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• a free recurring bite-sized alternative to multi-day #microbiome conferences •

➡️ Every month, a new event... join #MVIF community!

https://www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US
Join #MVIF 43 cassyni.com/s/mvif-43

and #MeetTheSpeakers
🇵🇱 Kinga Zielińska will introduce a new metagenomic health index!

Check out the paper: academic.oup.com/gigascience/...
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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and #MeetTheSpeakers

🇵🇰Muhammad Faheem Raziq will discuss the association of gut microbial variations with response against immune checkpoint inhibitors by analyzing the gut metagenomes of patients diagnosed w/non-small cell lung cancer.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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🇺🇸 Fuqing Wu will talk about the latest findings showing that fucoidan could serve as a potential intervention to help protect gut microbiota during antibiotic therapy.

Check out the paper: doi.org/10.1186/s401...
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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🇸🇪 Eran Elhaik will present the Microbiome Geographic Population Structure (mGPS): A Powerful Tool for Microbial Forensics!

Check out the paper: academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🆕 #MVIF 43 program is out!

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-43

⭐️ Highlights:
🇵🇰 Muhammad Faheem Raziq
🇺🇸 Fuqing Wu

⭐️ Keynote:
🇮🇳 Deepa Agashe @deepaagashe.bsky.social

⭐️ Talks:
🇺🇸 Lukas Bethlehem
🇵🇱 Kinga Zielinska
🇸🇪 Eran Elhaik
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
. @serenamanara.bsky.social joined Amadou and introduce #MVIF: no fees, no borders, just #microbiome science!

www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US
October 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Congratulation to the #MVIF 40 winners!!!

Best MicroTalk:
💐 Michael Wasney (@michaelwasney.bsky.social)

Best Selected Talk:
💐 Feargal J. Ryan (@feargalr.bsky.social)
October 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
#MVIF Q&A right now with @epasolli.bsky.social

The poll is OPEN – don’t forget to vote for your favorite presentation (Highlight and Talk)!
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Long-term health outcomes in adolescents with obesity treated with faecal microbiota transplantation: 4-year follow-up
By Brooke Wilson
Today at Q&A: Michele Zuppi

Check out the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

3/3
October 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Integrative genomic reconstruction reveals heterogeneity in carbohydrate utilization across human gut bifidobacteria
by Aleksandr Arzamasov (‪@arzamasovalex.bsky.social)

Check out the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2/3
October 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Join us at the next event in November –> #MVIF 43
cassyni.com/s/mvif-43
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
⭐️ #MVIF talks:

Skin metatranscriptomics reveals a landscape of variation in microbial activity and gene expression across the human body
by Minghao Chia

Check out the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/3
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
👏👏GREAT talk!

Ready for Q&A
with Felix Salim and Peter Turnbaugh!
October 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Check out Turnbaugh Lab's work here: turnbaughlab.ucsf.edu
October 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
⭐️ Keynote talk: Harnessing the gut microbiome to predict and prevent anticancer drug toxicity

By Peter Turnbaugh
October 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Q&A with ​​Christina Pavloudi (@cpavloud.bsky.social) and George Bouras (@gbouras13.bsky.social)

George is open to discuss the limitation of his tool as well! Try it out: github.com/gbouras13/ph...
October 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The Prototypic crAssphage is a linear phage-plasmid
by Danica Schmidtke

Paper: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

2/2
October 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
⭐️ #MVIF highlights:
Protein Structure-Informed Bacteriophage Genome Annotation with Phold
George Bouras (@gbouras13.bsky.social)

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/2
October 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Join #MVIF 42
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and #MeetTheSpeakers

🇳🇿 Brooke Wilson will present their latest findings on FMT in adolescents with obesity!
October 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
SAVE THE DATE: 27 October, 2025
and join speakers from both illumina and #MVIF!

Registration for the webinar is free: emea.illumina.com/events/webin...
October 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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🇺🇸 Danica Schmidtke will talk about the prototypic crAssphage (Carjivirus communis)!
October 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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🇦🇺 George Bouras @gbouras13.bsky.social will introduce Phold, an annotation framework utilising protein structural information that combines the ProstT5 protein language model and structural alignment tool Foldseek.
October 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Join #MVIF 42
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and
#MeetTheSpeakers

🇸🇬 Minghao Chia will present a robust and clinically tractable metatranscriptomics workflow for human skin microbiome samples!
October 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
💫 #MVIF Season 5 💫

Feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open:
www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/how-to...

#MVIF is proudly supported by #illumina @corundumsb.bsky.social
and our non-commercial co-organizing partners Seerave Foundation @cunysph.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Join #MVIF 42
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and
#MeetTheSpeakers

🇺🇸Peter Turnbaugh will talk about a microbiome-informed approach to pharmacology!
October 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM