Diabetes mellitus promotes the nasal colonization of high virulent Staphylococcus aureus through the regulation of SaeRS two-component systemnasal colonized S. aureus in type 2 diabetes ift.tt/QbczpeT

New preprint up! Research led my my PhD Candidate Noah Greenman Improving bacterial metagenomic research through long read sequencing biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Awesome opportunity at UCF in the field of Genomics and Bioinformatics! ucf.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers/…

Recently published from my lab, Sobur Ali explores the use to of environmental sampling for SARS-CoV-2 monitoring and genomic surveillance using a year of weekly collection from multiple sites on campus. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iHsYB8ccyl2X

We are happy to have been selected by SMBE to host a satellite meeting on Pathogen Pangenome Evolution Between and Within their Hosts: smbepangenomes.bacpop.org We are expecting the meeting to be in Tokyo on 26-28th November 2024, save the date!

Lab holding vigil and whispering encouragements to the MiSeq for a good run!

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Very excited to finally see this published! It represents a focused "sequel" to our previous serotype 3 analysis. Serotype 3 population structure in the era of conjugate vaccines, 2001–2018 - go.shr.lc/4aurpSu

Huge congratulations to Dr. Sobur Ali Sobur Ali for successfully defending his dissertation last week. Very proud of his research and productivity!

Truly excited to see our latest article, in which we were surprised how phages that target conjugative plasmids are both so common and diverse, published! A real tour de force from Natalia Quinones-Olvera and Siân Owen nature.com/articles/s4146…

Officially published! Congrats to Noah Greenman on his first 1st author publication as well as to his co-authors! mdpi.com/2076-2607/12/5…

This is a really nice article that highlights post-pandemic changes in the genomic epidemiology of bacterial pathogens nature.com/articles/s4146…

Finally published! Congrats Noah Greenman on his work studying the effects of maternal dietary propionic acid exposure on the microbiome of murine progeny using Oxford Nanopore long-read metagenomic data. (that a mouthful!) frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

The University of Central Florida, located in Orlando, is looking for a Professor and Lead of our Genomics and Bioinformatics Cluster. See the link below for the full posting. jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/professor…

Christmas came early in the Azarian Lab

This paper took longer than usual to make its way through review, but Sobur Ali and I are really excited to finally see it out! doi.org/10.1186/s12889…

Delighted to present our Macrogenetics atlas of prokaryotes. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This is a herculean effort from Chao Yang, which has a previous existence as a preprint first posted in 2018 "why panmictic bacteria are rare?" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very excited to collaborate with ShawLab on this project! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40166326/

Excited to welcome the #Illumina MiSeq i100+ to our pathogen genomics arsenal at UCF College of Medicine! Alongside the NextSeq 2000, we can now support rapid turnaround for amplicon, small genome, and transcriptome sequencing. Thanks Illumina for powering discovery. 🔬🧬