I had a great time at #mucin2024 in beautiful Gothenburg! 🇸🇪 I learned a lot about mucins and enjoyed the very active poster sessions. It was great to talk about mucin-driven microbe interactions with so many of you!🦠↔️🦠

New #archaeome paper alert! Growing human #archaea is sometimes really a pain, but we found a way to cultivate Methanobrevibacter species in a very targeted way: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Kelly Klomp is taking over @NL_Wetenschap this week! Kelly is a PhD candidate in our lab and studies the influence of antibiotics and probiotics on the infant gut microbiota. She will tweet about gut bacteria and gut health (in 🇳🇱). Stay tuned and follow @NL_Wetenschap!

Happy #InternationalMicroorganismDay to everyone celebrating across the world! 🌐 It's only with such a devoted community that this day has become such a special celebration.😁 Cheers to the #microbes! 🦠 internationalmicroorganismday.org

Congratulations Maryse Berkhout you are the winner of the #MicrobeArt2024 Best Physical Piece submission! Your creative and unique crocheted artwork, "Microbe-mucus interactions," captures the complexity and beauty of these biological processes. #InternationalMicroorganismDay

Vanmorgen heb ik een super leuk interview gehad met NPO Radio 1 over het belang van de darmbacteriën en de onderzoeken die ik doe! Benieuwd hoe belangrijk de darmbacteriën zijn bij jonge kinderen? Luister hier het fragment:nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/de-… #wur #darmbacteriën Laboratory of Microbiology at WUR

20 years ago, Akkermansia muciniphila was discovered 🦠🔬. To celebrate two decades of science on this unique bacterium, we reviewed its role in the human gut, some special biological features and potential applications. Athanasia (Nancy) Ioannou @clarabelzer nature.com/articles/s4157…

Akkermansia muciniphila is a gut microbe that was isolated in 2004 in our lab💩👩‍🔬🦠. In our latest review, we discuss 20 years of research on this bacterium that has an extraordinary relationship with its human host. nature.com/articles/s4157…

Akkermansia muciniphila: biology, microbial ecology, host interactions and therapeutic potential Belzer & co. explore the diversity of A. muciniphila, its biology, interactions with the host, diet and microbiota, its link with health and disease, and potential applications.

20 years after its isolation Akkermansia muciniphila fascinates science. Due to its proximity to the mucosal barrier and its beneficial effect on metabolic and gut health it has a lot of potential as a therapeutic. Read our review @clarabelzer Maryse Berkhout at Nature Reviews Microbiology

🦠 How does human milk stir the formation of bacterial communities in the infant gut?👶 Check our paper in The ISME Journal from @clarabelzer group at Laboratory of Microbiology at WUR doi.org/10.1093/ismejo…

New paper in FEMS Microbiology Ecology! Akkermansia muciniphila, Ruminococcus torques and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron differ in their preferences for degradation of porcine gastric mucin O- and N-glycans🦠. Read it here👇 doi.org/10.1093/femsec…

Another publication in FEMS!🔬 How do glycans shape the infant gut microbiota?👶 With a novel in vitro synthetic community we studied the interplay between microbes and HMOs, mucin glycans and GOS/FOS.🍼🤱🦠 Athanasia (Nancy) Ioannou, Clara Belzer et al. doi.org/10.1093/femsec…

Milk sugars from the mother play crucial roles in the development of a baby's gut microbiome.🍼 To explore the interactions between sugars and baby's microbes, a new study used a synthetic community of glycan degraders and cross-feeders. #FEMSmicroBlog buff.ly/jkrith0