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Happy holidays! Introducing RTutor.ai, an AI-powered app that lets you chat with your data in English! RTutor uses Davinci (#ChatGPT’s sibling) to turn requests into R code, which is executed & results are shown instantly, available as a HTML report in seconds. 1/8

Our new Perspective piece out in Nature today, questioning the evidence for the existence of a placental/foetal microbiota. TL:DR = there isn't one.... A really enjoyable project to work on. All angry responses to Jens Walter please, not me 😜. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Great occasion for my 1st tweet! Proud contributor to this nature perspective on the ongoing debate questioning a fetal #microbiome. With 46 experts in #microbiome #science and related disciplines, we assess the evidence. The answer, an unambiguous ‘No’ bit.ly/3XF4ePg

New pre-print alert! We sequenced a mock virome community of 15 phages using Nanopore, PacBio and Illumina, and tested different assembly approaches to determine which is best for viromics (1/9) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our collaboration with Yingfei Ma's group on gut phage culturomics is published in Cell Host&Microbe! The Gut Phage Isolates Collection (GPIC) expands the diversity of cultured gut phages and provides a valuable resource for human microbiome engineering. cell.com/cell-host-micr…

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#phagetherapy alert! This Tuesday at Noon ET Temerty Medicine 45 min YouTube session with myself André Picard U of T Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium Esteemed Professor and Queen of the Fungal Kingdom Bright Angel Therapeutics #ammicanphage AMMI Canada ESGNTA ESCMID Unity Health Toronto register with link! temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/temerty-medici…

A big moment for me: I started as an u/g then grad student in Immunology University of Toronto. After 20 years of running my lab Temerty Medicine, alongside my friends and colleagues I am now excited to lead the Dept as Chair. Thank you all my mentors, family and friends for support along the way.

Congratulations to the whole team @ImmunobiologySG ! Our study, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation , showing how immune cell-provided cues support B cell niches and humoral immunity is out in Nature Immunology today: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Spatial transcriptomic analysis of intestinal inflammation in dynamic. One of the best and most detailed analyses of fibroblasts in DSS colitis. #IBD & #MERFISH #SpatialTranscriptomics #IBDfibroblasts biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Had a great first day at Vom2023 and am looking forward to the rest of the week. Come speak to me at today's poster session if you're interested in my viromics work with Andrew millard (poster C2-056)

Today we report a detailed map of interactions between the immune system and the gut microbiome. Kazuki Nagashima led the charge w/ help from Aishan Zhao and Kat Atabakhsh. nature 1/40 nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am incredibly honoured to receive the 2023 Polanyi Prize in Physiology/Medicine. Huge thanks to Ontario's Universities for this award, to McMaster University for support through my PhD, and to University of Toronto and especially Dr. Jen Gommerman for creating a fantastic environment to do postdoctoral research!

Excited to share a big part of my #PhD work in Dr. Jen Gommerman lab at University of Toronto, now available in Science Translational Medicine🎊 We find a fascinating role of BAFF in autoimmune brain inflammation🔥 What happens when your usual patrons (B cells) are gone? 🫥 Read more here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Another beautiful paper from Fran Quintana Lab and colleagues. You can read the spotlight article that Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen and I contributed on how Astrocytes “ACLYmate” to inflammation and adopt trained immunity. Cool beans! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ixRM5Eb0Rxn…

Assessing #phage-host population dynamics by reintroducing virulent viruses. @EmmaAllenVercoe shows colony isolation removes virulent viruses from gut #bacteria. Reintroducing virulent #virome to bacteria has specific impacts on community & prophages cell.com/cell-host-micr…

So grateful to UofT Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship for the opportunity to work with incredible scientists Bo Wang and Dr. Jen Gommerman on novel machine learning approaches to understand how microbes influence (neuro)immunity.