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lauraioca.bsky.social
@lauraioca.bsky.social
Postdoc @Princeton, Donia lab :)
Microbial natural products, genetic engineering and chemical ecology.
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The 'Oscar' of food prizes goes to a Brazilian who harnessed the power of bacteria

Mariangela Hungria found microbes that were good at capturing nitrogen from the air and turning it into fertilizer for crops.

www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
The 'Oscar' of food prizes goes to a Brazilian who harnessed the power of bacteria
This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to a Brazilian who boosted the country's farming revolution, turning it into a soybean superpower.
www.npr.org
May 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Excited to share our latest work on the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease patients. This is the result of hard work across generations of trainees in the Donia Lab, in collaboration with amazing scientists (Nobuhiko Kamada and Lea Ann Chen). www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
February 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM