Starting the new year with a new addition to the lab! Welcome Rishi!

Hey folks, I've had a couple people contact me saying they applied for this postdoc on Indeed or USAJOBS. HR has no idea where these applications go.😅 Just reiterating that the only way for me to get applications is for you to send them directly to my email. Cheers!

Preprint alert! How does pathogen population respond when challenged with host defense and ozone stress? Can we predict pathogen evolution under altered environment? We seek answers to these questions in this manuscript. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share insights on how biotic and abiotic stress impact phyllosphere microbial communities and host resistance! Join me today at Interdisciplinary Plant Group's IPG Plant Talk at University of Missouri. #microbiomeresearch#climatechange #resistance #plantscience

It was great to share our research work at Insect Microbiome lab to the great audience from Academia, Wineries and Farmers groups.

Happy to see this work finally out! A great collaboration with Marie-Agnès Jacques, Jeff Jones, Boris Vinatzer, Tal Pupko, and Joint Genome Institute! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…

Hiring a part-time lab assistant to help with field and laboratory experiments in Columbia, MO. The assistant will have opportunities to assist and publish research on projects utilizing artificial intelligence to examine the impact of microbial metagenomes on host fitness.

Are you interested in bioinformatic tools for microbiome and system biology research? Register for our workshop by June 14th! We are looking forward to seeing you at Plant Health 2024! National Microbiome Data Collaborative Marcus V Merfa @xocolatl_vrr The American Phytopathological Society #PlantHealth2024

GenoFig: a user-friendly application for the visualisation and comparison of genomic regions academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

Disaster plant pathology: effects of disasters on plant health & design of management solutions New work by @Berea_Etherton Robin Choudhury 🐀 Ricardo I. Alcalá Romaric A. Mouafo-Tchinda Aaron Plex Ashish Jacobo Robledo Jorge Andrade-Piedra Kwame Ogero, PhD Israel Navarrete Open: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

We are hiring an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Soil Health at Auburn University! Interested individuals can apply here: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

SVbyEye: A visual tool to characterize structural variation among whole genome assemblies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

metagWGS: a comprehensive workflow to analyze metagenomic data using Illumina or PacBio HiFi reads biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out SVbyEye: A new visualization tool to characterize structural variation among whole-genome assemblies (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…)

📰A new version of plant.connectome.tools is out! We used GPT-4o to read >71,000 papers and build knowledge graphs. Use it to study how genes, metabolites, organs, treatments and other entities are related. Here we look at PPI networks... #plantsci biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/2

Check out our latest preprint to learn more about how disease outbreaks unfold in the agricultural fields. Thanks to Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) New Innovator program, growers and extension agents for supporting this work. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Amazing discussions today at the Honorable Mentions - Schroth Faces of the Future Webinar organized by APS ECP Committee. Here showcasing the Future bacteriologists and Early Career Professionals! #APS #Bacteriology #Earlycareerprofessionals Ruchika Kashyap Navjot_Kaur

Excited to present our work from the Insect Microbiome Lab at BCIRL USDA-ARS at the #ESA2024 Annual Meeting in Phoenix! Can’t wait to connect with fellow entomologists and share ideas on host-microbe interactions & IPM. #ArtificialInteligence #MachineLearning #PestManagement

Thanks to our postdoc Rishi Bhandari for presenting our research at #entsoc24!

🔍 Exciting insights into Drosophila gut microbiota assembly! Using the neutral model of ecological drift and passive dispersal, we were able to understand how specific gene functions contribute to microbial community dispersal/colonization in the host. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…