We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!

🚨Out now! 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 @contaminatedsci.bsky.social @mancusosci.bsky.social #MicrobiomeSky www.nature.com/articles/s41... read here: rdcu.be/et7VP

Excited to share my new preprint: we show that for lab control and skin samples with low microbial biomass, metagenomics significantly outperforms 16S while DNA extraction method has minimal impact. 🧵 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our work on the facial skin microbiome of non-human primates is out in mSystems! We show there is no close relative of Cutibacterium on the faces of gorillas and chimps at the Lincoln Park Zoo, furthering the mysterious origin of the dominant human skin colonizer. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

New pre-print from my grad thesis lab! So excited to see this interesting paper for itself and to see that the gut-Candida-brain arm of the Kumamoto lab continues on

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Excited to share my preprint describing a new microbiome analysis method, PHLAME, for detecting strain-level associations in difficult sample types. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This work was done with my great coauthors and my amazing advisor @contaminatedsci.bsky.social

Candida albicans enhance Staphylococcus aureus virulence by progressive generation of new phenotypes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.26.600854v1

Siderophore piracy enables the nasal commensal Staphylococcus lugdunensis to antagonize the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.29.582731v1

We're gearing up for #ASMicrobe in Atlanta! We help 1st-time and solo attendees have better experiences through networking and mentoring Here's a writeup on how it works blog.addgene.org/binning-sing...

Ever wondered about the origin of the bacteria that call our faces home? 🤔 Our new preprint dives into the fascinating dynamics of the human facial skin microbiome (FSM) and explores the natural history of important microbiome species on people at high resolution. 🧫🧵

Highly-resolved within-species dynamics in the human facial skin microbiome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.10.575018v1

Excited to announce a new preprint from the Lieberman Lab @contaminatedsci.bsky.social . We use a mouse model to ask: can we use commensal skin bacteria as topical probiotics? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...  [1/3]