Austin Swafford

We just published a preprint on EMPress, a project ~3 years in the making! TLDR, it's another interactive tree viewer for web browsers—but with some useful new features for community data analysis, eg integration with ordinations. Plus it can handle trees with over 500k nodes. 🌳

CD8 T cells drive anorexia, dysbiosis, and blooms of a commensal with immunosuppressive potential after viral infection pnas.org/content/early/…

Your microbiome sculpts heparin sulfate with bacterial glycosides to determine SARSCoV2 infectivity. Shown in patient samples, experimental infection, and correlated to age dependent susceptibility in large databases. Wow!👀 @Nathan_E_Lewis @KnightLabNews biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Bacteria modify mucosal layer glycans, altering the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to bind human cells. Mucosal glycan trimming bacteria may play a critical role in non-modifiable predisposing factors for COVID-19 such as age. Pre-print biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations as well to our stellar team of co-authors (now that I've tracked most of y'all down on Twitter) @zhuqiyun @MicrobeCarolina @Nena_ITALY @stevewandro @TomaszLabMCB @DirtySci @jadkanbar , Stefan Janssen, and Bob Heaton! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Proud to have our great work out today in @nature led by @multi_omics and @JenyaKopylova of @KnightLabNews and our great team of collaborators from @CMIdigest including @PatelOncology, @DrRanaMcKay, @sandrinemiller and @sejsong! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congrats @sandrinemiller for the great spot on NBC last night! And to @MicrobeCarolina, the hardworking scientist in the lab segments :-)

Congratulations to our outstanding postdoctoral scholar Katy Patras on her new grant from the ⁦@MOMI_CORE⁩ at ⁦@UCSDHealth⁩ to study the potential benefits of breastmilk oligosaccharides in protection against GBS colonization and neonatal infection.

Congrats to 𝗗𝗿. 𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗢. 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻 (Gagneux lab), 𝗗𝗿. 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝘆𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘀 (@victornizet Lab), and 𝗗𝗿. 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹 (Professor at @UCSDMedSchool) on being 2019 𝙈𝙊𝙈𝙄 𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙚𝙨. ow.ly/zgWq30n2fe3 @MOMI_CORE

Great article @mcdonadt! With so many claims about the microbiome flying around, this is an excellent starting place for how to approach the #microbiome, with both hope and skepticism. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"- Carl Sagan

Congrats to @CMIdigest Leadership Team member @racheljdutton On your NIH New Innovator Award! #microbiome #cheese

Congrats to Pavel Pevzner and Bahar Behsaz for winning the 2018 UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation Grand Challenges Award for the new computational tool to address challenges in natural product discovery! ow.ly/60Zn30mbid4 #microbiome #massspectrometry #award

Way to go team! @KnightLabNews @CMIdigest

Andrew McCallum on designing a knowledge base for the future built on #DeepLearning and universal schema. #AIHN #AI #MITIBM @IBMResearch

Rob Knight highlighting the wide range of Microbiome projects including the #AIHN collaboration with @CMIdigest and @IBMResearch, the @americangut, @microsetta , and the newly launched Global Foodomics project led by Julia Gauglitz in the @Pdorrestein1 Lab. #microbiome

Rob Knight highlighting the predictive power of human genes vs microbial genesal and the dangers of missing microbes. #microbiome #AIHN

Lisa Amini introducing Rob Knight's keynote talk at #AIHN , highlighting the achievements of @americangut and @earthmicrobiome and the bright future of the @CMIdigest collaboration with @IBMResearch ! @KnightLabNews

Using @Slidoapp to poll audience input for #AIHN: looks like #microbiome is one of the top trending areas of interest! @IBMResearch @CMIdigest

Lisa Amini speaking about the many #AIHN collaborations between @IBMResearch and universities, including @UCSanDiego ! #AI