Pamela Ferretti

@pamferretti.bsky.social

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Postdoc in the Blekhman lab at UChicago | Infant and breast milk microbiome | wild animal microbiome | antimicrobial resistance | microbial ecology | Member of @microbiomevif.bsky.social https://pamelaferretti.net/

Two women are hugging with Mount Kilimanjaro in the background. The woman on the right is Prof. Beth Archie.
In the foreground, a female baboon is passing by, stopping for a brief moment to look at the baboons behind her. In the background, a researcher is wearing a hat, a long-sleeved shirt and long trousers, observing the baboons in front of her, scattered across the grass plain. Mount Kilimanjaro is visible in the distance.
A baboon is sitting on a branch and eating acacia tree pods, surrounded by leaves.
A woman is taking a photo with her camera in a grass plain. She is wearing tan-colored clothes and there are acacia trees in the background.
I'm standing between the two conference organizers while holding the poster award. Everyone is smiling.
Room full of participants sitting and looking at a large screen with a slide titled "Deep Dive D: Human Milk Bioactives". The moderator (Lars Bode) is introducing the session.
Four phylogenetic trees show examples of strain sharing between milk and infant stool samples for specific microbes: B. longum, S. salivarius, P. vulgatus and K. pneumoniae. Instances of mother-infant pairs sharing the same strain are highlighted with black rectangles.
Heatmap showing which microbes are present in human milk samples and at what abundance. Bifidobacterium longum is the first of the list.
Participants of the “Theory of Microbial Symbiosis” workshop standing together on the shore at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, with the ocean and trees in the background
The top of the image shows a coral reef with a zoomed-in section highlighting the coral holobiont (comprising coral cells, bacteria, phages, fungi, and zooxanthellae). Below each component is its genetic material, collectively forming the "hologenome." At the bottom, a wasp is shown as another example of a holobiont. On the left, the wasp hosts symbionts such as bacteria and phages. In the center, two wasps share some symbionts with each other and the environment. On the right, a wasp lineage undergoes speciation, resulting in two wasp species, each with a distinct symbiont composition.
auditorium room full of people
slide showing the text "microbes are bystanders to modern non communicable human diseases of complex etiology" and "reduction in microbial diversity in disease states is a neutral byproduct of the metabolic requirements of survival in an ecosystem under stress"