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Incredibly honoured to be recieving a Gairdner Award today & deeply grateful to my fantastic research team and collaborators - this is truly a Team Achievement! 🏅😃

Excited to be back in Vancouver at UBC Life Sciences Institute at the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) to give a seminar The Overall Lab Dr. Reinhild Kappelhoff PhD, Diplom-Biologin University of British Columbia

Super excited about this new work from a collaboration between my lab and Carolina Tropini, PhD 's lab. Early life intestinal inflammation alters gut microbiome, impairing gut-brain communication and reproductive behavior in mice biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Join us Thursday, June 13 in MSL 102 for the Effective Science Illustrations workshop with Martin Krzywinski. Learn how to turn complex datasets into beautiful, understandable images. eventbrite.com/e/effective-sc…

Really excited to share our latest publication! We introduce a pipeline to design taxon and group specific primers in mixed microbial communities. Kudos to Hans Ghezzi for the great work leading this project! Hans Ghezzi journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Very excited to share our latest preprint! Led by a great student Charlotte A. Clayton, we show how bowel prep increases vulnerability to Salmonella as well as IBD pathobiont infection. We delve into mechanisms and the many facets of this common gut perturbation. shorturl.at/lOoe4

We have a job opening for an immunologist in our dept UBC Dept of Microbiology and Immunology! Broad immunology position at the Assistant Prof level in beautiful Vancouver 😊 Apply by Oct 24th! Please repost and spread the word 🙏

Very excited to share a new paper in collaboration with Annie Vogel Ciernia! We show that early-life inflammation alters sex hormones and mating behavior in mice, alongside shifts in hormone-modifying microbiota members! Great work by Olivia, Claire and others! doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.…

Excited for our new work to be officially published doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.…! This study in collaboration with Carolina Tropini, PhD 's group reveals that early-life gut inflammation leads to sex-dependent changes in the microbiome-endocrine-brain axis.

Excited to share our preprint led by Dr. Hunter! We show that osmotic shifts, common in the gut due to diet & laxatives, alter T4 phage-E. coli evolution. High osmolality promotes fitness but selects for mucoid, weakly phage-resistant E. coli, with implications for phage therapy!

Really excited to share new exciting work led by PhD students McCallum and Burckhardt! We created a new series of syn bio tools in Bacteroides to create non-invasive, real time and sensitive in vivo gut biosensors.

Last week, MBIM undergraduate students participated in UBC’s first Life Sciences Undergraduate 3-Minute Thesis competition. MBIM student Brian Deng from the Tropini lab (left) was awarded first place for a succinct and compelling narrative on his research. Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to Brian on an awesome 3 minute presentation!!

Introducing CIFAR’s new Public Health Microbiome curriculum! Led by experts Prof. Meghan Azad, PhD, Carolina Tropini, PhD, Naama Geva- Zatorsky and Melissa Melby, it bridges cutting-edge microbiome science with real-world public health practice. 🔗 Learn more: cifar.ca/cifarnews/2025…

CIFAR’s Diet Module, developed by Carolina Tropini, PhD, equips educators to think more holistically about how our dietary choices shape the microbiome and influence health outcomes. Learn about this initiative, part of the new Humans & the Microbiome curriculum: cifar.tfaforms.net/4706257

Sculptor: the missing UI for Claude Code 🎨 Imagine running 5 Claudes in parallel, safely in containers, while you stay in flow. Then bring their work straight into your IDE to test/edit together. This is how one developer ships like a team. Try it with Sonnet 4.5!