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Congratulations to new PhD Laura Bolte (cum laude)!

Congratulations to Laura Bolte UMCG. Cum Laude distinction for her PhD studying the relation between #diet #microbiome and #immunity in #ibd and response to immune checkpoint inhibition. Work in her PhD thesis has been published in Nature Medicine Gut Journal and JAMA Oncology

Congrats Lei on earning his well-deserved Ph.D. title. Proud PI with Hermie Harmsen and @johnrossen

Congratulations to Lei, supervisors and groningen_microbiome team!

Mini symposium for the upcoming thesis defense of Johanne Spreckels: John Penders is giving the overview of 25 years of gut microbiome research @spreckelsje John Penders groningen_microbiome UMCG Genetica

Congratulations to our newest PhD, Dr. Johanne Spreckels!

So happy and proud of Dr. Johanne Spreckels @spreckelsje, who defended her PhD thesis “Feeding the gut microbes” today! Johanne’s defense is the first in the LLNEXT team, it’s a huge milestone for all of us, groningen_microbiome, UMCG Genetica. Co-supervised by Jingyuan Fu, Ranko Gacesa

Congratulations to Siobhan, a new PhD in the LLNEXT team! Her I mportant work on nutrition, diet, microbiome, early life development, and mental health is highlighted in Dagblad van het Noorden today! groningen_microbiome UMCG Genetica Research UMCG

Congratulations to our newest PhD, Dr. Sana Garmaeva! With cum laude!

What a proud moment! Congrats Sana Sana Garmaeva for this achievement! Happy to work with you in the past years, together with A.Zhernakova , groningen_microbiome

Come work with us! We have a PhD position on the analysis of longitudinal microbiome data in large population cohorts. This position is part of ExposomeNL consortium and will be embedded in UMCG Genetica and groningen_microbiome . werkenbijumcg.nl/-/vacatures/ph… Application deadline 2 March

Another thesis defense in LLNEXT is coming soon, and the beautiful book is out! Trishla Sinha will defend her thesis MOM MATTERS on 2nd April, after the LLNEXT symposium on 1st April. Stay tuned for the program and the link to the online stream! UMCG Genetica Research UMCG

Out Now! Our enzymic reactions based metabolite prediction tool, MicrobeRX, published in Microbiome today! A milestone study from BugDrug project, funded by ⁦European Research Council (ERC)⁩. Congrats ⁦Angel J. Ruiz-Moreno 🇲🇽⁩ ⁦⁦UMCG Genetica⁩ youtu.be/RHgsHmAIBkA

Please watch our video abstract for MicrobeRX, which is published in Microbiome recently.

What a bright Cum Laude defense of Trishla Sinha today on her work on mother-infant microbiome! The ceremony followed the scientific symposium, and the first LLNEXT information evening for general public. Thanks to Moran Yassour and MCarmen Collado for joining us in Groningen!

Congratulations to our newest PhD Yue Zhang!

Thrilled to share that our manuscript on strain-level gut microbiome variation across diverse populations and human phenotypes is out today in Cell! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Curious about how strain diversity relates to human traits? Follow this thread! 🌍 (1/n)

Congrats Yue Zhang our newest PhD. It was a pleasure to be your promoter, together with A.Zhernakova and Prof. Andre Van den Ven. I wish you a great success in the future.

Come to work with us! We have 2 PhD positions: 1: On stability of gut microbiome in longitudinal well phenotyped adult cohorts: tinyurl.com/MicrobiomeExpo… 2: On integrative multi-omics analysis in a unique longitudinal mother-infant cohort. tinyurl.com/EarlyLifeOmics groningen_microbiome

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Happy to share our latest paper at Nature Communications on environmental contamination in gut virome studies. Read it here: nature.com/articles/s4146… Please see the 🧵(1/10) below to learn about a new “-ome”: negativeome 🦠!