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General Microbiome

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: 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

New Paper: Long-Distance Relationships – Regulation of Systemic Host Defense Against Infections by the Gut Microbiota
Congratulations to our Education & Mentorship Leads Dr. Markus Geuking and Dr. Braedon McDonald on this recent publication! Abstract Despite compartmentalization within the lumen of

New Paper: From Germ-Free to Wild: Modulating Microbiome Complexity to Understand Mucosal Immunology
Congratulations to our IMPACTT Director and Platform 1 Lead Dr. Kathy McCoy on this recent publication! Abstract The gut microbiota influences host responses at practically
Pregnancy & Early Life

Green spaces may be beneficial for early life microbiota, be outdoorsy!
Analyzing and mapping the microbiota of 355 4 month-old infants to their area of living, Dr. Kozyrskyj and her colleagues revealed that living close by

New Paper: Intestinal Fungi are Causally Implicated in Microbiome Assembly and Immune Development in Mice
Intestinal fungi are causally implicated in microbiome assembly and immune development in mice.

The impact of maternal and early life malnutrition on health: a diet-microbe perspective.
Provide an overview of factors implicated in the progression of malnutrition during early life, discuss the microbiota that may contribute to health risk.

New Paper: Consumption of Artificially Sweetened Beverages During Pregnancy Impacts Infant Gut Microbiota and Body Mass Index
Study finds that artificially sweetened beverages consumption during pregnancy impacts mother’s microbiota and might lead to higher infant BMI.
Health & Disease

Tune in: bacteria may hold a key to some cancer immunotherapies
In these two podcasts, our Director and Platform 1 Lead Dr. Kathy McCoy speaks about her recent study exploring the role of inosine, a bacterial

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: Vitamin D Supplementation in Pregnancy and Early Infancy in Relation to Gut Microbiota Composition and C. difficile Colonization: Implications for Viral Respiratory Infections
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Lead Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj on this recent publication! Studying 1,157 mother-infant pairs of the CHILD Cohort, researchers unravel a possible
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