Fatima Pereira
@fatimacpereira.bsky.social
Lecturer @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social Microbiome research
Microbe & animal lover
Microbe & animal lover
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
Season 5 is going to start 🔜
Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...
@kathlemon.bsky.social @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social
Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...
@kathlemon.bsky.social @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Season 5 is going to start 🔜
Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...
@kathlemon.bsky.social @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social
Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...
@kathlemon.bsky.social @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social
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Our recent paper by @julkras.bsky.social provides further insights into the metabolism of sulfoquinovose in humans and lab mice, and its prebiotic potential.
🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Sulfoquinovose is exclusively metabolized by the gut microbiota and degraded differently in mice and humans - Microbiome
Background Sulfoquinovose (SQ) is a green-diet-derived sulfonated glucose and a selective substrate for a limited number of human gut bacteria. Complete anaerobic SQ degradation via interspecies metab...
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Our recent paper by @julkras.bsky.social provides further insights into the metabolism of sulfoquinovose in humans and lab mice, and its prebiotic potential.
🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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New paper out: E.coli uses the MazEF toxin-antitoxin system to help defend against RNA phages
tinyurl.com/RNAphage
The project that made it through maternity leave, pandemic, three institutions, an international move, and even unemployment 💪
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
#Resilience #ResearchJourney
tinyurl.com/RNAphage
The project that made it through maternity leave, pandemic, three institutions, an international move, and even unemployment 💪
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
#Resilience #ResearchJourney
June 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
New paper out: E.coli uses the MazEF toxin-antitoxin system to help defend against RNA phages
tinyurl.com/RNAphage
The project that made it through maternity leave, pandemic, three institutions, an international move, and even unemployment 💪
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
#Resilience #ResearchJourney
tinyurl.com/RNAphage
The project that made it through maternity leave, pandemic, three institutions, an international move, and even unemployment 💪
@sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
#Resilience #ResearchJourney
If you are into #posttranscriptional modifications, gut #inflammation, #immunology or #gutmicrobiome check out our latest work @jem.org 👇
Big team effort @miershawig.bsky.social
@connyves.bsky.social
Big thanks to @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding!
Big team effort @miershawig.bsky.social
@connyves.bsky.social
Big thanks to @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding!
.@connyves.bsky.social group shows that RNA editing of the #actin cross-linker FLNA is similarly regulated in mice & humans and that the targeted induction of edited FLNAR in myeloid cells governs resistance to DSS-induced #colitis, revealing its potential in #IBD therapy rupress.org/jem/article/...
June 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If you are into #posttranscriptional modifications, gut #inflammation, #immunology or #gutmicrobiome check out our latest work @jem.org 👇
Big team effort @miershawig.bsky.social
@connyves.bsky.social
Big thanks to @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding!
Big team effort @miershawig.bsky.social
@connyves.bsky.social
Big thanks to @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding!
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
Understanding microbiota resilience in the face of imbalances is crucial for maintaining host health. This #mBio review explores microbiota resilience, emphasizing the interplay between microbial communities and host-driven environmental controls. asm.social/2qW
May 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Understanding microbiota resilience in the face of imbalances is crucial for maintaining host health. This #mBio review explores microbiota resilience, emphasizing the interplay between microbial communities and host-driven environmental controls. asm.social/2qW
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
New preprint @julkras.bsky.social et al.
We show that degradation of sulfoquinovose, ubiquitous in plants and algae, is a core function of the cow rumen microbiome
and describe novel SQ-metabolizing taxa.
🐄🧫🦠 #microbiomesky #microsky
We show that degradation of sulfoquinovose, ubiquitous in plants and algae, is a core function of the cow rumen microbiome
and describe novel SQ-metabolizing taxa.
🐄🧫🦠 #microbiomesky #microsky
Extensive richness and novel taxa of sulfoquinovose-degrading bacteria in the cow rumen https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.655074v1
May 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
New preprint @julkras.bsky.social et al.
We show that degradation of sulfoquinovose, ubiquitous in plants and algae, is a core function of the cow rumen microbiome
and describe novel SQ-metabolizing taxa.
🐄🧫🦠 #microbiomesky #microsky
We show that degradation of sulfoquinovose, ubiquitous in plants and algae, is a core function of the cow rumen microbiome
and describe novel SQ-metabolizing taxa.
🐄🧫🦠 #microbiomesky #microsky
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
📢 Call for papers! Submit your research to #mSystems' new collection on Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Contribute systems-level insights into microbial communities, evolution and ecosystems. Submit now: asm.social/2mq
April 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📢 Call for papers! Submit your research to #mSystems' new collection on Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Contribute systems-level insights into microbial communities, evolution and ecosystems. Submit now: asm.social/2mq
Check out this great #PhD opportunity at our School and join our growing #Microbiology team 👇
Another PhD opportunity to join the growing Microbiology community in Southampton 💪 🦠 🔬
Interested in how bacteria adapt to challenges like temperature changes and antibiotics? Join my lab at UoS to explore the role of accessory elements!
tinyurl.com/PhDbacteriaUoS
Apply here: tinyurl.com/MicroUoS
Interested in how bacteria adapt to challenges like temperature changes and antibiotics? Join my lab at UoS to explore the role of accessory elements!
tinyurl.com/PhDbacteriaUoS
Apply here: tinyurl.com/MicroUoS
Accessory Genomes and Evolutionary Strategies of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Accessory Genomes and Evolutionary Strategies of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
tinyurl.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Check out this great #PhD opportunity at our School and join our growing #Microbiology team 👇
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
🎉 Congrats to Luis Guerra & Ahmed Dawoud on their new paper in General and Comparative Endocrinology!
