Reposted by Emily DavenportTiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Microbiology professors/PIs, would you like to join the microPI slack? Microbiology is defined broadly. This is an open tent. Professor/PI is inclusive to teaching focused roles, or pure research PI roles like a National lab PI. Reply or DM me and I will send you a link. 32119
Reposted by Emily DavenportNandita Garud @nanditagarud.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I am excited to share our latest paper, Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the gut, now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/n) 27032
Reposted by Emily DavenportNick Banovich @nebanovich.bsky.social · 17/02/2026So excited to have this study live! Lead by @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social's teram and in collaboration with an incredible team at MRIN in Indonesia. This is the culmination of ~5 years of work including a ton of effort in the field. Really proud of how this came together! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 084
Reposted by Emily DavenportArvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The Paradox of the Organism in the university news case.edu/news/medicin...case.eduMedicine’s J. Arvid Ågren examines how organisms persist with internal conflicts | CWRU Newsroom | Case Western Reserve UniversityJ. Arvid Ågren, PhD, assistant professor at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and Manus M. Patten, teaching professor at Georgetown Univer... 0125
Reposted by Emily DavenportHernán A. Burbano @hernanaburbano.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Our new collaborative work led by @taliamycota.bsky.social Jiajun Cui & Emma Caullireau between my lab @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social & the Karasov Lab (tkarasovlab.org) @uofubiology.bsky.social and collaborators: @plantricia.bsky.social et al. tinyurl.com/5yx2wmz5 (1/n) 34928
Reposted by Emily DavenportMichael Baym @baym.lol · 20/11/2025Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgIntracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamicsFrom populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g... 11437199
Reposted by Emily Davenport🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 14283130
Reposted by Emily DavenportHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.github.comGitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no capdplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub. 42460166
Reposted by Emily DavenportOmaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 1521498
Reposted by Emily DavenportProf. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 28/10/2025We selected the laziest mouse at each round to inoculate the next batch of germfree mice: over rounds of selection and passaging, behavior shifted without changes to the mouse genome: rdcu.be/eM3rO 🦠🧫rdcu.beSelection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behaviorNature Communications - Here, the authors present evidence that the gut microbiome alone, without changes in the host genome, can shape how animals respond to selection, identifying a bacterium and... 410837
Reposted by Emily DavenportSeth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · 24/09/2025The gut MYCOBIOME is akin to the tiny group of kids in the corner of a huge homecoming dance. Their story is largely unknown. In our latest, @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social dives into the evolutionary associations of gut fungi with @erdavenport.bsky.social & Andres Gomez journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...journals.plos.orgGut fungal profiles reveal phylosymbiosis and codiversification across humans and nonhuman primatesFungi in the gut microbiome (the "mycobiome") are a neglected component of the human holobiont. This study of gut fungal profiles across natural populations of humans and non-human primates reveals si... 1196
Reposted by Emily DavenportPLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 03/09/2025What determines the human gut fungal community? @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social @erdavenport.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social &co present the first #GWAS of human genetic loci that influence the abundance of gut #fungi, linking these to disease risk #mycobiome @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/42bCKou 02613
Reposted by Emily DavenportSeth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · 02/09/2025We published a new lane of research today on human gut fungi. Shout out to 1st author @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social sky.social & @erdavenport.bsky.social For 20 years, bacteria received the lion's share of interest in the human gut. Yet we know little about the gut mycobiome. doi.org/10.1371/jour...doi.orgGut fungi are associated with human genetic variation and disease riskIn contrast to decades of research on gut bacteria, human genetic determinants of the gut fungal community (mycobiome) remain understudied. This investigation presents the first GWAS on the number and... 55222
Reposted by Emily DavenportYun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 06/06/2025The 2026 Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (ProbGen) meeting will be held at UC Berkeley, March 25-28, 2026. We have an amazing list of keynote speakers and session chairs: probgen2026.github.io Please help spread the news.probgen2026.github.ioHome - ProbGen 2026Your Site Description 27036
Reposted by Emily DavenportTiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Microbiology professor, want to join a slack for microbiology professors, any career stage, diverse career types (pure teaching, med school, R1, community college, pure research fed PIs, ...) Message me for an invite link if you are interested. No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join! 44642
