Carolina Tropini, PhD
@CTropini
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Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia studying the gut microbiota and abiotic environment in health and disease.
Vancouver, BC
Joined June 2018
Dear microbiology twitter, what are tricks, assumptions and inside knowledge microbiologists have when culturing bacteria that aren't obvious to non-microbiologists? E.g. motion of air being a source of contamination, not touching the rim of threaded tubes etc.
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Sculptor: the missing UI for Claude Code 🎨 Imagine running 5 Claudes in parallel, safely in containers, while you stay in flow. Then bring their work straight into your IDE to test/edit together. This is how one developer ships like a team. Try it with Sonnet 4.5!
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CIFAR’s Diet Module, developed by @CTropini, equips educators to think more holistically about how our dietary choices shape the microbiome and influence health outcomes. Learn about this initiative, part of the new Humans & the Microbiome curriculum: https://t.co/CrG3sBhco9
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Introducing CIFAR’s new Public Health Microbiome curriculum! Led by experts @MeghanAzad, @CTropini, @Naama_GZ and Melissa Melby, it bridges cutting-edge microbiome science with real-world public health practice. 🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/XcpPOuUClJ
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Congratulations to Brian on an awesome 3 minute presentation!!
Last week, MBIM undergraduate students participated in UBC’s first Life Sciences Undergraduate 3-Minute Thesis competition. MBIM student Brian Deng from the Tropini lab (left) was awarded first place for a succinct and compelling narrative on his research. Congratulations to all!
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Last week, MBIM undergraduate students participated in UBC’s first Life Sciences Undergraduate 3-Minute Thesis competition. MBIM student Brian Deng from the Tropini lab (left) was awarded first place for a succinct and compelling narrative on his research. Congratulations to all!
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Really excited to share new exciting work led by PhD students McCallum and Burckhardt! We created a new series of syn bio tools in Bacteroides to create non-invasive, real time and sensitive in vivo gut biosensors.
Expanding the Bacteroides synthetic biology toolkit to develop an in vivo intestinal malabsorption biosensor. https://t.co/f0Oy9ijFZe
#biorxiv_synbio
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Excited to share our preprint led by Dr. Hunter! We show that osmotic shifts, common in the gut due to diet & laxatives, alter T4 phage-E. coli evolution. High osmolality promotes fitness but selects for mucoid, weakly phage-resistant E. coli, with implications for phage therapy!
Osmotic conditions shape fitness gains and resistance mechanisms during E. coli and T4 phage co-evolution https://t.co/rgzff9wiEE
#biorxiv_micrbio
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Excited for our new work to be officially published https://t.co/jZDGhcD2pd! This study in collaboration with @CTropini 's group reveals that early-life gut inflammation leads to sex-dependent changes in the microbiome-endocrine-brain axis.
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Very excited to share a new paper in collaboration with @AVogelCiernia! We show that early-life inflammation alters sex hormones and mating behavior in mice, alongside shifts in hormone-modifying microbiota members! Great work by Olivia, Claire and others!
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We have a job opening for an immunologist in our dept @UBCMicroImmuno! Broad immunology position at the Assistant Prof level in beautiful Vancouver 😊 Apply by Oct 24th! Please repost and spread the word 🙏
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology are hiring 1 Assistant Professor Position! Apply by October 24: https://t.co/jZoUJ9tgWv
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And thank you to the thesis committee (Osborne, Ziels and Vallance) for years of support!!
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Huge congratulations to Dr. Pepin, our labs's first PhD student, for a fantastic defense today! Thank you to Drs. Finlay, Guan, Vallance, Parfrey and David for being part of the examining committee!
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Very excited to share our latest preprint! Led by a great student @caclayton99, we show how bowel prep increases vulnerability to Salmonella as well as IBD pathobiont infection. We delve into mechanisms and the many facets of this common gut perturbation.
researchsquare.com
Bowel preparation is a common procedure performed millions of times each year to clear the intestinal tract ahead of colonoscopy. During this procedure, a laxative is administered to clear the...
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Really excited to share our latest publication! We introduce a pipeline to design taxon and group specific primers in mixed microbial communities. Kudos to Hans Ghezzi for the great work leading this project! @GhezziHans
https://t.co/YS8vfGyQy7
journals.asm.org
Profiling microbial communities at high resolution and with absolute quantification is essential to uncover hidden ecological interactions within microbial ecosystems. Nevertheless, achieving...
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Join us Thursday, June 13 in MSL 102 for the Effective Science Illustrations workshop with Martin Krzywinski. Learn how to turn complex datasets into beautiful, understandable images. https://t.co/Oz2G6pX1cG
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Super excited about this new work from a collaboration between my lab and @CTropini 's lab. Early life intestinal inflammation alters gut microbiome, impairing gut-brain communication and reproductive behavior in mice
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Despite recent advances in understanding the connection between the gut microbiota and the brain, there remains a wide knowledge gap in how gut inflammation impacts brain development. Microbiota-de...
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Excited to be back in Vancouver at @ubclifesciences at the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) to give a seminar @OverallLabNews @DrReiniK @UBC
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Incredibly honoured to be recieving a Gairdner Award today & deeply grateful to my fantastic research team and collaborators - this is truly a Team Achievement! 🏅😃
Congratulations to Dr. Meghan Azad, recipient of the 2024 Canada Gairdner Momentum Award!
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Fastest way to get through security: engage the guard with a sneak peek into the seminar you're on your way to present.
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