They explore ligand-gated ion channels across Platyhelminthes—diversity, evolution in nematodes & sex-specific expression. 🔬🧬 #science #research
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
They explore ligand-gated ion channels across Platyhelminthes—diversity, evolution in nematodes & sex-specific expression. 🔬🧬 #science #research
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Global analysis of ligand-gated ion channel conservation across Platyhelminthes
Ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) are critical for neurotransmission, mediating responses to neurotransmitters and hormones, and influencing diverse p…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
🎉 Congrats to Luis Guerra & Ahmed Dawoud on their new paper in General and Comparative Endocrinology!
They explore ligand-gated ion channels across Platyhelminthes—diversity, evolution in nematodes & sex-specific expression. 🔬🧬 #science #research
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
They explore ligand-gated ion channels across Platyhelminthes—diversity, evolution in nematodes & sex-specific expression. 🔬🧬 #science #research
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📣 Exciting opportunity! We're hiring a #postdoctoral fellow in #gutmicrobiome research to explore the activity and function of the gut microbiome in situ and its regulation by the immune system.🦠🔬
Post based at @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
Apply here 👇
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Post based at @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
Apply here 👇
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) in Microbiology/Microbiome
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Gut Microbiome Group, School of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton. The University of Southampton is a wor...
jobs.soton.ac.uk
March 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
📣 Exciting opportunity! We're hiring a #postdoctoral fellow in #gutmicrobiome research to explore the activity and function of the gut microbiome in situ and its regulation by the immune system.🦠🔬
Post based at @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
Apply here 👇
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Post based at @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
Apply here 👇
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
Want @nanoporetech.com data for benchmarking microbe related stuff? Check our data for pure cultures,
@zymoresearch.bsky.social mocks and metagenomes ( github.com/Kirk3gaard/M...). Basecalled reads with methylation is in @enasequence.bsky.social . Eventually the pod5s might go there as well.
@zymoresearch.bsky.social mocks and metagenomes ( github.com/Kirk3gaard/M...). Basecalled reads with methylation is in @enasequence.bsky.social . Eventually the pod5s might go there as well.
GitHub - Kirk3gaard/MicroBench: Overview of our data for microbial genomic benchmarking
Overview of our data for microbial genomic benchmarking - Kirk3gaard/MicroBench
github.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Want @nanoporetech.com data for benchmarking microbe related stuff? Check our data for pure cultures,
@zymoresearch.bsky.social mocks and metagenomes ( github.com/Kirk3gaard/M...). Basecalled reads with methylation is in @enasequence.bsky.social . Eventually the pod5s might go there as well.
@zymoresearch.bsky.social mocks and metagenomes ( github.com/Kirk3gaard/M...). Basecalled reads with methylation is in @enasequence.bsky.social . Eventually the pod5s might go there as well.
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
We are having a brilliant time at #winchestersciencecentre today for #SOTSEF #bsw25 Brains 🧠🤯 Bones 🦴 Beans 🫘 Plants 🌿 Ears 👂Phages @phagecollection.bsky.social Bugs 🧫🦠 @ukbiofilms.bsky.social & Worms 🔬 LOTs and LOTS of children and LOTs of sciencey fun! 🥳 🥼🧪🥽 #citizenscience #scienceforall
March 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We are having a brilliant time at #winchestersciencecentre today for #SOTSEF #bsw25 Brains 🧠🤯 Bones 🦴 Beans 🫘 Plants 🌿 Ears 👂Phages @phagecollection.bsky.social Bugs 🧫🦠 @ukbiofilms.bsky.social & Worms 🔬 LOTs and LOTS of children and LOTs of sciencey fun! 🥳 🥼🧪🥽 #citizenscience #scienceforall
Our group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social spent the day at our #ScienceFestival telling kids how important and cool are microbesµbiomes. 🦠🧫
Lets hope the importance of science will never be forgotten by the new generations!
Lets hope the importance of science will never be forgotten by the new generations!
March 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Our group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social spent the day at our #ScienceFestival telling kids how important and cool are microbesµbiomes. 🦠🧫
Lets hope the importance of science will never be forgotten by the new generations!
Lets hope the importance of science will never be forgotten by the new generations!
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...
March 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...
📢Join us for the upcoming webinar by Prof. Ted Dinan on the Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry.
🌍 Theme: Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry
📅 Date: 13:00 (GMT) March 24, 2025, Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register here: www.oaepublish.com/webinars/mrr...
