Francesco Asnicar
@fasnicar
Tenure track researcher @CIBIO_UniTrento, previously postdoc @cibiocm; love music and play keyboards
#Blastocystis gets some publicity in @Nature This long-overlooked gut microbe is finally getting the spotlight it deserves. Huge thanks to our @BlastocystisC Action members whose dedication helped bring Blastocystis to global attention. #Microbiome nature.com/articles/d4158…
In this study just published at the Journal of Clinical Periodontology - a collaboration between @cibiocm and @prebiomics - we evaluated the microbiome of dental implants using metagenomic sequencing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc…
Happy to share that our study on gut microbiome associations with colorectal cancer (CRC) is out in @NatureMedicine! (doi.org/10.1038/s41591…).
argNorm is published now academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…
HEY HEY #AMR people, the argNorm preprint is now available on @QUT ePrints: eprints.qut.edu.au/252448 We* designed a tool for normalizing ARG annotations across currently popular tools and databases. * @svetlana_up @VedanthRamji @HuiChong6 @cocodyq @FinlayM @luispedrocoelho 1/6
Today at our group meeting, we welcomed @ADTsaousis who shared with us knowledge and findings on #gutmicrobiome & @BlastocystisC! Thank you, Anastasios! (the red bag: sweets from the UK) Here you can check out his team and amazing work: adtsaousis.com
Heading to Vienna this weekend! 🇦🇹 Thrilled to be talking about ML in bacterial genomics & #metagenomics at #ESCMIDGlobal 2025. 📍 Hall 4 📅 Monday (14/04) ⏰ 16:15 CEST Come say hi if you're around! #bioinformatics #microbiomecc @ESCMID
In this study just published @Nature_NPJ Biofilms & Microbiomes, we collected dental swab samples from dogs to shed light on the hardly studied dog dental plaque microbiome (1/7)
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The gut microbiome signature from different diets in >20,000 individuals. Red meat intake correlated with reduced cardiometabolic health; the opposite for plant-based foods or in omnivores with enriched plant-based intake nature.com/articles/s4156… @NatureMicrobiol @nsegata…
☕ Drinking coffee is associated with significant changes the gut microbiome, particularly increased Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus, & elevated quinic acid in blood. Importantly, this is replicated across geographies. Interesting work from @cibiocm nature.com/articles/s4156…
🥁 New Publication Alert: Our manuscript on the ☕️ and #microbiome relationship is out in @NatureMicrobiol: nature.com/articles/s4156… 1/12
Your gut microbiome knows if you've been drinking coffee! link between coffee and the microbiome pressroom.unitn.it/comunicato-sta… #scichat #microbiome #coffee
Coffee consumption is associated with the presence and abundance of a specific member of the human gut microbiome, Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus, and changes to the plasma metabolome, according to a paper in @NatureMicrobiol. go.nature.com/4i3gqUI
Coffee is good for your gut ☕️ "Out of 150 different foods, coffee seemed to most strongly linked to the composition of the gut microbiome" newsweek.com/coffee-drinkin…
Lots of great papers out this week...here's one to read with your morning or afternoon pick-me-up, a News & Views covering our recent paper on coffee consumption and the microbiome nature.com/articles/s4156…
Elisa @elisapiperni is presenting her work on #Blastocystis screening in the largest cohort investigated so far! #Blastocystis24 @MicrobioSoc @BlastocystisC @nsegata
This week you can meet @elisapiperni at #Blastocystis24! Tuesday (Sept 17): Elisa will present our recently published work on micro-eukaryote Blastocystis in the human gut. Check out this thread for a summary x.com/elisapiperni/s… @MicrobioSoc @CIBIO_UniTrento @IEOufficiale
Excited to share my first #PhD paper co-authored w/ @LongNguyen07, published in @CellCellPress doi.org/10.1016/j.cell… A global-scale metagenomic exploration of the micro-eukaryote Blastocystis, linking its presence in the human gut with diet and cardiometabolic outcomes. 1/8
On Friday (8:30 am local time) I'll have the honour to kick-off the @ehmsg workshop with highlights of the latest @cibiocm human microbiome transmission studies, including #microTOUCH baby: baby-to-baby microbiome transmission in a nursery setting. See you in Porto! #EHMSG2024
We have postdoctoral fellowships available to continue this exciting line of research! Contact us if interested, strong computational background needed.
Researchers develop #database of the “food microbiome," sequencing the metagenomes of over 2500 foods. Learn more in @CellCellPress: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… @nsegata & @pauldcotter
Researchers develop #database of the “food microbiome," sequencing the metagenomes of over 2500 foods. Learn more in @CellCellPress: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… @nsegata & @pauldcotter