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Giulia Menichetti

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Physicist & Network Scientist 👩‍🔬 now diving into the chemical complexity of food @harvardmed.bsky.social Mass General Brigham

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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Giulia Menichetti on Instagram: "Cheers to this human capital and to the caffeine that keeps us going! I am a very lucky gal! Summer BBQ @mgbresearch @harvardmed"
19 likes, 0 comments - menicgiulia on August 8, 2026: "Cheers to this human capital and to the caffeine that keeps us going! I am a very lucky gal! Summer BBQ @mgbresearch @harvardmed".
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
People, I am hiring for a very cool project. Spread the word or apply! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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Brigham and Women's Hospital hiring Postdoctoral Position in Generative AI and Network Science for Computational Nutrition in Boston, MA | LinkedIn
Posted 5:07:11 PM. Postdoctoral Position in Generative AI and Network Science for Computational NutritionChanning…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Last week: #NNDC2026 in DC. Tomorrow: @hsph.harvard.edu Nutrition Round Table. Next Monday: I’ll be speaking at #HNRCA @tufts.edu — link in comments. Strong momentum in food data science. Good to see this community finally scaling!🤗
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
❄️Snow blizzard day = good moment for a team update❄️ I am very proud of the work done by this cohort of postdocs. Of the five abstracts we submitted to the @netscisociety.bsky.social Conference, all were accepted, with three contributed talks and two lightning talks. 👇 Abstracts below in the 🧵
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
To understand how food molecules shape the gut #microbiome and human health, we need to go beyond species abundance and adopt a mechanistic, system-level view powered by #NetworkScience Happy to share our first concrete step in this direction: 📄 shorturl.at/XkyUM
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Revealing interactions between microbes, metabolites, and dietary compounds using genome-scale analysis - Microbiome
Background The role of gut microbiome in predicting diet response and developing personalized dietary recommendations has been increasingly recognized. Yet, we still lack comprehensive, genome-based i...
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Happy to share our recent review in @ai.nejm.org summarizing the discussions from the master class “Artificial Intelligence and Network Medicine: Path to Precision Medicine”, sponsored by the #Menarini Foundation last year in Milan
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
📣 🎙️ Recordings from #RiDaysEU: "Making the EU the most attractive place for Life Science" available here 👇 www.youtube.com/live/XWen3QB... #LifeSciences #Food2030EU #OneHealth #AIforHealth @eu-life.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @erc.europa.eu
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
A few shots from “Making the EU the most attractive place for Life Sciences” at the #EU Research & Innovation Days 2025. Looking forward to the next R&I agenda for the food systems! #RiDaysEU @eu-life.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @erc.europa.eu
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Join us for the European Research & Innovation Days 2025 (16–17 Sept, Brussels & online). I will be speaking at the plenary “Making the EU the Most Attractive Place for Life Sciences. Register here 👇 🔗 research-innovation-community.ec.europa.eu/events/34Hci... @ec.europa.eu @erc.europa.eu
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Thank you, Cassandra, for having me on the Foodie Pharmacology Podcast! 👉 👇 Listen to our chat here 👇 👈 www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-zi...
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🎥 My recent talk "AI for Food Processing" is now available online as part of the Mass General McCance Center for Brain Health Seminar Series. 👇👇👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3UQ... @mgbresearch.bsky.social
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McCance Seminar Series: Giulia Menichetti, PhD
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
This was fun! Today on @koreajoongangdaily.com www.joongang.co.kr/article/2535...
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🧪 Last week @mgbresearch.bsky.social visited our Lab to talk about the “Nutrition Dark Matter” and why food chemistry might matter more than calories. 🔗 Read the Q&A: mgriblog.org/2025/06/13/n... @harvardmed.bsky.social @gordanaispirova.bsky.social @salvod-lombardo.bsky.social
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Nutrition Dark Matter, Ultraprocessed Foods and the Chemical Complexity of What We Eat
Nutrition dark matter refers to the 139,000+ compounds in foods that researchers are just beginning to learn more about.
