The ancestral and industrialized gut microbiota and implications for human health rdcu.be/bCrP3 Sonnenburg and Sonnenburg explore whether individuals in the industrialized world may be harbouring a microbial community that is now incompatible with human biology.

REVIEW | The role of #diet in the aetiopathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease #IBD #CrohnsDisease #colitis go.nature.com/2HR70LB

Short-chain fatty acids, the main #metabolites produced by bacterial fermentation of dietary fibre in the #gastrointestinal tract, are speculated to have a key role in #microbiota–gut–brain crosstalk, find out more in this new REVIEW #gutbrainaxis go.nature.com/2HWP2XY

Our gut #microbiome response to eating the same foods is highly variable cell.com/cell-host-micr… serial #metagenomics in 34 individuals by Dan Knights Abigail Johnson and colleagues Cell Host & Microbe #openaccess

The human body is home to trillions of microorganisms that have direct and indirect impacts on health and disease. Our Nature Milestone in Human Microbiota Research provides a historical perspective of the breakthroughs in the field: go.nature.com/2NEOooq

Need more proof that phages rule? How about this: A temperate phage from gut microbiota is a powerful ally in cancer immunotherapy! Glad to have contributed to this amazing study, now published in Science Magazine science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65…

Delighted to see the discussion around our perspective piece - science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Our position is that this discussion should be focused on the available data, and specifically survey data assessing ecological interactions. Otherwise, we risk comparing anecdotes (1/10)

So happy to share this! How can host-symbiont cooperation evolve in complex microbiomes when competition between microbes should cause it to collapse? We show that host control over symbionts can save mutualism and has had an impact on symbiont evolution nature.com/articles/s4146…

Interested in microbiology? Check out 'Discover the Microverse' this evening in Lausanne. There will be scientists to chat to, science art and videos like this one! nccr-microbiomes.ch/outreach/disco… #ISME18

So proud of my lab group members Eveliina Hanski and @AuraRaulo, both scooping up a prizes at #ISME18 for their poster and talk on wild mouse microbiome ecology. Well deserved, superstars! 🌟🌟

🚨HOT OFF THE PRESS🚨 Many clinical antibiotics are produced by microbes, and we measure spectrum of activity to get a sense of their therapeutic potential. But what’s driving the evolution of spectrum in antibiotics and other microbial toxins? 1/12 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

MEEVirtual conference is back in 2023 (August 15-17) in its new form: MEEHubs! It will be the first hub-based (I'll explain) global microbial ecology and evolution conference ever! First, we would like to know from YOU what sessions you would be excited to attend. Reply here!

📢Phd position available (3 years funding)📢 Come join us QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science working on 3D printing of anaerobic bacterial communities.🖨🦠 Deadline 30th of April 2023 Start date September 2023 Home students only. Please retweet 🙏 findaphd.com/phds/project/a…

We're excited to announce that abstract submission and registration are now open for MEEhubs2024, which takes place Jan 9 – 11, 2024! MEEhubs is a grassroots, innovative global conference in microbial ecology and evolution. It is also free! meehubs.org 1/10

Online Science Magazine co-lead with francesspragge! We looked at why microbiome diversity protects against pathogens. It's down to a simple principle of collective nutrient overlap, which can predict protective communities against a given pathogen! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…🧵👇

Only a bit more than 12 hours till start of #MEEhubs2024. We have hundreds of registered participants, some shared their location and where they travel to on the map below!

First out of five #MEEhubs2024 cross-hub activities was on sustainability. Colleagues from near and far shared concerns, reported failures and celebrated successes. Loads of overlap between reported failures and successes means it is worth to keep trying! LEAN Green Labs UK

📢 ICB-PhD position available with me, Yuval Elani and Karen Polizzi Imperial College London 📢 Imperial Department of Infectious Disease Imperial ChemEng 3D printing, synthetic tissues, cellular control 🖨🫧🧫 Deadline: 7th May 2024 (reviewed as received) Start date: Oct 2024 Apply: tinyurl.com/4r3we35j

(1/6) Really jazzed to have this out - my first Wellcome fellowship paper! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Can bacteria evolve resistance to competitors' T6SS weaponry? We find that the answer depends on **how many toxins** competitors are using. A thread:

So glad to see this out! It was definitely a labor of love, but it has become my new blueprint of how I think about AMR evolution. We aimed to highlight how much we've learnt as a field, and especially, how much we still *don't* know 1/4