Ghada Yousif
@ghadayousif.bsky.social
A microbiologist who is passionate about microbes interactions and how they shape our lives.
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📣 Join us for the 2025 @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium, focused on "Gut Microbial Metabolites and Their Impact on Host Systems".
co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥
It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers!
Dec. 12th. Please share!
isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...
co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥
It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers!
Dec. 12th. Please share!
isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...
2025 ISB Virtual Microbiome Symposium - Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)
Symposium Schedule All presentation times are shown in Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00 / UTC -07:00) Time Talk / Session 9:00 Welcoming remarks by Sid Venkatesh Session One: Neural Effects
isbscience.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
📣 Join us for the 2025 @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium, focused on "Gut Microbial Metabolites and Their Impact on Host Systems".
co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥
It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers!
Dec. 12th. Please share!
isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...
co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥
It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers!
Dec. 12th. Please share!
isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...
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Do you like microbes and insects, and would like to get your favourites printed on articles or clothing? check out my art prints on Redbubble: www.redbubble.com/people/Chaii...
Happy to take requests to add to this collection too :)
#sciart #art #symbiosis #microbes #insects
Happy to take requests to add to this collection too :)
#sciart #art #symbiosis #microbes #insects
Chai_ntist Shop | Redbubble
Chai_ntist is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Do you like microbes and insects, and would like to get your favourites printed on articles or clothing? check out my art prints on Redbubble: www.redbubble.com/people/Chaii...
Happy to take requests to add to this collection too :)
#sciart #art #symbiosis #microbes #insects
Happy to take requests to add to this collection too :)
#sciart #art #symbiosis #microbes #insects
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Another fantastic study from @lisamaierlab.bsky.social showing how non-antibiotics impact gut ecosytem. Congratulations @ghammeranne.bsky.social et al.!
Seeing this published is even better than eating sweets! I am so happy and proud of whole @lisamaierlab.bsky.social, especially Lisa and @jdlcz.bsky.social who walked the funny/exciting/rocky road with me until the very end. Check it out!
#science #microbiome #health
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #microbiome #health
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Non-antibiotics disrupt colonization resistance against enteropathogens - Nature
Non-antibiotic drugs from a wide range of therapeutic classes can alter the ability of gut commensals to resist invasion by enteropathogens, a previously underappreciated side effect of such drugs.
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July 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Another fantastic study from @lisamaierlab.bsky.social showing how non-antibiotics impact gut ecosytem. Congratulations @ghammeranne.bsky.social et al.!
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Less than a week remains to apply to this exciting PhD position and join my team at Osnabrück University 👇
#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Less than a week remains to apply to this exciting PhD position and join my team at Osnabrück University 👇
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The September Science Academy was a big success and a great experience.
31 talented women in their PhD or Postdoc from all over the world came to the MPI-TM for 3 days full of science, workshops and networking.
#Genderequality is not about favoring women - it’s about empowering them 💪.
31 talented women in their PhD or Postdoc from all over the world came to the MPI-TM for 3 days full of science, workshops and networking.
#Genderequality is not about favoring women - it’s about empowering them 💪.
September 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The September Science Academy was a big success and a great experience.
31 talented women in their PhD or Postdoc from all over the world came to the MPI-TM for 3 days full of science, workshops and networking.
#Genderequality is not about favoring women - it’s about empowering them 💪.
31 talented women in their PhD or Postdoc from all over the world came to the MPI-TM for 3 days full of science, workshops and networking.
#Genderequality is not about favoring women - it’s about empowering them 💪.
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#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
October 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
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Excited to share some key details on our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com reporting intra-cellular accumulation of #PFAS (aka forever chemicals) by certain human gut bacteria. #microsky #mevosky #microbiomesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Excited to share some key details on our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com reporting intra-cellular accumulation of #PFAS (aka forever chemicals) by certain human gut bacteria. #microsky #mevosky #microbiomesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Please read about how we think microbial metabolism might help us understand microbiomes a bit better!
Also, please appreciate the mountain goat in Fig 1 ⛰️🐐 and that it also represents my joy for trail running and the mountains 😁
Also, please appreciate the mountain goat in Fig 1 ⛰️🐐 and that it also represents my joy for trail running and the mountains 😁
Metabolic ecology of microbiomes: Nutrient competition, host benefits, and community engineering
Review by Erik Bakkeren, Vit Piskovsky, and Kevin R. Foster
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Review by Erik Bakkeren, Vit Piskovsky, and Kevin R. Foster
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
June 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Please read about how we think microbial metabolism might help us understand microbiomes a bit better!
Also, please appreciate the mountain goat in Fig 1 ⛰️🐐 and that it also represents my joy for trail running and the mountains 😁
Also, please appreciate the mountain goat in Fig 1 ⛰️🐐 and that it also represents my joy for trail running and the mountains 😁
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Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Bridging the scales: what can microbial ecologists learn from classic ecology?
ecoevorxiv.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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Nature awards and Yakult have announced another round of 'Global Grants for Gut Health'. An excellent opportunity for gut microbiota researchers, at any career stage, to win $100,000 for a year to cover their interesting research!
#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky
www.nature.com/immersive/gu...
#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky
www.nature.com/immersive/gu...
Nature Awards Global Grants for Gut Health
Grants for researchers investigating the gut microbiota and its role in human health.
www.nature.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Nature awards and Yakult have announced another round of 'Global Grants for Gut Health'. An excellent opportunity for gut microbiota researchers, at any career stage, to win $100,000 for a year to cover their interesting research!
