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Ana Santos Almeida
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Microbiome in Health & Disease Translational Lab | PI @GIMM | Advisor @GetTinyHealth | Mom of 2 | Wife. PhD🇫🇷 Postdoc🇺🇸 🇨🇮 Always🇵🇹
💙 World Cancer Research Day

So proud of this amazing team! Their talent and passion for cancer research inspire me every day. Grateful to be on this journey with them.
@gimmfoundation.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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We’re hiring: GIMM is launching its first call for Group Leaders.

Looking for scientists ready to push boundaries, ask bold questions & build the future of biomedical discovery.

🔗 gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...
📅 Apply by June 8

#ScienceJobs #GroupLeader #BiomedicalResearch
April 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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🚨Great new MSc and PhD positions available @gimmfoundation!

Check out the links or use the QR code.

MSc:
www.medicina.ulisboa...

PhD:
gimm.pt/course/phd-p...
June 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Curious about aging & longevity research? Join us at GIMM Fest (Lisbon, Portugal)

Discover groundbreaking insights & engage with top researchers. It's a celebration of curiosity & a catalyst for change.

🗓️ Sept 4-5: Scientific Sessions + Sept 6: Public Event

👉 gimm.pt/gimm-festival/
May 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
We’re hiring! Deadline is May 16th
We’re hiring a Computational / Data Scientist!
Join us at the GIMM CARE Microbiome in Health and Disease Translational Lab, where we’re on a mission to revolutionise #ColorectalCancer prevention and treatment through innovation!
📅 Deadline: 16 May, 2025

📍 Apply now: lnkd.in/dtqdWTg6
Computational / Data Scientist – GIMMComputational / Data Scientist – GIMM
Thank you very much for your generous donation and for sharing your testimony.We hope to more people feel inspired to join this mission of discovery and innovation!
lnkd.in
May 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Join us at GIMM
We’re hiring: GIMM is launching its first call for Group Leaders.

Looking for scientists ready to push boundaries, ask bold questions & build the future of biomedical discovery.

🔗 gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...
📅 Apply by June 8

#ScienceJobs #GroupLeader #BiomedicalResearch
May 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Our lab is live on Bluesky 🥳🚀
Welcome to the Microbiome HD Lab 🚀🧬

We're an interdisciplinary team on a mission to use the gut microbiome in the fight against colorectal cancer to intercept, prevent, and treat CRC at its roots.

Follow us to stay updated!

#Microbiome #CRC #CancerInnovation @gimmfoundation.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Huge congrats to Joana Serpa on defending her MSc thesis! 🎓👏
Her research dives deep into how the Mediterranean diet shapes gut microbiota and may influence gut adenomas.
Excited to see what’s next for her! 🌟

#NutritionScience #GutHealth #ClinicalNutrition #ProudMentor
@gimmfoundation.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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March is the Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
At GIMM CARE, Ana Santos Almeida, José Azevedo @champalimaudf.bsky.social, Luís Costa & André Mansinho @ Hospital de Santa Maria, join efforts to create a new microbiome-based diagnostic test for colorectal cancer.
Find more: shorturl.at/nwElQ
March 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The impact of a non-industrialized ("Restore") diet plus a key microbe on improving cardiometaboiic health markers and reducing body-wide inflammation, from a randomized trial
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @cellpress.bsky.social open-access
January 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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We’re thrilled that our first paper on the Human Microbiome Compendium, an integrated dataset of over 168,000 uniformly processed human gut microbiome samples, is officially out today in Cell! @richabdill.com @blekhman.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome
The Human Microbiome Compendium is a unified database of publicly available human gut microbiome 16S samples, built with the integrated data from hundreds of independent projects. The compendium is us...
www.cell.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We're starting 2025 with exciting news: 2 clinical trials are now registered!

GUTBIOME-PT ➡️ clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT067...

CARE-CRC ➡️ clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT067...

#ClinicalTrials #ColorectalCancer #MicrobiomeResearch #GutHealth
January 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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We have a wonderful program lined up for #EACR2025 in beautiful #Lisbon 🤩

All of us at #EACR are looking forward to see you in June!

#cancer #research 🧪⚕️

2025.eacr.org
@helloeacr.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thrilled to see that @gimmfoundation.bsky.social joined Bluesky 🦋
GIMM is on Bluesky! We're a recent research foundation created by the merger of 2 leading research institutes in Portugal, IGC and iMM, dedicated to answering fundamental questions of biology and human health & developing solutions to improve health and promote local and global equity. Visit gimm.pt
January 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🎉Huge congrats to @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social ‘s team on this fantastic publication!
Honoured to have made a (tiny) contribution to our *first* work as collaborators. Here’s to many more 🥂🚀

@camvetschool.bsky.social
@naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Interested in the ecological dynamics of Enterobacteriaceae across populations? Check out our new study 🧬
January 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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OUT NOW - Ecological dynamics of Enterobacteriaceae in the human gut microbiome across global populations

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ecological dynamics of Enterobacteriaceae in the human gut microbiome across global populations - Nature Microbiology
Assessing more than 12,000 metagenomic samples from across the world using computational approaches, the authors determined interactions between species that co-colonize or co-exclude Enterobacteriace...
www.nature.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!
January 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I'm putting together a Microbial Bioinformatics starter pack to help get everyone connected in our community. Let me know if there are any bluesky users to be added and share so that twitter refugees can tune back in to the fantastic world microbes go.bsky.app/3ezLo7e
January 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨 We’re hiring! Lab Manager wanted!
Join our team at the Microbiome in Health & Disease Lab, dedicated to leveraging the #microbiome to revolutionise #ColorectalCancer prevention & treatment.

🌟 Apply now: gimm.pt/jobs/lab-man...

Stay tuned—research positions coming soon!

#NewPI
Lab Manager – GIMMLab Manager – GIMM
The GIMM – Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine is a pioneering Portuguese private research foundation with an ambitious vision for fundamental scientific exploration and its profound impact on global health and well-being. Founded in 2023, GIMM is the result of the merge of two leading research institutes: Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM) and Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) and dedicates to unraveling the fundamental mysteries of life and aims to be at the forefront of transdisciplinary research.
gimm.pt
December 20, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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You want to learn about microbiology from a fantastic lineup of speakers on a beautiful Greek island? PhD students apply now for the @EMBO | @FEBSnews Lecture Course The New Microbiology!
Registration: 1 Apr 2025
Course: 03 – 11 Sep 2025 | Spetses, Greece
meetings.embo.org/event/25-new...
December 16, 2024 at 8:43 AM
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🚨 New review in @natrevgastrohep.bsky.social:
Should you take probiotics with antibiotics?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bottom line: current evidence does not support the common perception that probiotics can facilitate the gut microbiome's recovery from antibiotics. BUT! 1/🧵
December 13, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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🚨 New preprint!! How can antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase in abundance in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🧐 We show that strain-specific ecological interactions are key to understanding resistance dynamics in microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2024 at 12:30 PM