Fatima Pereira
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Fatima Pereira
@fatimacpereira.bsky.social
Lecturer @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social Microbiome research
Microbe & animal lover
Many congrats Alex, SongCan, Marc and the entire team! You rock :) (microbes as well, of course!)
August 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Reposted by Fatima Pereira
Our recent paper by @julkras.bsky.social provides further insights into the metabolism of sulfoquinovose in humans and lab mice, and its prebiotic potential.

🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Sulfoquinovose is exclusively metabolized by the gut microbiota and degraded differently in mice and humans - Microbiome
Background Sulfoquinovose (SQ) is a green-diet-derived sulfonated glucose and a selective substrate for a limited number of human gut bacteria. Complete anaerobic SQ degradation via interspecies metab...
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Congrats Franklin and team - brilliant work 👌
July 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
In this role, you will collaborate closely with teams developing and integrating innovative #imaging approaches, as well as with #immunologists, to address fundamental questions about microbial communities in the gut and their interactions with the immune system.
March 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I will have a post doc position opening soon - gut microbiome w/ microscopy and microbial ecology techniques - pls tell them to drop me a line at f.c.pereira@soton.ac.uk if interested
March 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
for mouse studies: OligoMM12 Oligo Mouse Microbiota - standardized and covers broad range of functions

www.dsmz.de/collection/c...
Leibniz Institute DSMZ: Oligo Mouse Microbiota
www.dsmz.de
March 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM