Our guest today is Sara Clasen of the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, Germany, who is the recipient of the 2023 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Grand Prize for her essay entitled, “The sound of silence”.  Details about the prize-winning essay https://www.science.org/content/page/2023-noster-science-prize-winners Essay: The sound of silence Science, 381, 6653, pp. 37-38,  2023 DOI: 10.1126/science.adi6265 Related research  Clasen SJ, Bell MEW, Borbón A, Lee DH, Henseler ZM, de la Cuesta-Zuluaga J, Parys K, Zou J, Wang Y, Altmannova V, Youngblut ND, Weir JR, Gewirtz ..read more

Our guest today is Christopher Stewart of the Translational and Clinical Research Institute at Newcastle University, who is a finalist of the 2023 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for his essay entitled "Diet-microbe-host interaction in early life: breastmilk bioactives are important to infant microbiome.”   Details about the prize-winning essay https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi6318 Essay: Diet-microbe-host interaction in early life Science, 381, 6653, p. 38, (2023) DOI: 10.1126/science.adi6318 Related research  C. J Stewart et al, Temporal development of the gut ..read more

Our guest today is Christoph A. Thaiss the Microbiology Department of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, who is a finalist of the 2023 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for his essay entitled "A microbiome exercise: gut-brain connections drive the motivation to work out.”   Details about the prize-winning essay https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi6329 Essay: A microbiome exercise Science, 381, 6653, p. 38, 2023.  DOI: 10.1126/science.adi6329 Related research  L. Dohnalová et al A microbiome-dependent gut-brain pathway regulates mot ..read more

Our guest today is Eran Blacher, who is currently a senior postdoctoral fellow at Stanford School of Medicine studying the immune system-gut-brain axis in ageing and neurological disorders.  Eran is the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for his essay, “Can microbes combat neurodegeneration?” based on his research on the relationship between the microbiome and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. Links to details about the prize-winning essay are available on the MicrobiomeResearchX (MRX) website and related AAAS sites.  MRX websit ..read more

Our guest today is Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva, who started her lab in the Genome Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg in 2021. Maria is a finalist of the 2021 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for her essay, "Quantifying host-microbiota interactions” based on her research on the adaptation and consequences of microbes to their surroundings in hosts. Links to details about the prize-winning essay are available on the Noster Inc MicrobiomeResearchX (MRX) website and related AAAS Science sites. https://noster-mrx.net/ Summary of the research activities of the 2021 NOSTER & Science Microbiome P ..read more

Our guest today is Erez Baruch, who recently started an internal medicine residency in a research (Physician-Scientist) track to medical oncology. Internal medicine training is conducted at the McGovern Medical School in Houston, Texas. Erez is a finalist of the 2021 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for his essay, "Microbiota modulation to fight cancer”, based on his research on “mechanisms of immunotherapy resistance and toxicity, modulation of the gut microbiota, and interaction between innate and adaptive immune cells”.  Links to details about the prize-winning essay are available ..read more

Our guest today is Mariana Byndloss, an Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tennessee.  Mariana was one of the two finalists in the 2020 first annual NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for her work on “Microbial management”.  Links to details about the prize-winning essays can be found on the MicrobiomeResearchX website. https://noster-mrx.net ..read more

Our guest today is Chun-Jun Guo, an assistant professor at the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York.  CJ was one of the two finalists in the 2020 first annual NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for his work on “Modulating microbiome metabolites in vivo”.  Links to details about prize-winning essay and his research can be found on the MicrobiomeResearchX website. https://noster-mrx.net ..read more

Our guest today is Oliver Harrison, the 2020 winner of the first annual NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for his work on “how skin microbes interact with the immune system to aid wound healing”. Oliver is a Principal Investigator at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), in Seattle. https://www.benaroyaresearch.org/what-is-bri/scientists-labs/scientists/oliver-harrison-phd Links to details about Oliver’s prize-winning essay and his research can be found on the MicrobiomeResearchX  website. https://noster-mrx.net ..read more