New content online: Equitable partnerships and the path to inclusive, innovative and impactful human microbiome research dlvr.it/SZ91dw

Funding is available for mid-career researchers in sub-Saharan Africa to develop collaborations with researchers based in the UK. Apply for up to £13,000 for 3 months travel fellowship to the UK. medicalresearchfoundation.org.uk/grants/meade-c… #medicalResearchFoundation #medicalresearch #london

Very interesting and impressive presentation by Lawrence David from Duke University on DNA metabarcoding at #cshlmbiome! DNA metabarcoding captures dietary plant diversity in individuals and cohorts medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Join our team NYU Langone Health RAMENLABS! Looking for postdocs and techs. ramenlabs.science/apply NYU Grossman School of Medicine Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health New York University #postdocjobs #microbiome

With data up to 2022, we see a stagnation of health progress on key health indicators in recent years compared with the trends seen during 2000-2015. The world is facing an ever-growing threat of non-communicable diseases and #climatechange. ⏩Read the full

This will be a fantastic talk!

African microbiomes matter In this Comment article @Thuls_M and colleagues highlight the lack of information regarding microbiome datasets from Africa and propose mechanisms for increasing microbiome research in Africa rdcu.be/deKj4

Happy #WorldMicrobiomeDay ! The focus for this year celebration is MICROBES & FOOD Illustration by World Microbiome Day

Thanks Dr. Paula Littlejohn, PhD, MHS and Janiece Glover, PhD, MS for highlighting our #AWIGen paper from Wits (SBIMB, MRC-Wits Developmental Pathways 4 Health Research and Agincourt) and the Bhatt lab at Stanford led by Voke Oduaran . Our DPHRU and Agincourt partners have decades of real community engagement to support us.

Community engagement is not easy and we know we have a lot to learn -- for example, what type of meaningful feedback can be given. Hopefully with collaboration from Human Heredity and Health in Africa, @Thuls_M's African Microbiome Project and others we can build better community practices

This seems like a great opportunity for early career African scientists....very impressive opportunity...please retweet to spread the word.... Crick Africa Network Career Acceleration Fellowship nature.com/naturecareers/…

New study in Nature Communications shows infant gut microbes 'cooperate' to digest #humanmilk oligosaccharides. Not as simple as "microbe X digests HMO Y" - it can be a team effort! #microbiome #breastfeeding nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our comment piece in Nature outlining the challenges, but more importantly, the opportunities to increasing microbiome research in under-represented countries Boosting microbiome science worldwide could save millions of children’s lives nature.com/articles/d4158…

We recruited ~1800 women in a population study - who generously gave samples and time - from 6 sites in 4 African countries and performed shotgun metagenomic sequencing. All individuals have rich phenotype data.

Despite 84% of the world's population residing in low- and middle-income countries, these populations are vastly underrepresented in gut microbiome research. Here, we expand the microbiome atlas of Africa through a study of 1,800 women in four countries. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Applications are now open for the Roche Research Chair for #Precision_Medicine and #Genomics in Africa, based SBIMB at Wits University. Read more: here 👉 bit.ly/4f3caSY & here 👉bit.ly/40kn1U3 Deadline: 15 Jan 2025

The AWI-Gen 2 Microbiome paper has just been published nature.com/articles/s4158… in Nature

Our AWI-Gen Microbiome paper is now out in print.