Rakesh Sharma
@Rakesh_IGIB
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Chief Scientist @IGIBSocial, @CSIRIndia Environmental Microbiologist. Interested in Gut and Environmental Microbiome, Metagenomics, AMR.
New Delhi, India
Joined December 2013
Our research article on microbiome, pathogens and AMR in houses from Delhi, India. .@IGIBSocial @SaraswatiAwasth @vikasmh111 @sonamnain1
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RT @CJStewart7: Introducing a new gut microbiology journal, aptly titled Gut Microbiology. All Article Publishing Charges (APCs) are waiv….
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RT @jsantoyo: Microbiome-based therapeutics towards healthier aging and longevity. #Mibrobiome #Aging #MicrobiomeTherapeutics @GenomeMedici….
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RT @jcamthrash: Chlorophyll trends are negative for lakes but positive for estuarine–coastal waters
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Nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) pollution is an environmental problem of global concern because overenrichment of water bodies increases phytopl...
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RT @ScienceMagazine: “GlycoCaging” uses gut bacteria to activate drugs for inflammatory bowel disease. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspec….
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Our work revealed thousands of bacterial species and high-quality bacterial genomes. This knowledge about gut microbiome and its relationship with health and disease will help develop future intervention based on diet, lifestyle, microbiome modulation and engineering @CSIR_IND.
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As part of the Phenome India-CSIR Health Cohort Knowledgebase project @IGIBSocial @CSIR_IND we have preserved > 6000 stool samples from Indian Population in Biobank for future applications and completed shotgun sequencing to reveal gut microbiome.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Trending News: Scientists in Switzerland are deep-freezing human feces and fermented foods in a \"doomsday vault\" to preserve microbial life for future generations. T
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RT @hlcao: Global genetic structure of human gut microbiome species is related to geographic location and host health: Cell .
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32,152 gut metagenomes were analyzed, revealing strain-level geographic patterns shaped by horizontal transmission. Microbial phylogenies associate with human phenotypes, including Collinsella clades...
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RT @hlcao: Engineering bacteriophages through deep mining of metagenomic motifs | Science Advances
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We unlock the potential encoded in phage metagenomes to engineer phages to change host range and kill pathogenic bacteria.
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RT @jcamthrash: Moving from genome-scale to community-scale metabolic models for the human gut microbiome
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Nature Microbiology - In this Perspective, Deiner, Gibbons and colleagues describe the current strengths and limitations of microbial community-scale metabolic models in microbiome research.
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RT @MicrobialBiote1: Antibiotic crisis: Science advances, but funding stalls! Despite breakthroughs in antibiotic research, financial hurd….
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RT @NatureMicrobiol: Meet mandimycin, a new polyene antifungal with broad-spectrum activity and a unique mode of action targeting fungal ce….
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Nature - Mandimycin, a polyene macrolide, exhibits strong antifungal activity and possesses a mode of action that is distinct from other compounds of this class.
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Floor Microbiome of middle income houses in Delhi, India reveals presence of pathogenic bacteria, especially Escherichia coli, usually found in feces, on Living area floors and large number of clinically relevant AMR genes @ThisIsReckitt @ETEnvironment @ScienceNews @CSIR_IND.
Our research article on microbiome, pathogens and AMR in houses from Delhi, India. .@IGIBSocial @SaraswatiAwasth @vikasmh111 @sonamnain1
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RT @wellcometrust: Antimicrobial resistance is one of our greatest health challenges. Alongside @novonordiskfond and @gatesfoundation, we….
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RT @JessicaSacher: Whenever I talk about phage therapy to someone new, people are like 'why isn't this a thing?'. I say 'the science is the….
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RT @IGIBSocial: A diverse group of graduate students from @ANDCollegeDU visited @IGIBSocial on 22nd November as a part of our science outre….
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World AMR awareness week 2024, Ms. Aruna Kumari, Ph.D. student from my laboratory talking about discovery of new antimicrobials using various approaches.
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AMR awareness week 2024, @SaraswatiAwasthi from my laboratory talking about AMR surveillance using shotgun metagenomics.
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