#MeetTheLab
Does your lab do psychoneuroimmunology, neuroscience, immunology, or psychology research? The PNIRS #MeetTheLab series aims to introduce your PNI-related lab to provide networking opportunities and strengthen the PNI community!

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October 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM
✨ Meet LBA! ✨
Get a glimpse of the space where our ideas turn into reality!🧪🔬
In our lab, we explore microbial diversity to create technologies for remediation, waste valorisation and bioenergy production.
#MeetTheLab #Innovation #Sustainability #EnvironmentalBiotechnology
October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🔬 Meet the Bisker Lab at Tel Aviv University!
From nanosensors to protein folding, they're pushing boundaries in biophysics and nanotech.

#Science #Nanotech #Biophysics #MeetTheLab #Biosoft
September 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Meet Mauricio Berazaluce! 🎉 Our 2nd PhD student, he's wrapping up his 1st year in the Materials Science & Engineering program at @utrgv. Mauricio earned his Chemistry degree from UTRGV in May 2024 & jumped straight into his PhD that fall! 🚀 #MeetTheLab #STEM #utrgv
April 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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@msabrysarhan.bsky.social works on his postdoc (joint w/ #EURAC) on ancient diet & microbiomes.

How to overcome failure in science?
I like a lot what Robert Frost said: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
October 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Akshay Gaike is a postdoc who explores the gut microbiome <-> non-communicable diseases & dietary interventions.

Did you see yourself as a scientist at a young age?
I wanted to be car design engineer, but turns out I'm more into tiny microbes than turbo engines!
April 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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@matteo-ciciani.bsky.social is a PhD student who investigates CRISPR/Cas systems in the human microbiome.

Did you see yourself as a scientist at a young age?
Yes, I've wanted to become a scientist since I was 6.
sandy cheeks from the spongebob squarepants show is doing science every day
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April 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Linda Cova is a PhD student who is currently working on functional analysis of the gut microbiome in relation to diet.

Are you a dry or wet lab person?
Dry lab! I have a background in biotechnology but have always worked in the dry lab.
March 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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@cengoni.bsky.social is a PhD student working on metagenomics & computational tools for characterization & profiling of underexplored microorganisms.

Did you see yourself as a scientist at a young age?
Not really, when I was a kid my dream was to be a swimming teacher 🏊
March 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This Friday #MeetTheLab series

Amir NabiNejad @amirn.bsky.social is a PhD candidate (w/IEOufficiale) who investigates links between the human microbiome and healthy aging as well as cancer.

Are you a dry or wet lab person?
HUMID! :) wet background, more computational now.
October 25, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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Elisa Piperni is a PhD student (w/@IEOufficiale) who investigates relationship btw diet, cardiometabolic health, and the gut microbiome, w/focus on understudied micro-eukaryotes.

A little known fact about you?
I really like to eat & share all kinds of fruit 🍉🍐🍊🍎
June 27, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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Michal Punčochář is a PhD student responsible for improving StrainPhlAn and maintaining a huge database of MAGs.

🧗‍♂️ In his free time, Michal is usually climbing and mountaineering or playing music.
May 2, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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Gianmarco Piccinno is doing a PhD study on gut microbiome associations with colorectal cancer.

Best tips for overcoming failure in science?
Try and try again! In the end, you’ll learn something new and get better 💪
April 18, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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Giacomo Antonello is a PhD student investigating salivary microbiome (joint w/ #EuracBiomed). He started as a wet biologist & gradually "joined the dry side" during his MSc and PhD studies.

Btw, Giacomo is a winner of #scienceslam 2022 ⬇️

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You are not alone!
Your body belongs to you - and to trillions of microbes. Their communities, called microbiomes, play a big role in our lives: they influence our body weight ...
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April 11, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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Aitor Blanco-Míguez is a postdoc w/ interests in the role of the yet-to-be characterized microbial species in the human microbiome & how the food-associated microbiomes interact with the host.

Aitor likes to spend free time doing sports in the nature, mainly in the mountains!
February 28, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Roberta Marconi is a PhD student who's currently putting all her research efforts in exploring the microbial potential of fermented foods and their relationship with the human gut microbiome.

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February 22, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Marta Selma-Royo @martasr.bsky.social is a postdoc w/experience in both experimental & computational analyses

Marta's research efforts include isolation & characterization of previously uncultivated bacteria from the human gut microbiome to study its potential relation to host health
February 1, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Gloria Fackelmann, as a postdoc, studies the human gut microbiome in relation to diet and disease. Gloria's PhD work was on anthropogenic disturbances to wildlife gut microbiomes.

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January 22, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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Simone Anzà is a postdoc who joined us in November. Simone is mostly interested in microbiome-diet interaction, stress physiology, and health.

What do you like to do in your free time?
I play American Football with the Trento Thunders Team.
December 19, 2023 at 10:10 AM
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Davide Golzato has been doing the PhD work on metagenomic assembly, and functional and phylogenetic analysis of undercharacterized microbial species.

Are you a dry or wet lab person?
I'm definitely a dry lab person who likes to work with a wet lab part of the team
December 14, 2023 at 4:20 PM
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Amin Haghparast joined the team in November as an industrial PhD student in collab. with Prebiomics.

What do you like to do in your free time?
Basically one of these 3:
Cooking as I am a good cook!
Being in nature as I am a biophile!
Watching football with my cats!
December 5, 2023 at 2:27 PM
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@fasnicar.bsky.social is a postdoc who explores relationships between gut microbiome & diet using machine learning.

Your free time? (photo below)

How to overcome failure in science?
It’s never a failure –always learning- but having people around who support you is fundamental!
November 28, 2023 at 11:10 AM
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@serenamanara.bsky.social, an external lab affiliate, makes sure that #nomvifwithoutproblems does not happen too often (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) and works on dental microbiome (prebiomics).

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November 22, 2023 at 11:10 AM
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Liviana Ricci is a postdoc who studies unknown gut bugs & their interplay with the host.

What's your fav bug? I'd say Anaerostipes hadrus – a superstar in anti-inflammation strategies! *utilizes lactate (detrimental in higher conc in the gut lumen) & produces butyrate
November 9, 2023 at 2:35 PM
This Thursday #MeetTheLab series

@silverja.bsky.social is a PhD candidate with passion for metagenomics & phages (and music!).

Andrea's PhD work in Agrifood & Environmental Sciences is co-supervised by Dr. Omar Rota-Stabelli (Fondazione Edmund Mach).

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November 2, 2023 at 4:41 PM