Hall Lab

New paper out! 🎉 Our collab with Jorge & Amanda shows that Bifido can remotely control placental endocrine function (in 🐀) - modulating >400 proteins! 🚀 Published in J Transl Med - translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Gut microbes shaping the placenta - pretty amazing stuff! 🧫🤰

MMEG is coming to @unibirmingham.bsky.social in December - look out for some exciting announcements about the programme in the next few weeks! Abstract submission and registration is open 👇🏻

📢🚨 Check out @drgdavidson.bsky.social's 3-year senior PDRA role below @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social!
Super exciting project exploring wildlife ecology 🐾 and gut microbiome bioinformatics 🧬!
👉 Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18...
💬 Informal enquiries to Gabrielle welcome!

Come join us 2-4th March 2026 for a cracking #microbiome conference in Hinxton UK! Speaker line up is AMAZING and lots of opportunities for ECRs for selected talks, flash talks and posters.

Bursaries are also available!

See details below 👇

We were gutted that @eliza-coli.bsky.social’s stunning illustration wasn’t chosen for the front cover - I mean, just look at it! ✨

Working with Eliza was a joy & if you’re looking for a brilliant scientific illustrator to bring your projects to life, I can’t recommend her highly enough 🎨🧫🦠

Such an engaged audience at #EESMicrobiome with lots of great questions after my talk!

Big thanks to the organisers for inviting me to present some of the teams recent early life #microbiome work.

Conference has been AMAZING so far!

🚨 An excellent opportunity for scientists in Africa, at all career stages, working on maternal & child microbiome research 🚨

📚 Blended learning (3 months) incl. prep modules, hands-on training (12-17 Apr 2026) & mentoring.

coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/human-...

Thanks Jose!

Excited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦

Key takeaways:
🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution
🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes
🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential

Wellcome Connecting Science hybrid conference Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease Conference dates: 2-4 March 2026 Location: Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, UK and online Bursary and abstract deadline: 24 November 2025 Registration deadline In person: 2 February Virtual: 14 February

Bursaries to support your participation at our Microbiome research conference! #Microbiome26

Get up to 50% off the conference registration fee - apply by 24 November 📩

Join us to explore the latest tools and approaches driving advances in the field.

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#MicrobiomeSky #AcademicSky

Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com!

We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨

Huge team effort!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠🌍 Free Online Symposium
African Microbiomes & Mental Health
📅 29 Sept 2025 | 🕒 14:00 SAST / 13:00 BST
🔗 Register or submit an abstract: forms.gle/8WBZnimr3xui...
🎤 Join leading researchers, clinicians & lived experience experts.
🌟 Submit an abstract for a 10-min spotlight talk!
📄 Speaker info below

🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome.
💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia
📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025
🌍 Int’l applicants welcome!
Application link below.
#microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky

Research Associate:Clifton Campus

Interested in bacteriocins targeting Gram-negative bacteria causing UTIs? Come and work with me and PI @davidnegus.bsky.social as a research assistant on a 12-month project, funded by The Urology Foundation. #UTIsky

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.

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(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!