Loreto Oyarte Galvez (from the groups of @thomasshimizu.bsky.social and @tobykiers.bsky.social at AMOLF/VU): Hyphal Healing Mechanisms in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi #NIME2026

With amazing images and in vitro symbiotic fungal-root setup

Nimrod de Wit (RIVM): Calibrating for absolute microbiome abundances without spike-ins

See their bioRxiv here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Gut bacterial tyrosine decarboxylases restrict levels of levodopa in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease - Nature Communications The gut microbiota can impact the bioavailability of therapeutic drugs. Here, the authors show that bacterial tyrosine decarboxylases (TDC) decrease the levels of levodopa, the primary treatment in Parkinson’s disease, by conversion to dopamine, and suggest TDC as a potential predictive biomarker for treatment.

Sahar explains how Levodopa is converted by the gut microbiota, resulting in reduced drug availability for people with Parkinson’s
See their @natcomms.nature.com paper
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gut motility as a driver of microbial community architecture and host–microbe evolution Digestive systems are dynamic, contractile ecosystems that continually shape the physical and chemical niches inhabited by gut microbes. Patterns of m…

Sahar highlights the spatial and temporal aspects of gut microbiome dynamics - feedback loops between gut motility and microbiota
See their @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social review
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sahar El Aidy (UvA) on Rethinking Microbiome Health through Functional Dynamics #NIME2026
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Herwig Bachmann (VU) strts #NIME2026 spring meeting with a talk on Microbial ecology and evolution in water kefir and a novel culturing method
#MicrobialEcology #FoodFermentation #LacticAcidBacteria #Yeast

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Happy to have a paper, a performance and an 'alt.nime' contribution accepted to NIME (new interfaces for musical express) conference London !

The paper is a collaborative one, about Uzu languages, the draft is here codeberg.org/uzu/nime2026/src/branch/... , we'll work on it […]