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Hall Lab
@halllab.bsky.social
Prof Lindsay Hall’s research group at University of Birmingham & Quadram Institute. Early life microbiota (we love Bifidobacterium!), and influence of diet, host and pathogens.
🧫 #MMEG2025 is back!

📍 University of Birmingham | 15-16 Dec
🎤 20+ ERC talks, posters & flash talks
🍽️ Social at Indian Brewery Taproom

Keynote: Prof. Corinne Whitby

Abstracts due 2 Nov - get those abstracts submitted!

Join us for a cracking microbial ecology community meeting 👉
Have research, results, or ideas to share with the microbial ecology community? Don’t miss your chance to present it at #MMEG2025 - abstract submissions close 2 November!

📨 Submit your abstract: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...
October 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Have research, results, or ideas to share with the microbial ecology community? Don’t miss your chance to present it at #MMEG2025 - abstract submissions close 2 November!

📨 Submit your abstract: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
New paper out! 🎉 Our collab with Jorge & Amanda shows that Bifido can remotely control placental endocrine function (in 🐀) - modulating >400 proteins! 🚀 Published in J Transl Med - translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Gut microbes shaping the placenta - pretty amazing stuff! 🧫🤰
October 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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MMEG is coming to @unibirmingham.bsky.social in December - look out for some exciting announcements about the programme in the next few weeks! Abstract submission and registration is open 👇🏻
Save the Date: #MMEG2025 is coming to Birmingham!

Join us on 15–16 December 2025 for the 31st edition of MMEG. This year's event is your chance to:
🔬 Share your research
🤝 Connect with peers
🦠 Discover the latest in molecular microbial ecology

Register now: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...
October 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
📢🚨 Check out @drgdavidson.bsky.social's 3-year senior PDRA role below @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social!
Super exciting project exploring wildlife ecology 🐾 and gut microbiome bioinformatics 🧬!
👉 Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18...
💬 Informal enquiries to Gabrielle welcome!
September 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Come join us 2-4th March 2026 for a cracking #microbiome conference in Hinxton UK! Speaker line up is AMAZING and lots of opportunities for ECRs for selected talks, flash talks and posters.

Bursaries are also available!

See details below 👇
Showcase your microbiome research at our 2026 conference! #Microbiome26

Demonstrate how #genomics tools and technologies are contributing to a deeper understanding of the microbiome.

🗓️ 2-4 March
Submit an abstract by 24 November ✍🏼

📎 bit.ly/4kttBOX
#MicrobiomeSky #AcademicSky
September 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
We were gutted that @eliza-coli.bsky.social’s stunning illustration wasn’t chosen for the front cover - I mean, just look at it! ✨

Working with Eliza was a joy & if you’re looking for a brilliant scientific illustrator to bring your projects to life, I can’t recommend her highly enough 🎨🧫🦠
Bifidobacteria co-evolve with their hosts - new research by the @halllab.bsky.social published in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social and illustrated by me!

Another #NotTheCover for the books, but in this case, it's really their loss 😋

🧫🧪🐡 #microbiome #cartoon
September 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Such an engaged audience at #EESMicrobiome with lots of great questions after my talk!

Big thanks to the organisers for inviting me to present some of the teams recent early life #microbiome work.

Conference has been AMAZING so far!
🦠🔬 We’re starting #EESMicrobiome Session 3: Early life microbiome – development and impact

🔸Chaired by Tami Lieberman (MIT) & Mani Arumugam (University of Copenhagen)

🎤 First talk:
'Exploring early life microbiome interactions'
by Lindsay Hall @unibirmingham.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🚨 An excellent opportunity for scientists in Africa, at all career stages, working on maternal & child microbiome research 🚨

📚 Blended learning (3 months) incl. prep modules, hands-on training (12-17 Apr 2026) & mentoring.

coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/human-...
Human Gut Microbiome Metagenomics – Africa — 20260412
Build skills in microbiome metagenomics, bioinformatics, and data interpretation to advance maternal and child health research
coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org
September 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Excited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦

Key takeaways:
🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution
🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes
🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential
September 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Bursaries to support your participation at our Microbiome research conference! #Microbiome26

Get up to 50% off the conference registration fee - apply by 24 November 📩

Join us to explore the latest tools and approaches driving advances in the field.

