A daily digest of scientific microbiome papers, by the MD team. Founded by Elisabeth Bik, microbiome and science integrity consultant. Twitter: @microbiomdigest
🧬🪥 Just published! Our new paper introduces the SANA-biome, a biocultural study exploring how diet, lifestyle, and the oral microbiome shape periodontal health in Romania.📰 Read the open-access protocol in Healthcare: 👉 http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/13…
Thrilled that our new paper on the Red Grouse microbiota has now been published in BMC Microbiology: doi.org/10.1186/s128…! A really rewarding collaboration between our team and Nick Hesford and Kathy Fletcher from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust @gwct.org.uk.
So excited to share this new paper by @sulheim.bsky.social and others! It's rare that you find a pattern, propose a hypothesis and the more you look, the more data you find that fits! Snorre's intuition, hard work and rigour to put it all together have been inspiring! Let us know what you think…
Food systems are teeming with complex microbial networks, carried from soil and water to crops, animals, and humans. Can we better track and steer these networks to enhance ecosystem health and food security? Find out more at this #FrontiersForum webinar ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/NfcCnmIEkWb
Just announced! #MVIF 39 featuring groundbreaking research on the role of the Nagoya Protocol in protecting microbial diversity through fair use! Don't miss this special event!Sign up now: cassyni.com/s/mvif-391/2
Super thrilled to share our labor of love from the Asian Skin Microbiome Program! We collected >3,500 skin samples, built metagenomic libraries w/ >70 billion reads and >10TB of data to study heterogeneity of the skin microbiome in the general population (200 adults, 18 sites) t.co/ZylbJMpvpw
🧀 New preprint drop: adventures in the cheese microbiome! 📝We tracked microbiome dynamics across 14 production steps of industrial Herrgårds cheese (Swedish classic 🇸🇪🧐). http://www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/…(1/7)
I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers,www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1…and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵
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)
Excited to finally share results from my first post-doc @halllab.bsky.social 🫡E.coli commonly occurs in infant gut microbiota, yet its role during healthy development has been disregarded. In our pre-print, we reveal its fundamental involvement in HMO-degradation.www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1…
Our paper on #bacteriophages in the infant gut #microbiome came out earlier this year.This work was a long time coming, and I'm super proud to be first author alongside Suchi Hourigan and Hector Romero Soto of the Clinical Microbiome Unit at NIAID.doi.org/10.1080/2993…
First paper from my PD at @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social out! 🥳Do you want to know how acute stress enhances synaptic plasticity?Our latest study shows that the gut microbiota is essential.@jfcryan.bsky.social @kjdoriordan.bsky.socialsciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390825001406?s=08
Excited to introduce the preprint for CoverM: the Swiss Army knife of coverage calculators for metagenomics! 🧬🖥️ DOI: doi.org/10.48550/arX…@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @viralinstruction.bsky.social @apcamargo.bsky.social
Anita & I chatted abt #opensource tools, dbs and **community** around the microbiome science in #OpenSourceDiaries!I mentioned @bioconductor.bsky.social @microbiomevif.bsky.social & @merenbey.bsky.social’s anvi’o & other important tools for microbiome data analysis.www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yii…
Just announced #MVIF 37 on Microbiomes in Extreme Environments!Don't miss this special event w/our guests🇩🇪 Nicole Dublier🇳🇱 Henk Bolhuis🇺🇸 Rachael Morgan-Kiss 🇺🇸 Kasthuri Venkateswaran 🇮🇹 Fabiana Canini 🇺🇸 Diana Ayala-Muñoz🇮🇹 Luca Tonietti cassyni.com/s/mvif-37
1/ 🚨 🧪New Research: #Menopause, #Microbiome & #WomensHealth Menopause reshapes health through hormonal, microbial, and physiological changes. 🧪📖 Explore the study: rdcu.be/d5725⬇️ Let’s dive into the key insights:
Excited to share my lab's latest preprint and very proud of the whole team for their hard work. Check it out if you're interested in the #microbiome #maternalhealth or #undernutrition. http://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1…
New preprint out! 🐝🦠 Among the incredible diversity of bees, only a few have evolved a highly social lifestyle—honey bees and stingless bees (Apidae). We characterize for first time, using metagenomics/microbial experiments, the microbiome of a stingless bee colony
Fantastic to see this comprehensive study of water kefir pangenomes, led by Samuel Breselge, now published “The core microbiomes and associated metabolic potential of water kefir as revealed by pan multi-omics". @teagasc.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social rdcu.be/ec7GT
🚬🧬🚬🧬🚬🧬Proud to present the newest study of my PhD students Peiju and Diala in Environmental Health PerspectivesEffects of cigarette-derived compounds on the spread of #AMR in artificial human lung sputum medium, simulated environmental media and wastewaterdoi.org/10.1289/EHP1…1/9#microsky
Though it's already a weeks ago, the newest paper from the (old) lab came out.We explored the drivers of Bifidobacterium longum subspecies dynamics in the infant gut in detail. Still fascinated by the interplay of ecology, metabolic capacity and dietpeerj.com/articles/186…
Excited to share a new paper from our lab 😀We investigate the tumor microenvironment – to reveal factors influencing cancer progression & therapy response 🔬🧪So we naturally wanted to ask – does the gut #microbiome influence brain #metastasis 🦠 🧠?Massara et al 2025www.cell.com/iscience/ful…
Excited to share my preprint describing a new microbiome analysis method, PHLAME, for detecting strain-level associations in difficult sample types. 🧵www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1…This work was done with my great coauthors and my amazing advisor @contaminatedsci.bsky.social
Outreachy–a 3 month paid internship in open source and open science–applications for the June 2025 cohort are ongoing.
It was an awesome #Outreachy chat! Thanks for all your (detailed) questions, hope I answered them all…Recording available here: I enjoyed it a lot!www.youtube.com/live/PiOm6nq…