#Microbialecologists! The #ISME19 abstract submission deadline is fast approaching. To be part of the scientific program, please submit by Friday 23 February. Join your peers and share your research in Cape Town, 18-23 August! isme19.isme-microbes.org/isme19-abstrac…

🧵New this year: our popular #Microbiome Analysis workshop is now *two* amazing workshops, held in gorgeous St. John's, Newfoundland! Curious about the difference between Beginner and Advanced? Read on below...👇Register before April 1 for a discount: bioinformatics.ca/workshops/curr…

Early bird rates for our first set of #bioinformatics workshops end this week! Don't miss your chance for a discount on: - Infectious Disease Genomic #Epidemiology - Beginner & Advanced #Microbiome Analysis - #Metabolomics Analysis Apply here: bioinformatics.ca/workshops/work…

Wow! #Budget2024 is here to support Canadian Research! This is AMAZING and will be a game changer for Canadian grad students and Postdocs. Fellowships from $40k to $70k 🎉💐❗❣️ so thankful for this investment and to Support Our Science

Applications for the 2024 MIBTP PhD studentships have reopened! One more month to apply for a fully funded PhD position to work on the discovery of bioactive natural products from fungi. 🍄🧬💊 DM me if interested warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

And that's a wrap on Beginner #Microbiome Analysis at Memorial University! We'll be right back at it tomorrow for our Advanced workshop. If you missed it, don't worry...

Advanced #Microbiome Analysis, class of 2024! We had participants from across Canada and as far as Mexico and Kazakhstan. As always, our materials are open-access... 🧵

📢 IMPACTT Microbiome #HavingIMPACTT2024 Robyn Wright from Morgan Langille lab 🤔 Kraken2 vs MetaPhlAn3 (PMID: 36867161) ✅MetaPhlAn is "ok" but not close to optimized Kraken protocol ✅including human database in Kraken remove human reads from microbiome analysis? Filtration needed

My humble view to advocate a position for a gene-centric, bottom-up approach in modern oceanography. “Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research” | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/4cmIWx3

Excited to be heading to Cape Town tomorrow morning! 🤩

Excited to have finally made it to an ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology meeting #ISME19! I have a poster on the oral Microbiome of children this morning (PS1.02.029) and a short talk on checking the coverage of taxa identified in metagenomic reads tomorrow afternoon (AS11).

Robyn Wright Robyn Wright, Dalhousie University on Reducing false-positive taxa in metagenomes by coverage validation of reference genomes #ISME19

Christmas came early for the IMR.bio! This should replace our two old MiSeqs and provide higher quality reads (for the full 2x300bp) and double our average number of reads per sample for the same price. Thanks to Andre Comeau, IMR Manager, for the photo op.

Good start to 2025! We need to work towards improving plastic degradation in marine environments. Lack of functional polyester-biodegrading potential in marine versus t... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I am looking for graduate students interested in investigating bacterial genome evolution, esp. pangenomes and intergenic regions, and the relative importance of genetic drift! buff.ly/3UPVcQ9