu. Suspect that this will prove to be an immensely popular image analysis platform for interrogation of dynamic signallingl! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A systematic mapping of the host–microbe crosstalk by linking cell populations to their interacting gut microbes #microbiome @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great time presenting our work on microbiome-brain communication at the 7th European #Zebrafish Principal Investigators Meeting at the Paris Brain Institute. Wonderful community. @zebrafishrock.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @jfcryan.bsky.social

“Basic research may appear uncertain or risky precisely because it explores unknown territory, but history shows us that time and again, the biggest economic leaps come from curiosity-driven research with no immediate practical insight” - Prof. Maria Leptin www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

Fantastic keynotes and discussion on the 1st day of @affect-evo.bsky.social meeting. #AffectEvo #AffectEvo-Lisbon25 @costprogramme.bsky.social