Check out this new #JNutr article by Nicholas Burd and colleagues, who studied the impact of the food matrix on post-exercise muscle protein synthesis by comparing salmon vs. a mixture of amino acids and fish oils jn.nutrition.org/article/S0022-…

To improve your memory, you may want to step up your dance moves. Dr. Dr. Susie Aguiñaga walked CNN through dance's impacts on brain health in this "Staying Well" segment. Full story: cnn.com/videos/tv/2023…

Hannah Holscher, FSHN at Illinois says fiber does way more than just help keep us more regular🚽 It helps control blood sugar and lower cholesterol and inflammation. Hear more from Maria Godoy on NPR: tinyurl.com/24vzwkq7

Great question from _ last night that *everyone* should be asking about schools: "So, Joe, if it's not that hard to do, not super expensive, better health outcomes and better schooling outcomes, what's up, why hasn't this money been spent?"

This Superfood Friday we are calling out another Superfood SOS 🚨as Joy Bauer answers your questions.

Can you help us?😊(retweet, like) We are looking for a highly motivated and talented candidate for our fully-funded #PhD position in Precision #Nutrition, #Metabolomics and #Bioinformatics! 🥦👩‍🔬 Join us in the ♥️ of Copenhagen Deadline: Nov 5, 2023 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1602…

Together with Liam O'Mahony, we are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for our Microbe Restore team. Please consider (or share) if you have a strong expertise in immunology and mouse models of autoimmunity. Search 072031 on ore.ucc.ie for details. Deadline Nov. 24.

Attention grad students & postdocs in the fields of probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, postbiotics, and fermented foods -- 10 days left to get your application in for our Early Career Researcher award! Read more here and meet our past winners: isappscience.org/about/glenn-gi…

Calling all gut health enthusiasts! There’s still time to register for our FREE webinar next week, 12/7 that will cover the latest science on the human microbiome. Don’t miss this chance and register here: bit.ly/46cqJi4 #RDChat #MDChat #NutritionMyths #GutHealth

Purdue Nutrition congratulates Dr. Patricia Wolf on a recent publication she co-authored entitled, “The microbiome as a determinant of racial and ethnic cancer disparities.” doi.org/10.1038/s41568…

@PurdueNutrtion congratulates Dr. Annabel Biruete on being the first author on a publication entitled, “The dietary fiber inulin slows progression of chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD) in a rat model of CKD.” doi.org/10.1002/jbm4.1…

👏 Congratulations to CCIL Associate Director for Education Zeynep Madak Erdogan for receiving the AACR 2024 Michael B. Kastan Award for Research Excellence. The award recognizes a paper with significant implications in breast cancer research. 👉 go.illinois.edu/AACRAward

One of the most important aspects of big data analysis is making the data AI ready. Data scientists spend 80% of their time here. Want to know more? See our latest paper with many of my wonderful NPH and U.S. Military Academy at West Point colleagues. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

It's been almost 7 years since I became a parent. In that time, I've heard a lot of subtle and *not* so subtle skepticism about "making it" as both a mother & a scientist. Here's my response, published in Nature today: nature.com/articles/d4158…

🚨Interested in why fermented foods may be important for health? Check out our new pub describing a class of microbial metabolites that are abundant in fermented foods and are modifiable to enhance food matrix bioactivity towards a key immune receptor-AhR sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our department is seeking a Dept Head University of Illinois! Please spread the word and feel free to DM me if you have questions!

👀Check out this brief press article about our latest paper! 🐭🧠🤰 Ashley Otero aces.illinois.edu/news/fetal-bra…

I would like to remind everyone on the pitfalls of studying low-biomass samples, which we discussed in our paper here: nature.com/articles/s4158…. So no, you do not have a microbiome in your brain.

Join Dr. Sharon Donovan at the 2024 CAS Annual Lecture to learn about her pioneering research on Building “STRONGer” Kids through Early Life Nutrition! 🗓️ Oct 16 | 7 PM (in-person & online) 📍 Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum 💻 Live stream: go.illinois.edu/CASAnnualLectu…

Researchers from the lab of Cari Vanderpool examined a major colonizer of the gut microbiome, revealing insights into the breakdown of raffinose family oligosaccharides and their potential as prebiotics. go.mcb.illinois.edu/rfo