Jess Stanisich
@jess-stanisich.bsky.social
Micro / biophysics / molecular bio / science writing 🦠🔬👩🔬 Nerd that loves to be outside 🏕️🏔️⛷️ MT Native
PhD: ETH Zurich
Currently: APC Microbiome Ireland
PhD: ETH Zurich
Currently: APC Microbiome Ireland
Gut-brain signaling: these gut cells can sense bacteria...and signal the brain to change behavior! Am I hungry? Maybe my #microbiome is trying to tell me something...
A neurobiotic sense "at the interface of the biota and the brain."
Liu, Reicher, Alway et al., 2025:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A neurobiotic sense "at the interface of the biota and the brain."
Liu, Reicher, Alway et al., 2025:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Gut-brain signaling: these gut cells can sense bacteria...and signal the brain to change behavior! Am I hungry? Maybe my #microbiome is trying to tell me something...
A neurobiotic sense "at the interface of the biota and the brain."
Liu, Reicher, Alway et al., 2025:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A neurobiotic sense "at the interface of the biota and the brain."
Liu, Reicher, Alway et al., 2025:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Do you want to learn coding but you're unsure where to begin? Then join our 'Introduction to Programming for Biologists Using Python' course in September!
📆 19 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:00, online
Book your place: my.rsb.org.uk/item.php?eve...
📆 19 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:00, online
Book your place: my.rsb.org.uk/item.php?eve...
July 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Do you want to learn coding but you're unsure where to begin? Then join our 'Introduction to Programming for Biologists Using Python' course in September!
📆 19 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:00, online
Book your place: my.rsb.org.uk/item.php?eve...
📆 19 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:00, online
Book your place: my.rsb.org.uk/item.php?eve...
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The findings of a study in Nature Microbiology show the high bioaccumulation capacity of gut bacteria for PFAS, commonly known as forever chemicals. go.nature.com/4le7Svk #microbiome #medsky 🧪
July 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The findings of a study in Nature Microbiology show the high bioaccumulation capacity of gut bacteria for PFAS, commonly known as forever chemicals. go.nature.com/4le7Svk #microbiome #medsky 🧪
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Looking to advance your #bioimage #analysis skills? Register now for Hybrid EMBO Practical Course "Advanced methods in bioimage analysis," 14–19 September 2025
Deadline: 4 June 2025
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EMBOBioImage #EMBOevents 🧪
Deadline: 4 June 2025
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EMBOBioImage #EMBOevents 🧪
Advanced methods in bioimage analysis
EMBO Practical Course
www.embl.org
June 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Looking to advance your #bioimage #analysis skills? Register now for Hybrid EMBO Practical Course "Advanced methods in bioimage analysis," 14–19 September 2025
Deadline: 4 June 2025
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EMBOBioImage #EMBOevents 🧪
Deadline: 4 June 2025
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EMBOBioImage #EMBOevents 🧪
Hi #microsky and #microbiome sky!
Would anyone be willing to share their experience with storing micro / pre-clinical / clinical samples at -70C for long term storage?
I know this an old discussion maybe, but wanted to check in for current practices / resources. Thanks!
Would anyone be willing to share their experience with storing micro / pre-clinical / clinical samples at -70C for long term storage?
I know this an old discussion maybe, but wanted to check in for current practices / resources. Thanks!
April 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Hi #microsky and #microbiome sky!
Would anyone be willing to share their experience with storing micro / pre-clinical / clinical samples at -70C for long term storage?
I know this an old discussion maybe, but wanted to check in for current practices / resources. Thanks!
Would anyone be willing to share their experience with storing micro / pre-clinical / clinical samples at -70C for long term storage?
I know this an old discussion maybe, but wanted to check in for current practices / resources. Thanks!
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AMI's New Lecturer Research Grant 📚
Exciting opportunity for new lecturers in research! We’re offering four grants (max award: £10,000) to support early-stage research careers.
