
Benjamin Valderrama
@bpvalderrama
🦠🧬💻 | 🇨🇱 Computational Biologist | PhD student at APC microbiome 🇮🇪 @Pharmabiotic | SciComm & Open Source | Maker |
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https://benjamin-valderrama.github.io 22-10-2019 13:36:35
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At a recent conference Athena Aktipis invited me to give a talk on the role of creativity in science. For those interested here are the illustrated slides in tweetorial format. The take home message: Creativity and science go hand in hand. (Thread 1 of 2)



How an Irish study of zebrafish can help us to understand human stress and anxiety | Irish Independent I spoke with Lorna Siggins about the recently funded @scienceirel We are now Research Ireland Pathway grant. independent.ie/irish-news/hea…


Excited to share BakRep - our latest work published in Microbiology Society #MGen >661,000 bacterial genomes, uniformly characterized & annotated, enriched with metadata, accessible via a flexible search engine doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0… 👇 1/7


🚨 New Research Excited to share my PhD work now published in Cell Metabolism In this study we explore the role of the gut microbiota in regulating the complex interaction between stress and circadian rhythm link: tinyurl.com/bdd98e6a Follow the 🧵 for the key findings


Preprint from our lab in BiorXiv already available, revealing that effects of exercise 🏃🏻♀️on brain 🧠 display hormetic profile (improved cognition & neurogenesis when moderate, useless when strenuous) caused by microbiota 🦠signature 🧬changes CSIC Divulga SENC Instituto Cajal-Centro de Neurociencias Cajal-CSIC



Another step for microbiome research!🔬 New study introduces saMBA, a gut microbiome archive from South America. Understanding the full picture of gut microbiome biodiversity is crucial & saMBA is helping us get there! John F. Cryan Benjamin Valderrama biorxiv.org/content/10.110…