Do you love amplicon sequencing? Do you want to sequence MORE amplicons, faster and at lower cost? Check out 💘CUPID-seq💘, a highly multiplexed library design that lets you sequence hundreds of amplicon samples (16S, 18S, and more!) on a single sequencing run! (1/n) 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding? Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative! Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

Scientists, reach out to your local communities about the importance of funding science! Write an op-ed to your local newspaper as part of the #McClintockLetters. Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.

Isako Di Tomassi@isakoditomassi.bsky.social · last yr.

Yes! Scientists, let's share our work with the public. Write an LTE/op-ed/ or guest column in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

What a joy to read this beautifully written commentary on our community coalescence experiments! Thank you Alyssa Mitchell and @contaminatedsci.bsky.social for the insightful take and lovely graphical summary.

Tami Lieberman@contaminatedsci.bsky.social · last yr.

Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out. It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Microbial ecologists, do you ever want to quantify the stability of a community over time, or the amount of spatial heterogeneity across sites? Check out FAVA, developed by @maikemorrison.bsky.social. With FAVA, you can quantify compositional variability across many microbiome samples.

Maike Morrison@maikemorrison.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

What happens if you introduce 🦠vs 🦠🦠🦠 into a microbial community? Are larger microbial populations more likely to establish? Check out new work led by @goldmandoran.bsky.social that used experiments and theory to dive deep into this simple question. ⬇️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Competition for shared resources increases dependence on initial population size during coalescence of gut microbial communities | PNAS

The long-term success of introduced populations depends on both their initial size and ability to compete against existing residents, but it remain...

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Doran Goldman@goldmandoran.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.

Hi friends new and old! I study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome.🦠🧬💩 I'm thrilled to share that I'm starting a lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! kxuelab.com More about my work below...🧵1/n

Xue lab at UC Irvine

Ecology and evolution in the human gut microbiome

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