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Slipa Kanungo

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PhD student working on “Quorum sensing signalling in the mammalian gut” @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social📍Portugal

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NordenLab @nordenlab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I know I am shouting into a void here as the people doing it are not on this platform...Dear applicants, I know what my homepage says, I wrote it. If you want to apply to my lab, please tell me in your own words WHAT you are excited about and why. I will be excited with you and we can discuss...!
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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
How can we harness the vast functional diversity of microbes on our planet? Join us at EMBL Heidelberg from 8–10 December 2026 to hear about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and to present your own research. www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Miguel Soares @elmiguelche.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🧬 Big news: our team at @gimminstitute.bsky.social and I have been awarded a €2.5M ERC Advanced Grant (#ERCAdG) for a project we couldn't resist naming KILLBILL. Yes, like the Tarantino film. Bear with me — the analogy runs deeper than the title. 🧵 ⚔️
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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The workshop team is on site, testing labs and getting everything ready for the 2026 Workshop on Genomics! 🙌🏽👩🏻‍💻 #evomics2026
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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Two days to the start of the 2026 Workshop on Genomics, and the town decided to dress in white to welcome the participants! 🤩☃️ #evomics2026
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Ramya Ganesan @chaintist.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Had to draw a cartoon for this fascinating finding! Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SymbioSky
A cartoon/ digital drawing summarising the findings of the paper "Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs" by T. Nishino et al published in 2025. On the top left, a female Megymenum gracilicorne bug shows off symbiotic organs on the hind legs where she carries Ascomycota fungi. These were previously assumed to be Tympanal organs in these bugs but only females had them?; that didnt make a whole lot of sense to the authors...To the right of the bug is a row of eggs lying side by side. The paper shows that the bugs deposit the symbiotic fungi on the egg surface after egg-laying. Next on the image, fungal conidia grow on the egg surface. The eggs are pinkish in colour. A few fungi wear sunglasses like they are body guards. The paper shows that they protect the eggs from Trissolcus brevinotaulus, a parasitoid wasp, that likes to lay its eggs inside the developing bug's eggs. There are two wasps in this cartoon "eyeing" the fungi and looking frustrated. Eggs turn from whitish to pinkish within 10-days because they are reflecting the body colour of the nymph within the eggs.
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Healthcare in Europe @healthcare-europe.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
New research led by @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social at 🇵🇹 @gimmfoundation.bsky.social demonstrates that a harmless strain of 🦠 #Klebsiella – discovered by chance in 🧫 laboratory experiments – can eliminate #infections and reduce gut inflammation in mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease. #IBD
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Klebsiella strain to protect against IBD gut infections
A team of researchers led by Karina Xavier has uncovered a promising new live biotherapeutic agent that may redefine how the medical field approaches microbiota-based therapies.
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Miguel Soares @elmiguelche.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
1/10 🧵NEW PREPRINT: How does jaundice protect against malaria? We show it's ALL about biliverdin reductase (BVRA) catalytic activity and found the bilirubin threshold needed for protection. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Biliverdin Reductase Catalytic Activity Is Essential for Malaria Resistance
Jaundice, a condition characterized by elevated levels of circulating bilirubin, is an adaptive response to malaria sustained through bilirubin production by biliverdin reductase A (BVRA). Beyond its ...
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NordenLab @nordenlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
A very sweet gesture by the @gimmfoundation.bsky.social canteen team for the remaining researchers before Christmas. Sofia and her team are just wonderful. Happy holidays!
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Yolanda Schaerli @yschaerli.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
New preprint! 🐝 We engineered a bacterial biosensor to reveal micron-scale arabinose gradients in the honeybee gut. Congratulations to Audam and all co-authors. Great collaboration with @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes at @fbm-unil.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Engineered symbiont biosensor maps micron-scale sugar gradients in the honeybee gut
The honeybee gut microbiota plays a key role in shaping host health and susceptibility to disease. Yet, the nutrient environment it experiences within the gut remains poorly characterized. In particul...
