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General Microbiome
New Paper: Moving Beyond Descriptive Studies: Harnessing Metabolomics to Elucidate the Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning Host-Microbiome Phenotypes
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Lead Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj & our Platform 4 Co-Lead Dr. Ian Lewis on this recent publication! Abstract Advances in technology
New Paper: Beta-Diversity Distance Matrices for Microbiome Sample Size and Power Calculations — How to Obtain Good Estimates
Congratulations to our IMPACTT Director and Platform 1 Lead Dr. Kathy McCoy, as well as Platform 2 Leads Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj & Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta,
New Paper: Small Intestinal Resident Eosinophils Maintain Gut Homeostasis Following Microbial Colonization
Congratulations to our Education Leads Dr. Markus Geuking & Dr. Braedon McDonald, and IMPACTT Director and Platform 1 Lead Dr. Kathy McCoy, on this recent
New Paper: The Rise to Power of the Microbiome: Power and Sample Size Calculation for Microbiome Studies
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Leads Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta & Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj, and Platform 5 Lead Dr. Celia Greenwood, on this recent publication! Abstract
Pregnancy & Early Life
New Paper: Divergent maturational patterns of the infant bacterial and fungal gut microbiome in the first year of life are associated with inter-kingdom community dynamics and infant nutrition
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Co-Lead Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta on this recent publication! Abstract Background The gut microbiome undergoes primary ecological succession over the course
New Paper: Maternal smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of gut microbiome-associated childhood overweight and obesity
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Lead Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj on this recent publication! Abstract Childhood obesity is linked to maternal smoking during pregnancy. Gut microbiota
New Paper: Longitudinal assessment of bacterial vaginosis prior to and during incident pregnancy: an observational study in Kenyan adolescent girls and young women
Congratulations to our Platform 4 Lead Dr. Laura Sycuro on this recent publication! Abstract Objective: To determine bacterial vaginosis (BV) status at multiple time points
New Paper: Long-term and trimester-specific effects of prenatal stress on the child gut microbiota
Congratulations to our Platform 2 Co-Lead Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta on this recent publication! Abstract ObjectiveStress is common among pregnant individuals and is associated with an
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