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Happening Today @ Precision Nutrition Forum and PREDIMED Omics Symposium 2025 @hsph.harvard.edu 👏@gordanaispirova.bsky.social 👏
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
🫵 Check Bonnie's Poster Today at #Nutrition2025 @nutritionorg.bsky.social 👇 "Associations of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids With Smoking-Related Epigenetic Alterations" cdmcd.co/d6mPBa
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NUTRITION 2025
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑? We looked for answers through data science. Using multimodal AI models, we show the opportunities and limitations of current approaches. 📄 Read: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17087 💻 Code: github.com/menicgiulia/...
Example instance from the Open Food Facts dataset used in the training of the predictive models. The product name, ingredient list, and full nutrient panel (not fully shown here) are used to construct the input sentences for the LLM-based models. The nutrient panel shown includes the 11 nutrients used to train the FoodProX-based models. The last two quantitative indicators are used in the explanatory models. The number of additives is also included as an additional feature in one variant of the FoodProX model.
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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Gordana Ispirova, Michael Sebek, Giulia Menichetti Informatics for Food Processing arxiv.org/abs/2505.17087
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arXiv cs.CL Computation and Language @cscl-bot.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Gordana Ispirova, Michael Sebek, Giulia Menichetti: Informatics for Food Processing arxiv.org/abs/2505.17087 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17087 arxiv.org/html/2505.17087
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 10/05/2025
Nutrition in Medicine article by Giulia Menichetti, PhD, Albert-László Barabási, PhD, and Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD: Chemical Complexity of Food and Implications for Therapeutics nej.md/3EEDtq4 @menicgiulia.bsky.social #MedSky #EndoSky #GastroSky
Key points from the Nutrition in Medicine article "Chemical Complexity of Food and Implications for Therapeutics"
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Beautiful work from Salvo, who joined our Lab this April. Looking forward to mapping how food molecules modulate our health together!
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Incredibly honored to see our work featured in the New England Journal of Medicine. Grateful to an outstanding team and collaborators who made this possible. A milestone we’ll never forget. @mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social @nunetsi.bsky.social
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Today, in Parma, at the heart of the food valley 😉
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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Thank you, Ilaria Iacoviello , for the great interview & your commitment to science! And to Fondazione Leonardo for making it possible. As for @menicgiulia.bsky.social , hearing her say these things fills me with pride every day. youtu.be/SkHrAXtvGXc
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Intervista a Giulia Menichetti: il coraggio di sbagliare per crescere nelle STEM
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
There's a wide range of "ultra-processed foods." A recent Nature Foods paper zoomed in on this www.nature.com/articles/s43... and the graph rankings are shown below from @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/whic...
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Thank you to Dr. Bruce Levy & the 2024 Chair’s Research Award organizers for a fantastic event! Transitioning from physics to medical research has been a journey made possible by a culture of mentorship & support. Grateful to Dr. Dawn DeMeo, my 'medicine teacher.' Congrats to all awardees!
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 16/01/2025
A paper in Nature Food presents GroceryDB, a dataset with more than 50,000 food items sold at major grocery stores in the US that uses big data to provide information on processing—categorized by store, food category and price range. go.nature.com/3E7DMZu 🔒
This is figure 2, which shows food processing in grocery stores.
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John Barnard, MD @drjohnbarnard.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This seems to be a very practical resource. Love it. Important as the body of evidence linking consumption of ultra processed foods to adverse health outcomes is increasingly robust.
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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
www.wbur.org/news/2025/01... @menicgiulia.bsky.social
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How processed is your food? A new database from MGB can help you find out
A new database from Mass General Brigham launched Monday with the nutritional value and "processing scores" for more than 50,000 foods available at Target, Whole Foods and Walmart. Here’s how it works...
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MargolisLab @margolislabnyu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Over 50,000 food items, 1,000+ ingredients analyzed, and one mission: helping you choose less processed foods, highlighted in Nature Food: 🍎🛒 @karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social @menicgiulia.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Prevalence of processed foods in major US grocery stores - Nature Food
Information on the degree of processing of food items is key for better consumer choices. GroceryDB is a dataset with more than 50,000 food items sold at major grocery stores in the United States that...
