Hall Lab

Great fun as always for the @imibirmingham.bsky.social summer school - and some excellent(!) questions from the students!

Ah - thanks for the shoutout @aislingbrady.bsky.social 😁

Barnstorming talk by @coytelab.bsky.social at the @imibirmingham.bsky.social seminar series today!

🧬 “An ecosystem on a leash: understanding the drivers of gut microbiome dynamics”

Thanks for making the trip down from Manchester and sharing some super cool published & preliminary data! 🚀

Really excited that you're joining us in Brum Ed!

AI & Health Data Webinar · Luma We invite you to attend this webinar on AI & Health Data Applications for Health Interventions, Clinical Trial Acceleration, and Regulation for AI in…

Exciting webinar on AI & Health Data coming up! 🧠💻

Featuring @unibirmingham.bsky.social & UK Dept for Business & Trade

Explore clinical & public health research, collab opportunities & more.

🗓️ July 15 | 10:00–11:30am EST
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#AI #HealthData #UKResearch #UoB #DBT #DigitalHealth

Newly published study by Prof Lindsay Hall @halllab.bsky.social and Prof Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social finding that antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus bacteria are common in premature babies
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/wi...

Huge thanks to the @halllab.bsky.social team – and especially to @hannahtriv.bsky.social – for putting together this fantastic slide, which the whole group worked on during our away day this week! Great to see everyone’s creativity and collaboration in action 🤩

🌍 #WorldMicrobiomeDay 2025
At @halllab.bsky.social we’re uncovering how microbes - right from day one - help shape the gut, strengthen immunity, and protect against infection.
We're exploring how, when, and which microbes colonise - in order to develop interventions for a healthier start to life.

Amazing to see this now published! Congrats to @lisalamberte.bsky.social and @wvschaik.bsky.social - on leading this important #microbiome study on #AMR and Staphylococcus haemolyticus in the preterm gut 👇

Thanks Josie!

Grateful to WIRED Consulting and @gatesfoundation.bsky.social for spotlighting our work.
📸 Beautiful photography by Ruth Samuels – please check out her work.

Looking forward to continuing conversations around global health, equity, and #microbiome research. More soon!

I’m so proud (and surprised!) to represent microbiome science – especially how early life microbes shape long-term health – alongside inspiring changemakers like:
🏉 Maro Itoje
🧬 Dr Toby Norman
🎶 Florence (Cuppy) Otedola
🎭 Will Poulter

Meet the visionaries taking on the world’s biggest problems As sustainable development faces mounting threats, a new generation of “goalkeepers” are pioneering new approaches to keep progress alive

🌍 Thrilled to share that I've been selected as a 2025 UK Goalkeeper by WIRED Consulting in partnership with @gatesfoundation.bsky.social!
This incredible initiative celebrates those driving progress towards the UN SDGs – and I’m honoured to be among this year’s cohort.

www.wired.com/sponsored/st...

(6/6) Hope you enjoy reading this one - it was great to work on, and it’s a timely & important topic for the microbiome space!

#microbiome #microbiology #safety #collaboration #openscience #MicroSoc

(5/6) Best part?
The paper is open access in Microbial Genomics - a fee-free (publish-and-read) society journal.

If you work in microbiome, microbial genomics, or microbiology, check out Microbial Genomics + other MicroSoc journals for publishing, reviews, and roadmaps.

(4/6) Huge thanks to everyone who contributed - especially the fantastic workshop participants + speakers!

Special shoutout to Aline Metris for being such a brilliant co-chair + co-lead. 🙌
And big thanks to @microbiologysociety.org for hosting & supporting!

(3/6) In this review, we explore:
✅ Oral, skin & gut microbiomes
✅ Challenges in safety assessments
✅ Emerging tech (AI, functional omics, in vitro models)
✅ Why harmonising methods matters (but shouldn’t stifle innovation!)

(2/6) Everyday actions like eating, brushing teeth, or applying cosmetics shape your microbiome.

With powerful omics + sequencing tools, we’re now mapping these interactions in detail - but how do we assess the long-term safety of microbiome changes, especially in vulnerable groups like infants?

Assessing the safety of microbiome perturbations Everyday actions such as eating, tooth brushing or applying cosmetics inherently modulate our microbiome. Advances in sequencing technologies now facilitate detailed microbial profiling, driving inten...

(1/6) 🌟 Excited to share our new paper!
Advancing microbiome safety assessments: opportunities, challenges & recommendations 🧫🦠

This work came out of an academic–industry workshop hosted by @microbiologysociety.org in early 2024.

🔗 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Amazing evening talking science @pintofscience.uk in Birmingham

Was really great to present some of the amazing data from @halllab.bsky.social

Also credit to the organisers for such an amazing venue !

🎉 Fantastic start to the @hologen.bsky.social in sunny Copenhagen! From 5-9th May we had a week of training, talks & new connections - including our 1st #HoloGen Symposium. Brilliant energy from our new PhD cohort - excited for the impactful years ahead! 💥
#Hologenomics #Microbiome #PhDLife #MSCADN

Super exciting you'll be back in the UK Guillaume - hope move goes well! 🤩

Looks like I’ve got another move across the world in me! 🌏✈️📦 I'll be starting at @uniofbath.bsky.social in a few weeks as senior lecturer/associate prof in human microbiome. Excited to be back in Europe + for new collabs (alongside ongoing 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇫🇮🇸🇪🇦🇹 ones). Thanks to everyone who helped; more soon!

HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut Nature Communications - Here, the authors present and characterise a collection of human gut bacteria including novel taxa associated with health conditions and a large diversity of plasmids. All...

Very happy that HiBC is out: rdcu.be/ekSCO 🔥 @natcomms.nature.com Excellent team spirit, and, as always, great driving factor by @tcahitch.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐⭐ We hope that these bacterial isolates from the human gut will facilitate many studies by others... 😀

Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics - 2025 meeting

This meeting will be great!

Abstract submission open now

See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool

microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

💯% Shaul!

Check out @sekid.bsky.social's exciting preprint on critical microbe-microbe interactions during🤱 feeding! A clinical cohort & (new) ecological computational analysis highlights key relationships & in vitro studies indicate how & why E. coli helps stabilise Bifido during this early diet window!

And here jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Governance vacancies All the information regarding our current governance vacancies can be found on this page.

Applications are now open for positions on our Advisory Council, Committees, Divisions, and Members Panel. Increase your professional development and networking opportunities while getting more involved with the Society's community: microb.io/GovernanceVacancies2025