Dan Knights (@knightsdan) 's Twitter Profile
Dan Knights

@knightsdan

Data Scientist at the University of Minnesota.

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linkhttp://metagenome.cs.umn.edu calendar_today18-04-2013 18:52:59

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Really excited to share our findings on immigration and the microbiome, and very grateful to Pajau Vangay, PhD, all of our wonderful collaborators, community-based researchers, and community advisory board.

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FYI @CoreBiome is giving away 100 free shotgun metagenomics samples plus extraction and absolute quant of 16S, closing Dec. 1. Spread the word if you know someone who could use this.

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Trying to improve upon SIBO measurement in those w/ functional GI disorders like IBS: This group found the small intestinal microbiota (while difficult to sample) is altered when symptoms are present & changes w/ a symptom-triggering dietary intervention. nature.com/articles/s4146


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FYI if any students or postdocs with bioinformatics experience (and especially microbiome analysis experience) are looking for a great job in industry, @CoreBiome is hiring: careers-corebiome.icims.com/jobs/1079/bioi


Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D. (@katherinejwu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People spend a lot of time poring over nutrition labels. But a quick gut check shows that the trillions of bacterial cells in our bodies couldn’t care less. My latest for NOVA | PBS pbs.org/wgbh/nova/arti


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Our personalized diet-microbiome study is out in Cell Host & Microbe ! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZD536t8JEYt
. TLDR: our microbes care about actual foods, not just the nutrition labels; people's microbiomes respond differently to similar foods. Thanks 2 Abby Johnson General Mills, et al.

Our personalized diet-microbiome study is out in <a href="/cellhostmicrobe/">Cell Host & Microbe</a> ! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZD536t8JEYt
. TLDR: our microbes care about actual foods, not just the nutrition labels; people's microbiomes respond differently to similar foods. Thanks 2 <a href="/AbbyJohnsonRD/">Abby Johnson</a> <a href="/GeneralMills/">General Mills</a>, et al.
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We need to stop eating beef! 80% of deforestation in Amazon caused by cattle ranching. wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/


Daryl Gohl (@darylgohl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

@CoreBiome is hiring multiple R&D scientist positions. Join us and our sister companies Diversigen, Inc. and DNA Genotek Inc. in our quest to improve microbiome measurements and accelerate #microbiome discoveries! careers-orasure.icims.com/jobs/search?ss


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Our new germ-free mouse study is out, led by Dimitri Sidiropoulos, Jonathan B Clayton, and Purna Kashyap, showing primatization of mice, and that wild primate microbes reduce obesity in mice. animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11


Dr. Tijana Milenkovic (@profmilenkovic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Submit your paper to GLBIO, deadline extended until Feb 5! Accepted papers will be considered for publication in PLOS Computational Biology and PLOS ONE.

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The U of Minnesota Division of Neonatology is hiring an assistant professor with microbiome/multi-omics and mentoring expertise. Know anyone who would be interested? minnesotajobs.com/career/1138352


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Friends and colleagues, please consider signing and forwarding this petition against Line 3, the plan to cut a new massive crude oil pipeline through indigenous land and waterways sign.moveon.org/petitions/dear


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