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Sonja Blasche

@sonjablasche.bsky.social
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Senior Research Associate at MRC Toxicology, University of Cambridge My research interests focus on interspecies-interactions in gut and food microbial communities, their effects and benefits, as well as bacterial responses to drugs and food compounds.

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Sonja Blasche @sonjablasche.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It is also in the Cambridge research news: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... @mrc-tu.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
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Sweeteners shown to slow growth of important gut bacteria in lab tests
Cambridge researchers have shown how commonly-used sweeteners slow the growth of certain gut bacteria. One sweetener in particular – isosteviol – when combined with the anti-depressant duloxetine sign...
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Sonja Blasche @sonjablasche.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Our article "Common xenobiotics modulate gut microbial responses to low‑calorie sweeteners in vitro" is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1... With @kiranrpatil.bsky.social, @indraroux.bsky.social, @rbradley.bsky.social, @skamrad.bsky.social, @simonemozzachiodi.bsky.social, @itsbinir.bsky.social.
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Common xenobiotics modulate gut microbial responses to low‑calorie sweeteners in vitro - Molecular Systems Biology
The gut microbiota is implicated in adverse effects associated with low-calorie sweeteners. Yet, the direct impact of sweeteners on gut bacteria remains largely uncharacterized. Here, we report intera...
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Simone Mozzachiodi @simonemozzachiodi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Happy to share our review on non-model microbes and microbial communities in biotechnology! With @sonjablasche.bsky.social @indraroux.bsky.social @kiranrpatil.bsky.social see below 👇🏼
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Stephan Kamrad @skamrad.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Check out our new preprint! We systematically map proteomic and metabolomic interactions between >100 pairs of gut bacteria, detecting metabolic interactions and functionally-related clusters of proteins. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @kiranrpatil.bsky.social
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Interspecies interactions drive bacterial proteome reorganisation and emergent metabolism
Species in microbial communities must respond to the presence of others to stave off resource competition or to capitalise on new resources that may become available due to additional metabolic activi...
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Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre @engbioirc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Join us at CafeSynthetique on 2 June with talks from Wes Roberston @mrclmb.bsky.social 'Synthetic genomics for microbiome reprogramming' and SonjaBlasche @sonjablasche.bsky.social @mrc-tu.bsky.social 'milk kefir🥛 in fermented food applications' Register here 🦠👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/engin...
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Sonja Blasche @sonjablasche.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Our latest preprint is on BioRxiv: Impact of low-calorie sweeteners on gut bacteria is modulated by common xenobiotics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @mrc-tu.bsky.social @kiranrpatil.bsky.social #microsky #microbiomesky (1/5)
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Impact of low-calorie sweeteners on gut bacteria is modulated by common xenobiotics
The gut microbiota is implicated in adverse effects associated with low-calorie sweeteners. Yet, the direct impact of sweeteners on gut bacteria remains largely uncharacterized. Here we report interac...
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