#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky
www.nature.com/immersive/gu...
#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky
www.nature.com/immersive/gu...
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Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
June 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We have openings for motivated and curious individuals to join our team @arizonastateuni.bsky.social microbialeco.systems
#MicroSky
#MicroSky
April 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We have openings for motivated and curious individuals to join our team @arizonastateuni.bsky.social microbialeco.systems
#MicroSky
#MicroSky
Ever thought about a nose-to-nose bacteria transfer? 👃🦠 I wrote about it — and no, it's not as gross as it sounds. Check it out! #Microbiome #ScienceIsWeird #SciCom
📣 New MicroBites!
Bacteria are on the Case 🦠
How can nasal bacteria cure infections? 👃
Bacteria are on the Case 🦠
How can nasal bacteria cure infections? 👃
Bacteria are on the Case
How can nasal bacteria cure infections?
buff.ly
April 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Ever thought about a nose-to-nose bacteria transfer? 👃🦠 I wrote about it — and no, it's not as gross as it sounds. Check it out! #Microbiome #ScienceIsWeird #SciCom
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This study www.nature.com/articles/s41... expands gut microbiome knowledge into African populations, uncovering lifestyle-linked taxa shifts and novel genomes. It’s a crucial resource for future work, including our own interest in the loss of cellulolytic bacteria. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans
Cellulolytic human gut bacteria are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes.
www.science.org
March 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This study www.nature.com/articles/s41... expands gut microbiome knowledge into African populations, uncovering lifestyle-linked taxa shifts and novel genomes. It’s a crucial resource for future work, including our own interest in the loss of cellulolytic bacteria. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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ICYMI: New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities
Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01163-0In this Review, Iliev, Ananthakrishnan and Guo explore the gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease, highlighting bacterial and fungal components, immune…
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
ICYMI: New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities
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A long, long time ago, we started this review project during the first Coron lockdown, but if finally made it out into the world - Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects! @naturerevmicro.bsky.social
New online! Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects
Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01164-zIn this Review, Kaltenpoth et al. examine the evolution and function of beneficial symbioses between bacteria and their insect hosts, focusing on their effects on the host fitness and the microbial factors that play a role in the evolution of these symbiotic associations.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A long, long time ago, we started this review project during the first Coron lockdown, but if finally made it out into the world - Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects! @naturerevmicro.bsky.social
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Interesting new mouse study on the microbiome & aging, out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
"Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice - Nature Microbiology
Using a cohort of nearly 1,000 genetically diverse mice undergoing dietary restriction over the lifespan, the authors reveal numerous insights into the interactions between the gut microbiome, host ge...
www.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Interesting new mouse study on the microbiome & aging, out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
"Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology!
Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601
Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601
March 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology!
Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601
Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601
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Now online! Functional diversification of dietary plant small molecules by the gut microbiome
Functional diversification of dietary plant small molecules by the gut microbiome
Plants are composed of diverse secondary metabolites. Here, we discover members of the human gut microbiome that have evolved enzymes to metabolize specific dietary phenolic small molecules that activate diverse functions important to the host, such as…
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March 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Now online! Functional diversification of dietary plant small molecules by the gut microbiome
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Happy that our work on host-microbiome-interactions in aging is mentioned in this editorial from @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social that emphasizes the importance of modeling in microbiology research.
📝 In this month's editorial, we talk about the power of mathematical modeling 🧮, its importance in understanding of complex microbiology 🦠 , and how we assess papers addressing mathematical modeling.
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Share your thoughts in the replies!
#MicroSky #MathSky
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Share your thoughts in the replies!
#MicroSky #MathSky
Model behaviour - Nature Microbiology
Mathematical models can distil complex systems into their key components, posit theories that spark experimental research and forecast future events. We discuss the power of models to address pressing...
www.nature.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Happy that our work on host-microbiome-interactions in aging is mentioned in this editorial from @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social that emphasizes the importance of modeling in microbiology research.
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Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out.
It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly | PNAS
Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly
www.pnas.org
April 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out.
It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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March 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
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Estimates of microbial community stability using relative invader growth rates are robust across levels of invader species richness
#ISMEComms by @mcastd.bsky.social, @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and Angus Buckling
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#ISMEComms by @mcastd.bsky.social, @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and Angus Buckling
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Estimates of microbial community stability using relative invader growth rates are robust across levels of invader species richness
Abstract. A key feature of natural communities is that the species within them stably coexist. A common metric used to test community stability is the abil
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March 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Estimates of microbial community stability using relative invader growth rates are robust across levels of invader species richness
#ISMEComms by @mcastd.bsky.social, @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and Angus Buckling
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
#ISMEComms by @mcastd.bsky.social, @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and Angus Buckling
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
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Exciting debut on Bluesky! 🎉Our lab's latest publication on the evolution of host- and symbiont-encoded digestive enzymes in herbivorous leaf beetles has just been published.
Read the full story @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.028
📸 S.sumptuosa by Roy Kirsch & Veit Grabe
Read the full story @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.028
📸 S.sumptuosa by Roy Kirsch & Veit Grabe
January 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Exciting debut on Bluesky! 🎉Our lab's latest publication on the evolution of host- and symbiont-encoded digestive enzymes in herbivorous leaf beetles has just been published.
Read the full story @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.028
📸 S.sumptuosa by Roy Kirsch & Veit Grabe
Read the full story @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.028
📸 S.sumptuosa by Roy Kirsch & Veit Grabe
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We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs
IMPRS
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March 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs