The Global Grants for Gut Health are now open. If your research explores how nutrition affects the gut #microbiome or barrier function, you may be eligible to apply for one of three grants each offering up to USD$100K. Apply here: go.nature.com/4kb9cO1 #Academicsky 🍎📃

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📢 2nd Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sarah Lebeer!!

@sarahlebeer.bsky.social is a research professor at the @Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology of the University of Antwerp working on the ecology and role of lactobacilli in women's health.

Indeed, they have a fantastic Instagram and design! ❤️

Uit onderzoek blijkt dat het ISS-ruimtestation té proper is. Prof. en moleculair bioloog @sarahlebeer.bsky.social #UAntwerpen legt uit hoe dat kan en waarom het een probleem vormt. @radio1vrt.bsky.social

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Great meeting in Hongkong on the #microbiome!

📢Sarah Lebeer (@sarahlebeer.bsky.social) and colleagues at the Isala team call for a more comprehensive, global, and inclusive understanding of the #vaginal #microbiome, critically reflecting on the use of 'race' and 'ethnicity' in studies.

Read the Opinion piece here: www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Agricultural practices and pollinators modulate the anthosphere microbiome

#ISMEComms from @sarahlebeer.bsky.social

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Global “sisterhood” of citizen scientists collaborate to understand what makes a healthy vaginal microbiome. www.cell.com/trends/micro...

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Super proud of our Isala sisterhood!

Our ERC POC grant covered in the national newspaper: www.hln.be/antwerpen/di...

💡 Orthogroup fixation frequency = proportion of species where the orthogroup is part of the species-level core genome relative to the number of species where the orthogroup is part of the species-level pangenome  --> new concept thanks to tool

Stijn Wittouck applied the core, sample and pan modules to infer a representative pangenome for over 31,000 (!) genomes of the order #Lactobacillales – without use of super computer!

Applicable for all taxa, but of course we used it for our favorite bacteria #lactobacilli: when ran on a dataset of 720 genomes of the genus #Lactiplantibacillus, this resulted in the identification of 2,093 core genes in 11 (!) minutes

🏆 When benchmarked against existing tools, the SCARAP pan module proved up to an order of magnitude faster with comparable accuracy

SCARAP contains three modules for #comparative #genomics analyses of bacteria 🧬
(1)     a fast and scalable pangenome inference module
(2)     a direct core genome inference module 
(3)     a module for subsampling representative genomes in linear time

Here is the link to the GitHub: github.com/swittouck/sc...

New tool of the lab is out for scalable led by Stijn Wittouck #comparative #genomics in #bacteria across species and large datasets without super computer 💪💪 : academic.oup.com/bioinformati....

Proud to present our most recent paper on #citizenscience #womenshealth #microbiome on this new platform - from our Isala project www.nature.com/articles/s41...