Reposted by Emily DavenportTami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comIntraspecies warfare restricts strain coexistence in human skin microbiomes - Nature MicrobiologyAbout 15,000 pairwise interactions within S. epidermidis from 18 people in 6 families reveal the antagonism and molecular trade-offs that shape the skin microbiota. 1022197
Reposted by Emily DavenportDr. Nikki Crowley @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Job is up, consider joining us! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comResearch Technologist - Life Sciences - Crowley LabAPPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a... 0914
Reposted by Emily DavenportAlexandra (Sasha) Zhernakova @sashazhernakova.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Come to work with us! We have 2 PhD positions: 1: On stability of gut microbiome in longitudinal well phenotyped adult cohorts: tinyurl.com/MicrobiomeExpo… 2: On integrative multi-omics analysis in a unique longitudinal mother-infant cohort. tinyurl.com/EarlyLifeOmicstinyurl.com 021
Emily Davenport @erdavenport.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Very proud of my graduate student Naomi Huntley for being selected to participate in this internship! 092
Reposted by Emily DavenportVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 08/06/2025Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team. Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgStudent-led experimental evolution reveals novel biofilm regulatory networks underlying adaptations to multiple nichesWe established a research-education partnership known as EvolvingSTEM that provides secondary school students the opportunity to conduct authentic research experiments centered on microbial evolution.... 416875
Reposted by Emily DavenportBuck Samuel 🪱🦠🧬🔬 @microbeminded.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Opening for a #postdoc in the lab available immediately. Please spread the word. DETAILS HERE: jobrxiv.org/job/baylor-c... cc: #academicJobs #postdocJobs #microbiome #Celegans #organoids #IBD #PathSky #Medsky #AcademicSky 🧪 🧬 🦠jobrxiv.orgPostdoctoral Associate in IBD genetics in C. elegans and organoidsPost a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv! 01227
Reposted by Emily DavenportCameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 30/05/2025PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2 academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubsacademic.oup.comPICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2AbstractSummary. PICRUSt2 is a bioinformatic tool that predicts microbial functions in amplicon sequencing data using a database of annotated reference gen 082
Reposted by Emily DavenportMorgan Sobol @msobol.bsky.social · 28/05/2025🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e... Please share, thank you 🙏🏻 14146
Reposted by Emily DavenportMelissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano) 146154543264
Reposted by Emily DavenportMark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025It’s Thursday! Episode #91 of #MattersMicrobial is up. Dr. Emily Davenport of Penn State joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how host genetics impacts the microbiome. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! @microbe.tv @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound youtu.be/5c7lxC1mHxk?... 1207
Reposted by Emily DavenportMichael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab 145875575
Reposted by Emily DavenportMark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Yes, it's Thursday! Time for Episode 90 of #MattersMicrobial. Dr. Francisco Dini Andreote of Penn State joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how the plant microbiome can be used in agriculture. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. microbe.tv youtu.be/krQGvMggA3Y?... 2188
Reposted by Emily DavenportOne Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social · 29/04/2025We have a starter pack! Follow along and DM if you are part of the OHMC and would like to be added: go.bsky.app/7X9RRT2 0136
Reposted by Emily DavenportVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 26/04/2025Pennsylvania could lose $973 million due to federal health research cuts. Visit scienceimpacts.org to learn more. scienceimpacts.orgscienceimpacts.orgSCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical ResearchDeveloped by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide 01913
Reposted by Emily DavenportRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081 5865978620441
Reposted by Emily DavenportBritt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated postbac researchers interested in / with experience working with phages? We are hiring a junior specialist/research tech! Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04863 (start date more flexible than stated in ad!)aprecruit.berkeley.eduJunior/Assistant Specialist - Koskella Lab - Department of Integrative BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 05465
Reposted by Emily DavenportEmily White @emily-white.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Come and work with me! The Nature Micro team is expanding and we're looking for someone to champion microbial ecology, plant micro & related areas for the journal Knowledge of microbial ecology/plant micro is desirable but we're open to applications from all microbiologists Link below 👇 110199
Reposted by Emily DavenportSatan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025This is high art 526263157515
Reposted by Emily DavenportPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 04/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health securitynytimes.comOpinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States. 18473299
