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Eli Mehlferber

@emehlferber.bsky.social
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Postdoc in Sam Brown’s lab at GaTech. Broadly interested understanding why bacteria end up where they are, especially in the context of opportunistic pathogens. All done through the context of “big data” genomics and ML.

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Iris Irby @irisirby.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are excited to share our new preprint, “Canonical pathoadaptive cystic fibrosis genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are not CF-specific”! 🦠 Great project with @emehlferber.bsky.social and @brownlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread below 🧵
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Canonical pathoadaptive cystic fibrosis genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are not CF-specific
Research on Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation in cystic fibrosis (CF) has historically relied on comparing chronic isolates to laboratory reference strains, or evolving reference strains in environmen...
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Eli Mehlferber @emehlferber.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hey everyone! Happy to announce the completion of a longstanding project in partnership with @irisirby.bsky.social and @brownlab.bsky.social that I have been really excited about. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Canonical pathoadaptive cystic fibrosis genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are not CF-specific
Research on Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation in cystic fibrosis (CF) has historically relied on comparing chronic isolates to laboratory reference strains, or evolving reference strains in environmen...
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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
From "contaminants" to data, the idea of using WGS bacterial reads to study liverwort associations started during a class I took during my PhD. Today it is published! Fun collaboration with @mickischill.bsky.social and @emehlferber.bsky.social. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Off‐target metagenomics: Leveraging whole genome sequencing to study the bacteriome of the liverwort Calasterella californica
Premise The recovery of non-target organism reads, especially when whole organisms are sampled, constitutes a great opportunity for studying microbial communities. The increase in whole genome seque.....
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Eli Mehlferber @emehlferber.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Hey all! Happy to finally join everyone here on Bluesky, and also to share the culmination of my longest-running postdoc project, now on bioRxiv: “Apparent generalism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is underpinned by convergent cryptic specialization.” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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