Long and Kelsey just won the 2025 Microbiome SMRT Grant for HiFi shotgun metagenomics!! They will collaborate to optimize PacBio-compatible protocols for gut metagenomics, specifically generating high quality long-read data from IBD patients. Congrats to both! 🎉 🎉 www.pacb.com/blog/2025-mi...

We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 Microbiome SMRT Grant winners! 🎉 Four researchers from around the globe will use HiFi sequencing to push the boundaries of metagenomics. See the awardees and their projects: bit.ly/3IiBrxq #PacBio #Microbiome #Genomics #SMRTGrant

🧬🖥️ Postdoc positions available SOON!! Looking for researchers with strong computational skills (programming essential) to work on microbiome & phylogenetics projects. 📅 Start on Nov 1, 2025 (flexible) 📍 Trento, Italy DM me for details or share! #postdocjobs #microbiome #metagenomics #phylogenetics

⚡🦠I'm very excited to share our latest work on the gut microbiome and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is published in @natmetabolism.nature.com, with @hutlab.bsky.social & @longnguyen.bsky.social! 🔗Check out the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The gut microbiome signature from different diets in 20,000 individuals. Red meat intake correlated with reduced cardiometabolic health; the opposite for plant-based foods or in omnivores with enriched plant-based intake www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OUT NOW: Metagenomic immunoglobulin sequencing (MIg-seq) reveals IgA coating of microbial strains in the healthy human gut by Justin Sonnenburg, Matt Olm, Sean Spencer & co #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OUT NOW Profiling lateral gene transfer events in the human microbiome using WAAFLE @hutlab.bsky.social @efranzosa.bsky.social @harvardchanschool.bsky.social @longnguyen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study in Nature of people living in 18 isolated Honduras villages shows gut microbiome strain sharing between many relationship types, including non-familial and non-household connections. Strain-sharing also extends to second-degree social connections. https://go.nature.com/4fBCp3j 🧪

Sharing a Shiny app I've been working on at @leviwaldron1.bsky.social 's lab: BugSigDBEnrich. The app lets you compare a list of bacteria with published microbial signatures curated in bugsigdb.org. shiny.sph.cuny.edu/BugSigDBEnri... #rstats #microbiome #microbiomeresearch