PhD student in Biosciences-Psychology | Exploring the interactions between diet and physical exercise and the microbiome-gut-brain axis

Guildford, Surrey
Joined November 2020
Seeking for participants for this new exciting study! @kcohenkadosh I'll be looking at how diet and gut microbiome affect mental health in young females - if you're interest but not local, you can still participate in the online assessments😁
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Sad about leaving @FrontiersIn but excited to start my new PhD adventure with @kcohenkadosh and @RalphManders. Can’t wait to dive into my project at the @UniOfSurrey! Thanks again Frontiers for what you taught me. I hope everything goes for the best and to give science my best!
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New part-time #researchassistant job to help us with scanning children and young people for our #prebiotics #gutbrainaxis study- please spread the word Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Research assistant jobs.surrey.ac.uk/058822 @nicjohnstone @_melissabasso @DaniellaLJones
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Please RT: Seeking women for a new #Menopause study, investigating the effects of #HRT on vital brain chemistry post menopause. Let's work together to improve #MenopauseAwareness and #WomensHealth!
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Melissa Basso retweeted
Innovation meets the toilet...
BiomeSense GutLab installed and working in our home. Automated sample processing, can take up to 30 consecutive samples, highly reproducible results, no mess, no shipping. A piece of used toilet tissue to pure DNA and RNA. biomesense.com
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Top scientists from @Stanford and @UCSF characterized the weekly baseline profile of the human pregnancy metabolome, providing a high-resolution molecular reference for future studies of adverse pregnancy outcomes. frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Melissa Basso retweeted
Happy Brain Awareness Week! Pt. 3 🤓🧠 #BrainAwarenessWeek #brainfacts #AcademicTwitter #BlackInNeuro
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We are looking for participants who want to learn about their gut microbiome, please spread the word!
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Melissa Basso retweeted
Neuroscience WRAPPED🔥: check out some of the coolest discoveries in the field of neuroscience from 2021 🥳🧠 #scicomm #AcademicChatter
Amazing work 😍
Thrilled to see this paper finally out in @nature. We all know about the overall beneficial effects of exercise, but little is known about the factors and mechanisms that mediate its effect on the brain nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Our #sugar paper is out: 4-week placebo controlled galacto-oligosaccharides intervention in young females affected nutrient intake such as sugar #GOS #gutmicrobiome #nutrients #prebiotics @nicjohnstone @DrKathes @FrieslndCampina @DrKnytl @SurreyPsych
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"Jumping from the 'what' to the 'do' is meaningless if you don't know why" #purposematters ted.com/talks/stacey_abrams_…
Prebiotics can do some things that probiotics can't. Learn how prebiotics can increase the diversity of your microbiota and improve brain function. scandersonlabs.com/2021/12/1…
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