LIMmunity 2nd brew: Motherhood comes with superpower: pathogen protection! 🤰🤱 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We often think moms are immunologically vulnerable during reproduction to tolerate the baby. But I always wondered: why would evolution make such a critical period of life so dangerous?

Here is an important BLAST tip. TL;DR: Always search both Nucleotide collection (nt) AND RefSeq Genome (refseq_genomes) databases— don't rely on just one. I BLASTed ~10,000 nucleotide sequences (mostly gut microbiome-derived sequences) against both NCBI databases and here's what I found:

Check out the recent publication from NMDC Champion @elmassry.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Excited to share our latest work on the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease patients. This is the result of hard work across generations of trainees in the Donia Lab, in collaboration with amazing scientists (Nobuhiko Kamada and Lea Ann Chen). www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Come join the workshop this Wednesday, the 27th, where I'll present #refseqR, a new R package for streamlined computational tasks on RefSeq entries (GenBank, NCBI). Don’t miss it! 🚀 #RStats #Bioinformatics Available from CRAN: cran.rstudio.com/web/packages...

SO EXCITED to share our recent work on dietary zinc deficiency worsening Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia, out today with @natureportfolio.bsky.social!! Surprisingly, this is due at least in part to the allergic-type cytokine IL-13. SharedIt link: rdcu.be/d0h4h Eat your zinc rich foods! 🦪🫘🧀🥩🥜