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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Great way to finish the year! Here showing that the amazing gut Microbiota Isolate - ARO112 can accelerate microbiota recovery after perturbations and protect against gut Inflammation. This work was possible given the hard and brilliant work of @vhrcabral.bsky.social and @aritaoliveira.bsky.social
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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Those interested in performing maximum likelihood phylogenomic analysis on data sets made up of eukaryotic nuclear genes using site heterogeneous mixture models like C60, I suggest you use the ELM model in IQ-TREE instead of the LG model /1
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Christoph Kaleta @kaletalab.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
1/3 We're hiring! Join us as a PhD student in metabolic microbiome modeling within @spp2474.bsky.social — help uncover the microbiome’s dark matter alongside top microbiome labs across Germany! @uni-kiel.de jobs.uksh.de/job/Kiel-PhD...
Picture of a metabolic pathway map
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy Al users couldn't recall key points from what they'd "written, compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided.
Neutral reviewers described the Al-assisted writing as "soulless, empty, lacking individuality." Most alarmingly, after four months of reliance on Chat GPT, participants wrote worse once it was removed than those who had never used it at all.
The study warns that when writing is
delegated to Al, the way people learn fundamentally changes.”
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Slipa Kanungo @slipakanungo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Thank you @symbiosisalumni.bsky.social !
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
PanBGC: A pangenome-inspired framework for comparative analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters #ISMEComms from @nadineziemert.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
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PanBGC: A pangenome-inspired framework for comparative analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters
Abstract. Bacterial secondary metabolites are a major source of therapeutics and play key roles in microbial ecology. These compounds are encoded by biosyn
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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
HGMT: a database of human gut microbiota for tumors and immunotherapy response. #GutMicrobiota #TumorSample #Metagenomics #ImmunotherapyTreated #GenomeBiology 🧪🧬 🖥️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Christoph Kaleta @kaletalab.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
👇Three days left to apply👇
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Aileen Berasategui @berasymbionts.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Super excited to be joining @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and to begin this new chapter in Norwich!! And thrilled to be neighbours with the Mutualisms Research Group at @hassansalem.bsky.social and the wider community at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get started! 😁
Calm river in Norwich with reflections of riverside houses on the water under a clear sky.
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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📢 PhD Position Alert! 🪲 Fully funded PhD position (65% TV-L E13) at @uni-goettingen.de to study the evolution of morphological novelties in a darkling beetle. You will join the interdisciplinary "GönomiX" graduate school: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/home/6242...
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Ramya Ganesan @chaintist.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Do you like microbes and insects, and would like to get your favourites printed on articles or clothing? check out my art prints on Redbubble: www.redbubble.com/people/Chaii... Happy to take requests to add to this collection too :) #sciart #art #symbiosis #microbes #insects
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Chai_ntist Shop | Redbubble
Chai_ntist is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
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Infect-Net @infect-net.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🏆 Fighting the Gender Award Gap: Microbiologist Prof Dr Lisa Maier from @unituebingen.bsky.social received the main award of the German Association for #Microbiology and Hygiene at the #DGHM meeting in Jena. Congratulations to @lisamaierlab.bsky.social we are proud of you! 💜 📸 Gabriele Pradel
Bildschirmpräsentation mit der Vita von Prof. Dr. Lisa Maier, Mikrobiologin an der Uni Tübingen, zur Verleihung des Hauptpreises der DGHM in Jena. Mikrobiologin Prof. Dr. Antje Flieger liest die Laudatio für Prof. Dr. Lisa Maier zur Verleihung des Hauptpreises der DGHM in Jena. Preisträgerin Lisa Maier steht links neben ihr.