Find out more and apply (deadline: 30 April 2025): appliedmicrobiology.org/membership/g...
Exciting opportunity for new lecturers in research! We’re offering four grants (max award: £10,000) to support early-stage research careers.
Find out more and apply (deadline: 30 April 2025): appliedmicrobiology.org/membership/g...
April 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
AMI's New Lecturer Research Grant 📚
Exciting opportunity for new lecturers in research! We’re offering four grants (max award: £10,000) to support early-stage research careers.
Find out more and apply (deadline: 30 April 2025): appliedmicrobiology.org/membership/g...
Exciting opportunity for new lecturers in research! We’re offering four grants (max award: £10,000) to support early-stage research careers.
Find out more and apply (deadline: 30 April 2025): appliedmicrobiology.org/membership/g...
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Join our team! The Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor tenure-track faculty position in the field of environmental microbiology. Review of applications begins April 15, 2025. jobs.montana.edu/postings/45680
April 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Join our team! The Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor tenure-track faculty position in the field of environmental microbiology. Review of applications begins April 15, 2025. jobs.montana.edu/postings/45680
“If you’re more concerned with who’s in the stall next to you versus your own gut bacteria health, then you need to get your 💩 together!”
👉 Current political climate + Microbiome science culminate!
~ @alokvmenon.bsky.social “Biology!” comedy special.
👉 Current political climate + Microbiome science culminate!
~ @alokvmenon.bsky.social “Biology!” comedy special.
February 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“If you’re more concerned with who’s in the stall next to you versus your own gut bacteria health, then you need to get your 💩 together!”
👉 Current political climate + Microbiome science culminate!
~ @alokvmenon.bsky.social “Biology!” comedy special.
👉 Current political climate + Microbiome science culminate!
~ @alokvmenon.bsky.social “Biology!” comedy special.
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Introducing "Metagenomic Estimation of Dietary Intake", or "MEDI": a data-driven approach to estimating dietary and nutritional intake from stool DNA 💩 - 🍌🥦🐟🥩📈
See @cdiener.com's excellent thread below.
We are really proud of this work, and we hope it is useful to the scientific community.
See @cdiener.com's excellent thread below.
We are really proud of this work, and we hope it is useful to the scientific community.
Happy to announce that MEDI, our method to quantify dietary intake through metagenomics is out now. 🧬 🧪🧫🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#metagenomics #microbiome #microbiomesky
So what is MEDI? A combination of two things:
#metagenomics #microbiome #microbiomesky
So what is MEDI? A combination of two things:
Metagenomic estimation of dietary intake from human stool - Nature Metabolism
Diener et al. present a method that allows the estimation of dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.
www.nature.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Introducing "Metagenomic Estimation of Dietary Intake", or "MEDI": a data-driven approach to estimating dietary and nutritional intake from stool DNA 💩 - 🍌🥦🐟🥩📈
See @cdiener.com's excellent thread below.
We are really proud of this work, and we hope it is useful to the scientific community.
See @cdiener.com's excellent thread below.
We are really proud of this work, and we hope it is useful to the scientific community.
Reposted by Jess Stanisich
Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage
https://go.nature.com/42SyoUu
https://go.nature.com/42SyoUu
Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature
Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.
go.nature.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage
https://go.nature.com/42SyoUu
https://go.nature.com/42SyoUu
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ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF CELL-SURFACE GLYCANS 🧬🎨🍬
The glycocalyx, our cells' sugar coat, holds secrets in immunology, cancer, viral infections, and more. Visualizing its molecular architecture was impossible… until now. #glycotime #microscopy
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The glycocalyx, our cells' sugar coat, holds secrets in immunology, cancer, viral infections, and more. Visualizing its molecular architecture was impossible… until now. #glycotime #microscopy
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF CELL-SURFACE GLYCANS 🧬🎨🍬
The glycocalyx, our cells' sugar coat, holds secrets in immunology, cancer, viral infections, and more. Visualizing its molecular architecture was impossible… until now. #glycotime #microscopy
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The glycocalyx, our cells' sugar coat, holds secrets in immunology, cancer, viral infections, and more. Visualizing its molecular architecture was impossible… until now. #glycotime #microscopy
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Politeness is not the same as kindness.
