Ruth, our summer intern and a participant in the Bioscience Scholars Program, presented her research on brain activation in mice colonized with microbiota from IBD patients today! We are proud of her! #research #trainee #earlyincareer #ibdresearch #microbiome

🙌Daniel Wang, MD (UCLA Cardiology Fellowship) receives #UCLAMicrobiome Seed Fellowship Award! 🔹Racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular risk amidst discrimination: A lipidomics, gut #microbiome & neuro-imaging analysis 🔹Mentors: @AGuptaCNS Tien Dong MD, PhD Gilbert Gee

🏆Naomi Gancz (Naomi Gancz) & Fran Querdasi (Fran Querdasi) receive #UCLAMicrobiome Seed Fellowship Award! 🔹Early adversity and internalizing in middle childhood to adolescence: Gut #microbiome and inflammatory mechanisms 🔹Mentor: Dr. Bridget Callaghan (UCLA Department of Psychology Brain and Body Lab - UCLA)

👏Dr. David Meriwether NIH K01 grant: Dysregulation of inflammation resolution as therapeutic target for #IBD 🎯Investigating molecular mechanisms by which pro-inflammatory macrophages transition to inflammation-resolving phenotype following phagocytosis of apoptotic cells.

A Video Byte describing the lab's recently published IBS multi-omics study is now posted on Research Square. Check out the video: researchsquare.com/article/rs-327… Read the initial paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36624530/ #microbiome #IBD #ibs

Congratulations to Dr. Julianne Yang from our lab on a successful defense! #PhD

The real mad scientists #AcademicHalloween

Microbiota-Dependent Upregulation of Bitter Taste Receptor Subtypes in the Mouse Large Intestine in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity 🔖Nutrients MDPI 🖊️F Caremoli J Huynh V Lagishetty D Markovic Jonathan Braun Tien Dong MD, PhD Jacobs Lab Catia Sternini 👉mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/1…

Dr. Elaine Hsiao (Elaine Hsiao) named among the🌎most influential researchers in sciences & social sciences for 2023 by Clarivate. Authored studies rank in top 1% in number of scholarly citations worldwide! #UCLAMicrobiome 👉Full UCLA faculty list newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/2023-…

Happy Holidays from the Jacobs Lab!

Dr. Jesús A. Araujo & Jacobs Lab 🔖in IJMS MDPI - Ambient Particulate Matter Induces In Vitro Toxicity to Intestinal Epithelial Cells without Exacerbating Acute Colitis Induced by Dextran Sodium Sulfate or 2,4,6 Trinitrobenzenesulfonic Acid 👉 mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/1…

In Gut Journal, a study supports that microbiota "dysbiosis exists as a pre-disease state detectable by faecal and serum biomarkers for #IBD risk prediction." Jacobs Lab Elizabeth A Spencer MD MS Graham Britton Joana Torres Jean-Frederic Colombel Jeremiah Faith #Microbiota👇