New content online: Mucus secretion from colonic goblet cells is regulated by autophagy and ER stress dlvr.it/SkCS4F

Happy Purim from the BEL lab🤡

🚨🚨Our MUCUS FACTORY is on the cover of Cell Host & Microbe!! Thank you Michael Grey for previewing our work and @AmirBErez for helping with the cover art.

A slightly different view on the mucus production in our bodies! #mucusmatters

On the cover: Getting mucus secretion under control. @MariaNaama_@Mucus_Man show that autophagy regulates mucus secretion from goblet cells & offers protection from #colitis by alleviating ER stress in a #microbiota- and Nod2-dependent manner cell.com/cell-host-micr…

🚨 A thrilling new story from our lab!

🚨🚨 Check out our new commentary on mucus, autophagy and ER stress, written by Maria Naama DM me if you're paywalled. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Intestinal epithelial cells face a difficult situation. Besides nutrient absorption, these cells need to separate the host from the outside world over a huge surface area. Yet these are not professional immune cells, which makes their task challenging.

The Shai Bel lab is hitting the bar at the Bar- Ilan Faculty of Medicine retreat 🥳🍹🍸🥃

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Mor Zigdon is killing it at the Bar- Ilan Faculty of Medicine retreat!! A great talk with amazing results!🏆

Mor Mor Zigdon gave a perfect presentation on the big stage at the Bar- Ilan Faculty of Medicine retreat 🤗 #proudPI

The 1st PhD student to graduate from the lab Mor Zigdon gave the best fu©king defense lecture ever!! Congratulations Mor! 🎉💐🎊🥂 #proudPI

Binding of the rod shaped bacteria Sonia-cillus aureus to host cells Sonia Modilevsky Maria Naama Shai Bel

אוהבת את החברים שלי, הלוואי ותשארו לתמיד ❤️

🚨🚨I'm delighted to present our new work, where we aimed to understand why antibiotic use is a risk factor for development of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Yes, MUCUS will be involved! A 🧵/1

🚨🚨I’m excited to present our lab’s new paper where we tried to provide a mechanistic explanation for the link between antibiotic use and risk of developing inflammatory bowel diseases (#IBD). A 🧵/1 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I'm happy to share that our paper on autophagy and mucus secretion was selected for the Cell Host Microbe Best of 2023!!! Maria Naama Bjo:rn Schro:der 😊 "We have selected 12 articles and reviews from among the most-accessed and most-cited articles from 2023."

Antibiotics can dry up your gut's protective moat, letting bacteria invade and cause trouble. Shai Bel Jasmin Sawaed Bjo:rn Schro:der Rachel Feeney Maria Naama Ateret Gordon Mor Zigdon Shahar Tel Paz Sonia Modilevsky Aya Awad Meital Nuriel-Ohayon Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…