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Our study on infant gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @nature.com:
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Our study on infant gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @nature.com:
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Big congrats on your PhD, Ramya @rabal97.bsky.social!
📣 New PRBB-CRG conference
📋 Integrating data-driven microbiome analysis with ex vivo gut models
🗣️ Mani Arumugam - University of Copenhagen
📆 Dec 1 - ⏰ 12:00
hosted by: @mireiavallesc.bsky.social - @melisupf.bsky.social
📍 #PRBB Marie Curie room
#ECNP2025 @ecnp.eu was a great experience!
Big thanks to @jfcryan.bsky.social and @katherine-maki1.bsky.social for putting together a symposium on Microbes and mental health. I also really enjoyed the other talks by Jane Foster, Thomaz Bastiaansen and @sofiacus.bsky.social!
The first Iberian EvoMG PI meeting was a great experience!
Fantastic talks, great discussions, and lots of ideas to keep think about.
4/ 🌿🧠 #laCaixaFoundFellow @mireiavallesc.bsky.social (@upf.edu, @irsicaixa.es) is researching the link between gut microbiota and disorders such as depression and anxiety.
Her goal is to identify biomarkers that could improve the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses.
La @mireiavallesc.bsky.social (investigadora de @melisupf.bsky.social) explica la relació entre la salut mental i la microbiota.
➡️ www.elperiodico.com/es/sanidad/2...
What a fantastic #EESMicrobiome conference this week!
It was really inspiring to hear so many excellent presentations, and meet many former colleagues, collaborators, and friends in beautiful Heidelberg.
A big thank you to the organizers for putting this together!
TLDR:
🧬 Unknown microbes
🦠 Social transmission
🌳 Potential conservation relevance
Shoutout to all co-authors!
We didn’t find evidence for microbiome acquisition through geophagy, but following the approach we developed for humans, we were excited to see very clear strain sharing patterns within social groups, which mirrored territory occupancy and interaction networks!
Consistent with their diet, the indri microbiome is enriched in fiber degradation pathways, and social group emerged as the main driver.
Indeed, Indris have a proportionally large core microbiome, and their microbiomes cluster far from any other primate. But after incorporating the assembled MAGs into release Jan23 of ChocoPhlAN and profiling with MetaPhlAn 4, we highly improved the mappability.
Our collaborators collected fecal samples from indris in 6 different social groups, together with soil samples (as indris engage in geophagy, i.e. they eat soil). We did metagenomic sequencing and found their microbiomes are virtually uncharacterised: E. coli is the only one cultivated member!
The Indri indri is Madagascar’s largest living lemur. It’s critically endangered, with no successful captive breeding to date. Could its gut microbiome hold clues for conservation?
🧵 New paper alert!
Our first dive into non-human hosts: the gut microbiome of the critically endangered lemur Indri indri 🐒🌱
Led by talented MSc student Francisca Labisa-Morais!
📄 @isme-microbes.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Highly recommended!
Now @mireiavallesc.bsky.social presenting microbiome transmission at the #BCNmicrobiome
Session 5 at #BCNMicrobiome offered fascinating insights into the #microbiome at the population level. 👏 Thanks to @sashazhernakova.bsky.social for the Dutch Microbiome Project highlights and @mireiavallesc.bsky.social for a brilliant talk on microbiome epidemiology.
A masterclass in human microbiome studies (about the Dutch microbiome and microbiome transmission) with Sasha Zhernakova & @mireiavallesc.bsky.social ! #BCNMicrobiome
It was a pleasure having you there, Nicolae! Thanks for your sharing your insightful questions
Nice review article on a fascinating problem—the coexistence of strains in microbial communities. @akshitg.bsky.social & @gchure.bsky.social
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Do people in the same household share strains when they have the same species?
How many cells transmit when a strain is shared?
Can strain composition be dynamic when species composition is stable?
We answer these and related questions for the facial skin microbiome in our latest paper.
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Congratulations @seandreu.bsky.social! 🎉
It was truly a pleasure to exchange ideas and dive into methods and findings during your time in Trento
Our review on the acquisition and transmission of the human microbiome, now out @naturerevmicro.bsky.social 🦠 🔄
This was a fun writing process with @vheidrich.bsky.social and Nicola Segata! See Vitor's summary thread below:
On my way to @cnb-csic.bsky.social to present our work as part of the Women in Microbiology conference series. Looking forward!
Do you want to work with us?
The Microbiome Research Group @upf.edu is looking for a project manager/research technician.
Details at: www.upf.edu/web/biomed/j... (ref. MELIS-PSR-INDF-2025-12)
Application deadline: 03/03/3025
Feel free to get in touch for more info!
Discussing the social transmission of the human microbiome and its impact in health and disease with MCarmen Collado @rutgerwalls.bsky.social Francisco Guarner at the @SEMIPYP meeting in Barcelona - always interesting to discuss the steps to bring our work to specific applications 🦠
🦠🧫👩⚕️ "Sin la microbiota no podríamos vivir, es esencial para nuestra salud". Puedes recuperar la charla completa con la investigadora y microbióloga @mireiavallesc.bsky.social, y la cirujana Lola de la Puerta en 👉 www.ondacero.es/programas/ju...
Exciting day! Right after seeing the half marathon world record being smashed together with the women's course record @mitjabarcelona, discussing the influence of the microbiome on our health at the radio studio of @ondacero.bsky.social with @juliaoteroradio.bsky.social-inspiring conversation! ✨
