Tenure track researcher @CIBIO_UniTrento, previously postdoc @cibiocm; love music and play keyboards
Trento, Italy
Joined March 2011
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I'm thrilled to share our latest manuscript, published in @Nature!!
➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415...
We analyzed data from over 34,000 participants from UK and US, revealing strong associations between specific gut bacteria and markers of cardiometabolic health and dietary habits.
Now @riccardovr18 presenting gut microbial proteases to induce IBD-like inflammation in mice #MicrobiomeToLife
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🥁 NEW
Our study on infant gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @Nature:
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-0…
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New preprint alert + a call for a community effort! 📢 🧬
Predicting host phenotypes (healthy/sick) from metagenomics is key to clinical translation. But while new tools keep coming out, researchers simply use Random Forest. Are newer methods worth the additional effort?
In conclusion, we provide a consistent and reproducible system for evaluating microbiome health conditions, supporting a direct, reproducible, and actionable link between diet and microbiome composition, which can be used in future microbiome-powered precision nutrition research.
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PaoloManghi @Fackelmeister @gbaldanzi ElcoBakker LivianaRicci @gpiccinn @elisapiperni KatarinaMladenovic @DrFedeAmati AlbertoArrè SajaysuryaGanesh FrancescaGiordano RichardDavies JonathanWolf @KateBermingham1 @saraheeberry @timspector @nsegata @cibiocm @Join_ZOE all PREDICT users
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Program for #GloMiNe2025 "Preservation of microbial diversity” by @MicrobiotaVault and #MVIF is OUT:
cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomine20…
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In our latest work in we show how the microbiome of food industry hosts most of the known antimicrobial resistance genes, some of which can be transferred to other microbes.
Congratulations to @MetaResistantB and the team!
Available at nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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#Blastocystis gets some publicity in @Nature
This long-overlooked gut microbe is finally getting the spotlight it deserves.
Huge thanks to our @BlastocystisC Action members whose dedication helped bring Blastocystis to global attention.
#Microbiome
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Happy to share that our study on gut microbiome associations with colorectal cancer (CRC) is out in @NatureMedicine! (doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-0…).
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argNorm is published now academic.oup.com/bioinformat…
HEY HEY #AMR people,
the argNorm preprint is now available on @QUT ePrints: eprints.qut.edu.au/252448
We* designed a tool for normalizing ARG annotations across currently popular tools and databases.
* @svetlana_up
@VedanthRamji
@HuiChong6
@cocodyq
@FinlayM
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Today at our group meeting, we welcomed @ADTsaousis
who shared with us knowledge and findings on #gutmicrobiome & @BlastocystisC!
Thank you, Anastasios!
(the red bag: sweets from the UK)
Here you can check out his team and amazing work: adtsaousis.com/
Heading to Vienna this weekend! 🇦🇹
Thrilled to be talking about ML in bacterial genomics & #metagenomics at #ESCMIDGlobal 2025.
📍 Hall 4
📅 Monday (14/04)
⏰ 16:15 CEST
Come say hi if you're around! #bioinformatics #microbiomecc
@ESCMID
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JOIN US!
✍️Two predoc positions:
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✍️Two postdoc positions:
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Deadline for application: January 31
Feel free to contact @nsegata for any Qs!
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The gut microbiome signature from different diets in >20,000 individuals. Red meat intake correlated with reduced cardiometabolic health; the opposite for plant-based foods or in omnivores with enriched plant-based intake
nature.com/articles/s41564-0… @NatureMicrobiol @nsegata @Fackelmeister
