Atin Sharma

Very sad news indeed. 😔

Please join our editor Lia Parkin at Keystone Symposia Human Microbiome: From Models and Mechanism to Medicine January 19-22 in Banff! Hope to see you there! https://keysym.us/KSMicrobiome26 #KSMicrobiome26

Next week, I will be at the microbiome Keystone Symposia at Banff, Canada. Looking forward to socialising with brilliant scientists and learning about their interesting research.

If you're also there, catch me for a quick chat!

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Fungal commensal promotes intestinal repair via its secreted peptide in mice - Nature Microbiology A short peptide derived from a commensal-fungal-secreted protein promotes repair in models of colon epithelial damage when delivered directly or via probiotic microbes.

A fungal commensal secretes a protein that stimulates cellular regeneration in injured gut tissue in mice, with probiotic potential for treating gut-related conditions. #NBThighlight www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Large-scale testing of antimicrobial lethality at single-cell resolution predicts mycobacterial infection outcomes - Nature Microbiology Via high-throughput imaging and tracking over 140 million single mycobacteria, the authors show that drug- and strain-specific killing predict treatment outcomes, with potential to improve drug develo...

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Structural insights into the assembly and evolution of a complex bacterial flagellar motor - Nature Microbiology Structural, genetic, functional and biochemical analyses of the complex flagellar motor of Campylobacter jejuni reveal structural adaptations with an ancient origin also found more widely across bacte...

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Structural insights into the assembly and evolution of a complex bacterial flagellar motor

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Credit in research goes hand in hand with responsibility. In this week’s editorial we argue that when things go wrong & a retraction is needed, if it is clear who among the authors is responsible they should be named in the retraction note. COPE agrees
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New Perspective!

Navigating the duality of Akkermansia muciniphila

by Erica Grant, Elena Monzel & Mahesh Desai

#microsky #microbiomesky

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

New Microbe Matters!

@relenski.bsky.social traces the legacy of Escherichia coli and how science is evolving to use this model organism in new ways

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New Review!

Sang Yup Lee, Bernhard Palsson & Gi Bae Kim discuss how #AI can aid microbial gene function discovery

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#NewResearch

Gut microbes can produce ethanol and contribute to auto-brewery syndrome. FMT can potentially treat individuals with this syndrome and improve symptoms.

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#NewResearch

Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) can cause bacterial prostatitis, a prevalent and recurrent infection with high morbidity in men. Here they show that UPEC invades luminal prostate cells via a bacterial FimH and host PPAP receptor interaction

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📢 DSMZ is hiring!
We are looking for a Scientific Lead for the SILVA Database, a key tool for understanding microbes and biodiversity.
Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/y973v547

#HiringNow #ScienceJobs #Microbiology #ResearchCareers
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Harnessing the microbiome for cancer therapy Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 05 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01268-6In this Review, Hajjar, Mars and Kashyap discuss the role of the microbiome in cancer development and progression and in treatment response. They also consider the potential of the microbiome as a therapeutic target and as a prognostic and predictive biomarker, and outline major knowledge gaps in the field.

ICYMI: New online! Harnessing the microbiome for cancer therapy

The human gut microbiome in enteric infections: from association to translation Enteric infections remain a leading global cause of morbidity, mortality and economic loss, increasingly compounded by the rise of antimicrobial resistance. The gut microbiome — spanning bacteria, ...

Our team wrote a review for Gut Microbes on the role of the gut #microbiome in modulating enteric infections. Great team effort by Qi Yin, @samriddhigupta.bsky.social and Efrat Muller: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our jampacked January issue features

🦠Legacy of E. coli
🖖Duality of Akkermansia
🌐Global phage analysis
🦟Malaria vaccine
🍄Candida physiology
🧠Streptococcus in brain
💉Influenza vaccine
🌱Plant diet and gut microbiome

and much more!

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Nature Microbiology turns 10! 🎂

As a special treat, we take you back to the editorial team that started it all and then fast forward to take a peek into the future of microbiology through some brilliant microbiologists.

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Bugs delivering drugs: Listeria monocytogenes-mediated cytotoxin delivery enhances anti-tumor activity in colorectal cancer Paulishak and Lyu et al. analyze Listeria monocytogenes (LM) as a drug delivery vehicle, demonstrating targeted intracellular drug delivery that decreases cancer viability, boosts immune responses, and maintains safety profile, complementing ongoing clinical LM therapies.

Bugs delivering drugs: Listeria monocytogenes-mediated cytotoxin delivery enhances anti-tumor activity in colorectal cancer

A Plasmodium-derived nanoparticle vaccine elicits sterile protection against malaria in mice - Nature Microbiology Plasmodium falciparum proteins were engineered to create a nanoparticle vaccine platform capable of displaying multiple antigens at 48 sites. Displaying a designed malaria circumsporozoite protein imm...

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Plasmodium falciparum proteins were engineered to create a nanoparticle vaccine platform capable of displaying multiple antigens at 48 sites

#MicroSky #Malaria 🦠🦟💉

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A big thanks to all the authors, reviewers, and readers of Nature Microbiology for their love and support throughout the year.

We are on a break & will be back on Jan 2nd, in what will be a very special year for us!

In the meantime, enjoy a collage made by @francoismayer.bsky.social

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Yes, please! 😄

As the year ends, we decided to select our favorite papers of 2025

Turns out, it is impossible as we love them all!

So, we picked 'some' that exhibit the range of microbiology highlighted through the columns of Nature Microbiology.

Here is a glimpse into #EditorPicks of 2025

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One of the things I love about my job is the range of cool papers I get to read and researchers I get to work with to highlight the most interesting microbiological advances

This thread is just a preview of the diversity of microbiology that came out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com in 2025

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People emailing to say that they sent you a message on Teams.

Modern life is rubbish.

So many AI-written letters coming in... Are the machines feeling the pre-holiday crunch to submit as well? 🤖🎄

Franziska Faber and I are recruiting shared postdocs, PhD students to work on Fusobacterium & new BGCs. www.helmholtz-hiri.de/fileadmin/HI...

Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition - Nature Microbiology Mathematical modelling and experimental tests reveal principles that govern displacement of a resident strain by an invader in microbial communities.

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Two interesting papers, two different contexts, but both reminded me of the super cool recent article in @natmicrobiol.nature.com by @erikbakkeren.bsky.social that goes about setting general rules for ecological success in microbial communities.

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Ecological strategies to end the war on resistance - by Kevin Blake and Gautam Dantas The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the original author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of GARDP, their donors and partners, or other collaborators and contr...

Great viewpoint article by @kevinsblake.bsky.social & Gautam Dantas

"we must rethink the brute force approaches that attempt (futilely) to fight resistance (...). Instead, we should pursue complementary strategies that mitigate selection of antibiotic resistance"

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Looking for someone interested to apply for a postdoc grant with me on reindeer microbiomes. 🦌🦠🧬

Please email for details.