Antimicrobial resistance is one of our greatest health challenges. Alongside Novo Nordisk Foundation and Gates Foundation, we have launched a new $50 million global funding initiative to drive innovation in early antibiotic discovery ⤵️ gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/inno…

Whenever I talk about phage therapy to someone new, people are like 'why isn't this a thing?' I say 'the science is there, but there's no money in antimicrobials' But something always nags at me. Is that really it? This week on the Podovirus Podcast, we dive in: 1/ 🧵

Meet mandimycin, a new polyene antifungal with broad-spectrum activity and a unique mode of action targeting fungal cell membranes. 🦠🔬 #Antifungal Out in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

New online! Human microbiome acquisition and transmission nature.com/articles/s4157…

Floor Microbiome of middle income houses in Delhi, India reveals presence of pathogenic bacteria, especially Escherichia coli, usually found in feces, on Living area floors and large number of clinically relevant AMR genes Reckitt ET Environment Science News CSIR, India

Antibiotic crisis: Science advances, but funding stalls! Despite breakthroughs in antibiotic research, financial hurdles keep new drugs from reaching the market. Brüssow’s contribution has been the most accessed article last February! doi.org/10.1111/1751-7…

Moving from genome-scale to community-scale metabolic models for the human gut microbiome nature.com/articles/s4156…

Engineering bacteriophages through deep mining of metagenomic motifs | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Global genetic structure of human gut microbiome species is related to geographic location and host health: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

“GlycoCaging” uses gut bacteria to activate drugs for inflammatory bowel disease. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4lmy3Q6

Microbiome-based therapeutics towards healthier aging and longevity. #Mibrobiome #Aging #MicrobiomeTherapeutics Genome Medicine genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Chlorophyll trends are negative for lakes but positive for estuarine–coastal waters pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Introducing a new gut microbiology journal, aptly titled Gut Microbiology. All Article Publishing Charges (APCs) are waived for 2 years! Please send your exciting research our way. sciencedirect.com/journal/gut-mi…

The food-associated resistome is shaped by processing and production environments | Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

Deep learning reveals antibiotics in the archaeal proteome nature.com/articles/s4156…

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard