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and our non-commercial co-organizing partners Seerave Foundation @cunysph.bsky.social
The #MVIF team wishes you happy holidays
and happy New Year
✨in their native language✨

Buone feste e felice anno nuovo!

Srećni praznici i srećna Nova godina!

Καλές γιορτές και ευτυχισμένος ο νέος χρόνος!

MVIF团队祝大家节日快乐! 新年快乐!

ɬush hayash-san pi ɬush chxi-kʰul!
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December 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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We have an early New Year present for you:
🎁The new #MVIF program is out🎁

Highlights:
🇳🇵 Bishwash Thapa
🇮🇷 Zahra Nezamivand Chegini

Keynote:
🇨🇭 @saramitri.bsky.social

Talks:
🇺🇸 @liliancaesar.bsky.social
🇮🇹 Haseeb Manzoor
🇦🇹 Laurenz Holcik

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-45

See you in January!
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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After end/beginning-of-year celebrations and some well-earned rest, come start the year thinking and talking microbiomes: Jan 20 8:30am NY - or - Jan 22 9:30am Tokyo! I’ll share my latest work on bee hive-level microbiome assembly, including spatial organization and cross-kingdom interactions : )
We have an early New Year present for you:
🎁The new #MVIF program is out🎁

Highlights:
🇳🇵 Bishwash Thapa
🇮🇷 Zahra Nezamivand Chegini

Keynote:
🇨🇭 @saramitri.bsky.social

Talks:
🇺🇸 @liliancaesar.bsky.social
🇮🇹 Haseeb Manzoor
🇦🇹 Laurenz Holcik

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-45

See you in January!
December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We have an early New Year present for you:
🎁The new #MVIF program is out🎁

Highlights:
🇳🇵 Bishwash Thapa
🇮🇷 Zahra Nezamivand Chegini

Keynote:
🇨🇭 @saramitri.bsky.social

Talks:
🇺🇸 @liliancaesar.bsky.social
🇮🇹 Haseeb Manzoor
🇦🇹 Laurenz Holcik

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-45

See you in January!
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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In case you missed #MVIF 44 talks 📺🍿 (thanks to @tosina.bsky.social) recordings are now available on

our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

and

@cassyni.bsky.social platform cassyni.com/s/mvif-44

Enjoy!
MVIF.44 - 9 December 2025 - YouTube
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December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
In case you missed #MVIF 44 talks 📺🍿 (thanks to @tosina.bsky.social) recordings are now available on

our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

and

@cassyni.bsky.social platform cassyni.com/s/mvif-44

Enjoy!
MVIF.44 - 9 December 2025 - YouTube
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December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
⭐️ Talks:

Age-related microbiome metabolites alter RNA splicing and chromatin accessibility in the brain
by 🇺🇸 Meenakshi Chakraborty

Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/3
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
⭐️Keynote #MVIF talk: Sniffing out interspecies interactions in the human nasal microbiota
by 🇺🇸 @kathlemon.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
⭐️ Highlights:

Evaluating urine volume and host depletion methods to enable genome-resolved metagenomics of the urobiome
by 🇺🇸 Vanessa Hale

Check out the paper: microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

1/2
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#MVIF 44 is LIVE!

Today's backstage team says HI from Nigeria, Japan, Belgium, Italy, and Serbia!!

Let's talk about #microbiome!
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
TODAY

the Atlantic #MVIF team and speakers can't wait to discuss #microbiome science with you!

JOIN the event here cassyni.com/s/mvif-44
It's Monday!
...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-44

⭐️ Highlights:
🇺🇸 Vanessa Hale
🇰🇷 Jun Hyung Cha

⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 Katherine Lemon @kathlemon.bsky.social

⭐️ Talks:
🇺🇸 Meenakshi Chakraborty
🇨🇳 Wei Shen @shenwei356.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Johanna Gutleben
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
After great Pacific event, we are waiting you tomorrow at the Atlantic #MVIF:

just register here cassyni.com/s/mvif-44 and you are ready!
#MVIF Q&A right now with Celio Dias and our speakers Meenakshi Chakraborty, Johanna Gutleben & @shenwei356.bsky.social!
December 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
#MVIF Q&A right now with Celio Dias and our speakers Meenakshi Chakraborty, Johanna Gutleben & @shenwei356.bsky.social!
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Time for the Talks session at #MVIF 44!

