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Jack T Sumner

@jacksumner22.bsky.social
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postdoc • harvard [prev phd @ northwestern] systems biologist & moka pot enthusiast mol bio • *omics • infection bio • eco/evo • virome he/him 🧪

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Our weeklong course on metagenomic community analyses using bioBakery tools has begun, with students from all over the country and beyond! 🎉 Some pics from the first couple of days, held at Broad Institute @broadinstitute.org @efranzosa.bsky.social @jacksumner22.bsky.social @chahat.bsky.social
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...
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How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I gasped when i first read that “explanation” 🙃
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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Meet @jacksumner22.bsky.social👋 Jack earned his PhD at Northwestern University with @ericamhartmann.bsky.social, where he used systems biology approaches to study the lung microbiome during severe pneumonia. As a postdoc in the Huttenhower Lab, he’s now exploring the human virome and phage function.
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Super excited to start the new chapter 🧫🧪
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
oh good - i thought they might’ve changed it *again* I can barely keep up as it is
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
…what happened now
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Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Transitions in lung microbiota & pneumonia Microbiota states are predictive of pneumonia subtypes & exhibit differential stability & therapy response. Disruptive forces, e.g. aspiration, associated w/changes in gene expression & microbial community www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Transitions in lung microbiota landscape associate with distinct patterns of pneumonia progression
Sumner et al. show that lung microbial ecosystem dynamics associate with clinical outcomes during severe pneumonia infection. Systematic bronchoscopy paired with integrative multiomics reveals that va...
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Omg look at us go 😄 Congrats to you too!!
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Excited to share work I led during my PhD - now out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🎉 Using multiomics, we show that microbiome and host expression profiles dynamically shift during pneumonia treatment and track with clinical outcomes 🧪🫁 #MicroSky www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
so i guess im Dr. Jack now - officially defended the PhD 🙂🎉
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Erin Doherty @erinedoherty.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I'm hiring a lab technician to help me explore some exciting new questions about virus-host interactions! Biochemistry and/or mammalian cell culture experience is desired.
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
sounds like were diving into metagenomics today elifesciences.org/articles/65088
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Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3
The bioBakery 3 platform enables improved, integrated, and strain-level analysis of microbial communities from large-scale meta-omic data.
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
SeqCenter? But i think they’re US based…
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Schrodinger’s typo: every word exists in a state of misspelling and correct spelling until observed by an independent reader 😂
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
seriously almost replied w biopython code for manipulating genomic data in GFF format… 😅 i think i need to go touch grass (a pipette)
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🫠🫠🫠
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
and so it begins (continues)… 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
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Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern (Gift Article)
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Proofreading function will have never been so literal!
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
that’s in my thesis writing productivity hack. subscribe to my patreon to unlock!
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In light of the current events, I’d encourage other grad students to try this new productivity routine 🙂 *read news* *sigh* *search post-docs in france/italy* *activate emotional self-regulation* *repeat*
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🙋‍♂️ but finishing my PhD at Northwestern - lmk if you need any STEM/biology expert contacts
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Could i be added please? 🙋‍♂️
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
it’s like making a executive order to stop weather. it’s absolutely ridiculous
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I literally almost fell off the treadmill when he did this. Shocking and gross
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This looks awesome! Could you include me on pII? 😁
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thanks!
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
So great. Would love to be added too if there’s still room? 😁
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hi Souvik—thanks for putting these together! Could you add me to the Gen Micro II starter pack? 😁
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
ok throwing my obligatory bluesky intro into the pot Heyo! I’m a systems biologist broadly interested in how ecological and evolutionary dynamics drive molecular innovation & emergent properties. Currently exploring this in the lung microbial ecosystem as I wrap up my PhD at Northwestern 👋🧪
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
That’s great—thanks!
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hi Erik! Not sure if i’m doing this right, but can you add me to the Science feed? Or biology feed? scholar.google.com/citations?us...
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Jack T Sumner
‪PhD Candidate in Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences, Northwestern University‬ - ‪‪Cited by 17‬‬ - ‪genomics‬ - ‪microbiome‬ - ‪molecular biology‬ - ‪systems biology‬
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Jack T Sumner @jacksumner22.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hi Eryn! Could you add me? I’m a microbial ecologist (at least sometimes) scholar.google.com/citations?us...
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Jack T Sumner
‪PhD Candidate in Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences, Northwestern University‬ - ‪‪Cited by 17‬‬ - ‪genomics‬ - ‪microbiome‬ - ‪molecular biology‬ - ‪systems biology‬
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