Incredible stuff! Here’s hoping they can use this technology for other diseases such as ones caused by prions! 🤞

Are you still adding people to this? My entire thesis is based on immunometabolism :) TIA!

I’m not sure how much help this may be if they need physical samples, but Michigan State’s herbarium has a load of archived plant data that may be useful if they are looking for data collection.

More info on the herbarium can be found here: herbarium.natsci.msu.edu/collections/...

It was a pleasure to watch Ben grow as a scientist over these few months with us. I am fully confident he will succeed in his future endeavors and hope he isn’t a stranger in the future. :)

If you are interested in the specifics of his research, the PDF of his poster is on his LinkedIn profile!

— microbiome suggest that rotavirus vaccine administration does not majorly alter the gut microbiome in a detrimental way; in fact, neonatal administration of one rotavirus vaccine modulates the microbiome in a way that allows for protection from actual infection. Hopefully this helps!

Maybe these might help answer your question?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/sre...
academic.oup.com/jid/article/...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Not all necessarily related to maternal antibodies and breastmilk, but many studies assessing the neonatal/infant —