Our new review in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology entitled “Fermented foods and gastrointestinal health: underlying mechanisms” is now published. Well done to Arghya Mukherjee 🇮🇳🇮🇪 Samuel Eirini Dimidi PhD RD & MarcoLab rdcu.be/dtjKz

New content online: Fermented foods and gastrointestinal health: underlying mechanisms dlvr.it/T017Nm

The 1st output of our citizen science project, Kefir4All, is now published. Well done Liam Walsh Samuel Guilherme Martin Mairead Eimear Ferguson Aimee Stapleton Fiona Crispie & Paul O’Toole journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.11…

Petunias designed to glow✨🌱✨. On sale for first time today !!! The would is going to be so cool as we get better at designing DNA. Get ‘em before they run out ! Got mine already 😄😄 light.bio

huge congratulations N. Rose Edwin on a fantastic first publication from her PhD thesis VistaMilk Research Ireland Centre SoilEnvMicro Florence Abram Amy Fitzpatrick link.springer.com/10.1186/s40793…

Microbial insights into soil microbiomes require nuanced understanding of databases, Classifiers and thresholds. Our study link.springer.com/10.1186/s40793… captures these focal points and more.

APC researchers at MASTER IA H2020 Teagasc Food Research Programme are co-authors on an important Cell paper out today about analysis of the metagenomes of 2,533 foods to create the first open access database of the food microbiome Read Paper: bit.ly/3MmRyZg

Fantastic output from MASTER IA H2020 now published in Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

What is a healthy #microbiome, and is there such a thing? Perspective published in Nature Reviews Microbiology by a large team of international experts, colleagues from APC Microbiome Ireland, and the EU funded Human Microbiome Action Consortium. rdcu.be/dYODZ nature.com/articles/s4157…

For somebody working on the gut #microbiome, the responses ("gross", "embarrassment", "pseudoscience", etc.) to this nature article on the treatment of C-section babies with their mother’s poo are quite sobering. So, I thought I would provide a perspective in the thread below.

Fantastic to see this comprehensive study of water kefir pangenomes, led by Samuel Breselge, now published “The core microbiomes and associated metabolic potential of water kefir as revealed by pan multi-omics". rdcu.be/ec7GT

Compared to the lactic acid bacteria, the acetic acid bacteria are a relatively under appreciated component of many #fermented #foods. Here, AAB are the focus of an in-depth metagenomics-based analysis by Erkang Zhang with Niccolò Carlino Nicola Segata Samuel & MClaessonLab

Thanks to the persistence & deep literature study by Lauren Northeastern University Bioengineering, we explored the regulation of vindoline biosynthesis & photomorphogenesis with the 2 following papers:

PhD position open! 🌾🧫🧬✂️😃 Are you interested in plant pathology and genome editing? Have you ever seen how cool Xanthomonas manipulates the plant cell using TALEs? Don't hesitate to apply! uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/7851 (...we are in Hannover, Germany...)

Congratulations to Dr Samuel Breselge who has won the APC Scientific Excellence - Postdoctoral Award #APCSymposium2025