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General Microbiome
New Paper: Lessons Learned From the Prenatal Microbiome Controversy
Congratulations to our Director and Platform 1 Lead Dr. Kathy McCoy on this recent publication! Abstract For more than a century, the prenatal environment was
New Paper: Maternal Consumption of Artificially Sweetened Beverages During Pregnancy is Associated with Infant Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Modifications and Increased Infant Body Mass Index
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Co-Lead Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta and our Platform 4 Lead Dr. Laura Sycuro on this recent publication! Studying 100 infants from
New Paper: From Birth to Overweight and Atopic Disease: Multiple and Common Pathways of the Infant Gut Microbiome
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Lead Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj on this recent publication! This recent study from Dr. Kozyrskyj’s team and colleagues highlights how birth
New Paper: Innate Responses to Gut Microbiota; Critical Assessment of the Necessary Experimental Controls
Congratulations to our Director and Platform 1 Lead Dr. Kathy McCoy on this recent publication! Focusing on the recent findings (since 2017) regarding the commensal
Pregnancy & Early Life
New Paper: Delayed gut microbiota maturation in the first year of life is a hallmark of pediatric allergic disease
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Lead Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj on this recent publication! Abstract Allergic diseases affect millions of people worldwide. An increase in their
New Paper: Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Co-Lead Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta on this recent publication! Abstract Whether the human fetus and the prenatal intrauterine environment (amniotic fluid
New Paper: Bacteroides-Dominant Gut Microbiome of Late Infancy is Associated with Enhanced Neurodevelopment
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Lead Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj on this recent publication! In this longitudinal clinical study, the authors leveraged the CHILD cohort study
Documentary: Let Them Eat Dirt
Dr. Brett Finlay and Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta (IMPACTT Platform 2 Co-Lead) have written an engaging and important book called Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving our Children
Health & Disease
New Paper: Multidrug-resistant E. coli encoding high genetic diversity in carbohydrate metabolism genes displace commensal E. coli from the intestinal tract
Congratulations to our Education & Mentorship Co-Lead Dr. Braedon McDonald on this recent publication! Abstract Extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) can cause a variety of infections outside
New Paper: Identifying Rare Genetic Determinants for Improved Polygenic Risk Prediction of Bone Mineral Density and Fracture Risk
Congratulations to our Platform 5 Lead Dr. Celia Greenwood on this recent publication! Abstract Osteoporosis and fractures severely impact the elderly population. Polygenic risk scores
New Paper: Gut Microbiome Composition Is Associated With Future Onset of Crohn’s Disease in Healthy First-Degree Relatives
Congratulations to our Platform 3 Lead Dr. Karen Madsen on this recent publication! Abstract Background & AimsThe cause of Crohn’s disease (CD) is unknown, but
New Paper: Immunometabolism and microbial metabolites at the gut barrier: lessons for therapeutic intervention in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Congratulations to our Platform 3 Lead Dr. Karen Madsen on this recent publication! Abstract The concept of immunometabolism has emerged recently whereby repolarizing of inflammatory
Antimicrobial Resistance
New Paper: Multidrug-resistant E. coli encoding high genetic diversity in carbohydrate metabolism genes displace commensal E. coli from the intestinal tract
Congratulations to our Education & Mentorship Co-Lead Dr. Braedon McDonald on this recent publication! Abstract Extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) can cause a variety of infections outside
New Paper: Ethical Health Security in the Age of Antimicrobial Resistance
Congratulations to our Ethics Lead Dr. Diego Silva on this recent publication! Abstract Owing to its potential human, social and economic costs, antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
Documentary: Let Them Eat Dirt
Dr. Brett Finlay and Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta (IMPACTT Platform 2 Co-Lead) have written an engaging and important book called Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving our Children
Ethics and Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR)
The 5th volume of the Springer Series on Public Health Ethics Analysis published by Dr. Euzebiusz Jamrozik and Dr. Michael Selgelid, focuses on Ethics and
Microbiome & Immunity
New Paper: Microbial Modulation of Intestinal T Helper Cell Responses and Implications for Disease and Therapy
Congratulations to our Education & Mentorship Lead Dr. Markus Geuking on this recent publication! This review summarizes the milestone findings in the field of microbiota-intestinal
New Paper: Programing of an Intravascular Immune Firewall by the Gut Microbiota Protects against Pathogen Dissemination during Infection
Congratulations to our Director and Platform 1 Lead Dr. Kathy McCoy, as well as our Education & Mentorship Lead & Co-Lead Dr. Markus Geuking and
New Paper: Microbiome-Derived Inosine Modulates Response to Checkpoint Inhibitor Immunotherapy
Congratulations to our Director and Platform 1 Lead Dr. Kathy McCoy, as well as our Platform 4 Co-Lead Dr. Ian Lewis and our Education &
New Paper: Tacrolimus Impairs Kupffer Cell Capacity to Control Bacteremia: Why Transplant Recipients Are Susceptible to Infection
Congratulations to our Platform 1 Co-Lead Dr. Paul Kubes on this recent publication! Using a define mouse model of acute methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia