New episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Dr. Joe Zackular joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the wily bacterium Clostridiodes difficile (also known as C. diff) which can cause serious disease in humans. Informative session! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord!

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Microbiome signature of Parkinson’s disease in healthy and genetically at-risk individuals - Nature Medicine Microbiome analysis suggests that gut microbial changes in Parkinson’s disease evolve progressively from healthy individuals to genetically at-risk individuals to clinically affected patients, with th...

We've known the gut-brain axis is a key underpinning of Parkinson's disease. Today, for the 1st time, a gut microbiome signature denoting risk found in healthy individuals with genetic predisposition

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We are seeking for a 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 (𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 & 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲) at 𝗔𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘀, our 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 & 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 team.

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3rd Microbiome PT Summit Welcome to the 3rd Microbiome PT Summit We are delighted to welcome you to Lisbon for a two-day meeting of leading scientists, clinicians, and industry partners to discuss the latest developments in m...

This week at #MicrobiomePTSummit2026 Nicola Segata will share our latest human microbiome findings.

See you in Lisbon 🇵🇹

Full program here: events.biodata.pt/event/6/page...

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Tomorrow is the last day to submit an abstract for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating Bacterial Infections.

It is going to be an amazing meeting and we have a few slots left!
keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26

For an industry with literally hundreds of commercialized yeast strains, this is jaw dropping. Great work.

You got this.

A pain viennois style bread in the shape of a budding yeast cell

Happy Yeaster!

Call For Papers: Artificial Intelligence for Next-generation Anti-infective Discovery We are seeking innovative research based on artificial intelligence to advance next‑generation anti‑infective.

Call For Papers: Artificial Intelligence for Next-generation Anti-infective Discovery

This Special Issue will highlight research at the forefront of using artificial intelligence for infectious diseases of therapeutic discovery.

Submit your manuscript by July 31: buff.ly/qfNAX9S

Call for papers on microbial evolution and human health. Learn more and submit. Oxford University Press.

🔬 Are you studying infectious diseases? Your work matters now more than ever.

Submit to Evolution, Medicine & Public Health on Microbial Evolution's impact on human health, focusing on pandemics, antibiotic resistance, and vaccine effectiveness.

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Go Vedanta team!! 🥳

Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!

Only TWO WEEKS left to register for @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection, in Breckenridge!

Check out the lineup of speakers - it is going to be an amazing meeting! Join us in May! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26

Mastering Python for Bioinformatics - YouTube Mastering Python for Bioinformatics (O'Reilly, 2022) by Ken Youens-Clark demonstrates how to write effective Python code and how to use tests to write and re...

Found out today that @kyclark.bsky.social has made their great 'Mastering Python for Bioinformatics' book into a YouTube series.

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Medewerker klinische studies Ondersteun nationaal en internationaal klinisch onderzoek

We’re hiring!

We are looking for a Clinical Studies Coordinator to support our microbiome research at the Raes lab (KU Leuven).

Work on international clinical studies, from ethics and documentation to coordination with partners.

Apply by 2 April 2026 via KU Leuven:
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

I’ve dreamt about it for years; it finally came to fruition last December when we honored Thomas Bosch. This is a way to honor the good ones, the ones who inspire, the ones who walk on water, the ones who leave a lasting legacy for the future and our greatest aspirations in the microbiome sciences.

Awesome!

Cool service and idea. Microbiome science benefits greatly from efforts like this and BugSigDB, among others, to better curate data.

straininfo.dsmz.de/about

GitHub - patrynk/oura_sync: Service for extracting Oura Ring data to PostgreSQL database with OAuth2 authentication Service for extracting Oura Ring data to PostgreSQL database with OAuth2 authentication - patrynk/oura_sync

Working on a tool for pulling Oura Ring data into a Postgres database:
github.com/patrynk/oura...

Claude helped. Not vibe-coded. Nice exercise in learning new data engineering techniques while playing with new development toys.

When you buy a cutting board from bioinformaticians

Claude for Life Sciences Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.

Excited to see Anthropic leaning into streamlining life sciences research with the Claude for Life Sciences initiative. Should be interrogated for accuracy like any other LLM output but it could help define research questions and make bioinformatics more accessible

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Clostridioides difficile pathogenesis and control Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 02 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01242-2Clostridioides difficile infection is challenging to diagnose and treat and is associated with considerable mortality, morbidity and economic costs worldwide. In this Review, Chilton et al. discuss changes in global epidemiology, breakthroughs in pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance, the role of microbiota dysbiosis and the potential for microbiota-based therapeutics for Clostridioides difficile infection.

ICYMI: New online! Clostridioides difficile pathogenesis and control

Looking forward to this special issue!

New research article

Single-gene transcripts for subclinical #tuberculosis: an individual participant data meta-analysis

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#IDSky #ClinMicro #TB #OpenAccess #OA

Really interested to see how the phenomenon of fungal domestication across food microbiomes plays into this discussion around phylosymbiosis. We exogenously select for traits in beer yeast like flavor and fermentation performance, and then endogenously interact with these living microbes. Incredible

Gut fungal profiles reveal phylosymbiosis and codiversification across humans and nonhuman primates Fungi in the gut microbiome (the "mycobiome") are a neglected component of the human holobiont. This study of gut fungal profiles across natural populations of humans and non-human primates reveals si...

The gut MYCOBIOME is akin to the tiny group of kids in the corner of a huge homecoming dance. Their story is largely unknown. In our latest, @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social dives into the evolutionary associations of gut fungi with @erdavenport.bsky.social & Andres Gomez

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A salient experiment that elegantly examines how context dependent is hologenome evolution in response to selection on diet quality? The short answer. It is resilient, even when faced with abiotic and biotic disruptors such as post-selection socialization and diet. Brilliant evaluation; a must read

HIGH Nationally, the wastewater viral activity level for COVID-19 is currently high.

Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to “high”

Looking forward to the peer-reviewed version but very exciting direction.