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Exciting news for UVA Department of Pediatrics!

New work by SMI member Philip Ahern published The Journal of Immunology shows the gut symbiont Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron utilizes the NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (NQR) complex to induce IL-10, shaping host immunity in the gut pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37486212/ #SMIMemberPaper

Applications are open to join the UVA-MIC department! Excellent research, wonderful people and you get to live in Charlottesville 🙌

Mami Taniuchi, PhD, and scientists in Dhaka, Bangladesh, will use a $2.5 million grant to study environmental surveillance in tracking vaccine-preventable infectious diseases in a low-resourced setting. UVA ID UVA Health #Research #UVASchoolOfMedicine news.med.virginia.edu/research/mami-…

We have been fortunate to see this project progress with incredibly smart scientists Jenny Shao Jeremy Kinder and Sing Sing Way tackling the immunologic complexities of pregnancy. Really challenging and important work! Congrats to all!! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Beirne B. Carter Immunology Center Researchers Expand Studies About Link Between IgE Sensitization to Alpha-gal, Cardiovascular Disease and Alzheimer’s UVA Cardio news.med.virginia.edu/research/beirn…

Justin is a wonderful person, father and colleague. Words are not enough to describe how unfair this is.

Grateful and proud to speak about a topic near and dear to my heart alongside Ayaka Sugiura (Vanderbilt MSTP), Talia H. Swartz, and other inspiring women a in Nature Medicine Comment piece today! APSA #physicianscientists #doubledocs nature.com/articles/s4159…

Biomedical engineering professor Jason Papin and collaborators have developed a powerful tool to understand how medications affect men and women differently. at.virginia.edu/xvMFN8 Papin Lab Virginia BME

Much love to the TransUniversity Microbiome Initiative team and thanks to everyone who came out today to celebrate. Special thanks to Casey Hoffman for being the most amazing program manager and for designing what is surely the top baby shower game amongst microbiome scientists worldwide.

Ever wonder how probiotics can influence mood? Our new paper is hot off the press! Congrats and thank you to the whole team! ⁦Alban Gaultier⁩ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our lab's first paper is official! Super proud of and grateful to the team for everything that went into this project. Check out the video to learn more about how the microbiome contributes to growth and immunity during intergenerational undernutrition.

A new tool developed at UVA School of Medicine will help doctors & scientists better understand and overcome childhood #undernutrition. It contributes to almost half of all deaths of children under 5. Carrie Cowardin Child Health Research Center BMC #malnutrition bit.ly/4aSm480

Really optimistic about this work and eagerly awaiting the results! #microbiome #undernutrition

Innovative Alzheimer's researcher John Lukens, PhD, named inaugural director of UVA’s Harrison Family Translational Research Center in Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, part of the Paul and Diane Manning Institute. John Lukens UVA Health bit.ly/3yqdbEu

Today marks the end of an era as we wished goodbye to our Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and former Division Director of Neonatology, Dr. Robert Sinkin, who retired after 6,611 days in the NICU at UVA. We are lucky to have had him here!

I am excited to share the first story from my lab MicrobioOhioState. The question: Can/how do bacteria in the gut respond to abiotic carbohydrate nutrients (i.e., no selective pressure)? Spoiler alert, bacteria are amazing and they can!! nature.com/articles/s4158…

So proud of Yadeliz A. Serrano Matos and the whole team for their hard work on this project. Check it out if you're interested in the #microbiome #maternalhealth or #undernutrition