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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🥁PhD defense on Aug 27 by @matteo-ciciani.bsky.social & his work on the (hidden) #mobilome supervised by Nicola Segata & Anna Cereseto /@g-eu-diting.bsky.social Looking forward to Matteo's PhD exam & discussion w/ @epasolli.bsky.social @aromanel.bsky.social Sam Sternberg /@sternberglab.bsky.social

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#proudteam here! Nicola Segata received the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for Biological Sciences. He was awarded the prize "for his scientific achievements in the field of microbial genomics and for being considered a pioneer of strain-level metagenomics." mag.unitn.it/premi-e-rico...

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📌 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 4/n

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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: 2/n

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🥁 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] 1/n

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thanks #miGutHealth for the visual summary of Nicola Segata's talk! *for the wider audience

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

#proudteam here! @msabrysarhan.bsky.social won the Open Research Award of EURAC Research (both the jury's award and public voting award). Congrats to all the awardees! Read more: eurac.edu/en/magazine/...

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

#proudteam here! News from #CSMicrobiome2026 Host–Microbiome Dynamics (May 10–12, 2026 🇧🇪 Bruges): Our lab member ✨ @vheidrich.bsky.social ✨ won the prize with his poster on interpersonal strain transmission. Congrats to ALL #CSMicrobiome2026 poster prize winners! cc @cellpressevents.bsky.social

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🎓 PhD Talks #3 An inside look at the ideas, projects & findings of PhD students, presented by the #UniTrento researchers themselves. Speakers #3 are our lab members: Linda Cova Amin Haghparast @marconiroberta.bsky.social Thomas Barbazuk 🔗 eventi.unitn.it/en/phd-talks-3 #proudteam

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🥁PhD defense on Monday (April 13) by Michal Punčochář and his work on the human #microbiome transmission supervised by Nicola Segata & @fasnicar.bsky.social We're looking forward to Michal's final PhD exam& discussion w/ Ami Bhatt Shinichi Sunagawa Luigi Nezi Massimo Pizzato

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Best way to start #MicrobiomeToLife: a packed #biobakery workshop led by Aitor Blanco-Míguez (#prebiomics)! Looking forward to the next sessions! cc @fasnicar.bsky.social @hutlab.bsky.social

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Research briefings in @nature.com about our latest study of the gut microbiome of infants in nurseries! This work was a true multidisciplinary team effort and a testament to how science can be particularly impactful when built alongside the community. — @livi-ricci.bsky.social and Nicola Segata

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Our strain-sharing pipeline enabled us to trace the passage of single microbiome members baby to baby and then to wider family networks via the nursery. 4/10

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We followed 134 participants over a year—babies, nursery educators, parents, siblings, and pets—using strain-resolved metagenomics to map how gut bacteria spread baby to baby and to wider family networks via the nursery. 2/10

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The Segata lab members wish you happy holidays and happy New Year ✨in their native language✨ Buone feste e felice anno nuovo! Srećni praznici i srećna Nova godina! إجازة سعيدة وكل عام وأنتم بخير! Veselé Vánoce a šťastný nový rok! تعطیلات خوش و سال نو مبارک!

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

TODAY at the Precision Nutrition Symposium by #EURAC in Bolzano 🇮🇹 Gabriel Baldanzi shared the insights from the PREDICT studies on diet, microbiome, and health & Nicola Segata gave a keynote talk on metagenomics and the diet-microbiome-health axis! (📸 @msabrysarhan.bsky.social was in the audience)

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📸 Today at the Cancer Grand Challenges Future Leaders’ Conference 2025 Gianmarco Piccinno presenting our latest findings on microbiome in colorectal cancer! #FLC25 #CancerResearch cc @cancergrand.bsky.social

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

On Wednesday (Nov 12) at The Rise of Early-Onset Cancers conference in Bergamo 🇮🇹 (@helloeacr.bsky.social) Muhammad Shah Zaib will give a talk "Microbiome alterations of colorectal cancer according to age of onset, stage, and anatomic location" See a full program here: eacr.org/conference/m...