Age-related microbiome metabolites alter RNA splicing and chromatin accessibility in the brain
by 🇺🇸 Meenakshi Chakraborty

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Age-related microbiome metabolites alter RNA splicing and chromatin accessibility in the brain
The gut microbiome generates diverse metabolites that can enter the bloodstream and alter host biology, including brain function. Hundreds of physiologically relevant, gut-brain signaling molecules li...
www.biorxiv.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Great talk by @kathlemon.bsky.social at #MVIF 44: Sniffing out interspecies interactions in the human nasal microbiota.

(If you missed it, you can catch up later at cassyni.com/s/mvif-44.

Now ready for the Q&A with @silverja.bsky.social 🤩
December 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Today's backstage team says HI👋 from Canada, US, Japan, Australia and China!

BIG thanks to #MVIF supporting partners:
Seerave Foundation, @cunysph.bsky.social @corundumsb.bsky.social and Illumina!

Join the live now or catch-up later via cassyni.com/s/mvif-44.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
🤩 #MVIF 44 is live in less than 30 minutes!

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-44
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Join #MVIF 44 cassyni.com/s/mvif-44
the Pacific team is ready to welcome you soon!
It's Monday!
...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-44

⭐️ Highlights:
🇺🇸 Vanessa Hale
🇰🇷 Jun Hyung Cha

⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 Katherine Lemon @kathlemon.bsky.social

⭐️ Talks:
🇺🇸 Meenakshi Chakraborty
🇨🇳 Wei Shen @shenwei356.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Johanna Gutleben
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Join #MVIF 44 cassyni.com/s/mvif-44
the Pacific team is ready to welcome you soon!
It's Monday!
...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-44

⭐️ Highlights:
🇺🇸 Vanessa Hale
🇰🇷 Jun Hyung Cha

⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 Katherine Lemon @kathlemon.bsky.social

⭐️ Talks:
🇺🇸 Meenakshi Chakraborty
🇨🇳 Wei Shen @shenwei356.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Johanna Gutleben
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT microbiomedigest.com/2025/12/04/d...

• urinary biochem ecology / @mikeneugent.bsky.social

• Microflora Danica atlas / @mkddueholm.bsky.social

• gut lumen -> hypothalamus / ‪@pipethero.bsky.social

See you next week at #MVIF 44 (@microbiomevif.bsky.social)!
December 05, 2025
See you at MVIF next week! General microbiome Consensus Statement: STREAMS guidelines: standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies – Julia M. Kelliher …
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December 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Join #MVIF 44 cassyni.com/s/mvif-44
and #MeetTheSpeakers

🇺🇸 Vanessa Hale will discuss technical challenges of low microbial biomass and high host cell shedding in metagenomics analysis of urine samples.

Check out the paper: microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
December 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Join #MVIF 44 cassyni.com/s/mvif-44
and #MeetTheSpeakers

🇺🇸 Vanessa Hale will discuss technical challenges of low microbial biomass and high host cell shedding in metagenomics analysis of urine samples.

Check out the paper: microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
December 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Happy December!

Join #MVIF 44 – we will discuss diverse #microbiome topics:
human urinary, gut, oral and nasal microbiomes,
extreme environments, and
a new sequence alignment tool.
It's Monday!
...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-44

⭐️ Highlights:
🇺🇸 Vanessa Hale
🇰🇷 Jun Hyung Cha

⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 Katherine Lemon @kathlemon.bsky.social

⭐️ Talks:
🇺🇸 Meenakshi Chakraborty
🇨🇳 Wei Shen @shenwei356.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Johanna Gutleben
December 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Happy December!

Join #MVIF 44 – we will discuss diverse #microbiome topics:
human urinary, gut, oral and nasal microbiomes,
extreme environments, and
a new sequence alignment tool.
It's Monday!
...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-44

⭐️ Highlights:
🇺🇸 Vanessa Hale
🇰🇷 Jun Hyung Cha

⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 Katherine Lemon @kathlemon.bsky.social

⭐️ Talks:
🇺🇸 Meenakshi Chakraborty
🇨🇳 Wei Shen @shenwei356.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Johanna Gutleben
December 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM