🎉 Scores are out 🎉
We’re thrilled to announce that after multiple rounds of rigorous, blind review and tie-break evaluations, we have notified candidates regarding their applications for #LBBB2026 🧠✨
📩 Check your email for next steps and important instructions.
🌍🧠 Reizdarm im Fokus der Inneren Medizin
Zum #WorldIBSDay ist die #DGNM auf der #DGIM2026 vertreten: Neue Leitlinien, DiGA und innovative Therapien zeigen, wie evidenzbasierte Neurogastroenterologie die Versorgung von IBS strukturiert, individualisiert und nachhaltig verbessert.🚀 #DGNM #GutBrainAxis
🌍💬 Zum World IBS Day: Reizdarm sichtbar machen.
IBS betrifft Millionen weltweit. Wir wissen heute es ist eine Störung der Darm-Hirn-Achse. Aber wir brauchen mehr Evidenz, bessere Versorgung, stärkere Aufklärung – dafür setzt sich die DGNM ein. 🧠
www.neurogastro.de/de/news-read... #DGNM #GutBrainAxis
GastroPy is now out in early beta! Please to share our Python toolbox for electrogastrography and stomach-brain coupling analyses. It includes tools for cleaning, visualising, and analysing EGG data, plus fMRI stomach-brain coupling workflows. Docs, code, and preprint below. osf.io/preprints/ps...
#ENS Development 2026 meeting was a blast! 🤯 Concentrated #enteric #neuroscience awesomeness in Leuven with great science and of course the lab was there with work on #aging, #gastroschisis, and #transition in #hirschsprung disease!
Picture of the screen of opening talk.
In Leuven at the opening of the Enteric Nervous System meeting! Like a kid in a candy store for me! ens-leuven2026.eu
Ein Poster mit Informationen zu Krankheitsbelastung bei Reizdarmsyndrom mit komorbiden Bedingungen und psychiatrischen Diagnosen in einer Kohorte von Patienten aus mehreren europäischen Ländern.
🔶 Comorbidities drive higher disease burden in #IBS
DISCOvERIE cohort (n=842)
🔸 IBS with psychiatric or somatic comorbidities - more severe GI & non-GI symptoms
🔸 Common overlaps: anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue
Read the full article on UEG Journal
👉 https://bit.ly/3P3xfVq
Your gut may shape how the brain reads hunger and food reward.
A new review in @ibrojournals.bsky.social Neuroscience proposes a framework linking microbiome research in eating disorders with interoception and reward.
📰 Read: buff.ly/679j1RQ
#Microbiome #Neuroscience #EatingDisorders #BrainGutAxis
Proposed signalling pathway of the aged microbiome impairing cognition through increased MCFA production leading to peripheral inflammation, vagal impairment, and cognitive deficits.
A new study in @nature.com reveals how changes in gut microbes during ageing can disrupt communication between the gut and brain, contributing to cognitive decline.
Huge congrats to APC collaborators Adrián Cortés-Martín and Colin Hill
Read the paper: buff.ly/EYAjYgE
#Microbiome #BrainHealth
Of interest for those attending the #MindBrainBody Symposium: you can check out the Brain-Body Interactions starter pack to follow many great researchers in the field!
#MBBS2026
Excited to share our latest publication! 🎉
This consensus statement, led by @isappscience.bsky.social, establishes an evidence-based definition of gut health relevant to clinical practice & dietary & biotic interventions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#GutHealth #Microbiome #ISAPP #DigestiveHealth
🧠🌐 DGNM-Jahrestagung 2026 – 3 Tage Vernetzung entlang der Darm-Hirn-Achse. Exzellente Wissenschaft, starke Nachwuchsbeteiligung und tolle Zusammenarbeit. Die NeuroGastro Community zeigt, wie gemeinsam durch Grundlagenforschung, Translation und Klinik Fortschritt entsteht. 🚀 #DGNM #GutBrainAxis
🦓 tomorrow is #RareDiseaseDay!
Last weekend already we presented our data on #ENS changes in #Gastroschisis and on the transition of #Hirschsprung disease patients at the annual meeting of the German #Neurogastro society @dgnm.bsky.social
#neuroscience #gastroenterology @simsooo.bsky.social
Abdominal ultrasound activates afferent vagal signaling and central autonomic pathways.
Abdominal ultrasound activates afferent vagal fibers and suppresses systemic inflammation.
This 🤯 paper has many interesting findings, including increased c-Fos expression in the NTS, confirming central activation. #neuroskyence 🩺
Work by Shimoyama et al., PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
A sneak peak of a complex and technically challenging experiment that my lab developed: doi.org/10.1096/fj.2.... Super proud of PhD candidate Hannah Johnson for showcasing our Whole-gut spatial genomic analysis in #zebrafish. This video illustrates one landmark in the protocol after multiple 1/3
Disorders of gut-brain interaction are frequently encountered in primary care.
