The Powrie Lab

Some very exciting news to share!!

If you haven’t already signed up to The Microbiome Innovation One Health Conference 2025 yet, this is your reminder to! Based in Oxford on the 15th/16th of September, it’ll be a great opportunity to get up to date on recent progress in the field of Microbiome Science🦠🧫

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It was great to see Amit, one of our final year DPhil students, presenting his work at the BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP symposium last week!☀️

@amit-halkhoree.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social

Happy World Microbiome Day! We celebrated this year with some delicious petri dish cheesecakes, with everyone “streaking” some plates whilst learning about the microbiome!🧫🍰

@microbiologysociety.org @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social

Profiling MicroRNA from Poo to Understand Gut Health and Disease Improving the detection of small RNAs in fecal samples paves the way for novel, non-invasive biomarkers to monitor intestinal health.

So nice to have the work from my PhD on faecal microRNAs featured in The Scientist magazine www.the-scientist.com/profiling-mi...

It’s been a great week in Prague for the Food, Microbiota, and Immunity conference! Claire gave a great talk and Dehui won an award for her poster presentation👏☀️🦠 #FMI2025 @dehuic.bsky.social

We had a great time showing off our fabulous Gut Wall and making microbe pom poms with members of the public at the BRC Health Research Showcase last week at Oxford’s Westgate shopping centre!🧫🦠

@oxfordbrc.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social
@gemmala.bsky.social
@amit-halkhoree.bsky.social

Sharing some more pics from a fantastic week in Alghero for the ENII Advanced Immunology Summer School - we are all very sad to be leaving sunny Sardinia behind! Thanks to the wonderful organisers and speakers for an amazing week👩‍🔬🇮🇹🧑‍🔬

@efis-immunology.bsky.social

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@elayton13.bsky.social
@efis-immunology.bsky.social

Members of the lab have been having an excellent week at the ENII Summer School for Advanced Immunology! Tarrion, Emma, Rachel, and Sumaiya have presented their work as some great short talks and posters☀️🇮🇹

Shoutout to our wonderful postdocs, India and Avery, for giving a fab talk at Pint of Science this week!🧬🍺👩‍🔬

@pintofscience.uk
@indiabrough.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social

How fast is your gut? The answer to this question is important to your health If you aren’t sure how fast your gut is moving, the ‘sweetcorn test’ is one way to figure it out.

Why is the speed of your gut important for your microbiome and gut health? An overview I wrote with @theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-fast-is-...

Very pleased to have been awarded a grant from the @ox.ac.uk Returning Carers' Fund to support me in my journey learning data science based at the @kiroxford.bsky.social, @ndorms.bsky.social.

#bigdata
#bioinformatics

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More good news this week - awarded a Junior Research Fellowship with @kelloggoxford.bsky.social starting Michaelmas term. A dream come true for a scientist with an educational pedagogy leaning.

Looking forwarded to meeting the many #teachers in training and graduate students.

#lifelonglearners

We had a great day at the lovely Wytham Woods Chalet for our lab retreat this year! A special thanks to Prof David Withers @witherslab.bsky.social for joining us for an excellent guest talk☀️🌳

Aw thank you so much!! :)

Hello! Could you please add our lab onto the list? :) thanks so much!

Thanks to the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine @gimmfoundation.bsky.social and Joana Bom for hosting us in Oeiras last week, even if the weather wasn't perfect!☔️👩‍🔬

Our first post on Bluesky!

Throwing it back to two weeks ago at the #IMMOX’25 Genetic Variation & Barrier Immunity Conference - various lab members presented their work, with @gemmala.bsky.social and @fabsal.bsky.social giving fantastic talks!🧬👩‍🔬