🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Can abundance-filtering in #DNAmetabarcoding influence ecological interpretation? Simple answer: yes! Long answer: it's complex. Check out our new paper to find out more and see some solutions that may help us navigate this issue! Link➡️bit.ly/3AbHITj

So many people (including many students from Brown EEOB) contributed to this review and I'm so grateful for their collaboration and input! We hope this review will lead to open-discussions in #DNAmetabarcoding about how to best deal with low-abundance reads. Transparency is key!

🚨Review the controversy around abundance filtering in #DNAmetabarcoding. Develop intuition. Ponder Yellowstone bison and bighorn sheep diets 🦬🐑 Read our review in Molecular Ecology 👇🏼 Link: buff.ly/32qpyRi PDF: kartzinellab.com/publications.h… @tyler_kartzinel Patrick Freeman +others

PhD projects to study dolphins social behaviour available in my lab UQ Science with Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project. If interested DM me or email me. Scholarships open end of February! Open to National and International applicants!

🚨A new research assistant opening in @tyler_kartzinel's lab at @BrownEnvt to support research on the diets, microbiomes, and metagenomes of wildlife!🧬💩🌱🧪 A great team to be a part of, so come and join or spread the news far and wide! Info/apply here:brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-ca…

Research Assistant opening in the @tyler_kartzinel lab at Brown University! Come work with us in exciting projects on wildlife diet and microbiomes. 🦬 Tyler is super nice and you'll get to work closely with Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun! Highly recommend! Job link: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-ca…

1/7 Do different hosts have different microbiome ecologies 🦠🧬🐒? Kimberly Roche tackled this question in the @AmboseliBaboons, and we're ready to share the preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What exactly do African megafauna eat, and why does it matter? Our PNASNews study analyzed thousands of fecal samples from 30 species of large mammal herbivore in 10 savannas in 7 countries One key result: No two species eat precisely the same plants... pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Are you interested in a PhD on urban evolution and you live in Australia - come and join my lab UQ Science Dragon Lab UQ - Scholarship round open now. #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQI #DiversityandInclusion

So thankful to have Laura Weyrich join Brown EEOB today and give an incredible seminar! Great to think about how the evolutionary histories of our microbiomes can help shape modern medical practices. Thanks for joining us, Laura 🙏🏼

I have to say, this one feels pretty great ☺️ Thank you Brown University Postdoc Affairs for the award! Things are definitely made easier when you work with a fabulous team of lab mates, students, and an awesome PI @tyler_kartzinel 🙏🏼 Brown EEOB IBES: Institute at Brown for Environment & Society #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

Come and work in a fabulous and exciting lab at Brown University on a variety of cool and interesting datasets! @tyler_kartzinel has an incredible opportunity available in his lab! Come and join us!

Anyone out there who is an expert in machine learning for microbiome? DM me if you are keen to chat #wildlife #health Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun Laura Weyrich

Using a series of experiments, Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun and @tyler_kartzinel show #CRISPR can be used to target diagnostic #DNAbarcodes (>1,000 bp) and entire #chloroplast #genomes (>120,000 bp) in single- and mixed-species samples: bit.ly/CRISPRtargetseq 🧵 2/3

Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun @tyler_kartzinel The authors also offer strategies for improvement and future development at bit.ly/CRISPRtargetseq