Scientific Director of the American Gut Project and The Microsetta Initiative; Knight Lab; UC San Diego Dept. of Pediatrics. he/him. Tweets are my own.

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Attending DDW & interested in Microbiome basic & translational research? Check out these Microbiome & Microbial Therapy programmed plenary sessions (see thread below): @AmerGastroAssn @DDWMeeting
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Our preprint exploring the role of Ne and gene expression on purifying selection in penguins has been recommended by @PCIEvolBiol! Approaches can be extended to many non-model organisms, including using expression bins as a proxy for selection coefficients evolbiol.peercommunityin.org…
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Call to the microbiome community. We are building a collaborative microbial metabolite center (CMMC) knowledgbase resource to allow direct connection of microbiome derived molecules, their producers and activities. If you have published papers and want to add your 1/
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scikit-bio is back in action! scikit.bio Thanks to funding from DOE and a reassembled team. Get ready for: Streamlined analysis of massive omic data, Advanced multi-omic integration, Enhanced biological feature annotation. Join us to advance reproducible #openscience
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Join us this summer to tackle impactful challenges in mass-spectrometry data using cutting-edge ML techniques 🚀 #ML #DrugDiscovery #SummerInternship @PrescientDesign @genentech roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/…
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RT @EricTopol: The contributions that Kristian and his team @ScrippsResearch @ScrippsRTI and collaborators have made throughout the pandemi…
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Tyler Griffin (UConn) and I are hosting a Microbiome session at the National Shellfisheries Assn. meeting in Charlotte, NC Mar. 17-21 2024. It's a wonderful meeting with great people- Join us! Abstracts are due Dec 15th, happy to answer any questions! shellfish.org/annual-meeting
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Our paper exploring gene expression adaptive responses in the Emperor penguin (EP)🧊🇦🇶🐧is out on bioRxiv! EPs breed in the harsh, dark Antarctic winters at temps <-45C! We identify genes involved in temperature homeostasis, fasting, and energy metabolism doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.29.5…
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Congratulations to Professor Rob Knight on being named a 2023 Citation Laureate! We are incredibly proud to have such an inspiring leader for our lab. #CitationLaureates #MicrobiomeResearch
Meet our 23 remarkable Citation Laureates™ of 2023! 🎓 Their ground-breaking work spans diverse fields and has garnered 2,000+ citations. Join us in celebrating their contributions to science and humanity! 🙌👏 #CitationLaureates #NobelClass #Innovation clarivate.com/news/clarivate…
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Really excited to finally see this out! Lots to unpack here. Briefly, our differentiable search & alignment algorithm is competitive with structural prediction methods, and enables scalable remote homology search against large protein databases. @THamamsy @RichBonneauNYC
Protein remote homology detection and structural alignment using deep learning go.nature.com/3LfNutP
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Come join us for the Workshop on Genomics 🧬in beautiful Cesky Krumlov in Jan! Applications now open!
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The first #gull chromosome-level #genome assembly is available! Check out our paper presenting a new black-legged #kittiwake genome tinyurl.com/5n6dc9r9 👇👇 a couple of highlights:
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BinaRena: our new tool for human-guided exploration and binning of metagenomes. Paper out in the wild! @MichaelPavia7 @MicrobiomeJ
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Some news: After 8 years & 750 stories, I've decided to leave The Atlantic. Today's my last day. Being a writer means you can’t say things like "I can’t tell you what this means" cos, well, I can. That's kind of the point of me. So here’s an attempt at looking back & forward: 1/
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The Tyson lab presents CheckM2, which leverages machine learning for improved estimation of completeness and contamination of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) generated using metagenomics data. @CMR_QUT @AChklovski nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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A team led by researchers from CMI faculty member Siavash Mirarab's lab is proud to unveil uDance, a novel algorithm to infer phylogenetic trees, in an article published today by Nature Biotechnology. cmi.ucsd.edu/2023/07/27/effi…
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Replying to @KnightLabNews
@KnightLabNews (@UCSDMedSchool / @UCSDJacobs) is excited to announce a new release of Greengenes in @NatureBiotech (nature.com/articles/s41587-0…). With this release, we provide a single taxonomy and phylogeny unifying 16S and shotgun metagenomic analyses! A thread (1/n)
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Last but not least, thank you to our amazing co-authors: Yueyu Jiang, Metin Balaban, Kalen Cantrell, @zhuqiyun, Antonio Gonzalez, @jamietmorton, Giorgia Nicolaou, @donovan_parks, @SorenKarst, @MadsAlbertsen85, @PhilHugenholtz, Todd DeSantis, @sejsong… (15/n)
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…Andrew Bartko, Aki Havulinna, Pekka Jousilahti, Susan Cheng, @minouye271, @BP_Teemu, Mohit Jain, Veikko Salomaa, @antagomir, Siavash Mirarab
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