Congratulations to Sam Goldman et al. on this vertebrate microbiome cultivation effort just published online: doi.org/10.1111/1755-0… Are your fecal samples frozen? Stored in RNAlater? Fear not, for some of their bacteria can still be cultivated.

New paper on the evolutionary genomics of human gut bacteria: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/13…

A very interesting recent study on the assembly of host-species specific root microbiota: nature.com/articles/s4156…

New results from Nishida and Ochman regarding co-diversification of microbes with apes (including captive hosts) raise questions about the contributions of selection and dispersal/transmission to patterns of host specificity in microbiomes nature.com/articles/s4146…

Sanders, Moeller & co present an end-to-end workflow for sequencing gut microbiome, involving high-throughput culturing of bacteria in open-source, 3-D printed labware, and library prep using Opentrons robotics. Used for a comparison of chimp and bonobo. genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I am super proud of this work.🥲 Happy to see its value is being discovered! <3

🚨 Registration now open for the Plant-Herbivore Interaction Gordon Research Conference (Feb. 9-14) and GRC Symposium (Feb. 8) for Early Career Researchers: grc.org/plant-herbivor…. Please apply soon because we are capped at 200 people and it’s filling up!

📢Our new paper is out! We show that gene regulation in breastmilk is controlled by maternal genetics, and impacts the composition of the infant gut microbiome cell.com/cell-genomics/… Work by Kelsey Johnson, in collab w/Frank Albert @DemerathE and many others

THREE assistant professor positions in microbiology at Yale! (3/3) Microbe-Immune Interaction - Microbial Sciences Institute in partnership with Yale Department of Immunobiology apply.interfolio.com/152022, deadline 11/1/24 Please RT and apply!