Andrew Laloo

I sequenced my genome at home, on my kitchen table. I wrote up exactly how I did it - the equipment, protocol, theory, and cost: iwantosequencemygenomeathome.com

@banana_baeee So cool.

Guys look Claude helped me - a random guy in his basement - build a wetlab and do vibe genomics! I sequenced my whole genome despite zero lab experience, without my DNA leaving home! I put together my notes and a step by step guide here: vibe-genomics.replit.app It was a lot easier than I was expecting! Ultimately I hit ~16x coverage and compared my results against my 600k raw 23andme SNPs, and it held up!

gbdraw v0.9.1 is out now on Bioconda! Easily visualize microbial genomes and enjoy the #gbdraw web app completely offline. 📦 Install via Bioconda: bioconda.github.io/recipes/gbdraw… 🌐 Try the online app: gbdraw.app #bioinformatics #genomics #microbiology #visualization

Drought drives elevated antibiotic resistance across soils dlvr.it/TRfvY3 #MicroSky

Big news! Starting my lab as Ramón y Cajal PI at @IBVF_Sevilla in Seville 🌞, Spain, bridging microbial ecology, photosynthesis & plant biotech: from metagenomic and AI analyses 💻 to experiments in microbes & plants 🌊🧬🌱 Looking for PhD students & postdocs. DM or share!

Great to see clean energy being prioritised especially in the hilly regions of the North East. Will help greatly in preventing power cuts in the region.

Visualizing the fluid mosaic of lipid membranes! Learn more at smart-biology.com #biology #science #3D #animation #EdTech

@MohnishPabrai Fantastic job Mohnish. Very inspired by the strategic educational philanthropy you do in India - indeed teaching a man to fish instead of giving them a fish.

I had a wonderful visit yesterday to the home of Dakshana Scholar Chetan Khadam in Berwal Village, Nashik District in Maharashtra. Colonel Ram Sharma and Dakshana’s COO Annu Malik joined me. The monsoons were on in full swing and the valleys and hills around Chetan’s home looked magnificent. Chetan comes from a tribal family engaged in farming and construction labor. Somehow the family survives on less than $2 a day. Chetan has done well enough to get a Government Medical College seat in Maharashtra. He wants to become a doctor and setup his practice in his village. There are no doctors or clinics within 20 miles of his home and he is well aware of the challenges that creates. I enjoyed meeting his family and saw a deep burning desire in him to return and improve healthcare in his community. Godspeed to you Chetan! We’re excited to cheer you on from the sidelines.

I'm excited to share our new publication in @Nature! We showed that under Ni-limited conditions, similar to those in nature, #methanogens shift electron flow from [NiFe]- to [Fe]-hydrogenase Hmd with the help of a newly discovered protein complex, Elp. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled with denitrification mitigates soil nitrous oxide emissions #microbiology #methane #ClimateChange @ScienceAdvances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@AndrewLaloo and @GuptaAb7gupta highlight the role of iron and manganese in stability and decomposition of organic matter, with understanding these interactions key to advancing #ClimateMitigation strategies and reducing carbon greenhouse gas emissions. academic.oup.com/lambio/article…

1. Do not answer calls from unrecognized phone numbers 2. Do not e-mail first thing in the morning or last thing at night. The former scrambles your priorities and plans for the day, and the latter just gives you insomnia. 3. Do not agree to meetings or calls with no clear agenda or end time If the desired outcome is defined clearly with a stated objective and agenda listing topics/questions to cover, no meeting or call should last more than 30 minutes. 4. Do not let people ramble. Forget “how’s it going?” when someone calls you. Stick with “what’s up?” or “I’m in the middle of getting something out, but what’s going on?” 5. Do not check e-mail constantly — “batch” and check at set times only. 6. Do not over-communicate with low-profit, high-maintenance customers. There is no sure path to success, but the surest path to failure is trying to please everyone. Do an 80/20 analysis of your customer base in two ways–which 20% are producing 80%+ of my profit, and which 20% are consuming 80%+ of my time? 7. Do not work more to fix overwhelm — prioritize. If you don’t prioritize, everything seems urgent and important. If you define the single most important task for each day, almost nothing seems urgent or important. Oftentimes, it’s just a matter of letting little bad things happen (return a phone call late and apologize, pay a small late fee, lose an unreasonable customer, etc.) to get the big important things done. The answer to overwhelm is not spinning more plates — or doing more — it’s defining the few things that can really fundamentally change your business and life. 8. Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should. Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn’t be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself “I’ll just get it done this weekend.” Review Parkinson’s Law in The 4-Hour Workweek and force yourself to cram within tight hours so your per-hour productivity doesn’t fall through the floor. Focus, get the critical few done, and get out. E-mailing all weekend is no way to spend the little time you have on this planet. It’s hip to focus on getting things done, but it’s only possible once we remove the constant static and distraction. If you have trouble deciding what to do, just focus on not doing. Different means, same end.

"Athletes age the slowest based on face photos while science/education were the fastest ager occupation category among famous people" 🧟 seems right biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data @mbiojournal @ASMicrobiology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Our newest tool, CoverM, a unified software package which calculates several coverage statistics for contigs and genomes in an ergonomic and flexible manner has been published in Bioinformatics. You can find the full article at the link below! rb.gy/17w2df

Cometabolism of ferrihydrite reduction and methyl-dismutating methanogenesis by Methanosarcina mazei. #methanogens #methane #archaea @ASMicrobiology @AppEnvMicro @Yahai_Lu journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…

How our gut microbiome regulates sugar preference nature.com/articles/s4156…

OUT NOW: Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation @knutdrescher @sneakystaph @biozentrum nature.com/articles/s4156…

OUT NOW 💊Entacapone, a Parkinson's disease medication, sequesters iron resulting in a selective inhibition of gut microbial metabolism @MichiWagner4 @microbetracker @DOME_Vienna @JMF_Vienna @kirk3gaard @sotonbiosci nature.com/articles/s4156…

Super excited to announce the 5th IBSE International Symposium - Microbiomes in Environment, Space and Human Health at @iitmadras in Chennai, India from Feb 19-21. Amazing sessions and and a great lineup of speakers. Please RT and spread the word! ibse.iitm.ac.in/symposium-05/