Reposted by Emily DavenportNature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 31/03/2025OUT NOW: Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comGut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice - Nature MicrobiologyUsing a cohort of nearly 1,000 genetically diverse mice undergoing dietary restriction over the lifespan, the authors reveal numerous insights into the interactions between the gut microbiome, host ge... 0186
Reposted by Emily DavenportRaúl González-Pech (he/him) @raulgoch.bsky.social · 06/03/2025🚨 Paper alert: our multidisciplinary team emphasizes the importance of microbes 🦠 in conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems🌱. We also encourage studying their ecological functions! 🧪🧫 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kjAVB8cd4... 1135
Reposted by Emily DavenportGuillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Lab mice (domesticated for >100y) have kept gut bacterial strains that codiversified w/ rodents for >25My. Here, authors show genetic drift occured in the lab, leading to loss of microb diversity+more deleterious mutations, impacting microbial fitness in lab vs wt mice www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comRecent genetic drift in the co-diversified gut bacterial symbionts of laboratory mice - Nature CommunicationsHere the authors show that lab mice have retained ancient gut bacterial symbionts that diversified in parallel with rodent species, but the genomes of these gut bugs have accumulated mutational burden... 25022
Reposted by Emily DavenportVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 22/02/2025🚨PA colleagues: "Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania." "If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC Get out your Other Support and share that info!forms.office.comMicrosoft Forms 4122131
Reposted by Emily DavenportAndrew Marderstein @amarderstein.bsky.social · 19/02/2025New preprint w/ @soumyakundu.bsky.social @sbmontgom.bsky.social @anshulkundaje.bsky.social ! Using deep learning & scATAC-seq, we studied context-specific variants in disease & evolution, and introduce FLARE for de novo mutations—w/ application to autism-affected families. doi.org/10.1101/2025...biorxiv.orgMapping the regulatory effects of common and rare non-coding variants across cellular and developmental contexts in the brain and heartWhole genome sequencing has identified over a billion non-coding variants in humans, while GWAS has revealed the non-coding genome as a significant contributor to disease. However, prioritizing causal... 03117
Reposted by Emily DavenportMatthew Herron @matthewherron.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you. 578130042049
Emily Davenport @erdavenport.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Passionate about open science and FAIR data principles for microbiome data? Consider becoming an NMDC Ambassador next year! I was an Ambassador in 2023 and happy to answer any questions about the experience! 023
Reposted by Emily DavenportLeonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025🧪🧬🔬◼️ !!happy international day of [redacted] and [redacted] in science!! ◼️🔬🧬🧪 422775
Reposted by Emily DavenportVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 10/02/2025Many people, including academics, don't understand what F&A is for. Please share to help. 1) Translate to "overhead" in common business accounting: 60% IDC => 60/160 = 37.5% overhead (low!) 2) Infographic explaining what it's for, linked here: www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul... 17760
Reposted by Emily DavenportRan Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Government isn't a business. The goal isn't to save money. Success isn't measured by budget surplus. The goal is to spend money, investing in society. Every dollar spent on education, healthcare, and science is an investment in our collective wellbeing. 218854
Reposted by Emily DavenportJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025ATTENTION If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com. I will keep all information confidential. 2/n 8193269
Reposted by Emily DavenportDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council 34789313
Reposted by Emily DavenportNick Banovich @nebanovich.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Excited to post my first #skySplain about our recent work published yesterday in Nature Genetics! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... One of the first authors of this study - Annika Vannan – actually wrote this breakdown, but she's not yet over here on bluesky and asked me to post!nature.comSpatial transcriptomics identifies molecular niche dysregulation associated with distal lung remodeling in pulmonary fibrosis - Nature GeneticsXenium spatial transcriptomic profiling of pulmonary fibrosis characterizes cell composition dynamics and histopathological features associated with the disease. 35523
Reposted by Emily DavenportOne Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Our newest highlight video features groundbreaking #microbiome #art collaborations happening here Penn State University! 🧫👩🎨📽️ #SciArt The video features interviews with @pennstateadri.bsky.social researchers Cynthia White, Cristin Millett, and Andrew Hieronymi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jw-...youtube.comSynergies in Art & ScienceYouTube video by One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State 141
Reposted by Emily DavenportRan Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Today we report a new compendium of human gut microbiomes with >168,000 samples By analyzing this massive dataset, we discovered distinct microbiome patterns across the globe, and show we can predict where a person lives just from their gut bacteria Now out in Cell: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...cell.comIntegration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiomeThe Human Microbiome Compendium is a unified database of publicly available human gut microbiome 16S samples, built with the integrated data from hundreds of independent projects. The compendium is us... 1020376