🌍 Theme: Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry
📅 Date: 13:00 (GMT) March 24, 2025, Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register here: www.oaepublish.com/webinars/mrr...
March 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
📢Join us for the upcoming webinar by Prof. Ted Dinan on the Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry.
🌍 Theme: Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry
📅 Date: 13:00 (GMT) March 24, 2025, Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register here: www.oaepublish.com/webinars/mrr...
🌍 Theme: Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry
📅 Date: 13:00 (GMT) March 24, 2025, Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register here: www.oaepublish.com/webinars/mrr...
Come check this out if you are in the south of England 👇🏻🦕
We have a rich fossil heritage on the south coast, marine reptiles, dinosaurs, the first humans on these islands... And everything in between. Come and find out about it at our new exhibition, running from April 4th to June 1st.
godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/exhi...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/exhi...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Come check this out if you are in the south of England 👇🏻🦕
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni
February 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio
The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding
the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations,
socioeconomic pr...
journals.asm.org
February 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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We have received many questions in the last week about some of the content on our website being under review. @asm.org
asm.org/Press-Releas...
asm.org/Press-Releas...
ASM Responds to Member Questions About Executive Orders
Our modified pages are back up or in the process of being restored. ASM has not retracted or altered any research articles, scientific papers or peer reviewed articles on our website.
asm.org
February 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We have received many questions in the last week about some of the content on our website being under review. @asm.org
asm.org/Press-Releas...
asm.org/Press-Releas...
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Out now in @nature.com: Gut microbiome diversity across African populations - a valuable resource for further research and foundational for global health equity. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa - Nature
A cross-sectional study from four African countries shows the importance of investigating the gut microbiome in previously under-represented populations and provides a framework for equitable microbio...
www.nature.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Out now in @nature.com: Gut microbiome diversity across African populations - a valuable resource for further research and foundational for global health equity. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New preprint on sulfur metabolism in the gut by @julkras.bsky.social & the team and great collaborators 🤩
#microbiome #microsky 🧫🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microbiome #microsky 🧫🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sulfoquinovose is differently degraded by the mouse and human gut microbiota and not metabolized by the host
Sulfoquinovose (SQ) is a green-diet-derived sulfonated glucose and a selective substrate for few human gut bacteria. Complete anaerobic SQ degradation via interspecies metabolite transfer to sulfonate...
www.biorxiv.org
January 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
New preprint on sulfur metabolism in the gut by @julkras.bsky.social & the team and great collaborators 🤩
#microbiome #microsky 🧫🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microbiome #microsky 🧫🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
The 2025 #MicrobesandSocialEquity virtual speaker series is open for registration! Each month, we'll hear talks on microbiology and health of people, animals, plants, and the environment.
Registration is required but free. Check the lineup and register:
microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...
Registration is required but free. Check the lineup and register:
microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...
Speaker Series 2025
Events will be hosted January – December, 2025, on the last Wednesday of every month, 12:00 – 14:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom. After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an i…
microbesandsocialequity.org
January 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The 2025 #MicrobesandSocialEquity virtual speaker series is open for registration! Each month, we'll hear talks on microbiology and health of people, animals, plants, and the environment.
Registration is required but free. Check the lineup and register:
microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...
Registration is required but free. Check the lineup and register:
microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...
Interested in #microbiome research? Please join me and many others for the first Microbiome Virtual International Forum of 2025! 🦠💊
Registration for #MVIF is free 👇
microbiome-vif.org
Registration for #MVIF is free 👇
microbiome-vif.org
It's a new year!
...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩
Registration here: cassyni.com/s/mvif-35
⭐️MicroTalks:
Minna Chang
@hariszaf.bsky.social
⭐️ Keynote:
@chmoei.bsky.social
⭐️Selected talks:
Pratyay Sengupta
@fatimacpereira.bsky.social
@cladigar.bsky.social
...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩
Registration here: cassyni.com/s/mvif-35
⭐️MicroTalks:
Minna Chang
@hariszaf.bsky.social
⭐️ Keynote:
@chmoei.bsky.social
⭐️Selected talks:
Pratyay Sengupta
@fatimacpereira.bsky.social
@cladigar.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Interested in #microbiome research? Please join me and many others for the first Microbiome Virtual International Forum of 2025! 🦠💊
Registration for #MVIF is free 👇
microbiome-vif.org
Registration for #MVIF is free 👇
microbiome-vif.org
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
'Here, we show that this reagent appears to be unreliable due to providing false-positive signals at the expected molecular weight of Bax in immunoblotting experiments and likewise provides false-positive signals in immunofluorescence-based detection of Bax expression'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Why Bax detection in >1400 publications might be flawed - Cell Death & Disease
Cell Death & Disease - Why Bax detection in >1400 publications might be flawed
www.nature.com
December 26, 2024 at 3:22 PM
'Here, we show that this reagent appears to be unreliable due to providing false-positive signals at the expected molecular weight of Bax in immunoblotting experiments and likewise provides false-positive signals in immunofluorescence-based detection of Bax expression'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55
December 11, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55