Fatima Pereira
@microbetracker
Lecturer @unisouthampton #MicrobiomeResearch. @mSystemsJ Editorial Board. Views my own. @fatimacpereira.bsky.social
Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by @peixotors et al. nature.com/articles/s4156…
For somebody working on the gut #microbiome, the responses ("gross", "embarrassment", "pseudoscience", etc.) to this @Nature article on the treatment of C-section babies with their mother’s poo are quite sobering. So, I thought I would provide a perspective in the thread below.
Feeding a baby born by caesarean section milk containing a tiny bit of their mother’s poo introduces beneficial microbes to their gut go.nature.com/48oD7hK
🚀Calling all emerging #microbiome researchers! We're excited to announce the 1st Young Editor Recruitment for Microbiome Research Reports. 🌱 📅 Application Deadline: Nov 15, 2024 More details and download the application template here: oaepublish.com/news/mrr.868 💌 Apply now!
Are you interested in full length 16S rRNA sequencing on @nanopore? We developed a new workflow using UMIs and R10.4+ chemistry to enable highly accurate and multiplexed microbiome profiling. This was a long road, and I’m glad to see this out! 1/4 doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…
Interview: Microbiologist Sahar El Aidy tells Emily Dixon about her latest breakthrough and why we should care more about our guts bit.ly/47Xap7j
MMEG 2024 @mmeg2024 16-17 December 2024, Southampton, UK. If you want to apply for financial support, you will need to register this week! appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-cale…
#mBio minireview: The changing roles of scientific journals. @ACasadevall1 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…
BREAKING: This year's #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun. The pair have been recognised "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation." Stay tuned for more from @nature
Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature nature.com/articles/d4158… @WCRIFoundation @nrin @scholarlykitchn @RetractionWatch @C0PE @PredatoryReport @fake_journals @peerrevcongress @NLrepro
An ode to microbes in the latest Cell issue 👇 A microbial future: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
Host-associated microbes mitigate the negative impacts of aquatic pollution | mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…
Exciting opportunity for Early Career Scientists! ISME Society Journals and ISME ECSC are inviting applications for the ISME ECS Reviewer Pool. Are you an ECS in microbial ecology with a maximum of 8 years of post-PhD experience? APPLY NOW! isme-microbes.org/isme-early-car…
Looking forward to present our latest work applying high-throughput chemical imaging to study #gutmicrobiome function and drug-microbiome interactions at #ISME19. 🦠🇿🇦 Join me tomorrow at 12:30 in Auditorium 2! @sotonbiosci @DOME_Vienna isme19.isme-microbes.org

A new substrate for #nitrification by #comammox microbes: #Guanidine So glad to see this out in @Nature today – great collaborative effort from our @FWF Cluster of Excellence, @univienna, team @aalborg_uni, and @UFZ_de nature.com/articles/s4158…
📣 ISME19 delegates! We hope you are excited for the upcoming conference and invite you to check out the full program online!* 🔗 isme19.isme-microbes.org/isme19-program *The exact program is still subject to change #microbialecologist #microbiology #ecology #isme19