Petros Andrikopoulos
pandrikopouloslab.bsky.social
Petros Andrikopoulos
@pandrikopouloslab.bsky.social
MRC Career Development Fellow and Assistant Professor in Host-Microbiome interactions. MDR Imperial College London. Microbiome - kidney heart and beyond.
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BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
October 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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If you like chess check out Igor Smirnov's brilliant channel, for example this crazy puzzle (and the historic story around it): youtu.be/IyyRCwKtChM?...
Only Mikhail Tal Could Solve This Crazy Puzzle! [Even Kasparov Failed]
YouTube video by Remote Chess Academy
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October 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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That's quite the chart annotation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
September 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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If you are leading a team, you have a responsibility to be a “pragmatic optimist”. Otherwise, you risk being disloyal to the amazing young people you work with. #FridayThoughts
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September 19, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Spread the news! We are excited to expand our research team, working on cellular senescence, at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge.

jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52026/
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52027/
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July 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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We're hiring a postdoc!🚨

Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease.

🔬Requirements:
- PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field
- Expertise in omics data analysis
- Micro & molecular bio techniques are a plus!

Apply now!🌟
jobs.vib.be/j/119682/pos...
Postdoctoral position in human gut microbiome and bioinformatics - VIB
About the Lab Thelab of JeroenRaes(VIB, KU Leuven) is home to a vibrant, dynamic and international group of researchers in the field of gut microbial ecology and its
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July 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Great to see this work from Shiv Radhakrishnan and colleagues out in #GutMicrobes - using network analysis to explore #microbiome #metabolome interactions in an #IBD inception cohort: doi.org/10.1080/1949... @imperialmdr.bsky.social @imperialhepatology.bsky.social #IBDSky #GISky
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July 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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We’re looking for an exceptional academic leader to Head our Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction @imperialmdr.bsky.social

Apply by 4 August 2025

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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We're recruiting junior team leaders @mrc-lms.bsky.social This time we're looking for those working in human metabolic disease.

It's a great place to start your lab. Fantastic colleagues, exciting science, world class facilities. Join us!

lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
Programme Leader Track - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
We are recruiting Programme Leader Track positions focusing on 1) Metabolic Physiology using murine and/or human in vivo models and 2) Immunometabolism.
lms.mrc.ac.uk
July 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Calling all meeting organizers… @biologists.bsky.social now have a calculator to estimate your event’s carbon footprint and to test various reduction scenarios.

thenode.biologists.com/event-carbon...
Event carbon calculator - the Node
I am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your
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July 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Neuroscientists have revealed which regions of the brain are active and how they interact when discovery strikes

https://go.nature.com/4k7wpkd
Eureka! The brain science behind lightbulb moments
Nature - Experiences of insight come with a burst of brain activity — and a memory boost.
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June 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Great to see this story as Mary becomes the first patient in the UK and Europe to receive a targeted treatment for a rare, inherited immunodeficiency (APDS) identified by Cambridge researchers, including those from the Institute, in 2013.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New drug offers potential cure for ultra rare inherited condition
A teenage patient who helped discover a rare condition is the first to benefit from a new treatment.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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25 years ago today, the first draft of the human genome was announced, a breakthrough that changed science forever 🧬

Read more about this achievement and the future of genomics over the next 25 years, here ⤵️

www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/25...
June 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Our latest preprint is online @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social:

"‪Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of synbiotic efficacy in a human intervention trial." www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amazing work here by postdoc Nick Quinn-Bohmann @isbscience.org

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Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of synbiotic efficacy in a human intervention trial.
Synbiotic interventions show variable effects across individuals, likely driven by ecological interactions with the endogenous microbiota and the host diet. Rationally predicting individual-specific s...
www.medrxiv.org
June 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Enjoying #metabolomics2025 in Prague! Just presented some of our work on #massspec imaging of #liver fibrosis! @gruevska.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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I could not keep posting during the conference due to a work situation but we also heard from @pandrikopouloslab.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social talk about #blood metabolomics and their use in #kidney and #cardiorenal predictions in diverse populations #MetabolicMultiomics25
June 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (born #OnThisDay in 1836) was a pioneering physician and suffragette. She was the first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor, co-founding the London School of Medicine for Women and paving the way for other women in the profession. #WomenInSTEM
June 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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🚨 PhD POSITION ALERT! 🚨
Are you passionate about gut microbiota, immune modulation & functional foods?
Join a cutting-edge 3-year funded PhD project in Poland at a top research institute near Warsaw!

🔗 inpst.net/phd-student-...

🌐 #PhDposition #PhDOpportunity #INPST
June 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Join us at #EESMicrobiome!

Organisers Mani Arumugam (#uni_copenhagen), Ami Bhatt (@stanfordpress.bsky.social), Peer Bork (@borklab.bsky.social) and Nicola Segata (#CIBIO_UniTrento) look forward to welcoming #microbiome scientists in September at @embl.org!

@events.embl.org
June 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.
May 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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In mice, the additive effect of 2 drugs for extending lifespan and healthspan: rapamycin and trametinib, a MEK blocker used for cancer treatment @nataging.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
May 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Here is one big reason to choose Europe to advance with your research career:

We 💙 science.
May 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism"
—the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing
—from decades of NIH funded research
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May 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM