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Izabella Sall studies microbiota in opioid use, points out that prolonged opioid use causes gut microbiota dysbiosis. Butyrate important in opioid tolerance, detected via several methods. See the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #BeneficialMicrobes

Matthew Ulgherait at UNC studies aging in Drosophila, has identified microbes and feed that can extend the life of the fruitflies. See this patent: patents.google.com/patent/US202... #BeneficialMicrobes

Angela Poole studies dietary fiber intake. Recommended dietary intake is MUCH higher than we typically take in. Did a study during the pandemic ( #overlyhonestmethods shared) with high fiber diets, described in this paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #BeneficialMicrobes

Daniel Y. Kim walks us through the potential mechanism of how 502A inhibits growth of MRSA in the nasal environment. I recognize him from a previous meeting and can't place which lab he was in. #BeneficialMicrobes

#BeneficialMicrobes Shruthi Magesh from the Handlesman lab (which I inferred when I saw Handlesman taking a photo of her student, such a great #ProudPI moment) tells us a fascinating story about multi-species biofilms. Love the name of the communities, zorbs, from: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last day of #BeneficialMicrobes: Liz Johnson from Cornell studies the infant gut microbiome. Some of her data comes from a community project called diaper-project, in which parents donate samples and get a description of their babies microbiome in return. dashboard.diaper-project.com/signup

Our 2nd keynote speaker- Dr Jeff Gordon. Begins with a retrospective of key steps in his labs microbiome work that led them to current focus of the microbiome and interventions for childhood under nutrition.

Marienela Heredia is in the lab of my PI from grad school, Laura Knoll. Heredia studies Entamoeba and Tritrichomonas, which are often thought of as parasites, but have capacity to be symbionts. Love a good parasite/protist story. It's unpublished, looking forward to reading this #BeneficialMicrobes

Lauren Lucas: bile acids are turned into 100s or 1000s of smaller primary and secondary molecules by microbiota, which play huge role in host health. Lucas is first author on most cited article in mSystems in 2021 (did I hear that right??) journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #BeneficialMicrobes

Laura Fricke in Lindsey lab characterizes the contribution of Wolbachia to embryogenesis in parasitic wasps. I've never thought about microbe contribution to asexual reproduction, will now bug my genetics colleague to look at this in their bug. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #BeneficialMicrobes

Andrea Boyd in the Lemon lab has developed a new system to study how nasal microbiome members interact with host cells and it is very cool. Definitely keep an eye out for that publication. #beneficialMicrobes

Sergio López-Madrigal also studies Wolbachia and is characterizing microbe-host interactions. This work is unpublished as well, but I took notes for a mentee about a potential assay to use in our system. #beneficialMicrobes

Sneha Agrawal from the Broderick lab focuses on Drosophila microbiome. This work builds off earlier work from Barron et al 2024: www.cell.com/cell-reports... #BeneficialMicrobes

Mische Holland was sequencing genomes of amoeba and accidentally identified endosymbionts! I was going to go into much greater detail because I thought it was published, then doubled checked the paper I found and it isn't published. #BeneficialMicrobes

Victoria Glynn from Rowan Barrett's lab compared the coral in two systems that experience very different climate exposures. This project built on Glynn's previous study on how sea temperatures affect the microbiome of bleached corals onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #BeneficialMicrobes

Kayla Cross from Zakee Sabree's lab studies the microbiome metabolic function in cockroaches given different diets. Turns out redundancies are important in maintaining the function of the microbiome, and that just looking at taxa doesn't give the full picture of the microbiome. #BeneficialMicrobes

Katherine Xue (starting own lab in 2025 at UC Irvine and looking for mentees) asked whether antibiotic disruption leads to increased colonization with new microbes. Found that subset of subjects saw new colonization, but only after delay. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles... #BeneficialMicrobes

Alecia Septer studies the role of Type 6 secretion systems in colonization of Vibrio in squid. Most assume that the energy cost of a gene and system drives whether a gene is retained in a symbiont. Septer tested this and found it's more complicated than simple loss/retention. #BeneficialMicrobe

Luella Allen-Walker in the Barott lab asked how corals respond to heat stress, with a focus on acid/base regulation of the host and symbionts. I really liked this view and interdisciplinary focus of this project. #BenficialMIcrobes journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

