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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · Jul 2

🎉 New paper alert, and it's an editor's pick! Looking at the gut #microbiome #brain axis in infants using metagenomics and EEG 🧪🦠

with @emma-margolis.bsky.social, @laurelgd.bsky.social, @gfahurbottino.bsky.social, done in @mightycrobe.bsky.social 's lab.

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> Alt: Screenshot of the title "Codevelopment of gut microbial metabolism and visual circuitry over human infancy", along with an author list. From DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00835-25

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · Jun 30

This was a huge effort, but so great to have such amazing collaborators to work with! Way to go @laurelgd.bsky.social @emma-margolis.bsky.social @mightycrobe.bsky.social ! 🧪🦠🔬 #microbesky

Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · Jun 30

Early gut changes around 4-6 months of age especially relate to the largest number of subsequent brain changes over the next postnatal year! with the incredible @emma-margolis.bsky.social @kevinbonham.com @mightycrobe.bsky.social, Guilherme Bottino, Kirsty Donald, and our Khula study team!

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Jun 30

Our work on codevelopment of the infant gut microbiome and visual circuitry is finally out! Dream team: @kevinbonham.com @gfahurbottino.bsky.social @laurelgd.bsky.social @emma-margolis.bsky.social Kirsty Donald and Khula South Africa study team! Check it out: doi.org/10.1128/mbio...

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Jun 25

Totally amazing and epic. And for some of us, the karaoke night was preceded by 19 branzinos!! (also totally epic
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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Jun 21

@gfahurbottino.bsky.social you too!

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Jun 20

Cool things happen when you partner up w/ @zymoresearch.bsky.social. My undergrad course in microbio’s Adopt-a-microbe assignment resulted in @wellesley.edu student Sophia Shin’s card being selected to go into the 2025 deck of Mighty Microbe cards!!

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Jun 20

Great job @gfahurbottino.bsky.social presenting our lab’s work on the gut microbiome age model at #ASM2025

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Jun 19

Several labs are collaborating on this project - my, @stevenbiller.bsky.social, Rachel Stanley, Alden Griffith, and Dan Brabander’s. Huge thanks to WC Paulson Initiative for funding the equipment!

Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Jun 19

@wellesley.edu students Arla & Sara’s work this summer includes setting up and testing the water quality sensors and the weather station! We’ll move the sensors with the buoy to the middle of the lake in a few weeks. Huge thanks to Andrew from Onset and nd Nef from WC for their help!

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Rogier Braakman @rogierbraakman.bsky.social · Jun 18

‼️I'm looking for a postdoc‼️ Come join effort in using metagenomes to quantify microbial catabolic potential and carbon substrate availability at the ecosystem level. We seek to understand evolutionary forces shaping the carbon cycle. Part of ccomp-stc.org

careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Postdoctoral Associate

MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congrats to the four VKC lab graduates, Nina Zhang, Meredith Swanson, Sally Song, and Trisha Rahman (unfortunately not in the photos). I'm so proud of you, I already miss you, and I cannot wait to read and hear about your next big achievements!

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Jun 13

VKC lab party from last April - painting with microbes.

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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#MicroSKy #Microbiology

Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities

In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...

www.science.org

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jun 13

In today's WSJ by their editorial board
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Mar 11

I am grateful for a lab full of kind, supportive, joyful, smart and hard-working people. These days, I am extra thankful to each and every one of them as they keep things light and fun. This is how they surprised me last week 🥰:

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Mar 11

Vaccines work. Look at the data - lots of great interactive charts: ourworldindata.org/vaccination). Also, if measles is linked to poor diet, why are free, nutritious school lunches for low-income kids going away?

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Mar 11

My two undergraduate research students, Nina and Sally, presenting their research at the MIT Microbiome Symposium last Friday. Great meeting w great talks and wonderful people! I always learn something new.

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Mar 11

I hear you. Hang in there.

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · Mar 11

I'm so sorry.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · Feb 13

#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪
In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach!

Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

A Single-Dose Breakthrough: PfSPZ-LARC Vaccines Offer Transformative Protection Against Malaria – Sanaria

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · Feb 14

Multiple faculty positions in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in association with the Center for Immunology, and the
Center for Antimicrobial Resistance at Cornell University

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · Dec 3

it’s not widely publicized but the minions were designed to represent various medically important protozoan parasites

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Karthik Anantharaman @karthik-a.bsky.social · Jan 3

New paper alert: Our 20-year study of viral ecology and evolution reveals viral roles in microbial dynamics, phage genome evolution over time, and key interactions with hosts. A big thank you to our awesome collaborators @quendi.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unravelling viral ecology and evolution over 20 years in a freshwater lake - Nature Microbiology

A long-term metagenomic time series reveals how viruses impact diversity, ecological dynamics and evolution of freshwater microbiomes.

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Rachel Poretsky @rporetsky.bsky.social · Jan 7

You’ll need to update your tshirt design with “vegan for… my microbiome” and I’ll be the first to buy it, @marlasrose.bsky.social

Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · Jan 6

#Diets affect the gut #microbiome, e.g. red #meat is a driver of #omnivore microbiomes linked to poor cardiometabolic #health, inflammatory bowel #disease, colorectal #cancer & low short-chain fatty acids; #vegan ones are linked to favorable markers: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #plant-based #nutrition

Gut microbiome signatures of vegan, vegetarian and omnivore diets and associated health outcomes across 21,561 individuals - Nature Microbiology

Using 21,561 individuals, the authors present a cross-sectional study of how gut microbiome signatures are associated with dietary intake patterns and with host health outcomes.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jan 25

How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity

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How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity

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