Nutrition on Méric Lab

Obesity, FMT vs cancer, 'dysbiosis' & microbial predation (reading list)

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0100

A lot of interesting things were published lately in multiple fields, and it’s been a bit hard to keep up! But this is hopefully helpful to some.

In other news, you’ll perhaps notice that this website has changed and migrated to another server, much better than @£!# Wordpress. The only issue of this migration was to lose the email mailing list for those who were subscribed to it. I can only encourage people to follow this blog through RSS syndication, on this link.

PD, CAZyme typing, GLP1 GWAS & CVD PGS (reading list)

Sat, 09 May 2026 09:00:00 +0100

Again this blog post is not happening as I would like, but that’s how it is! This is the latest update of interesting additions to my reading list, gathering some noteworthy recent publications in the field of microbiome science and other! I hope this will be helpful, please subscribe below the post if you’d like to be kept in the loop of future posts by email. Also feel free to see these posts more regularly on BlueSky.

Sleep, commercial testing kit variation & MR guidelines (reading list)

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100

Not as often as I would like and fewer entries this time than in the last post, but this is the latest update of my reading list gathering some noteworthy recent publications in the field of microbiome science and other! I hope this will be helpful, please subscribe below the post if you’d like to be kept in the loop of future posts by email. Also feel free to see these posts more regularly on BlueSky.

Collagenase, South Asian cohorts, & ICI FMT trials (reading list)

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100

Two in a row! It’s been a while. I hope this list of interesting recent papers (at least to me!) in the field of microbiome science, microbial ecology and other stuff will be useful to you! As always, feel free to subscribe to get this list by email and/or follow on bluesky where I generally also post something. This time, we also start with a great achievement from our collaborators, published in Nature Genetics. We’re delighted to have been part of this (and more is to come!).

Baby microbiome, oral microbiome GWAS & Archaea (reading list)

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100

Well, despite being marginally more active on BlueSky, my last blog post summarizing the papers I come across has been almost a year ago now. Shocking news, I know. Since then, I’ve moved across hemispheres, got a new job (now associate prof at the University of Bath, yay!) and it’s taken a while to update this but, hey! a warm hello to the handful of hopefuls that will find this useful! 🙂 (Do you find this useful? I promise I’ll try my best to keep at it for 2026).

MR pitfalls, infant longitudinal data & E. coli CRC (reading list)

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0100

Hello folks! Long time no write. At least on here! I’ve realised that it was a lot of work to do a single weekly blog update on interesting noteworthy publications, but that it was much less taxing to share publication updates on social media! This is what I mostly do over at BlueSky now (check and follow my account if interested).

However, maybe because of age or just general clogging, I’ve often found myself in need of a static page to easily search for previously mentioned articles or papers, and this website is quite useful for this, as opposed to social media. I thought that I might then periodically just summarize my BlueSky updates here, mainly for myself but also for whoever would be interested and not have/want to have BlueSky.

Entire 2024 reading list backed up from previous blog

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0100

In June 2026, I have migrated my previous (horrendous) Wordpress-fueled blog (as I said, horrendous) into a more manageable one (this one). However, I had quite a lot of these reading list entries on the previous blog, and they are sometimes useful as a delocalized memory for my aging brain (read: “damn I know I’ve read about this one day! Let me check the reading list!”).

That being said, it’s a bit tedious to migrate every blog entry. I’ve done it (semi)manually for those before 2024 but I couldn’t really bring myself to do it for the entire 2024 year (when I started doing this). I will just do one big post with all of them here (extracted with a very ad-hoc parsing script I’ve done), hoping that there aren’t many errors and it will still be useful to some, let alone me.