We improved estimates of regional biodiversity and identified countries with the greatest potential to uncover more biodiversity in future sampling efforts—an analysis that’s the first of its kind and a critical guide for regions with limited research resources. (7/8).

After analysing >30 projects—most not included in any compendium before—we show how saMBA expanded our understanding of the human gut microbiome with samples from nearly every country in the region 🌎. We also found that nearly a third were likely discarded due to past sample size restrictions (6/8).

Happy to share the publication of (what will be) the first chapter of my PhD thesis:

'From in silico screening to in vivo validation in zebrafish – a framework for reeling in the right psychobiotics'

📃: shorturl.at/ZMh9p

#microbiome #probiotics

This week I presented my work on the characterization of gut microbiomes across southamerican populations at the annual meeting of the Irish Society of Comp. Bio.

Our work won an award & loads of very good feedback 🥳.

Sadly, I had to crop the pic but (hopefully) we will drop a preprint soon