#BeneficialMicrobes day 3 starts with Elizabeth Mallott discussing human gut microbiome. Mallot has a background in sociology and looks outside of race/ethnicity for variables that alter the gut microbiome. Love this shift in microbiome research. Cites this paper: journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

#BeneficialMicrobes last afternoon session starts with Mark Mandel walking us through work in squid-Vibrio, with a focus on biofilm formation and Vibrio colonization via phosphorylation signals through rscS and binK. See: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26977108/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34031036/

Mark Heggen in the Van Pijkeren Lab tells us an unpublished story about how the small molecule (p)ppGpp contributes to resistance of microbiota members against antimicrobials. He had an interesting screen that he used to identified genes of interest that I need to ask about. #BeneficialMicrobes

Uyen Thy Nguyen tells us about a skin microbe that is about to inhibit fungal growth, both in vitro and in vivo, via a small molecule it produces (unpublished work). #BeneficialMicrobes I really like the fact that a lot of the talks include unpublished work, but it makes it harder to post about!

Yulin Song from the Moran lab studies honeybee microbiomes. Tells an interesting story about a gut microbiota member that can be a pathogen or symbiont, and the gene that helps that microbe act as both (unpublished) #BeneficialMicrobes

Sadie Schaus gives an interesting, well presented talk showing that Ruminococcus digestion of mucin (specifically MUC2) releases nutrients that support B. Theta growth. This is important because mucin can contain over 100 types of molecules! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #BeneficialMicrobes

Robert Scheffler in the Luddington lab tells an interesting story about the regulation of growth of Lactobacillus from Drosophila by nutrient availability (unpublished). Side note, love how many questions come from students/postdocs at this meeting #BeneficialMIcrobes

New day of #BeneficialMicrobesMTG #BeneficialMicrobes. Jens Kreth: Molecular Commensalism: Exploring the Role of Oral Corynebacteria in Microbiome Dynamics Interesting story about the stimulation of migration and pili formation by co-occurring oral microbes.

Alexia N. Martin studies non-social bees (did you know they existed? I didn't). Previous work showed that the microbiome for these bees come from flowers and contribute to development of the bee. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #BeneficialMicrobes

Chelsea Southworth studies the microbiome of baboons in pregnant states & across ovulation cycle. The microbiome is different in pregnant baboons compared to non-pregnant (unpublished, but this follows other organisms). Interesting that the microbiome is stable across pregnancy. #BeneficialMicrobes

Soleil E. Young (Currie lab) studies fungal species from ants that have fungal gardens. Young has characterized the ploidy (number of nuclei) and DNA amount in fungi isolated from different ant types and has identified a difference. Q&A: Fungi genetics scare me. Same dude, same. #BeneficialMicrobes

#BeneficialMicrobes Corlett Woods opens the afternoon session. Woods studies the microbiome of plants. Plant nodules infected with pathogenic nematodes have a different transcript profile (& microbiome shift? I missed that) than nodules infected with nonpathogenic nematodes.

Afternoon of first day of #BeneficialMicrobes starts with Irene Newton and honeybee microbiome. Freddy Lee showed metabolite utlization differences in microbe academic.oup.com/femsec/artic... Bombella apis can grow in royal jelly and has antifungal activity (papers in next tweet)

Dr Rosie Alegado @rosiealegado.bsky.social leads off the morning Session one- One Health and Beneficial Microbes.

Rosie Aleago kicks off the first full day of #BeneficialMicrobes. She highlights the research she has done in creating guidance for building and sustaining relationships between communities and researchers. www.fws.gov/stakeholder-...

Excellent and moving opening keynote from @momedinamunoz.bsky.social , ending the impressive science on coral-microbe interactions with how she is working to connect art(music) with science advocacy. #beneficialmicrobesmtg

The opening session of our 9th Conference on Beneficial Microbes has started. Our talks in collaborative art form! #BeneficialMicrobesMtg

We’re here! #BeneficialMicrobesMtg

Be ready for a stream of posts over the next week for the #BeneficialMicrobes Meeting. I'll be sharing the same posts on twitter