Join us in Banff, CAN January 19-22 for the Keystone meeting on Microbiome Metabolism and Metabolites! Early scholarship deadline is September 23!

Hope this is useful - consensus statement "Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies" rdcu.be/er3Io

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

I had the opportunity to give my perspective to The Analytical Scientist about recent events. With this article, I hope to give a voice to others who may not have the ability to speak out. #StandUpForScience theanalyticalscientist.com/business-edu...

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...

I am restarting the StatDivLab blog! Goal is rigorous but accessible statistics for microbiome science. Here's the new scope & welcome: 😽✉️📝 statdivlab.github.io/blog/index.h... PS. I see you, friends. What a disaster. Please keep resisting, and encourage those around you to do the same.

This announcement is a little late (we're just starting to use bluesky), but #QIIME 2 2024.10 was release this October! Lots of exciting new features with many more still on the way! forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-20... #microbiome #bioinformatics #microbiomesky

Assessing dietary intake of humans and animals is important to understand interactions in the gut, be it host-microbiota interactions or drug-microbiota-host interactions. We showed that #metaproteomics can serve as a tool for dietary assessment in stool samples. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Updated references for taxonomic assignment in the DADA2 R package are now available: Silva v138.2, RDP v19 and Greengenes2 2024.09. benjjneb.github.io/dada2/traini...