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barabasi.bsky.social @barabasi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Nature Food: Our paper revealing the degree of food processing in 50K+ items sold by Walmart, Target & Whole Foods is just out! 🍎📊 PDF at barabasi.com/science/publ... See the data in action at www.truefood.tech Thank @menicgiulia, @BabakRavandi et al.
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Estimated reading time: 30 minutes. Time to publication: 3 years 😅 'Prevalence of processed foods in major US grocery stores' is finally published in Nature Food! Read it here: rdcu.be/d55mU Thread coming soon 🧵—after I recover! 😉
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A new resource rating >50,000 foods from 3 grocery stores (Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods) for degree of processing and breakdown of ingredients www.nature.com/articles/s43... Website for consumers www.truefood.tech
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Training course "Introduction to Network Medicine" Join us! Applications are due by January 20! 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 www.diag.uniroma1.it/network_medi...
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
1/ 🎉 Happy New Year, everyone! 8 years ago, I was brainstorming BIG nutrition questions with colleagues—little did I know it would lead me across fields like cheminformatics, epidemiology, mass spectrometry, stochastic modeling, AI, and Network Science.
Nutrient composition of food. According to the Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies, the consumption of 100 g of raw onion delivers 45 nutritional components, whose amounts (measured in grams) span eight orders of magnitude. Among these 45 nutrients are compounds from different chemical classes, such as copper (a mineral), linoleic acid (a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid, the most typical isomer of fatty acid 18:2), and quercetin (a flavonol). We rank the nutrients in onion in descending order of concentration on the ordinate axis. The gram amount of nutrient n per 100 g is reported as xn.Large-scale analysis of nutrient concentrations in food. (a) The concentration probability distribution Q(𝑥𝑛) for four nutrients across the 4,889 foods reported in NHANES 2009–2010 data, shown on a logarithmic horizontal axis. The four distributions are approximately symmetric on a log scale and have similar width and shape that are independent of the average concentration of the respective nutrient. Each symbol represents a histogram bin. (b,c) The observed common scale of nutrient fluctuations observed in the log space allows us to rescale all nutrients and compare them on a single plot, suggesting a methodology to detect foods with outlier concentrations. The pattern of nutrient outliers in different foods (quantified by a z score in the log space) is informative of the type and extent of processing, as shown here for (b) 100 g of raw onion compared with (c) 100 g of onion rings. (d,e) FoodProX is a random forest classifier that was trained over the nutrient concentrations within 100 g of each food, tasking the classifier to predict its processing level according to NOVA. FoodProX represents each food by a vector of probabilities {pi}, capturing the likelihood of the food being classified as an unprocessed food (NOVA 1), a processed culinary ingredient (NOVA 2), a processed food (NOVA 3), or an ultraprocessed food (NOVA 4). The final classification label, highlighted with a box on the right, is determined by the highest probability. The probability values were rounded to two decimal places.
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Alessandro Vespignani @alexvespi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New computational package for #NetworkMedicine- %DiseaseModules, #DrugRepurposing and more: PDF at barabasi.com/science/public… GitHub :github.com/menicgiulia/Ne…
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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It was an honor to be part of the group of people who contributed to the success of Consulate General of Italy in Boston: Capital of Italian Creativity in the World, whose festival took place in recent days in the heart of Massachusetts, USA. 🇮🇹✨ @menicgiulia.bsky.social
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
👇👇👇👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ai...
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How AI is revolutionizing food systems for a sustainable future
During the AI for Good webinar titled "Shaping Tomorrow’s Plates: The Future of Food with AI", experts discussed how AI is transforming global food systems. Moderated by Erika Marthins, founder of Aug...
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Join us tomorrow in Rome!
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A big thank you to the team behind the Festival of Italian Creativity @ItalyinBoston. Special thanks to Consul General @ArnaldoMinuti and Prof. @paologau for the opportunity to join the panel on Women in Science and Technology. #ItalyinBoston
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Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
About last week…hopefully the first of a long series of panels on #AI & #Food! 🙌 Big Thank you 🙌 to Erika Marthins, Johnny Drain, UN @aiforgood.bsky.social #UN #aiforgood
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