Being polite is saying what makes people feel good today. Being kind is doing what helps people get better tomorrow.
When the norm is politeness, people withhold disagreement and criticism. When the norm is kindness, people speak their minds respectfully.
Being polite is saying what makes people feel good today. Being kind is doing what helps people get better tomorrow.
When the norm is politeness, people withhold disagreement and criticism. When the norm is kindness, people speak their minds respectfully.
February 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Politeness is not the same as kindness.
Being polite is saying what makes people feel good today. Being kind is doing what helps people get better tomorrow.
When the norm is politeness, people withhold disagreement and criticism. When the norm is kindness, people speak their minds respectfully.
Being polite is saying what makes people feel good today. Being kind is doing what helps people get better tomorrow.
When the norm is politeness, people withhold disagreement and criticism. When the norm is kindness, people speak their minds respectfully.
The kindest people in the room are often the smartest since those who act with cruelty “have failed the first test of an advanced society … and never forced their animal brain to evolve past its first instinct.”
~ @govpritzker.illinois.gov at
Northwestern University
#kindness #hope #theoffice
~ @govpritzker.illinois.gov at
Northwestern University
#kindness #hope #theoffice
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker's commencement speech at Northwestern University - 2023
YouTube video by To The Moon And Back Again Productions
m.youtube.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The kindest people in the room are often the smartest since those who act with cruelty “have failed the first test of an advanced society … and never forced their animal brain to evolve past its first instinct.”
~ @govpritzker.illinois.gov at
Northwestern University
#kindness #hope #theoffice
~ @govpritzker.illinois.gov at
Northwestern University
#kindness #hope #theoffice
These are incredible 😍 Brilliant mix of art and science. #sciart
Accurate *and* fluffy!
Check out her beautiful gallery and shop: www.neuronsandnebulas.com/gallery
Accurate *and* fluffy!
Check out her beautiful gallery and shop: www.neuronsandnebulas.com/gallery
I guess I'll start out by sharing some up close, detail shots from my book- Stitching Science. Ask your indie bookstore if they'd like to carry it. (Or push the big name stores to order more than 1 copy). #sciart
January 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
These are incredible 😍 Brilliant mix of art and science. #sciart
Accurate *and* fluffy!
Check out her beautiful gallery and shop: www.neuronsandnebulas.com/gallery
Accurate *and* fluffy!
Check out her beautiful gallery and shop: www.neuronsandnebulas.com/gallery
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Interested in microbial #metabolism, #mucosalbiology and #UTI? Then check out the open postdoctoral position in the Mucosal Immunology Group at ETH Zurich! NB: All applications must go via the ETH job portal:
www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Closing date: 24th Feburary
🧪🧫🔬
www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Closing date: 24th Feburary
🧪🧫🔬
Postdoctoral researcher –Understanding bacterial metabolism in the urinary tract
www.jobs.ethz.ch
January 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Interested in microbial #metabolism, #mucosalbiology and #UTI? Then check out the open postdoctoral position in the Mucosal Immunology Group at ETH Zurich! NB: All applications must go via the ETH job portal:
www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Closing date: 24th Feburary
🧪🧫🔬
www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Closing date: 24th Feburary
🧪🧫🔬
🥶 Each dot represents places on the grid where >10 houses are (still) out of power after Storm Éowyn here in Ireland.
(i.e. 50 here means at least 500 homes are still out of power!)
(i.e. 50 here means at least 500 homes are still out of power!)
January 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🥶 Each dot represents places on the grid where >10 houses are (still) out of power after Storm Éowyn here in Ireland.
