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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Do you love amplicon sequencing? Do you want to sequence MORE amplicons, faster and at lower cost? Check out 💘CUPID-seq💘, a highly multiplexed library design that lets you sequence hundreds of amplicon samples (16S, 18S, and more!) on a single sequencing run! (1/n) 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

recruit.ap.uci.edu

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding? Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative! Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

A flyer with the heading McClintock Letter-Writing Workshop. Details are Friday, June 6th, 12pm ET and 9am PT, virtual.

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Scientists, reach out to your local communities about the importance of funding science! Write an op-ed to your local newspaper as part of the #McClintockLetters. Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

What a joy to read this beautifully written commentary on our community coalescence experiments! Thank you Alyssa Mitchell and @contaminatedsci.bsky.social for the insightful take and lovely graphical summary.

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Microbial ecologists, do you ever want to quantify the stability of a community over time, or the amount of spatial heterogeneity across sites? Check out FAVA, developed by @maikemorrison.bsky.social. With FAVA, you can quantify compositional variability across many microbiome samples.

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

What happens if you introduce 🦠vs 🦠🦠🦠 into a microbial community? Are larger microbial populations more likely to establish? Check out new work led by @goldmandoran.bsky.social that used experiments and theory to dive deep into this simple question. ⬇️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Competition for shared resources increases dependence on initial population size during coalescence of gut microbial communities | PNAS

The long-term success of introduced populations depends on both their initial size and ability to compete against existing residents, but it remain...

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hi friends new and old! I study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome.🦠🧬💩 I'm thrilled to share that I'm starting a lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! kxuelab.com More about my work below...🧵1/n

kxuelab.com

Xue lab at UC Irvine

Ecology and evolution in the human gut microbiome

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