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Rayan Chikhi @rayanchikhi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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The Symbiosis Courses Alumni Network @symbiosisalumni.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Looking forward to seeing you in our next Alumni Network seminar next week: 📅 Wednesday, August 27th 🕙 11am EST (Massachusetts) / 11am CLT (Chile) / 4pm WEST (Oeiras) 📍 over Zoom (PM for link) @symbnet.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social @ECODIM
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Lisa Maier Lab | Tübingen @lisamaierlab.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Big thanks to scientific writer Libera Lo Presti for this great little piece on our recent work exploring how proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and pH affect human gut microbes. Check it out here: go.nature.com/4lf6jNk
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The pill that might be relieving your heartburn but killing your gut microbes
Why drugs commonly used against heartburn harm your gut microbiome
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Jim Shaw @jimshaw.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
skani v0.3.0 is released. github.com/bluenote-157... - 30-40% potential reduction in memory with approximately the same runtime. - Breaking changes to indexing and searching databases Calculate ANI for contigs, genomes -- even search > 140k genomes. Pre-indexed GTDB-R226 available for download.
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GitHub - bluenote-1577/skani: Fast, robust ANI and aligned fraction for (metagenomic) genomes and contigs.
Fast, robust ANI and aligned fraction for (metagenomic) genomes and contigs. - bluenote-1577/skani
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 24/07/2025
Congratulations to Rayan Chiki, (Institut Pasteur) head of the “Sequence Bioinformatics” unit, for securing the ERC Proof of Concept 2025 for his project ENZYMINER! 👏 ‪@rayan.chiki.bsky.social #Bioinformatics
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Slipa Kanungo @slipakanungo.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Wrapping up the coolest Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses at @gimmfoundation.bsky.social Portugal! Over this course, I had 2min flash talks on my PhD work, presented 2 posters and designed group projects. Thank you @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social #Waldan Kwong and #Martin Blaser for the guidance.
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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Call for our new PhD program is open. Come join one of our labs at Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine - Lisbon-Oeiras, Portugal. Help us spread the word
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Slipa Kanungo @slipakanungo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Hello Blue Skyers! Urgent help needed!! I have a .html file of 1.14 GB Can anyone please suggest me how to open this huge file? To be more precise, this .html file has a plot, not a text file. Thank you in advance!! #Bioinformatics #data
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Slipa Kanungo @slipakanungo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Summer 2025 at the SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses in Oeiras (Lisbon), Portugal! Hurry up and don’t give a second thought! Registration closes in a week (28/03/2025). We’ll also have Pastel de Nata together 😉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...
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PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025
Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) & Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) July 06...
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Josef Bryja @josefbryja.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Logan: A new era of sequencing data
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Slipa Kanungo @slipakanungo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
End of the workshop! With a heavy heart, until we meet again! #evomics2025 #workshop #genomics #bioinformatics
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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We are almost at the end of the Workshop on Genomics! 🙆🏻‍♀️ and we have Dag Ahrén explaining Best Practices in Handling Genomic Data! So important to send participants back home knowing how to keep a good order in their projects 📑💻 #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics
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Slipa Kanungo @slipakanungo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Finally after 1 and a half weeks, I was the happiest among all… #GutMicrobiome #evomics2025 #workshop #genomics
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Slipa Kanungo @slipakanungo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Week-1 at 📍Český Krumlov #evomics2025 #workshop #genomics #bioinformatics
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Slipa Kanungo @slipakanungo.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
What a fantastic way to wrap up Week-1 with an excellent presentation by @ChrisWWheat on Lies, damn lies, and ….. genomics! Chris, thank you for the spectacular weekend. Na zdraví🥂 #evomics2025 #Bioinformatics #workshop #genomics #Český Krumlov
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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
On today's afternoon session, our participants will be assembling genomes, with reads generated from a variety of sequencing technologies 🧬💻 guided by @npmalfoy.bsky.social #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics
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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This play could not have a better setting than the beautiful Town Theatre of Český Krumlov!! 🤩🧢🧬 #evomics2025
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Slipa Kanungo @slipakanungo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics
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