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Extra special shout out to Allison Leigh Speer for making this work possible! We have an infant #enteroid bank From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine thanks collaborations with this amazing pediatric surgeon-scientist and friend from UTHealth Houston #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine #SheLooksLikeASurgeon

Check out our recently published work from graduate student Lynn Su on Norovirus epitopes for potential vaccine targets: nature.com/articles/s4154…

Check out this really cool work by Sara Di Rienzi on oxytocin in the gut! This incredible scientist is on the TT job market y'all!

Thank you Sarah Caddy for inviting me to present Microbiology & Immun seminar series and for the guest presentation at the journal club! There were so many fabulous questions, comments and discussions, and I've come back with a whole new level of excitement!

Introducing Dr. Grace Mwesigwa, the newest Ph.D in town! Can't be more proud of Grace Adeniyi-Ipadeola! Huge thanks to her thesis advisors Estes Lab at BCM @rabritton Allison Leigh Speer Douglas Burrin & Tony Piedra for their mentorship, and my lab for celebrating Grace in every way! From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine

Please arrange for flood water to be drained Greater Chennai Corporation Tamil Nadu Police They have been without power for 2 days and are short on drinking/running water. There are several senior citizens including my 90 year grandma and it would be hard for them to move without risking injuries.

Please join us for what should be a fun event with Prof. Meghan Azad, PhD Hall Lab Dr Trevor Lawley and Sashi Ramani. We will be discussing all things human milk and early life microbiome, from clinical samples to relevant models! Hosted by Applied Microbiology International More info here: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-cale…

There is special joy in seeing the accomplishments of friends you "grew up" with in their own scientific space! To quote Joseph Petrosino --Christopher Stewart is killing it and so many of us From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine are so proud of this #postdoc alum!

Exciting few weeks for the lab! Lakshmi passed her qualifying exam, Grace Adeniyi-Ipadeola received her PhD degree and her paper is accepted in mBio, and Ketki Patil had her first author paper posted as a preprint before she transitions to grad school! It's a privilege to mentor this group!

Our paper on how infant and adult #enteroids are VERY different is out in mBio! Shout out to Grace Adeniyi-Ipadeola Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) Ketki Patil and our fabulous collaborators Allison Leigh Speer Estes Lab at BCM Sarah Blutt Cristian Coarfa and others From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

The lab opens Jan 2025 at Rutgers CABM! Are you interested in gut hormones, gut microbes, and connections between the gut, brain, and body? We are hiring at all levels! Check out dirienzilab.org/join for more information and feel free to DM this account.

Happy to have been part of this collaborative effort lead by Joseph Petrosino and Christopher Stewart in developing a platform for microbiome studies in #enteroids using physiological oxygen concentrations!

A couple new papers from the group, largely showing so-called "negative results", but with important connotations for the care of preterm infants. Both papers are open-access so I will provide only key bits here. A small thread 🧵:

A fabulous week of #GI science comes to an end! #GTSRC24 #Banff BCMHouston with members from Sashi Ramani Estes Lab at BCM Sarah Blutt 🔬🎸🚴‍♂️💻 🄼🄸🄻🄻🅂 🄻🄰🄱 Britton Lab

Many thanks to all those who attended and participated in a fantastic discussion. Everyone working together to improve organoid research for all.

It's #PostdocAppreciationWeek and I want to give a shout-out to Sohini Banerjee, PhD who had a blast in her first international conference #GTSCR24 last week, and our newest postdoc Xaira Rivera for their dedication and the joy they bring to our group!

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

Check out our latest publication by Dr. Ettayebi et al. reporting new insights in HuNoV cultivation in human intestinal enteroids:  journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms… Many unique enteroids cultures were evaluated, you may find these data useful for further optimizing HuNoV cultivation!

Happy Diwali 🪔 and Happy Halloween 👻 y'all!

Our founder, Dr. Estes Lab at BCM, is the keynote speaker at #TMC #organoid Day!! Dr. Estes shared the ~13 year history of the organoid model and dove into her #virology work with #norovirus. The #TMC and so many fields of research have been changed because of her hard work!