📎bit.ly/4kttBOX
#MicrobiomeSky #AcademicSky
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com!

We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨

Huge team effort!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
🧠🌍 Free Online Symposium
African Microbiomes & Mental Health
📅 29 Sept 2025 | 🕒 14:00 SAST / 13:00 BST
🔗 Register or submit an abstract: forms.gle/8WBZnimr3xui...
🎤 Join leading researchers, clinicians & lived experience experts.
🌟 Submit an abstract for a 10-min spotlight talk!
📄 Speaker info below
August 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome.
💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia
📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025
🌍 Int’l applicants welcome!
Application link below.
#microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky
August 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Interested in bacteriocins targeting Gram-negative bacteria causing UTIs? Come and work with me and PI @davidnegus.bsky.social as a research assistant on a 12-month project, funded by The Urology Foundation. #UTIsky
Research Associate:Clifton Campus
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk
August 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Barnstorming talk by @coytelab.bsky.social at the @imibirmingham.bsky.social seminar series today!

🧬 “An ecosystem on a leash: understanding the drivers of gut microbiome dynamics”

Thanks for making the trip down from Manchester and sharing some super cool published & preliminary data! 🚀
July 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Exciting webinar on AI & Health Data coming up! 🧠💻

Featuring @unibirmingham.bsky.social & UK Dept for Business & Trade

Explore clinical & public health research, collab opportunities & more.

🗓️ July 15 | 10:00–11:30am EST
🔗 lu.ma/9v8i0fdl

#AI #HealthData #UKResearch #UoB #DBT #DigitalHealth
AI & Health Data Webinar · Luma
We invite you to attend this webinar on AI & Health Data Applications for Health Interventions, Clinical Trial Acceleration, and Regulation for AI in…
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June 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Newly published study by Prof Lindsay Hall @halllab.bsky.social and Prof Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social finding that antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus bacteria are common in premature babies
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/wi...
June 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🌍 #WorldMicrobiomeDay 2025
At @halllab.bsky.social we’re uncovering how microbes - right from day one - help shape the gut, strengthen immunity, and protect against infection.
We're exploring how, when, and which microbes colonise - in order to develop interventions for a healthier start to life.
June 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Amazing to see this now published! Congrats to @lisalamberte.bsky.social and @wvschaik.bsky.social - on leading this important #microbiome study on #AMR and Staphylococcus haemolyticus in the preterm gut 👇
June 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🌍 Thrilled to share that I've been selected as a 2025 UK Goalkeeper by WIRED Consulting in partnership with @gatesfoundation.bsky.social!
This incredible initiative celebrates those driving progress towards the UN SDGs – and I’m honoured to be among this year’s cohort.

www.wired.com/sponsored/st...
Meet the visionaries taking on the world’s biggest problems
As sustainable development faces mounting threats, a new generation of “goalkeepers” are pioneering new approaches to keep progress alive
www.wired.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
(1/6) 🌟 Excited to share our new paper!
Advancing microbiome safety assessments: opportunities, challenges & recommendations 🧫🦠

This work came out of an academic–industry workshop hosted by @microbiologysociety.org in early 2024.

🔗 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Assessing the safety of microbiome perturbations
Everyday actions such as eating, tooth brushing or applying cosmetics inherently modulate our microbiome. Advances in sequencing technologies now facilitate detailed microbial profiling, driving inten...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
May 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Amazing evening talking science @pintofscience.uk in Birmingham

Was really great to present some of the amazing data from @halllab.bsky.social

Also credit to the organisers for such an amazing venue !
May 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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🎉 Fantastic start to the @hologen.bsky.social in sunny Copenhagen! From 5-9th May we had a week of training, talks & new connections - including our 1st #HoloGen Symposium. Brilliant energy from our new PhD cohort - excited for the impactful years ahead! 💥
#Hologenomics #Microbiome #PhDLife #MSCADN
May 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Looks like I’ve got another move across the world in me! 🌏✈️📦 I'll be starting at @uniofbath.bsky.social in a few weeks as senior lecturer/associate prof in human microbiome. Excited to be back in Europe + for new collabs (alongside ongoing 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇫🇮🇸🇪🇦🇹 ones). Thanks to everyone who helped; more soon!
May 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM