Ghjuvan Micaelu Grimaud

A new species has been added to our understanding of the gut microbiome. @Pharmabiotic reports on Bacteroides maternus sp. nov., isolated from a healthy mother after childbirth. The discovery offers fresh insight into microbial diversity in the gut.

Estimated size of the total genome and protein space of viruses: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Oceana thanks @FrankPallone, @RepRaulGrijalva, @RepAOC, @NydiaVelazquez, @RepCarbajal, @RepDeborahRoss, @RepHuffman, @USRepKCastor, @RepKamlagerDove, @RepBonamici, @ChelliePingree, and @MikeLevin for leading the call to #ProtectOurCoast from offshore drilling and spilling!

"As global norms are set and scientific standards issued, the absence of the US [from WHO] will undermine scientific research, health security, and foreign policy," write @LawrenceGostin and @BenjaminMMeier in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4atNpxW

A metagenomic perspective on the microbial prokaryotic genome census | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A community-driven effort created the Genome Resolved Open Watersheds database (GROWdb), providing insights into the functional #Microbiomes of U.S. river systems. #EnvironmentalScience 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s41586… EVBC👤: @simroux_virus M. Sullivan

The ability of pentose pathways to form all essential metabolites provides clues to the origins of metabolism journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Repetitive injuries to the brain may contribute to the onset of Alzheimer's disease by awakening dormant herpes simplex virus, according to new experiments based on a “brain in a dish” organoid model. Learn more in @scisignal: scim.ag/4j3Ne0l

New PERSPECTIVE - A decade of advances in human gut microbiome-derived biotherapeutics by Alena Pribyl, Phil Hugenholtz & Matthew Cooper @PhilHugenholtz nature.com/articles/s4156…

The gut microbiome signature from different diets in >20,000 individuals. Red meat intake correlated with reduced cardiometabolic health; the opposite for plant-based foods or in omnivores with enriched plant-based intake nature.com/articles/s4156… @NatureMicrobiol @nsegata @Fackelmeister

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied @biorxiv_micrbio by Paul A Jensen biorxiv.org/content/10.110… B. subtilis is #6 😍, anyhow, the literature is biased to models Would publications on plants or animals be similarly biased?

Deciphering bacterial protein functions with innovative computational methods @TrendsMicrobiol from @AsafLevyHUJI cell.com/trends/microbi…

Do you want to start a PhD and study the transmission of the microbiome and alterations in neurological disorders? 🦠🖥️ We have a fully-funded position (deadline: 05/01/25)! All details: tinyurl.com/2b3sre8a Feel free to get in touch for more info!

I'm very happy that these just appeared in bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (reports 71 new SAR11 isolates, proposes names for 24 SAR11 genera). biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (investigates the metabolic determinants of habitat specificity in SAR11). Wishing you all a great 2025 😇

Many people talk about the 'Golden Age of Antibiotics' but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. How abundant was antibiotic development during that time period? How many types of antibiotics were developed? So I visualized it myself!

One of my favorite examples of how a change of a single atom can cause havoc: Vancomycin, often the "antibiotic of last resort", loses efficacy by 1000-fold when a single N atom is mutated to an O by the bacterium (causing repulsion instead of a hydrogen bond).

A new genomic study in Science encompassing more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 years has revealed how a single wave of Neanderthal gene flow into early modern humans left an indelible mark on human evolution. scim.ag/3OWzma0

Making Lactococcus lactis produce vitamin B2 in high quantities by simply exposing it to high temperatures for a year: simple and elegant work! @foodDTUdk pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…