Some of my work from the first year of my PhD is out as a preprint, please check it out! Virus evolution is rapid and prolific both across and within individuals. However, a significant amount of variation remains hidden due to computational bottlenecks in read-alignment and variant calling 1/n

A Comparison of Methods for the Optimal Recovery of the Human Fecal Virome https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.12.25327428v1

Upcoming wastewater virome webinar from Dr. Mike Tisza, Feb. 12! Free for everyone. More: coms.osu.edu/events/early... #virus #virome #viromics #pathogen #sequencing #microbiome #microbe #bacteria #science #microbiology #webinar

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled chaos to bring you some cool microbiome science. 🦠 🖥️ 🧬 "Longitudinal phage–bacteria dynamics in the early life gut microbiome" now out in Nature Microbiology. We wanted a way to measure bacteria and phage in metagenomes 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to Bryce Kille on absolutely smashing his PhD defense at Rice today with advisor @treangen.bsky.social ! Collaborating with Bryce over the past few years has been an absolute delight 👏🎉👏🎉