Jess Stanisich
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Jess Stanisich
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Micro / biophysics / molecular bio / science writing 🦠🔬👩‍🔬 Nerd that loves to be outside 🏕️🏔️⛷️ MT Native
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...
July 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
These two areas look suspiciously alike…
January 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 7:24 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!)
January 25, 2025 at 12:58 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:
January 18, 2025 at 9:17 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...
January 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM