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Emily Davenport

@erdavenport.bsky.social
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Asst. Professor | PennStateBio | she/her/hers | 🧫🦠🧬 | battery powered ⚡❤️ | Scientist, dessert lover, runner...that made me hungry, better have more dessert

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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Microbiology 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.
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Nandita Garud @nanditagarud.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I 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)
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Nick Banovich @nebanovich.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
So 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...
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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The Paradox of the Organism in the university news case.edu/news/medicin...
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Medicine’s J. Arvid Ågren examines how organisms persist with internal conflicts | CWRU Newsroom | Case Western Reserve University
J. Arvid Ågren, PhD, assistant professor at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and Manus M. Patten, teaching professor at Georgetown Univer...
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Hernán A. Burbano @hernanaburbano.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our 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)
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 20/11/2025
Hot 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/...
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Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...
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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
NEW 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/...
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025
Do 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.
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GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Omaya 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...
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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We 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 🦠🧫
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Selection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behavior
Nature 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...
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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The 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/...
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Gut fungal profiles reveal phylosymbiosis and codiversification across humans and nonhuman primates
Fungi 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...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 03/09/2025
What 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
Human fungi-associated variants (FAVs) associate with 9 fungal taxa and overlap protein-coding genes. A Manhattan plot shows all FAVs and their associated fungal taxa at the three significance levels (exploratory, black; genome-wide, red; study-wide, blue).
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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We 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...
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Gut fungi are associated with human genetic variation and disease risk
In 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...
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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The 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.
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Microbiology 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!
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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Intraspecies warfare restricts strain coexistence in human skin microbiomes - Nature Microbiology
About 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.
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Dr. Nikki Crowley @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Job is up, consider joining us! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...
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Research Technologist - Life Sciences - Crowley Lab
APPLICATION 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...
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Alexandra (Sasha) Zhernakova @sashazhernakova.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Come 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/EarlyLifeOmics
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Emily Davenport @erdavenport.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Very proud of my graduate student Naomi Huntley for being selected to participate in this internship!
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 08/06/2025
Sharing 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...
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Student-led experimental evolution reveals novel biofilm regulatory networks underlying adaptations to multiple niches
We established a research-education partnership known as EvolvingSTEM that provides secondary school students the opportunity to conduct authentic research experiments centered on microbial evolution....
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Buck Samuel 🪱🦠🧬🔬 @microbeminded.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Opening 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 🧪 🧬 🦠
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Postdoctoral Associate in IBD genetics in C. elegans and organoids
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2 academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs
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PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2
AbstractSummary. PICRUSt2 is a bioinformatic tool that predicts microbial functions in amplicon sequencing data using a database of annotated reference gen
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Morgan 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 🙏🏻
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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It’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?...
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025
Yesterday, 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
A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted
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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Yes, 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?...
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One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We 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
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 26/04/2025
Pennsylvania could lose $973 million due to federal health research cuts. Visit scienceimpacts.org to learn more. scienceimpacts.org
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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Know 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!)
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Junior/Assistant Specialist - Koskella Lab - Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Emily White @emily-white.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Come 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 👇
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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is high art
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
www.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 security
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Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 31/03/2025
OUT NOW: Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice - Nature Microbiology
Using 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...
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Raúl 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...
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Guillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Lab 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...
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Recent genetic drift in the co-diversified gut bacterial symbionts of laboratory mice - Nature Communications
Here 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...
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Vaughn 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!
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Andrew Marderstein @amarderstein.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New 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...
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Mapping the regulatory effects of common and rare non-coding variants across cellular and developmental contexts in the brain and heart
Whole 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...
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Matthew Herron @matthewherron.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I 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.
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Emily Davenport @erdavenport.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Passionate 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!
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🧪🧬🔬◼️ !!happy international day of [redacted] and [redacted] in science!! ◼️🔬🧬🧪
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 10/02/2025
Many 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...
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Government 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.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
ATTENTION 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
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I 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
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Nick Banovich @nebanovich.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Excited 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!
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Spatial transcriptomics identifies molecular niche dysregulation associated with distal lung remodeling in pulmonary fibrosis - Nature Genetics
Xenium spatial transcriptomic profiling of pulmonary fibrosis characterizes cell composition dynamics and histopathological features associated with the disease.
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One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Our 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-...
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Synergies in Art & Science
YouTube video by One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Today 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...
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Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome
The 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...
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