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

JOIN US at the Microbiome Throughout Life 2026! LAST CALL to submit your abstract for the opportunity to be featured as an oral presenter during the main session OR a poster presenter. Submit your abstract before Nov 10: microbiometolife.com/abstracts/ #MicrobiomeToLife #MicrobiomeSky

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

#MeetTheLab @msabrysarhan.bsky.social works on his postdoc (joint w/ #EURAC) on ancient diet & microbiomes. How to overcome failure in science? I like a lot what Robert Frost said: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

TODAY (Oct 23) Nicola Segata will give a talk on host-microbiome coevolution at #TMHMS25 Padua🇮🇹 @tmhms.bsky.social aims to catalyze discussions on the latest conceptual frameworks & technological approaches for studying marine host-microbe symbioses. Full program here 👉 marinesymbioses.eu/program/

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

On Thursday, 18 Sept. Flash talk (ft) session 2 (16:30 -17:10) and Poster (p) session 2 (17:10 – 19:10) ✨ Gabriel Baldanzi ✨ Gianmarco Piccinno ✨ @cengoni.bsky.social will present our latest findings! Looking forward to sharing #microbiome science! 3/3

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

On Wednesday, 17 Sept. from 16h don't miss Flash talk (ft) session 1 and Poster (p) session 1 and meet our lab members: ✨ @fackelmeister.bsky.social ✨ @vheidrich.bsky.social 2/3

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

We're happy to welcome @nmquijada.bsky.social to our lab as a visiting researcher! Narciso is a researcher from Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG) who investigates food microbiome and resistome as well as contributes to bioinformatics efforts in the field github.com/nmquijada

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Our lab member @amirn.bsky.social will be attending the @femsmicro.org conference in Milan 🇮🇹 next week. Feel free to connect or meet up at the #FEMS2025! If you miss the talk on Wednesday (details ⬇️) you can check out the poster with ID Number: wed_2.1_519_S

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

We also investigated the within species differential gene carriage and strain-differentiation between controls and CRC. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... 5/6

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

We studied the gut microbiome composition along stages of CRC and primary tumor location. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 4/6

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

We exploited machine learning and meta-analysis approaches to characterize the association of the gut microbes with CRC. The gut microbiome signature is characterized by peculiar species which are very unlikely inhabitants of the healthy gut! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 3/6

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

We leveraged >3,700 fecal samples derived from healthy, adenoma and CRC individuals and sequenced with shotgun metagenomics. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2/6

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

. @marconiroberta.bsky.social is attending and presenting at the upcoming GUT MICROBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM gutmicrobiology-2025.symposium.inrae.fr Her talk is about our latest cultivation efforts. It will be on Tuesday at 17:15. Come say HI and discuss ☕️ and gut microbiome with Roberta!

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We conducted an exploratory analysis of 9,251 publicly available human metagenomes from 31 countries & 48 cohorts that we previously published, and discovered a significant presence of human mtDNA sequences plus investigated the extent of mtDNA presence. 2/4

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

We are looking forward to this Wednesday! #UniTrentoCIBIO Happy Hour PLUS the internal seminar by our lab member Gianmarco Piccinno on the human gut microbiome in oncology!

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Exciting group meeting today: Fabio Zanini joined us to present amazing work in cytophylogenetics! Thank you for the insightful presentation and discussion, Fabio! Check out fabilab.org

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

#MeetTheLab Akshay Gaike is a postdoc who explores the gut microbiome <-> non-communicable diseases & dietary interventions. Did you see yourself as a scientist at a young age? I wanted to be car design engineer, but turns out I'm more into tiny microbes than turbo engines!

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🎉 Yay! We’re excited to welcome our new lab member! Muhammad Shahzaib joined our research efforts in identifying microbial biomarkers influencing CRC treatment efficacy as part of the PROSPECT project. Meet our team here: segatalab.cibio.unitn.it/people.html

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

#MeetTheLab Linda Cova is a PhD student who is currently working on functional analysis of the gut microbiome in relation to diet. Are you a dry or wet lab person? Dry lab! I have a background in biotechnology but have always worked in the dry lab.

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

#MeetTheLab @cengoni.bsky.social is a PhD student working on metagenomics & computational tools for characterization & profiling of underexplored microorganisms. Did you see yourself as a scientist at a young age? Not really, when I was a kid my dream was to be a swimming teacher 🏊

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Boas festas e feliz ano novo! إجازة سعيدة وعام جديد سعيد Frohe Feiertage und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr! नाताळच्या आणि नवीन वर्षाच्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा !

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

ए साल और छुट्टियों की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं ! Veselé Vánoce a šťastný nový rok! چھٹیاں اور نیا سال مبارک ہو

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The Segata lab members wish you happy holidays and happy New Year ✨in their native language✨ Buone feste e felice anno nuovo! Srećni praznici i srećna Nova godina! سال نو مبارک و تعطیلات خوشی داشته باشید!

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Thanks #IEOufficiale for introducing our lab member Elisa Piperni and work in the Newsletter: www.ieo.it/Global/image...

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Congrats, Dr. Davide Golzato!

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