I am very happy to report that the review Jill Banfield and I wrote on Modern Microbiology just appeared in Cell Press: cell.com/cell/abstract/… Our celebration of microbiology also made it to the cover of this issue and we hope you will find yourself in it, too.

In the chaos of Yr 1 as a prof, I almost forgot to share the latest pub from my postdoc with Susannah Tringe Joint Genome Institute out now in Phytobiomes Journal! We used a massive microbe dataset & network analyses to tease apart what makes sorghum so stress tolerant 🌱 apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PB…

Now that I have keys+office, I guess I can share that I have officially begun my role as Curator of Mammals Denver Museum. I am honored to join this institution and could not be more thrilled to be part of such an innovative and forward-thinking group of people (and specimens).

Our work is out!

Microbes matter! New study showing that breastfeeding for at least 3 months reduces asthma because of paced microbial development. #microbiome #breastfeeding cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Excited to have Carly Muletz Wolz from the Smithsonian National Zoological Institute speaking to #MILCclub today about milk across all mammals! Check out her team's fascinating work here (just 1 example of many): pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Super excited to share this paper exploring how different mycorrhizal types change along altitudinal/abiotic gradients in the tropical Andes 🏔️🍄🌳 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

Differences in metagenome coverage may confound abundance-based and diversity conclusions biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🌎✨On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, #SACNAS acknowledges and honors our Indigenous members and their vibrant communities.🧡 We celebrate the deep-rooted connections to Turtle Island, the ancestral prayers, and the resilience that continues today.🌿 #IndigenousSTEM #IndigenousKnowledge

This is an old one from the #phytools blog archive -- but here's how to use phytools::phylo.to.map with a custom (e.g., high-resolution) shape file base map: blog.phytools.org/2016/07/update….

Interested in mammalian #milk #microbiomes? Learn more here = Eco-evolutionary processes structure milk microbiomes across the mammali... youtu.be/uUX8c5wJ5s0?si… via YouTube

The informal poll results are in, & as I feared, most people are running ANOVAs in #R with functions that can give highly misleading (or flat out wrong) results. Follow along to see why using anova() and aov() is usually inadvisable & why you should be using car::Anova() 🧵

🚨🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨🚨 I’m happy to share new #THRiVElab CHILD Cohort Study research - led by my MSc student Spencer Ames & published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - investigating #breastfeeding practices and infant immunity. #Tweetorial 🧵🧵 Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcn…

I am horrified by FedEx's commercial portraying a driver who killed a rattlesnake while delivering a package as a hero. I have written a letter to FedEx marketing officials and hope that you will do so as well, and will share this post to get more people involved. 1/4

Proud of my lab for helping with such a worthy effort. 3 grad students, 1 postdoc, 1 staff, and 1 very tired PI from our lab represented here!

New paper on fecal microbiota transplants (#FMTs) in #cheetahs! Giving cheetahs FMTs after antibiotics led to faster gut #microbiome recovery. Important implications for maintaining healthy cheetahs in human care. Great work by Sally Bornbusch and team doi.org/10.1038/s42003…

Happy to announce that the number of complete & publicly available reptile genomes just increased by 1/3. Big thanks to ⁦⁦RUM/UPRM⁩ ‘s Genomic Resources Collection, Iridian Genomes, ⁦U.S. National Science Foundation⁩ and the Sabin Family Foundation. biodiversitygenomes.scholasticahq.com/article/129597…

These are challenging times for science, but I'm happy to share a bright moment: our work is on the cover of Cell today! We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe

After I finished my PhD, the next big question I wanted to ask is finally answered! I am very proud to share our new paper on the discovery of #salamander produced antimicrobial peptides and that these peptides influence salamander skin #microbiomes nature.com/articles/s4152…