We have an unusual situation this year: we have more mentors than usual for our current number of Singletons!
Please share the link with your network! We will match up as many as we can!
#ASMicrobe #MicroSky 🦠🧪🔬
📌 Cohabitants share significantly more oral and gut strains than non-cohabiting individuals across all relationship types
📌 Likely driven by kissing, romantic partners show the highest oral microbiome sharing
📌 Oral strains are more frequently replaced than gut strains
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We analyzed paired oral and fecal metagenomes from hundreds of cohabiting individuals to map microbial strains traveling between people and body sites.
Read key findings below:
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📌 The most transmissible gut species are associated with poorer cardiometabolic health and enriched for T2 diabetes biomarkers, possibly because the traits that allow them to thrive in inflammatory disease are the same ones that help them survive the journey between humans
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📌 In 75% of cases where the same species was detected in both oral and gut environments of the same individual, it was the same strain, pointing to saliva-mediated oral-to-gut transmission as a dominant mechanism
Find more in the paper: www.cell.com/cell-press-b...
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Excited to share my summer plans! 🌞
This summer, 3 incredible microbiome study curation teams we'll be selecting, curating, reviewing, analyzing, & expanding two key microbiome databases: cMD & BugSigDB.
A huge thank you to @cibiocm.bsky.social & @bioconductor.bsky.social for making this possible.
🥁 NEW study @vheidrich.bsky.social et al.
on oral and gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @cellpressblue.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-press-b...
👏 Kudos to all the authors and collaborators!
[illustration by Betina Servaes]
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🥁 NEW study @vheidrich.bsky.social et al.
on oral and gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @cellpressblue.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-press-b...
👏 Kudos to all the authors and collaborators!
[illustration by Betina Servaes]
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