(i.e. 50 here means at least 500 homes are still out of power!)
(i.e. 50 here means at least 500 homes are still out of power!)
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If you are a current or prospective researcher / scholar in Germany,
the German Scholars Organization is here to help navigate the waters.
⬇ Have a look at their offers!
@gso-forresearchers.bsky.social
#Microsky 🧪 #hpbio
the German Scholars Organization is here to help navigate the waters.
⬇ Have a look at their offers!
@gso-forresearchers.bsky.social
#Microsky 🧪 #hpbio
Who supports researchers when career paths aren’t clear? That’s where we come in. Here’s what we do and why it matters.
GSO is a nonprofit based in Berlin and acts as an independent ally for researchers, especially for those at the “bottleneck” in their careers.
GSO is a nonprofit based in Berlin and acts as an independent ally for researchers, especially for those at the “bottleneck” in their careers.
January 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
If you are a current or prospective researcher / scholar in Germany,
the German Scholars Organization is here to help navigate the waters.
⬇ Have a look at their offers!
@gso-forresearchers.bsky.social
#Microsky 🧪 #hpbio
the German Scholars Organization is here to help navigate the waters.
⬇ Have a look at their offers!
@gso-forresearchers.bsky.social
#Microsky 🧪 #hpbio
Eat like you’re from Papua New Guinea = happy gut = healthy you! 🥦🧅🫘 > >🥩🥛🌾
Reap the benefits of a non-industrialized diet: lower cholesterol, less inflammation, lower blood glucose levels.
🔓Open access: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#microbiome 🦠
Reap the benefits of a non-industrialized diet: lower cholesterol, less inflammation, lower blood glucose levels.
🔓Open access: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#microbiome 🦠
Cardiometabolic benefits of a non-industrialized-type diet are linked to gut microbiome modulation
Is it possible to restore the human gut microbiome in industrialized settings and
reintroduce microbial species that have been lost? In healthy adults, Li et al. found
that consuming a diet mimicking ...
www.cell.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Eat like you’re from Papua New Guinea = happy gut = healthy you! 🥦🧅🫘 > >🥩🥛🌾
Reap the benefits of a non-industrialized diet: lower cholesterol, less inflammation, lower blood glucose levels.
🔓Open access: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#microbiome 🦠
Reap the benefits of a non-industrialized diet: lower cholesterol, less inflammation, lower blood glucose levels.
🔓Open access: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#microbiome 🦠
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NEW COMMENT: Microbiome science needs more microbiologists
@abaumler.bsky.social and Lauren Radlinski argue that integrating microbiologists and fundamental microbiological concepts should help advance microbiome science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@abaumler.bsky.social and Lauren Radlinski argue that integrating microbiologists and fundamental microbiological concepts should help advance microbiome science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microbiome science needs more microbiologists - Nature Microbiology
Microbiome science is a multi-disciplinary field, but classical microbiologists are needed to ensure advances are grounded in our understanding of basic microbiological concepts.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
NEW COMMENT: Microbiome science needs more microbiologists
@abaumler.bsky.social and Lauren Radlinski argue that integrating microbiologists and fundamental microbiological concepts should help advance microbiome science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@abaumler.bsky.social and Lauren Radlinski argue that integrating microbiologists and fundamental microbiological concepts should help advance microbiome science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NIH Study Sections have been cancelled. These are groups of experts who get paid a pittance, if anything, to review research funding applications from their peers. The result of these reviews is to rank these research grants to decide which proposals get funded.
January 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
NIH Study Sections have been cancelled. These are groups of experts who get paid a pittance, if anything, to review research funding applications from their peers. The result of these reviews is to rank these research grants to decide which proposals get funded.
