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Travis Gibson

@travis.gibsonlab.io
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Assistant Professor - Harvard Medical School Principal Investigator - Brigham and Women’s Hospital Associate Member - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Gibson Lab Bluesky handle: @gibsonlab.io Gibson Lab website: gibsonlab.io

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Attomolar fecal cytokine profiling reveals gut immune dynamics and disease states www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It's time for the 2025 Gibbons Lab Research Roundup! Yeehaw! 🤠 @isbscience.org In these dark times, let the joy of scientific discovery and trainee success be your balm ❤️‍🩹 🧵...
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
If you missed the 2025 @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium (theme: how microbial metabolites influence the brain, the immune system, & metabolism), the videos of the talks and the panel discussion are now available here: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Thanks to all who helped make it happen!
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2025 ISB Microbiome Symposium - YouTube
The 2025 ISB Microbiome Symposium was a virtual scientific event hosted by the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) on December 12, 2025. The symposium brough...
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
You still have time to register for our @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium (Dec. 12th), with 6 speakers discussing how microbial metabolites impact the nervous, immune, and endocrine systems. It's free! Recordings of the talks will be available afterwards. isbscience.org/events/2025-...
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2025 ISB Virtual Microbiome Symposium - Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)
The gut’s microbial ecosystem produces diverse metabolites that actively shape neural, immune, and endocrine function. Join leading researchers on December 12 as they share new discoveries into these ...
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 24/09/2025
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Comment on "mbtransfer: Microbiome intervention analysis using transfer functions and mirror statistics": Implementation errors, theoretical misapplication, and methodological flaws
There are a number of errors in "mbtransfer: Microbiome intervention analysis using transfer functions and mirror statistics" PLOS Comp Bio (2024) spanning multiple aspects of the paper. The wrong inp...
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 12/09/2025
#Newresearch This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice. #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Learning ecosystem-scale dynamics from microbiome data with MDSINE2 - Nature Microbiology
This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice.
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 09/09/2025
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Learning ecosystem-scale dynamics from microbiome data with MDSINE2 - Nature Microbiology
This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice.
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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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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 05/08/2025
A nice blog post about our work www.nature.com/articles/s41... can be found here mgriblog.org/2025/08/04/c...
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How a Scientist Followed Curiosity (and Love) to Build an Innovative Tool to Track Changes in the Gut Microbiome
Despite how common they are, scientists still don’t fully understand why some people develop allergies while others don’t.
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 16/07/2025
Im working on something and I am reminded of one of the wildest correspondences ever published www.nature.com/articles/nbt...
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Silence on the relevant literature and errors in implementation - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - Silence on the relevant literature and errors in implementation
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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The new version of MetaPhlAn v4.2.2 released! 📌taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomes for the first time 📌new version of the MetaPhlAn db (vJan25_202503) containing >21k new SGBs Try it out & @hutlab.bsky.social and we are looking forward to your feedback! forum.biobakery.org/t/metaphlan-...
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MetaPhlAn 4.2.2 release (initial long-read sequencing support and database update)
Announcement We are pleased to share that MetaPhlAn 4.2.2 is now available, which incorporates taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomes for the first time and includes a new version of the MetaPhl...
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Gibson Lab @gibsonlab.io · 29/05/2025
Our paper is now open access as well.
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Justin Silverman @inschool4life.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
New paper in Genome Biology! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... We introduce scale models, a generalization of normalizations that explciitly account for uncertainty in biological system scale (e.g., microbial load).
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Incorporating scale uncertainty in microbiome and gene expression analysis as an extension of normalization - Genome Biology
Statistical normalizations are used in differential analyses to address sample-to-sample variation in sequencing depth. Yet normalizations make strong, implicit assumptions about the scale of biologic...
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 06/05/2025
This month's editorial is an invitation to submit papers on clinical and translational aspect of the microbiome. This collection is a joint effort with @naturemedicine.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com and @commsbio.nature.com #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠⚕️🧪⚕️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Call for papers on the clinical microbiome - Nature Microbiology
Nature Microbiology has launched a joint collection on the clinical microbiome with Nature Communications, Nature Medicine and Communications Medicine.
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 06/05/2025
🚨 Out now! Chronostrain - a method to profile low abundance strains in longitudinal microbiome samples 🦠💻 @travis.gibsonlab.io @younhk.bsky.social @gibsonlab.io @harvardmed.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org #MicroSky 🦠 #MicrobiomeSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Longitudinal profiling of low-abundance strains in microbiomes with ChronoStrain - Nature Microbiology
ChronoStrain accurately profiles low-abundance strains in longitudinal samples by jointly modelling nucleotide sequencing errors, strain presence/absence and the temporal information associated with e...
