Do science for a living at the University of Illinois. Trying to understand microbes and what they do to us. Tweets are my own.
Jacob Allen
New preprint from the lab! Congrats to the awesome Elisa Caetano for leading and the rest of a wonderful team for their contributions. More to come about the paper and its origins after its “official” :) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Jacob Allen
Excited to be included in such a cool study led by @ruthbarrientos.bsky.social and @michaelbutler.bsky.social ! More to come :)
Great work @dhdzsaavedra.bsky.social and team! Lipids!!!
What an awesome #GutBrainAxis symposium at #PNIRS2025 in Bordeaux! Huge honor to co-chair with @elimelb.bsky.social and share the stage with Frank Duca and Allen Lab’s own Elisa Caetano-Silva. Incredible science and even better people. Thanks to everyone who joined us!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1... Had another fun conversation about the microbiome, fiber, fermented foods and more.
Kicking off Bluesky era with an engaging conversation about fermented foods and some of the work we (with the Miller Lab) have been doing in this area. Thanks to Gil Blander for the fun conversation! m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDov...
Jacob Allen
Jacob Allen
Jacob Allen
Psychological stress is a known risk factor for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but the mechanisms linking stress to worsened disease remain unclear. Because distinct stress paradigms activate diffe...
Thanks for the story, Emily! Couldn’t have done it without the big terrific group of dedicated scientists including @michaelbutler.bsky.social @jacoballenphd.bsky.social
Exciting paper from the Leal and Anakk labs studying the biophysical properties of adipose lipid droplets in response to diet!! Happy to have contributed a small part to this story! #lipidomics @ahsillinois.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Ruth M. Barrientos, PhD
Diego Hernández-Saavedra
pubs.acs.org
Adipose-derived lipid droplets (LDs) are rich in triacylglycerols (TAGs), which regulate essential cellular processes, such as energy storage. Although TAG accumulation and LD expansion in adipocytes ...
Important new study from @ruthbarrientos.bsky.social: Within 3 days on a high-fat diet, long before obesity sets in, aged rats perform poorly on memory tests and show negative inflammatory changes in the brain. news.osu.edu/memory-is-im...
Emily Caldwell
Just a few days of eating a diet high in saturated fat could be enough to cause memory problems and related brain inflammation in older adults, a new study in rats suggests. Researchers fed separate g...
