📢🚨New Paper Alert! Happy to share the preprint of our study exploring the dynamics and determinants of the early infant gut mobilome: A thread👇 (1/8): biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to share that our latest study on the reproductive and cognitive effects in carriers of recessive pathogenic variants is now available on bioRxiv! Dive into the findings here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm opening the doors to my very own microbial genomics research lab at From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. I'm looking for talented biologists to join me on this journey through sequence space. Featuring: - Wastewater and human virome - Phages, all of them - Microbial epigenomes

New preprint! 🚨 Working with low-biomass samples means dealing with oxymorons like “positive negative controls” and having fun exploring what got sequenced in blanks. 🕵️‍♀️🔬 Check out an insightful thread from Nataliia Kuzub who led the study! 🧵👇 #Microbiome #Virome

#GUTImage from the #RecentAdvancesInClinicalPractice paper by Arnau Vich Vila et al on "Untargeted faecal metabolomics for the discovery of biomarkers and treatment targets for inflammatory bowel diseases" via bit.ly/4dyIID3 WeersmaLab #IBD

🚀 Exciting Opportunity! PhD position to study the link between the gut 🦠 #Microbiome and 🛡️ #Immunity at groningen_microbiome with Alex Kurilshikov & A.Zhernakova. 🗓️ Deadline: 10 December

📢 New Study Alert! 📢Happy to share the latest results from the Lifelines NEXT Mother-Infant cohort! (1/8). Here we profile the gut microbiome in 4,577 longitudinal samples from 714 mother-infant pairs, from 12 weeks of pregnancy to 1 year post-birth doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

Hidden players: the bacteria-killing viruses of the gut microbiome Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, but they are beginning to give up their secrets. @nature article featuring APC Microbiome Ireland's @colinhillucc UCC Research SEFS@UCC nature.com/articles/d4158…

There is an urgent need for microbial solutions against climate change! Please read our bulletin, now featured across 14 journals, and led by Raquel Peixoto! x.com/NatureMicrobio…

How do mobile genetic elements (MGEs) like phages, plasmids and phage-plasmids shape the gut microbiome - and could they be hidden influencers for infant health? 👀 Check out our new perspective article with Tommi Vatanen and @FrimanScience on this very topic! #microbiome #phage 1/8

Our paper on the construction and applications of an #earlylife specific bacteriome & virome database is now online Cell Host & Microbe. Hopefully this work could facilitate research in this field. Jie Zhu shilan akhavan @wing Lin ZHANG Siew Ng Hein M. Tun kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

Congratulations to our newest PhD, Dr. Johanne Spreckels!

A big congratulations to our newest PhD, Dr. Siobhan Brushett!

OUT NOW - Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection nature.com/articles/s4156…

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

Happy and proud for my PhD student Sana Garmaeva who defended her PhD cum laude on her work on early life #virome and #microbiome! A major achievement for our LLNext team, groningen_microbiome, and Research UMCG. Exceptional work and defense! With Jingyuan Fu

🚀 Exciting news! Our latest research introduces MicrobeRX, a powerful tool that predicts gut microbiome metabolites with unprecedented capabilities and analysis tools. 📃DOI: 10.1186/s40168-025-02070-5 youtu.be/RHgsHmAIBkA?si… Jingyuan Fu

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

🚨 New paper out! Excited to share our latest work in Cell Reports exploring how gut viral and plasmid communities develop during the first weeks of life in C-section–born infants. Read the full study here 👇🏼 cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Thrilled to share our latest paper on environmental contamination in early-life virome studies, its impact, and how to mitigate it. Nataliia Kuzub breaks it down beautifully in the thread below 👇 Kudos to the team Alex Kurilshikov A.Zhernakova Research UMCG