Camila Gazolla Volpiano, PhD

Genome-wide association analyses highlight the role of the intestinal molecular environment in human gut microbiota variation - Nature Genetics Population-based studies from Sweden with replication in Norway identify associations between host genetic variants and gut microbial composition and implicate short-chain fatty acid chemosensors as m...

Delighted to have contributed to this impressive work led by @tovefall.bsky.social & many others👏 (w/ @gazollavolpiano.bsky.social from our side). This novel microbiome GWAS (n=~16k+12k valid) expands knowledge on genetic factors associated w/ gut microbiota variation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Medical Research Matters: Tell The Government to Fund It Now YouTube video by Dr Monique Ryan MP

Australian medical research is under threat! 🚨🇦🇺

The Government promised full MRFF funding but hasn't delivered. Take 1 minute: Email your support for Medical Research Matters: www.moniqueryan.com.au/medical_rese...

youtu.be/6RGAyYV9sHw?...

The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

New PhD position in my lab at @uniofbath.bsky.social (with both @tweethinking.bsky.social & Dr Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun)!
We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution.
Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature Biotechnology LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians.
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to have been awarded Best Medium Talk at #MicroSeq2025! 🌟
Wonderful to see archaea receiving more attention in human microbiome research :)

💩 @gazollavolpiano.bsky.social starts us off with a comprehensive study of archaeal diversity and clinical associations in faecal #metagenomic data. Check out what kind of role these strange microbes play in human health! #MicroSeq2025 #archaea #guthealth

📣Just out: Exposure accumulation drives age-dependent disease architectures and polygenic risk scores www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very cool results: Accumulating E with age reduces heritability & PGS effects

Led by Xilin Jiang (Wellcome ECR joint w/Alkes Price) + @arundurvasula.bsky.social

Parental diet and offspring health: a role for the gut microbiome via epigenetics - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology In this Review, Marques and colleagues discuss the evidence regarding the effects of parental diet on the health of offspring, with a focus on how changes to the gut microbiome alter epigenomic respon...

Our new @natrevgastrohep.nature.com
review is now online

"Parental diet and offspring health: a role for the gut microbiome via epigenetics"

Co-authors Chaoran Yang, @mattsnelson.bsky.social &
Sam El-Osta

A fascinating area of research with lots of potential

nature.com/articles/s41...

Bet I will remember this next time my potato gnocchi swims in its tomato ancestor 😂

one cool thing about Scandinavian countries with comprehensive public health insurance is places like Denmark can do a study on… everybody and conclude that yes COVID vaccines are safe

📣📣 Cool job alert! The @bakerresearchau.bsky.social is recruiting up to 2 new PIs in Biomedical Data Science 👉 www.seek.com.au/job/85989791...

You’d join an awesome institute in an incredible city (Melbourne, Australia) as well as partnerships like with @cam.ac.uk… you’ll also get to work with me 😁

Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic Precision microbiome programming for therapeutic applications is limited by challenges in achieving reproducible colonic colonization. Previously, we created an exclusive niche that we used to engraft...

Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Australia can eliminate HIV by 2030 – but only if equity is at the centre Australia could end HIV transmission by 2030 – but only if we address stigma, reform laws, and ensure access for the most excluded.

Amazing article on how Australia can end HIV by 2030 if no one is left behind!

As a migrant w/o Medicare, I still hit barriers even with the privilege of an academic job. I can only imagine how much harder it is to access healthcare for migrants w/ fewer resources.

lens.monash.edu/@medicine-he...

Variation and prognostic potential of the gut antibiotic resistome in the FINRISK 2002 cohort - Nature Communications Here, in a representative cohort of 7,095 Finnish adults, the authors reveal that gut antibiotic resistance is shaped not only by antibiotic use but also by the microbiome, diet, lifestyle, household ...

Read the study: doi.org/10.1038/s414... - /w @katammp.bsky.social @begia.bsky.social Guilhem Sommeria-Klein, Ville Laitinen, Pyry Kantanen, @gmeric.bsky.social @gazollavolpiano.bsky.social Michael Inouye, Rob Knight, Veikko Salomaa, Aki S. Havulinna, Teemu Niiranen, @antagomir.bsky.social

Proud of our group's newest publication!

Trends in US Children’s Mortality, Chronic Conditions, Obesity, Functional Status, and Symptoms This study aims to determine how US children’s health has been changing from 2007 to 2023 using multiple data collection methods and a comprehensive set of health indicators.

It bears repeating that the new paper showing that the U.S. has significantly higher rates of pediatric deaths than similar countries demonstrates that these deaths are primarily caused by:

Firearms
Motor vehicle crashes
Substance use
Homicide

And are driven by:
Economic and racial disparity

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Important reminder when anyone cites the infamous “most published research is false” paper… 👇

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT.

I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."

Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

Thanks to everybody who chimed in!

I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.

So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

Introducing a major upgrade to OmicsPred platform (www.omicspred.org) — a resource to enhance the accessibility and usability of genetic scores for multi-omic traits and their phenotypic associations. (1/N)

Withdrawing from the WHO undermines global health and pandemic preparedness— another disastrous decision.

Coral Reefs of the Chagos Islands: A Wilderness Preserved | Documentary YouTube video by space and science

This popped up on my YouTube homepage—featuring the amazing coral probiotics project by Raquel Peixoto and @alexrosado.bsky.social Huge congrats on this inspiring work! 🌊🧫Definitely worth a watch: Coral Reefs of the Chagos Islands: A Wilderness Preserved youtu.be/Cnf1Iip6dzo?...

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Great news in the fight against #AMR 💊🧫: @who.int Academy launched this month! Are you prescribing antimicrobials? This course can help refine your practices!

web-staging.lxp.academy.who.int/coursewares/...

#WHOAcademy #Antimicrobials

Association of polygenic scores for neuropsychiatric traits with self-reported professions based on analysis of 420k individuals from UK Biobank and Million Veteran Program. Look at the 'arts & design' category. Artistic talent comes at a cost--a piece of your mind :)

Just joined Bluesky! Hello world! :)