Skip to main content
About the Institute
  • English
  • Français
  • Español
  • Portuguese
  • Polish

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Pr. Sampaio-Maia (Portugal winner 2021): Gut microbiota & obesity
  • Our publications
    • News
    • Microbiota Mag
    • Thematic folders
    • Overviews - Microbiota Magazine
  • About the Institute
    • Partnerships
    • Press room
  • Congresses
    • Congress calendar
    • Congress reviews
  • Continuing Medical Education
    • Accrediting courses
    • Xpeer App
  • Useful documents
    • Infographic
    About the Institute

    Join the microbiota community

    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • YouTube

Lay public section

Find here your dedicated section
Gastroenterology
Gynecology
Pediatrics
Dermatology

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Pr. Sampaio-Maia (Portugal winner 2021): Gut microbiota & obesity

Pr. Sampaio-Maia (Portugal winner 2021): Gut microbiota & obesity

Research
Pediatrics Nephrology Kidney

To celebrate #WorldMicrobiomeDay, the Biocodex Microbiota Institute is handing the floor to national grant winners.

Gastroenterology
Gynecology
Pediatrics
Dermatology
  • Our publications
    • News
    • Microbiota Mag
    • Thematic folders
    • Overviews - Microbiota Magazine
  • About the Institute
    • Partnerships
    • Press room
  • Congresses
    • Congress calendar
    • Congress reviews
  • Continuing Medical Education
    • Accrediting courses
    • Xpeer App
  • Useful documents
    • Infographic
    About the Institute

    Join the microbiota community

    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • YouTube

Lay public section

Find here your dedicated section

Sources

This article is based on scientific information

Sharing is caring

Your colleagues might be interested in this topic. Why not share it?

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Mail

Sections

About this article

Created 31 May 2022
Updated 13 July 2022

Pr. Benedita Sampaio-Maia

Pr. Benedita Sampaio-Maia is an Assistant Professor at the Dentistry Faculty and a senior researcher at Nephrology & Infectious Diseases Group of I3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, both institutions from University of Porto.

She is currently focus on exploring the role of the human microbiome in health and disease, namely in cardiometabolic diseases (obesity, hypertension, chronic kidney disease), understand the impact of these diseases (in the mother) in microbiota acquisition and maturation in early life, and explore the gut-brain axis in neurodevelopment disorders and personality traits.

What has the national grant allowed to discover in your microbiota research area?

The Foundation Portuguese grant allowed us, in a first step, to understand the impact of maternal obesity on the acquisition and maturation of the child’s gut microbiota throughout the first year of life. In early life, the establishment, development, and maturation of the microbiota are shaped by microbial and host interactions, in which the mother plays a key role as she represents the most important source of microorganisms. The transfer of obesogenic microbiota between mother and child has been suggested as a possible pathway for the intergenerational transmission of obesity. Since the early-life represents a critical window for immune stimulation, gut dysbiosis can compromise the development of a balanced immune phenotype. Therefore, our second step will unravel the impact of a dysbiotic and obesogenic maternally acquired gut microbiota on the immune system priming.

What are the consequences for the patient?

With Biocodex Microbiota Foundation support, we anticipate understanding the impact of maternal obesity on the child's gut microbiota and unraveling the impact of early life dysbiotic microbiota on the immune system stimulation and regulation up to one year after delivery. The understanding of how dysbiotic maternally acquired gut microbiota impacts immune system priming may reveal new strategies for disease prevention through early-life gut microbiota manipulation, opening new paths for the development of innovative and personalized diagnostic and therapeutic tools.

Want to know more about Pr. Sampaio-Maia

In your point of view, what is the biggest breakthrough related to microbiota these last years?

       The discovery of the Gut-Brain Axis
 

Do you think there is a growing interest on microbiota recently?

       Certainly.
 

Do you have a tip for taking care of our microbiota?

      Eat a great variety of foods, so you can have also a great diversity of microbes living in your gut.
 

Do you have an anecdote, or a surprising fact/story to share on your research?

       Stool management is always the “marvellous” task.
 

What is for you the most fascinating bacteria?

       For me, there is not one particular bacteria, is the symbiotic relationship that the bacteria develop between them and with the host that fascinates me most.
 

Do you have an inspirational person in mind? (in the field of research? / Medical? / in general?)

       Anton van Leeuwenhoek for his curiosity, and for unravelling this gigantesque invisible world.

Learn more
Portugal Grant Winner's project

Foundation's winners

Discover other testimonies
BMI 22.15
Tags
World Microbiome Day Obesity Kidney Hypertension Gut-brain axis Pregnancy Immunity Gut microbiota Dysbiosis

en_view en_sources

    See also

    WMD_Foundation KOL Portugal 2020 Dr. Faria and Pr. Pimentel-Santos (Portugal winner 2020): Microbiota & spondyloarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis therapy
    Created 31 May 2022
    Updated 13 July 2022

    About this article

    To know more about this topic.

