Chris Stewart
Professor of Human Microbiome Research at Newcastle University.
Using 'omics and organoids to study diet-microbe-host interaction.
Microbiome; Microbiology; preterm infant; necrotising enterocolitis; inflammatory bowel disease; cancer.
He/Him
- Reposted by Chris StewartI have an open BBSRC PhD position in my lab at @northumbriauni.bsky.social to start Oct 2026 This exciting project will focus on the Resistance, resilience, & redundancy in the human gut microbiome This is part in collaboration with the fantastic @stewartlab.bsky.social Project details ⤵️ 1/2
- Reposted by Chris StewartThe @stewartlab.bsky.social use systems biology and cutting-edge human intestinal organoid models to understand diet-microbe-host interaction across the life course, with the ambition to discover novel therapies to improve gut health. www.ncl.ac.uk/medical-scie... www.neonatalresearch.net
- Introducing a new gut microbiology journal, aptly titled Gut Microbiology. All Article Publishing Charges (APCs) are waived for 2 years! Please send your exciting research our way. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/gut-...
- Led by Emily Wroot, I present our recent Comment in @natmicrobiol.nature.com "Opportunities for microbiome-based therapeutics in preterm infants" Hopefully this provides a timely insight for clinicians and researchers interested in preterm infants, and beyond! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Chris StewartMany congratulations @stewartlab.bsky.social on this amazing achievement - so richly deserved - #BlavatnikAwards Life Sciences Laureate 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 🎉 Very happy for you and great interview 👇🏾
- In our latest blog post we catch up with #BlavatnikAwards Life Sciences Laureate @stewartlab.bsky.social, who recently attended the Blavatnik Awards ceremony and public symposium and gave talks about his preventive health work on preterm infant microbiomes 🫄👶 lister-institute.org.uk/congratulati...
- Reposted by Chris StewartIn our latest blog post we catch up with #BlavatnikAwards Life Sciences Laureate @stewartlab.bsky.social, who recently attended the Blavatnik Awards ceremony and public symposium and gave talks about his preventive health work on preterm infant microbiomes 🫄👶 lister-institute.org.uk/congratulati...
- Reposted by Chris StewartThe amazing Prof Chris Stewart @stewartlab.bsky.social gives his inaugural lecture👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
- Reposted by Chris StewartWe had the pleasure of interviewing Chris earlier this week for the Lister Institute blog, and were excited to learn about his team's new preprint: a game-changer in understanding how human breast milk influences the infant microbiome.
- Introducing our latest preprint which discovered Clostridium sp. grow on HMOs. Using computational and experimental approaches we show this has beneficial consequences for the developing microbiome and the host. But there is nuance. A 🧵... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Chris Stewart🎉 Congratulations to @stewartlab.bsky.social who has been named the Life Sciences Laureate at the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK 🎖️ Read more 👇 www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl... #WeAreNCL
- Reposted by Chris StewartHuge congratulations to our colleague Professor Chris Stewart on receiving the esteemed Life Sciences Laureate at the Blavatnik Awards 2025! This is a first for @newcastleuni.bsky.social and we couldn't be more proud of Chris & his ground-breaking research! tinyurl.com/LaureateAward
- Reposted by Chris StewartCongratulations to AMI member Dr Christopher Stewart of @newcastleuni.bsky.social who has been named as a finalist in the eighth Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK! He is the 2023 winner of AMI’s WH Pierce Prize for microbiology. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/ami-mem...
- Fabulous meeting in Hong Kong by the New Cornerstone Science Foundation. It was great to meet so many researchers in person whose work I have admired for some time. Thanks for having me!
- Really enjoyable discussion. Well done, Dolan!
- Congratulations Dolan! 🎉 Thanks to external Chris Stewart for making the trip from Newcastle @stewartlab.bsky.social
- Introducing our latest preprint which discovered Clostridium sp. grow on HMOs. Using computational and experimental approaches we show this has beneficial consequences for the developing microbiome and the host. But there is nuance. A 🧵... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- The work started with Andrea finding Clostridium perfringens (C. perf) cultured from a preterm infant could grow on a range of HMOs. We expanded this into other infant Clostridium isolates and Greg also found C. perf is more prevalent in healthy preterm infants.
- Because HMOs are abundant prebiotics in human milk, bacteria that could metabolise them were assumed to be beneficial. e.g., Bifidobacterium sp. is the leading probiotic candidate in babies and are especially adapted to use HMOs. But this is where the nuance comes in.
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View full threadMain take-homes: 1) Clostridium lacking pfoA toxin may be beneficial to preterm health as a probiotic or postbiotic 2) Where infants are potentially colonised with pathogenic pfoA+ C. perf, these results caution against widespread HMO supplementation (e.g., of formula milk)
- Pleasure to attend and learn about the fantastic on-going research 🙂
- We also were happy to welcome our keynote speaker @stewartlab.bsky.social from @newcastleuni.bsky.social to speak about his work on diet-microbe-host interactions in early life as well as his career progression and advice for our student collective
- Reposted by Chris StewartWe also were happy to welcome our keynote speaker @stewartlab.bsky.social from @newcastleuni.bsky.social to speak about his work on diet-microbe-host interactions in early life as well as his career progression and advice for our student collective
- Reposted by Chris StewartHuman Milk: the Original Superfood & Personalized Medicine Happy to share that my @gairdnerawards.bsky.social lecture is now available online: youtu.be/d6BrlTmmmBY?... #breastfeeding #microbiome #breastmilk 🧪
- Reposted by Chris StewartCheck out the Microbial Primers list from the Microbiology Society. Whether you're an early career researcher or an established scientist, ‘Microbial Primers’ is your first-step navigational tool in the expansive landscape of microbiology. #MicroSky www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
- My RSS feed, including the pubmed search “gut microbiota”, hasn’t updated for a few days
- Reposted by Chris StewartJOB CLAXON! I am recruiting a post-doctoral researcher on a BBSRC-funded project (36 months) on the genetics and functional genomics of vancomycin resistance in enterococci. Further details here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please DM or email me if you want to discuss this post.
- Reposted by Chris StewartCongratulations to all 2025 Microbiology Society Prize Winners, particularly U Birmingham colleague @halllab.bsky.social for the Peter Wildy prize 'for outstanding contributions to microbiology education, communication of microbiology to the public'. microbiologysociety.org/news/society...
