Think tuberculosis and leprosy are things of the past? Think again. 50 days free access to this meeting report on Many Hosts of Mycobacteria 9 (MHM9), authors.elsevier.com/c/1hVvW5EwgpMJ…. Thanks to Richard Robinson and team for pulling this together. Ohio State Infectious Diseases Institute

The interconnectedness of life… A mother’s stress may change the makeup of her child’s microbiome wapo.st/3QPIdN2

Thrilled to share some exciting news! 🎉🎉 I’ll be speaking at ScienceWriters2023 on Sep 26 - Oct 10, 2023, along with many other amazing speakers. I would love to see you there! #SciWri23 via #whova platform whova.com/portal/scien_2…

Congratulations to Lyanna Kessler for being awarded the GEBIN Young Presenter Award at at the German-Endocrine-Brain-Immune-Network (GEBIN) meeting in Ulm! Thanks to the meeting organizers for a fantastic program. CUBoulderIPHY, CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences, Leif Saul @lyanna_kay, GEBIN

Congratulations to Luke Desmond for being awarded the GEBIN Young Presenter Award at the German-Endocrine-Brain-Immune-Network (GEBIN) meeting in Ulm! Thanks to the meeting organizers for a fantastic program. CUBoulderIPHY, CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences, Leif Saul GEBIN

Congratulations to John Sterrett, PhD student, for winning the ToF 2023 backyard ultramarathon (95 miles) December 9 in Tennessee!

Time to start planning for your 2024 garden. The scientific reasons you should resolve to start gardening colorado.edu/today/2023/01/…

I love this placard in the garden at the Eden Project, Cornwall, England. In fact, I just love the Eden Project! edenproject.com

Congratulations to Saydie Sago, PhD student at CU Boulder, and all the ARCS Foundation Scholars. Thanks to ARCS Foundation for your support of these amazing scholars! arcsfoundation.org/national-homep… colorado.arcsfoundation.org

Congratulations to Saydie Sago for being awarded the 2024 Cobell Graduate Summer Research Fellowship! Thanks to The Cobell Fellowship Team at Indigenous Education, Inc. for their support for this program and supporting Native graduate students. CUBoulderIPHY Cobell Scholarship

Happy to share this recording of a live radio show on "How Microbiomes Affect Fear" with John Kealey, Ed Broders, and Brett Monnard from KALA-FM, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, USA #ROI, #Relevant or Irrelevant, #KALA, #KALA Radio soundcloud.com/kalaradio/roi-…

Congratulations to Chelsea Siwik, Ashley Mason (UCSF), and colleagues on this case study combining infrared whole-body heating and CBT for depression. This leverages interoception (the idea that the body affects the mind), and top down effects of CBT. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to share this CUriosity feature by Lisa Marshall. It makes us wonder if we should all be spending more time playing in the dirt. colorado.edu/today/2024/10/…

Congratulations to Stefanie Malan-Müller and colleagues on this new forward-thinking article on the microbiome-gut-brain axis and implications for mental health disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.…

Congratulations to Luke Desmond and his team on this paper showing that a microbial "Old Friend", Mycobacterium vaccae, prevents Western-style diet-induced weight gain and visceral adiposity. colorado.edu/today/2025/01/…

Just want to share this link to the final version of the article in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, showing that the microbial "Old Friend", Mycobacterium vaccae, can protect against a Western diet-induced overweight and obesity phenotype in mice. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.…