Exciting update! 📢 We're about to send our first big batch of DNA to the Wellcome Sanger Institute for sequencing ! 🧬🦠 Lots of exciting data to come! Greg Young Lauren Beck @DrChrisLamb

Fantastic to celebrate Dr Lauren Beck yesterday. A pleasure to supervise and deserving winner of the Newcastle University doctoral thesis prize. Thanks @DrChrisLamb and GN Neonatal Biobank for co-supervising!

doing the great north run in a couple of weeks to raise money for MS society, would really appreciate any donations !! 😇😇🙏🏼🙏🏼 ajbellgreatnorthrun2024.enthuse.com/pf/lauren-beck…

Paper 1: Human milk microbiota, HMO profiles, and infant gut microbiome in preterm infants diagnosed with necrotizing enterocolitis cell.com/cell-reports-m… Led by Andrea Chiara Masi in collaboration with Lauren Beck Greg Young @Dr_LarsBode Nick Embleton 🦋🤱🎓🌎🌈🩺🔬🧪 GN Neonatal Biobank

Paper 2: Impact of probiotics on gut microbiome of extremely preterm or extremely low birthweight infants nature.com/articles/s4139… Led by Lauren Beck and GN Neonatal Biobank

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🚀 Exciting news! We’ve reached the halfway mark in patient recruitment for IBD-RESPONSE 🎉 A special shout out to Emma Wesley and team who recruited the 663rd patient! Thank you to our incredible participants and team for making this possible 🙏

New fully funded PhD studentship focused on breast milk and infant microbiome at Newcastle University with me, Warwick Dunn, and GN Neonatal Biobank. Applications close December 13th. Feel free to contact me if interested. Please RT. findaphd.com/phds/project/m…

Happy to share this story from my PhD Foster Lab & Steve Renshaw - with Rebecca Hodges (she/her) in Ken Bayles’ lab & Josie Pyrah - we show that oxacillin & tetracycline display synergy against S. aureus biofilms & during infection in zebrafish! Molecular Microbiology Sheffield University of Nebraska Medical Center link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Officially Dr Githwe 👩🏾‍🎓🥂an incredible 4 years finished off in the most perfect way! I’m honoured to have had the most wonderful discussion with my examiners Newcastle Fungal Group Nicole M Koropatkin. Thank you for all of your kind words + allowing me to geek out about such a fun project 🦠

Introducing our latest preprint which discovered Clostridium sp. grow on HMOs. Using computational and experimental approaches we show this has beneficial consequences for the developing microbiome and the host. But there is nuance. A 🧵... biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint of our work investigating the ability of enteric pathogens to utilise D-ribulose as a nutrient source and improve fitness is out now! Check it out below!

Thanks to eBioMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science for publishing our latest methods paper regarding gut mucosal microbiota analysis in IBD-RESPONSE! thelancet.com/journals/ebiom… When designing the IBD-RESPONSE protocol, we had to plan for biopsy sampling from up to 40 hospitals - we needed this to be

A fully funded, competitive BBSRC PhD studentship (North East England DLA) available, working in collaboration with Christopher Stewart , Andrew Nelson and Saadlee Shehreen, PhD. Aims are modulating bacterial community structure/function using engineered bacteriophages. tinyurl.com/5csa9hun

Fully funded PhD position available to join our team! We will focus on untangling the mechanisms used by antibiotic resistant E.coli to colonise the host gut. Highly interdisciplinary project with Karrera Djoko and ⁦Manuel Banzhaf⁩. Please share findaphd.com/phds/project/m…

Congrats to AMI member Christopher Stewart of Newcastle University who has been named a 2025 laureate in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK for his work developing novel microbiome-based approaches to prevent necrotising enterocolitis! bit.ly/3F76muQ

Exciting news! 📢 Newcastle Hospitals have recruited the first participants to Open-IBD! 🥳 Well done to the whole team on achieving this exciting milestone!

We have recruited over 800 participants to IBD-RESPONSE! 🎉 Thank you to all of our hardworking sites 👏 A special shoutout to Wolverhampton The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust 🏥 Phil Harvey for recruiting our 800th participant! 🙌

📻 Huge thanks to Matt Bailey, Leigh Jones, Geraldine Cooper, Crohn's & Colitis UK and the rest of the BBC RADIO NEWCASTLE team for raising awareness of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis during today's show on World IBD Day! It was brilliant to hear the voices of people with lived

Our recent work is now published Nature Communications and concludes a really great project started during my PhD. In summary, we identify two unique mechanisms of D-ribulose utilisation in distinct A/E pathogens for the first time! Check it out nature.com/articles/s4146…