Hot off the press! Proud to share our latest work in eBioMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science, revealing loss of BRCA1 exacerbates age-related declines in egg number and quality 📉 thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…

Our paper is out! Colostrum feeding may be critical to reducing the burden of #undernutrition! vimeo.com/981635244?shar… microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… more details in comments #breastfeeding UWA telethonkids

Stress leads to disarray of the gut microbiome, which in turn causes inflammation and a drop in the body’s ability to fend off infection go.nature.com/4fAs0VZ

Our press release monash.edu/science/news-e… Heart Foundation Monash Victorian Heart Institute International Society of Hypertension Hypertension Australia British and Irish Hypertension Society AHA Science ACvA Prof Alta Schutte Prof Gemma Figtree AM

What do blue muffins have to do with gut health?! We're using them as part of a clinical trial about how the gut relates to blood pressure. If you live in Melbourne and want to be part of our exciting research, we'd love to hear from you! bit.ly/hyper_trial

I'm very excited to share that I've been awarded a #DECRA fellowship to study how the gut microbiome impacts immune cells School of Biological Sciences, Monash. Its such an honour to receive this fellowship. Thanks to everyone who has helped me along this journey. #womeninSTEM

What determines the experimental gut microbiome? Our paper analysing >500 mouse samples across several settings is now published in Cardiovasc Research We showed that diet and intestinal region studied matter more than sex or hypertension (Ang II) Rikeish R. Muralitharan MD, PhD academic.oup.com/cardiovascres/…

Congrats to my friend and colleague Guosong Hong for his stunning and original discovery, published today in Science, on clearing tissues *in living animals* with a common food dye! The dye is tartrazine, used in Doritos! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Each month an #egg is ovulated from the #ovary, starting the journey of reproduction. But how does ovulation occur?🥚 Our latest work in Nature Cell Biology led by Christopher Thomas and Tabea Marx, describes the control of #ovulation using live imaging. bit.ly/3Ya8dEL (1/7)

Prof Prof Francine Marques wins the Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision Award for fostering a positive research culture that has empowered her students to produce high-quality research 👏👏 Learn more about the #MonashScienceAwards 👉 monash.edu/science/awards

Thank you to SRB ESA-SRB-ANZBMS for the opportunity to present this year! I’ve had the best time meeting and learning from other researchers 🥰 I can’t wait for the next meeting 👩🏽‍🔬❤️

Thanks to SRB ESA-SRB-ANZBMS for another amazing conference! Lots of EGGciting work to be inspired by 😉 See you all in Perth next year 🔬Jordan Lauren Alesi Tony Nguyen Yasmin Zaahida Shireen Saranya Giridharan

Thank you to EMBL Australia for the opportunity to take part in the annual PhD course this year! I had such a fun time networking and learning alongside the other students & researchers! 🔬🧪🥼👩🏽‍🔬 #EMBLAPhD

Grateful to be able to participate in EMBL Australia ‘s annual PhD program. I really enjoyed meeting fellow students from across Australia and the aspects career development that were included in the course. Highly recommend to other PhD students! #EMBLAPhD

I recently spoke to Family Science Labs (linktr.ee/familysciencel…) about the contributions of environmental and lifestyle factors for healthy reproductive function and #fertility🌏. Check out the #podcast on here on #Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/14nHb3… or #YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=rMPLGE…

Biologists have built one of the most detailed pictures of pregnancy's true toll on the body. Read the full story: go.nature.com/4hUpNES

Nature research paper: Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice. go.nature.com/3YXbf0i

The FONS Early Career Taskforce is excited to invite you to our online Networking Masterclass with Prof Francine Marques 📆THIS WEDNESDAY at 1 pm (AEST)! All welcome but registration required: tinyurl.com/networkingmast… We look forward to seeing you there! Please share with your networks!

New online! The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health bit.ly/459iOVN

Jennette McCurdy is writing, showrunning, and executive producing this show and I better see an Emmy award in her hand for this.