Moamen Elmassry

Check out the recent publication from NMDC Champion @elmassry.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Briefly, we identified gut microbiome-encoded biosynthetic gene clusters that are enriched in Crohn’s disease patients and the small molecules they produce, which exacerbated disease when introduced to mouse models of colitis.

Excited to share our latest work on the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease patients. This is the result of hard work across generations of trainees in the Donia Lab, in collaboration with amazing scientists (Nobuhiko Kamada and Lea Ann Chen). www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Why postdocs are demanding open bargaining "Princeton’s resistance to the presence of observers is a break from many academic union negotiations. At Harvard, Weill Cornell, Mt Sinai, Columbia University, and the University of Washington, there...

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Come join the workshop this Wednesday, the 27th, where I'll present #refseqR, a new R package for streamlined computational tasks on RefSeq entries (GenBank, NCBI). Don’t miss it! 🚀 #RStats #Bioinformatics
Available from CRAN: cran.rstudio.com/web/packages...

Dietary zinc deficiency promotes Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection via IL-13 in mice Nature Microbiology - Increased IL-13 drives increased bacterial dissemination and mortality following Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection of zinc-deficient mice and can be countered by...

SO EXCITED to share our recent work on dietary zinc deficiency worsening Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia, out today with @natureportfolio.bsky.social!! Surprisingly, this is due at least in part to the allergic-type cytokine IL-13. SharedIt link: rdcu.be/d0h4h Eat your zinc rich foods! 🦪🫘🧀🥩🥜