Friends, Hospitals in outbreak countries will face huge challenges coping with the surge of patients. The clinical practitioners on the front lines of China’s fight against COVID-19 have developed a handbook of treatment and care protocols for healthcare providers. (1/2)

I need your help to share this handbook quickly to hospitals, doctors, nurses and anyone who needs to know around the world. It is available here: covid-19.alibabacloud.com. We are in this together! (2/2)

If you're interested in #microbiome work, we're hiring! Read about our latest job openings here, for multiple postdoctoral positions as well as a senior scientist / group leader: huttenhower.sph.harvard.edu/positions Tell your friends / RT!

We're hiring! If you're interested in microbiome work, read about our latest job opening here for Microbiome Collection Core Manager: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search… Please tell your friends / RT!

We’re hiring a Microbiome Collection Core Manager sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search… for our microbiome sample collection core facility hcmph.sph.harvard.edu/hcmcc/ -- please RT!

Congratulations to Cherry on her next career adventure! Cherry will start a PhD training to make more preparation for her academic career. Good luck and best wishes for Cherry!

Tech Alert! 🚀🧬 We can now determine the sequence of DNA with non-canonical bases in a direct and high-throughput manner with Nanopore sequencing. Check out our preprint for details: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ever wondered what genes/pathways skin microbes are using in vivo? Are some microbes even transcriptionally active? We have developed a minimally-invasive protocol to robustly assay gene expression in the skin microbiome in vivo! Check out our preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super thrilled to share our labor of love from the Asian Skin Microbiome Program! Collected >3,500 skin samples, built metagenomic libraries w/ >70 billion reads and >10TB of data to study population heterogeneity in skin microbiome (200 adults, 18 sites) tinyurl.com/mu4ep2bp

Many exciting results to follow-up on! 1. The skin microbiome has unique “types” in every site - we call them dermotypes. The underarm has as many as 5 distinct ones defined by diverse microbes. We built ML classifiers to predict them w/ near-perfect accuracy with 5 species!

2. Dermotypes are highly coordinated across sites. For some sites, we can predict the dermotype just by knowing dermotype of another site. Left and right sides of the body are also highly correlated, suggesting that individual intrinsic factors strongly shape the skin microbiome.

3. Microbes behave very differently across dermotypes in terms of who they co-occur with! We can confirm this with culture-based experiments that show that oxygen gradients and nutrient availability likely shape why we see distinct dermotypes in various individuals. Viduthalai Rasheedkhan Regina

Viduthalai Rasheedkhan Regina 4. Dermotypes exhibit distinct associations w/ host, where ethnicity and gender play a role in some cases, while others are linked to skincare behaviors. Skin sensitivity, itch and eczema may be affected by dermotype function, highlighting utility for patient stratification & Tx

Viduthalai Rasheedkhan Regina 5. Exciting days ahead as we try to decipher the contributions of diverse factors that shape skin microbiome dermotypes, and in turn their influence on skin health!