    Main topic

    Research

    Medical practice

    Pediatrics Nephrology Kidney

    Content type

    Article

    Continue reading

    News
    SII, microbiote intestinal et dépression : un triptyque pour mieux comprendre la maladie
    27.07.2022

    IBS, gut microbiota and depression: a trio shedding light on the disease

    Read the article

    Highlights from the APDW 2021

    CONGRESS REVIEW By Pr. Fergus ShanahanDepartment of Medicine, University College Cork, National University...

    Find out more
    Actu PRO : Cancer du poumon : l'influence majeure du microbiote pulmonaire
    16.04.2019

    Lung cancer: major influence of the lung microbiota

    Read the article
    De la dysbiose intestinale à l’infection urinaire
    22.07.2022

    From gut dysbiosis to urinary tract infection

    Read the article

    Vaginal Microbiota #15

    By Pr. Markku VoutilainenTurku University Faculty of Medicine; Turku University Hospital, Department of Gas...

    Find out more

    Microbiome topics at GASTRO 2021

    CONGRESS REVIEW By Pr. Eamonn M M QuigleyLynda K and David M Underwood Center for Digestive Disorders, Div...

    Find out more

    Commensal clostridiales strains mediate effective anti-cancer immune response against solid tumours

    COMMENTED ARTICLE - ADULTS’ SECTION By Pr. Harry SokolGa...

    Find out more
    Acute coronary syndrome (ACS): is the gut microbiota at the heart of the matter?
    21.06.2022

    Acute coronary syndrome (ACS): is the gut microbiota at the heart of the matter?

    Read the article
    What's worth reading about microbiota
    Follow us on Twitter
    Read our thematic folder
    The Janus face of Antibiotics: Life Savers & Microbiota Disrupters
    NL13_cover
    Check out latest newsletter
    IBS, Microbiota & Covid-19
    • Our publications
      • News
      • Microbiota Mag
      • Thematic folders
      • Overviews - Microbiota Magazine
    • About the Institute
      • Partnerships
      • Press room
    • Congresses
      • Congress calendar
      • Congress reviews
    • Continuing Medical Education
      • Accrediting courses
      • Xpeer App
    • Useful documents
      • Infographic
      About the Institute

      Join the microbiota community

      • Facebook
      • Twitter
      • YouTube

    Lay public section

    Find here your dedicated section
    Gastroenterology
    Gynecology
    Pediatrics
    Dermatology
    • English
    • Français
    • Español
    • Portuguese
    • Polish

    Browse the site

    • Our publications
      • News
      • Microbiota Mag
      • Thematic folders
      • Overviews - Microbiota Magazine
    • About the Institute
      • Partnerships
      • Press room
    • Congresses
      • Congress calendar
      • Congress reviews
    • Continuing Medical Education
      • Accrediting courses
      • Xpeer App
    • Useful documents
      • Infographic
      About the Institute

      Join the microbiota community

      • Facebook
      • Twitter
      • YouTube

    Lay public section

    Find here your dedicated section

    Discover

    Gastroenterology
    Gynecology
    Pediatrics
    Dermatology

    Join the microbiota community

    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • YouTube

    Lay public section

    Find here your dedicated section

    Redirection

    You are about to be redirected and leave our website

    • Be redirected
    • Stay on the Biocodex Microbiota Institute's website

    Stay with us !

    Join the Microbiota Community of HCPs and researchers and receive once a month the “Microbiota Digest” to stay up to date on the latest news about microbiota.

    * Mandatory Fields

    BMI 20-35

    Explore

    SII, microbiote intestinal et dépression : un triptyque pour mieux comprendre la maladie
    27.07.2022

    IBS, gut microbiota and depression: a trio shedding light on the disease

    Read the article
    De la dysbiose intestinale à l’infection urinaire
    22.07.2022

    From gut dysbiosis to urinary tract infection

    Read the article
    18.07.2022

    The urinary microbiota: towards a new prognostic tool for prostate cancer?

    Read the article

    Stay updated

    Join the Microbiota Community of HCPs and researchers and receive once a month the “Microbiota Digest” to stay up to date on the latest news about microbiota.

    * Mandatory Fields

    BMI 20-35

    • Our publications
      • News
      • Microbiota Mag
      • Thematic folders
      • Overviews - Microbiota Magazine
    • About the Institute
      • Partnerships
      • Press room
    • Congresses
      • Congress calendar
      • Congress reviews
    • Continuing Medical Education
      • Accrediting courses
      • Xpeer App
    • Useful documents
      • Infographic
      About the Institute

      Join the microbiota community

      • Facebook
      • Twitter
      • YouTube

    Lay public section

    Find here your dedicated section

    Discover

    Gastroenterology
    Gynecology
    Pediatrics
    Dermatology

    Lay public section

    Find here your dedicated section

    Join the microbiota community

    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • YouTube

    © 2022 Biocodex. All rights reserved.

    • Cookies Policy
    • Data protection policy
    • GTU
    • Sitemap
    • Cookies settings
    Biocodex logo