She’s better looking than most bacteria I know

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Beneficial Microbes meeting in Amsterdam beneficialmicrobes.events/index.html just canceled Omry Koren for being Israeli. I hope you’re also canceling all the Americans too, right?

And fever reproduces in mice colonized with microbiomes from the study participants and vaccinated the same way (mice get colder)🦠🧫

Here is temperature by diet category after vaccine

So excited to share this latest work by @kelseyhuus.bsky.social !!!
She shows that flagellin in the human gut affects whether or not people develop fever in response to vaccine, and the amount of flagellin reflects diet

Does this count?

Here it’s the brain affecting the gut microbiota- via the Brunner’s gland, which nerves stimulate to produce mucus, home for the Lactobacilli. Links physiological state to immunity. Amazing work by Ivan de Araujo and Hao Chang. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Arithmetic.

Just 12 days until the CMFI symposium in Tübingen! Check it out at cmfi23.com - speakers include Fredrik Bäckhed, Michael Fischbach, Carmen Buchenrieser, Eric Pamer, Michael Otto, and local speakers too, such as the wonderful Lisa Maier! October 11-13 🧫🦠