Dr. Juan M. Mendive explores the role of the gut microbiome and probiotics in improving outcomes for patients with #IBS—and what this means for everyday clinical practice.
Watch the interview 👇
📢 Just a few days left until our annual meeting in Freising
🫵 join in last minute to get the latest updates on #enteric #neuroscience, translational and clinical #neurogastroenterology!
Find everything you need to know on our website 👇
www.neurogastro.de/de/jahrestag...
#neurogastro #motility
The balance of fiber and protein intake has been largely overlooked
This timely review in @natrevgastrohep.nature.com updates factors that influence human digestion and absorption of protein in the small intestine and protein fermentation in the colon:
https://tinyurl.com/4ebkb6js
⏳ One month to go until #GMFH2026!
Join us in Porto, March 14–15, to explore the latest advances in diet & microbiome modulation in clinical practice.
👉 Register now and secure your spot
www.gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/porto-2026-fourteenth-ed...
😊 We welcome you to the next Immune Alliance Seminar on Feb 18, 2026, 9 am (in Germany) / 5 pm (in Japan), via zoom. You are cordially invited to attend. Registration is free. Register via: dgfi.org/immune-allia...
@zielinskilab.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social @iuis-online.bsky.social
We're hiring! 🧪
TARGID @ KU Leuven is looking for a Laboratory Manager to coordinate and support cutting-edge research on gastrointestinal diseases.
📍Leuven | ⏰ Apply by Nov 4, 2025
🔗 kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60566238
#KULeuven #Hiring #Research
😱 The Belgian Week of #gastroenterology is currently rocking Antwerp!
🔬 listened to great #science
🫂 met new and old friends
🗣 one keynote from the lab on #ENS progenitor cells and aging
Thanks for hosting, Werend Boesmans!
#neurogastro
🧠 Study examines implications of shame for patient-reported outcomes in bowel disorders of gut-brain interaction
🔗 https://ow.ly/ojnb50Y7HTo
APC is recruiting a Postdoc to work with @lilykeane.bsky.social at UCC on a project focusing on how early-life microbiome perturbations shape brainstem microglial development during the neonatal period.
#microbiome #glioma #cancer #jobfairy #researchjobs #ucc
Full Details: bit.ly/4tlQjxO
⏰Final Call!! Three days left to apply for #LBBB2026
Don't miss out on your opportunity to attend the best early career meeting in the #neurogastroenterology field.
www.lbbb2026.com/apply
@dgnm.bsky.social @gastronauts.bsky.social
In Tübingen ging es dann 2017 im brandneuen @neuromadlab.bsky.social mit Nils Kroemer ganz tief in die Materie. Thematisch drehte sich alles um die Darm-Hirn-Achse und wie die metabolischen Signale, die der Vagusnerv weiterleitet, den Körper im Gleichgewicht halten.
Looking back on 2025, inspired by the Year in Reviews starting on p112.
Our February ISSUE is live! Year in Review 2025, gut virome, gut-brain axis, liver-brain axis, cancer registries in Africa, and much more!
www.nature.com/nrgastro/vol...
⏩#GLP1 #Serotonin, the body’s multitasking maestro #DGBIs💡 🎯A blueprint for developing #orally active small-molecule secretagogues capable of activating the body’s own incretin sensors & gut-brain axis👏 📢The advent of GLP-1–based therapies has reshaped modern metabolic medicine, providing unprecedented efficacy in treating diabetes and obesity. Yet, these advances rely heavily on injectable hormone mimetics #semaglutide #tirzepatide 🎯Transform EC and L cells into tunable therapeutic switches—enabling mechanism-based, physiological treatments for diabetes, obesity, and disorders of gut–brain communication‼️ 🎯Through #neuropod synapses, EECs transmit real-time information about nutrient composition to the brain—forming a crucial component of #interoception, the body’s sense of internal state 🎯A detailed map of human enteroendocrine cell function & receptor signaling—laying the foundation for oral therapies that stimulate endogenous hormone secretion🌟 ⏩Description and functional validation of human enteroendocrine cell sensors @ScienceMagazine👏 👉 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl1460
Dive deep into our latest #GastroDigest @aga-gastro.bsky.social 🆕🔥
🚨Turning #GutSensors into Therapeutic Switches: A #Sensorome Roadmap for Metabolic & Gut–Brain🧠Interaction Disorders‼️ @amergastroassn.bsky.social 🙌
Prof. Kara Margolis🙏😇
👉 www.gastrojournal.org/article/S001...
#DGBI #GLP1 #Serotonin
➡️ This #narrativereview provides an overview of functional dysphagia and details our unique multidisciplinary approach to these patients from the perspective of GI, speech-language pathologists, and GI psychologists at the USF Swallowing Center
🔗 https://ow.ly/uaVv50Y8rKU