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Gibson Lab @gibsonlab.io · 06/05/2025
"Longitudinal profiling of low-abundance strains in microbiomes with ChronoStrain" - Kim et al. rdcu.be/ekTwf
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Longitudinal profiling of low-abundance strains in microbiomes with ChronoStrain
Nature Microbiology - ChronoStrain accurately profiles low-abundance strains in longitudinal samples by jointly modelling nucleotide sequencing errors, strain presence/absence and the temporal...
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gulliver-lab.bsky.social @gulliver-lab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It is a great pleasure to listen to @seppekuehnlab.bsky.social His talk is about ´Learning microbiome design principles from natural variation ´. Below, the #liveSketch painting during the seminar and given at the end! #ArtAndScience #MediationScientifique
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Gibson Lab @gibsonlab.io · 17/04/2025
Several Postdoctoral Fellow openings. All fellows have triple appointment at HMS,BWH, and Broad - Biological sequence models (theory, design, and application) - Learning single cell dynamics - Bacteriotherapy design, “bugs-as-drugs” (using control theory principles) gibsonlab.io/openings/
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Positions available in the Gibson Lab
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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We are still accepting registrations for this event! Please come join us and hear about cutting edge microbiome research.
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 21/02/2025
A must-read for any microbiome researcher 🦠📐and a new addition to our #bestpractices series Planning and describing a microbiome data analysis by @amydwillis.bsky.social and @davidandacat.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Planning and describing a microbiome data analysis - Nature Microbiology
We provide guidance on the planning, execution and description of statistical analyses in microbiome studies.
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Gibson Lab @gibsonlab.io · 07/02/2025
Paper just accepted Gibson et al. "On the stability of gradient descent with second order dynamics for time-varying cost functions" Transactions Machine Learning Research (2025) openreview.net/forum?id=Hlz...
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Harris Wang @harriswang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Happy to share our new paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social on mapping spatial relationships of the human gut microbiome. We identified distinct spatial hubs between gut bacteria that reflect sub-community assemblies at the micron-scale. Led by Miles Richardson & co. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome - Nature Microbiology
Split-And-pool Metagenomic Plot-sampling sequencing (SAMPL-seq) can be applied to complex microbial communities to reveal spatial co-localization of microbes at the micron scale.
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Aimee Milliken PhD, RN @abmilliken.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Join us in LA this March!
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Ethics of Caring - National Nursing Ethics Conference on LinkedIn: #nursing #ethics #nursingethics #clinicalethics #socialworkers #socialwork…
“We can’t underestimate the power of storytelling…stories have a way of speaking to the humanity within each of us and can help remind us of the humanity in…
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 09/01/2025
Are regret based adaptive control strategies deployable? arxiv.org/abs/2501.04572
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 16/12/2024
This post has saved hours when trying to get old x86 bioinformatics pipelines working on Mac arm64 (like pplacer) stackoverflow.com/questions/64...
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How can I run two isolated installations of Homebrew?
I want to install and run two versions of Homebrew simultaneously on an Apple Silicon Mac: an ARM64 version, and an Intel version running under Rosetta 2. I know I can prepend any brew command with...
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 08/12/2024
It’s easy to think this is about politics, but Ran’s actually just subtweeting my working style
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
When can a sum of reciprocals of natural numbers sum to a rational number? There are many unsolved problems in this area, by Erdős and others. With Vjeko Kovac, we have been able to resolve some open questions and make progress on others: terrytao.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/o...
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On several irrationality problems for Ahmes series
Vjeko Kovac and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “On several irrationality problems for Ahmes series”. This paper resolves (or at least makes partial progress on) some open q…
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 28/11/2024
Congrats Robert
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Retraction Note: Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics | Nature Microbiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Retraction Note: Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics - Nature Microbiology
Nature Microbiology - Retraction Note: Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 22/11/2024
Ok this is really cool. Using the lab website I can have the lab handle: @gibsonlab.io my handle: @travis.gibsonlab.io
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 22/11/2024
@baym.lol are you doing in evolutionary studies with hCom2?
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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
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Ecology and evolution in the human gut microbiome
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 18/11/2024
Happening in 20 Minutes this talk will cover their EVO model which was published in Science this week and made the cover
Sequence modeling and design from molecular to genome scale with Evo
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 18/11/2024
Monday at 4pm EST on Zoom. All info in link Brian Hie - Stanford “Sequence modeling from molecular to genome scale with Evo” comp-path.bwh.harvard.edu/events-all/b...
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ABC Seminar: Brian Hie, PhD – Stanford University – “Sequence modeling from molecular to genome scale with Evo” – Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of
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Travis Gibson @travis.gibsonlab.io · 13/11/2024
Most recent work out of joint NSF project with Wang-Gerber-Gibson labs. First author Guillaume Urtecho just started his own group at UCSD! "Spatiotemporal dynamics during niche remodeling by super-colonizing microbiota in the mammalian gut" free-access link authors.elsevier.com/c/1k5Yh8YyDf...
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