Excited to announce that the Microbiocode web site is now live! The site provides numerous software tools for scientific computation in Microbiome and Microbial Genomics research. Check it out! med.upenn.edu/microbiocode/

Celebrating Ashley’s NSF GRFP with the team!!

Last week Stephanie Higgins, a lead technician in the CHOP Microbiome Center defended her Master's thesis "The effect of reagent ratio and miniaturization on library prep for shotgun metagenomic sequencing of microbiome samples" under the supervision of Drs Moustafa and Bittinger

V happy to see this out - reprocessing 5million SARS-CoV-2 genomes to remove systematic errors (+thereby improve the phylogeny) and improve representation of genomes from the Global South. Huge amount of work esp. from Martin Hunt, Angie Hinrich+collabs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Come and work with us! The Bioinformatician in the PennCHOP Microbiome Program (PCMP) will develop and apply bioinformatic methods for analysis of large sequence-based microbiome data sets wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/careers-…

Happy #microbiome day! The paper for our Unassigner software is published. You can now find compatible list of species for your 16S sequences using our new method. Give it a try! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

I am excited to win a CZI EOSS grant! This is the first grant I have ever won after 20+ years in science. It feels wonderful to finally be funded for my open-source contributions. With Wytamma we will deliver the next generation of my popular Snippy software! 🦘🦘🦘

After 15 a research and development, so happy to have first patients in to test phage lysine HY133 against nasal MRSA. DZIF (inaktiv) Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections

Thrilled to be part of the launch of the Center for Microbial Medicine CHOP Research! Excited to work alongside Joe Zackular, Paul Planet and Bob Baldassano to bring microbiome-based medicine to patients and advance pediatric health. Looking forward to the amazing work ahead!

Excited about our new CAMB Graduate Group Microbiology, Virology, & Parasitology (aka MVP) Graduate Program t-shirts! Thanks so much Priyanka priyanka for the microbe-tastic design! 🦠

📢 You are invited to contribute to STREAMS: a set of community-consensus reporting guidelines for environmental microbiome studies! Read more about our workshop: zenodo.org/records/138296… and provide feedback by 10/14: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Reach out to us for more information!

The Center for Microbial Medicine will move to the new Morgan Center for Research and Innovation (research.chop.edu/about/location…) in late 2025! The building is going up quick! CHOP Research

Last week joined our colleagues & great speakers in the #MENAMicrobiome conference Sidra Medicine. We had a great panel discussion about fostering Microbiome collab. in the MENA region.Also presented our Hospital Microbiome Cartography work in the Center for Microbial Medicine at CHOP & CHOP Research

I’m proud to share our recent publication describing the development of a multivalent mRNA-LNP vaccine for C. difficile that incorporates targets across C. diff’s complex life cycle science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Check out this great new work by Alexa Sem in the Joe Zackular lab! Also congrats to Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh who co-led this great work. It was a pleasure to be part of this work for developing a multivalent mRNA vaccine for C. difficile.

Exciting new work coming out of the Center for Microbial Medicine at Children's Hospital CHOP Research!! Development of an mRNA Vaccine for C. difficile!

Researchers have developed an mRNA vaccine that protected mice from succumbing to C. diff infections and prevented recurring cases. fiercebiotech.com/research/flexi…

Delighted to announce the Keystone Symposia meeting: Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection. Join us in Breckenridge in May 2026!! You can check out the program and amazing lineup of speakers below: keysym.us/KSAntibiotics26 #KSAntibiotics26

Join the CHOP Microbiome Center as a Research Technician IV! We are seeking a motivated individual with hands-on experience in next-generation sequencing (NGS) to support our innovative microbiome research. careers.chop.edu/us/en/job/1017…