PhD student @ETH_en with @Toxicology_ETH; former @MITdeptofBE | microbiome bioinformatics, oncology, allo-HSCT | she/hers

Zürich, Switzerland
Joined December 2017
Congrats to @laurahinte + @Danie__cc from the @vonmeyenn_lab for their publication in Nature! We are proud to have contributed to the #sequencing effort. Special shout-out also to our bioinformaticians who were directly involved with this work, @AdhiGhosh and @FalkoJulianNoe
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Pleased to announce that our latest paper is published in Cell! We developed a novel ML model that predicts fecal microbial load from relative species profiles, revealing it as a key factor shaping gut microbiome variation and disease-microbe associations sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe Repeat after me… @gilbertjacka & colleagues publish same article in 14 different journals in a call to arms to “harness the power of microbiology…. to safeguard the planet for future generations”
🌍 Just published in 14+ journals! AMI & global leaders call for microbial solutions to tackle climate change. Let’s harness nature’s power to capture carbon & restore ecosystems—time to act! 🧬🌱 #ClimateAction #MicrobialSolutions #COP29Baku academic.oup.com/sumbio/arti…
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Researchers from UZH have used artificial intelligence to detect antibiotic resistance in bacteria for the first time. This is an important first step toward integrating GPT-4 into clinical diagnostics. news.uzh.ch/en/articles/medi…
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Episode 32: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother For millennia, society has wrestled with the best methods for raising children. Only one woman was brave enough to give the real answer: scream at them until they play the piano. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Rigi 🏔️Workshop 2025: Microbiome Meets Metabolism: Linking microbial biotransformations to human and environmental health - workshop 2 - 4 Feb 2025. Rigi Kulm in 🇨🇭! 30 Phd-students and post-docs in Swiss research institutions. apply by 30 October 2024 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop25
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We are excited to share our work on colonizing oral opportunistic pathogens. Here we looked at the impact of low prevalence, high impact oral pathogens like Klebsiella. Authors: @JettLiu_ @bajenak @GrossmanMicrbio @jonbakerlab @he_xuesong. Full article: rdcu.be/dOoxV
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Acrolein is envrnmntl toxicant & gut microbial metabolite. But hard to do in vitro tox! we developed acrolein biosynthesis system compatible with human cell culture.Awesome team effort including student projects & mentor- congrats!! ⁦@ChemResTox⁩ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Wow, @nature has retracted the 2020 Poore et al. cancer microbiome paper that we showed (journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…) was deeply flawed. The retraction date is tomorrow so I can't yet read the official notice, but I'll update when I can @RetractionWatch @ProfBootyPhD
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Excited to share that I'll start my lab @GeiselMed as an assistant professor in July 2025! We will build a hybrid lab that focuses on microbial metabolism & human gut microbiome. We're hiring at all levels. Especially seeking experimental microbiologists for the wet lab work!
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Join our happy hour series to meet other PhD students, postdocs, and staff of @ETH_en D-HEST! Snacks and drinks will be provided by your friendly representatives at the D-HEST Association of Scientific Staff.
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Happy Monday! Start your week w/ a new QIIME 2 release: @qiime2 2024.2. New parallel shotgun actions, an updated visualizer for summarizing feature tables (see `summarize-plus`), performance enhancements & minor fixes throughout & a lot more. Enjoy! forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-2…
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Excited to share our preprint on bacterial adaptation to pH 🦠! Excellent work team! @swoodww @LaurelMNeufeld @WennyFeng @_AntonioSerapio @FinlayLab
Latest preprint from @FinlayLab on pH adaptation in Citrobacter rodentium feat. surprising host pH responses post-infection. Huge shoutout to stellar undergrad researchers @LaurelMNeufeld and @WennyFeng and of course, our whole team (@jorgepena9 @_AntonioSerapio & Isabel Tarrant)
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Our newest work from postbacc students, before getting into grad school, was posted on bioRxiv. We looked at how oral and nasal Klebsiella can persist longer in starvation community and how it is important for clinical infections. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Congratulations to @NikolaiPullen for a successful doctoral defense and amazing day of celebration! Kudos for assembling an awesome committee of experts including @vakil_takhaveev and @APoetsch Cheers! 🥂
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HAS cordially invites you to join us at our upcoming general assembly! In this GA, we will briefly recap our activities, vote on a budget for 2024 and have replacement elections. All participants are then kindly invited to a little apéro afterwards.
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Thank you so much, @impetusgrants and anonymous reviewers, for supporting our project where we will create biomarkers at the very core of the aging mechanism - DNA damage and repair. Looking forward to great discoveries with @ProfessorShana and our collaborator @MikeMacArthur8
There are many ways to measure DNA damage, yet no responsive biomarkers! @vakil_takhaveev @ProfessorShana @Toxicology_ETH @ETH_en are using novel DNA-damage-sequencing methods in mouse models to discover mechanistic biomarkers implicated in aging. They are hiring a PhD student!
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