@CooperstoneLab

Associate Prof @OhioState, linking plant science & human health. Likes fruit 🍎🍏, veg 🍅, & mass spec. #metabolomics #phytochemicals 👩🏻‍🔬👩🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍💻

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Scientists have been working to investigate how tomatoes may be imparting health benefits in a recently published study. Read more loom.ly/kku7gz0
Cherry tomatoes.

ALT Cherry tomatoes.

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Absolutely stoked to introduce a #preprint of a multidisciplinary effort that establishes a potential mechanistic framework of how #tomato consumption influences our #health! Take a couple minutes to find out why this is so exciting 🧵1/11 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Foods for Health@OSUFoods4Health8 Nov 2022
Tracing tomatoes’ health benefits to gut microbes news.osu.edu/tracing-tomatoe… @CooperstoneLab

Tracing tomatoes’ health benefits to gut microbes

Two weeks of eating a diet heavy in tomatoes increased the diversity of gut microbes and altered gut bacteria toward a more favorable profile in young pigs, researchers found.After observing these...

news.osu.edu
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Little pile after apple tasting with the team for a fun new project @lydvee @cristianquirozd @CT_Simons @teeinthegarden I need a bigger work cutting board…
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Spotted @SandyKnapp’s tomatoes in València while at #MetSoc2022 🍅🤩
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Even when it’s not about tomatoes, it’s always about tomatoes
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Bath time!
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Wait who is this?
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🐖🍅🧬 New pre-print from our team on how eating tomatoes can alter the pig gut microbiome to a more positive phenotype! #teamtomato More info in thread... 1/n
bioRxiv@biorxivpreprint14 May 2022
Short term tomato consumption alters the pig gut microbiome towards a more favorable profile biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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Also a big thanks to Twitterless Emma Bilbrey who helped push this manuscript over the finish line by finishing up analysis, tweaking the narrative, and all her amazing file and code organization 13/n
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I'm really proud of this work and our super interdisplcinary team. Now I gotta get back to grant writing so we can do more of this work in people 😀🍅 end thread.
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