Reposted by Jess Stanisich
Excited to share our work on broadly effective phage-antibiotic cocktails. We report 4 cocktails that each work against 96% of 153 antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas isolates. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to Kevin Kim @KevinMinyo6651
A blueprint for broadly effective bacteriophage-antibiotic cocktails against bacterial infections - Nature Communications
The application of phage therapy for multidrug-resistant infections is mainly limited to personalized therapy due to the narrow host range of individual phages. Here, Kim et al. identify groups of pha...
www.nature.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Excited to share our work on broadly effective phage-antibiotic cocktails. We report 4 cocktails that each work against 96% of 153 antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas isolates. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to Kevin Kim @KevinMinyo6651
Really enjoyable read; aimed at PIs, but everyone in a lab setting can take something from these guidelines.
#positiveresearchculture #phdlife
Relatable and lots of self-reflection going on here:
#positiveresearchculture #phdlife
Relatable and lots of self-reflection going on here:
January 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Really enjoyable read; aimed at PIs, but everyone in a lab setting can take something from these guidelines.
#positiveresearchculture #phdlife
Relatable and lots of self-reflection going on here:
#positiveresearchculture #phdlife
Relatable and lots of self-reflection going on here:
Less fertilizer, thriving crops - all by attracting more friendly microbes🌽🦠 #microbiome
Intricate mechanism: plant cell nuclei ion channels oscillate Ca2+ concentration - that frequency modulates flavinoid production - >flavinoids attract nitrogen-fixers!
Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Intricate mechanism: plant cell nuclei ion channels oscillate Ca2+ concentration - that frequency modulates flavinoid production - >flavinoids attract nitrogen-fixers!
Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Less fertilizer, thriving crops - all by attracting more friendly microbes🌽🦠 #microbiome
Intricate mechanism: plant cell nuclei ion channels oscillate Ca2+ concentration - that frequency modulates flavinoid production - >flavinoids attract nitrogen-fixers!
Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Intricate mechanism: plant cell nuclei ion channels oscillate Ca2+ concentration - that frequency modulates flavinoid production - >flavinoids attract nitrogen-fixers!
Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Jess Stanisich
Nature research paper: De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins
https://go.nature.com/4fZU9EI
https://go.nature.com/4fZU9EI
De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins - Nature
Deep learning methods have been used to design proteins that can neutralize the effects of three-finger toxins found in snake venom, which could lead to the development of safer and more accessible antivenom treatments.
go.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Nature research paper: De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins
https://go.nature.com/4fZU9EI
https://go.nature.com/4fZU9EI
A microbiome allows rats to survive on poison??
🐀🦠🍽️☠️
Specialized microbiomes and an *absolute bucketload* of liver enzymes allow desert rats to survive on toxic resin covered leaves of the creosote bush.
Wildly cool story + recent update:
tinyurl.com/Desert-rat-m...
+ tinyurl.com/Adapting-to-...
🐀🦠🍽️☠️
Specialized microbiomes and an *absolute bucketload* of liver enzymes allow desert rats to survive on toxic resin covered leaves of the creosote bush.
Wildly cool story + recent update:
tinyurl.com/Desert-rat-m...
+ tinyurl.com/Adapting-to-...
Desert Rat Relies on Microbes To Detoxify Its Deadly Meals
In the Mojave Desert of the western United States, the adorable desert woodrat fills its stomach with deadly poison. This rodent feeds on the creosote bush, a low-lying shrub whose leaves are covered ...
www.nationalgeographic.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A microbiome allows rats to survive on poison??
🐀🦠🍽️☠️
Specialized microbiomes and an *absolute bucketload* of liver enzymes allow desert rats to survive on toxic resin covered leaves of the creosote bush.
Wildly cool story + recent update:
tinyurl.com/Desert-rat-m...
+ tinyurl.com/Adapting-to-...
🐀🦠🍽️☠️
Specialized microbiomes and an *absolute bucketload* of liver enzymes allow desert rats to survive on toxic resin covered leaves of the creosote bush.
Wildly cool story + recent update:
tinyurl.com/Desert-rat-m...
+ tinyurl.com/Adapting-to-...