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Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent immune response against a distant tumor. Y. Erin Chen, MD PhD led the charge w/ help from Djenet Bousbaine, Alessandra Veinbachs, Belkaid Lab. Science Magazine 1/26 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Thrilled to see our #microbiome #immunology paper is out in nature! We mapped T cell receptor specificity to the gut microbiome at the level of a single TCR versus a single strain. nature.com/articles/s4158… Here are highlights of our findings.

I anticipate recruiting two PhD students for Fall ’24 (or earlier) in the following areas: 1. Cyanobacterial blooms and their strain diversity and interactions with heterotrophic bacteria 2. Broad metagenomic data to track biodiversity in the #GreatLakes.

Today I noticed that dRep, a program I first wrote in 2016, has 1000 citations on Google Scholar! 🎉I want to share a thread on why I think the program "caught on" what I've learned maintaining it for ~7 years

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 I'm thrilled to announce that I will be joining #GeorgiaTech as an Assistant Professor starting Jan 1, 2024! I'm actively recruiting members to join the lab. So please spread the word! The lab website also goes live today. murtylab.com

The news from OpenAI that they have developed an AI that can reason and solve simple maths problems is HUGE! Anyone who watches reality TV knows this makes the AI smarter than the majority of humans.

We’re building for this moment to accelerate progress in science with AI. Our co-founders Priscilla + Mark share our annual letter on how our early bets are making this possible: czi.co/AnnualLetter

Diversity of Bathyarchaeia viruses in metagenomes and virus-encoded CRISPR system components academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…

Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. We applied it to 250,000 metagenomes- in environmental samples 75% lack a genome/MAG (abundance-weighted). A 🧵biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In the past few weeks, there's been an explosion of new tools for programming DNA and RNA 🧬 A thread with everything you need to know about these new results:

If you are interested in prophages, we have a new database: Prophage-DB. Check it out and all feedback is welcome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…