Fatima Pereira

📢 New preprint on bioRxiv!

We introduce V4-EXT, a revised 16S rRNA V4 primer set that dramatically improves detection of Patescibacteria and other undersampled lineages

✅ 938 samples
✅ More novel ASVs

Primer choice matters 👀

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@ppjevac.bsky.social #HuifengHu

mvif season 5 keynotes

Season 5 is going to start 🔜

Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...

@kathlemon.bsky.social ‬ @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social

Many congrats Alex, SongCan, Marc and the entire team! You rock :) (microbes as well, of course!)

Sulfoquinovose is exclusively metabolized by the gut microbiota and degraded differently in mice and humans - Microbiome Background Sulfoquinovose (SQ) is a green-diet-derived sulfonated glucose and a selective substrate for a limited number of human gut bacteria. Complete anaerobic SQ degradation via interspecies metab...

Our recent paper by @julkras.bsky.social provides further insights into the metabolism of sulfoquinovose in humans and lab mice, and its prebiotic potential.

🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Congrats Franklin and team - brilliant work 👌

New paper out: E.coli uses the MazEF toxin-antitoxin system to help defend against RNA phages
tinyurl.com/RNAphage
The project that made it through maternity leave, pandemic, three institutions, an international move, and even unemployment 💪
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
#Resilience #ResearchJourney

If you are into #posttranscriptional modifications, gut #inflammation, #immunology or #gutmicrobiome check out our latest work @jem.org 👇

Big team effort @miershawig.bsky.social
@connyves.bsky.social

Big thanks to @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding!

During homeostasis, host-driven habitat filters, such as the maintenance of anoxia by epithelia β-oxidation and stable iron levels through dietary intake, curate a diverse microbiota dominated by beneficial obligate anaerobic primary fermenters. Upon onset of diverse inflammatory intestinal disease states, including inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer, host habitat filters become compromised. Inflammation-driven increases in luminal oxygen levels favor facultatively anaerobic pathobionts at the expense of commensal obligate anaerobes. In parallel, host nutritional immunity factors, such as lactoferrin, sequester iron to defend against potential bacterial pathogens. These environmental perturbations can drive the microbiota to an imbalanced, pro-inflammatory dysbiosis. However, a resilient microbiota can withstand or rapidly recover from these perturbations until host habitat filters are restored. The mechanisms that mediate this resilience and restoration of host habitat

Understanding microbiota resilience in the face of imbalances is crucial for maintaining host health. This #mBio review explores microbiota resilience, emphasizing the interplay between microbial communities and host-driven environmental controls. asm.social/2qW

New preprint @julkras.bsky.social et al.

We show that degradation of sulfoquinovose, ubiquitous in plants and algae, is a core function of the cow rumen microbiome

and describe novel SQ-metabolizing taxa.

🐄🧫🦠 #microbiomesky #microsky

New call for papers from mSystems! Submit your research on Microbial Ecology and Evolution.

📢 Call for papers! Submit your research to #mSystems' new collection on Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Contribute systems-level insights into microbial communities, evolution and ecosystems. Submit now: asm.social/2mq

Check out this great #PhD opportunity at our School and join our growing #Microbiology team 👇

Global analysis of ligand-gated ion channel conservation across Platyhelminthes Ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) are critical for neurotransmission, mediating responses to neurotransmitters and hormones, and influencing diverse p…

🎉 Congrats to Luis Guerra & Ahmed Dawoud on their new paper in General and Comparative Endocrinology!
They explore ligand-gated ion channels across Platyhelminthes—diversity, evolution in nematodes & sex-specific expression. 🔬🧬 #science #research
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In this role, you will collaborate closely with teams developing and integrating innovative #imaging approaches, as well as with #immunologists, to address fundamental questions about microbial communities in the gut and their interactions with the immune system.

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) in Microbiology/Microbiome Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Gut Microbiome Group, School of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton. The University of Southampton is a wor...

📣 Exciting opportunity! We're hiring a #postdoctoral fellow in #gutmicrobiome research to explore the activity and function of the gut microbiome in situ and its regulation by the immune system.🦠🔬

Post based at @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social

Apply here 👇
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

GitHub - Kirk3gaard/MicroBench: Overview of our data for microbial genomic benchmarking Overview of our data for microbial genomic benchmarking - Kirk3gaard/MicroBench

Want @nanoporetech.com data for benchmarking microbe related stuff? Check our data for pure cultures,
@zymoresearch.bsky.social mocks and metagenomes ( github.com/Kirk3gaard/M...). Basecalled reads with methylation is in @enasequence.bsky.social . Eventually the pod5s might go there as well.

I will have a post doc position opening soon - gut microbiome w/ microscopy and microbial ecology techniques - pls tell them to drop me a line at f.c.pereira@soton.ac.uk if interested

We are having a brilliant time at #winchestersciencecentre today for #SOTSEF #bsw25 Brains 🧠🤯 Bones 🦴 Beans 🫘 Plants 🌿 Ears 👂Phages @phagecollection.bsky.social Bugs 🧫🦠 @ukbiofilms.bsky.social & Worms 🔬 LOTs and LOTS of children and LOTs of sciencey fun! 🥳 🥼🧪🥽 #citizenscience #scienceforall

Our group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social spent the day at our #ScienceFestival telling kids how important and cool are microbes&microbiomes. 🦠🧫

Lets hope the importance of science will never be forgotten by the new generations!

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

📢Join us for the upcoming webinar by Prof. Ted Dinan on the Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry.

🌍 Theme: Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry
📅 Date: 13:00 (GMT) March 24, 2025, Online (Zoom)

🔗 Register here: www.oaepublish.com/webinars/mrr...

Come check this out if you are in the south of England 👇🏻🦕

for mouse studies: OligoMM12 Oligo Mouse Microbiota - standardized and covers broad range of functions

www.dsmz.de/collection/c...

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations, socioeconomic pr...

The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

We have received many questions in the last week about some of the content on our website being under review. @asm.org

asm.org/Press-Releas...

Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa - Nature A cross-sectional study from four African countries shows the importance of investigating the gut microbiome in previously under-represented populations and provides a framework for equitable microbio...

Out now in @nature.com: Gut microbiome diversity across African populations - a valuable resource for further research and foundational for global health equity. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sulfoquinovose is differently degraded by the mouse and human gut microbiota and not metabolized by the host Sulfoquinovose (SQ) is a green-diet-derived sulfonated glucose and a selective substrate for few human gut bacteria. Complete anaerobic SQ degradation via interspecies metabolite transfer to sulfonate...

New preprint on sulfur metabolism in the gut by @julkras.bsky.social & the team and great collaborators 🤩
#microbiome #microsky 🧫🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Speaker Series 2025 Events will be hosted January – December, 2025, on the last Wednesday of every month, 12:00 – 14:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom. After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an i…

The 2025 #MicrobesandSocialEquity virtual speaker series is open for registration! Each month, we'll hear talks on microbiology and health of people, animals, plants, and the environment.

Registration is required but free. Check the lineup and register:
microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...

Interested in #microbiome research? Please join me and many others for the first Microbiome Virtual International Forum of 2025! 🦠💊

Registration for #MVIF is free 👇
microbiome-vif.org

Why Bax detection in >1400 publications might be flawed - Cell Death & Disease Cell Death & Disease - Why Bax detection in >1400 publications might be flawed

'Here, we show that this reagent appears to be unreliable due to providing false-positive signals at the expected molecular weight of Bax in immunoblotting experiments and likewise provides false-positive signals in immunofluorescence-based detection of Bax expression'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...