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What in the world just happened? Why were all the fish dead? Here’s a short thread as to how our latest paper, the last of my PhD at @yale_eeb, came to be by starting at the beginning.
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Christopher L Dutton
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Christopher L Dutton
@ChrisLDutton
Asst Professor of Ecology (Ecosystems & Animals) @UFBiology | Postdoc @UF Biology/Anthropology | PhD @yale_eeb
USA, East Africa Katılım Mayıs 2018
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After 7 years at Cambridge, EMBL, & ETHZ building + applying computational tools for microbiome science, I'm pivoting to industry. Available Oct 2026 for senior comp-bio roles in Switzerland 🇨🇭 Open to agtech, microbial biotech, AI-for-biology.
Portfolio👉franciscozorrilla.github.io
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Excited that our paper analyzing microbiomes and physical fitness has been published in @PhysiologicalG. Led by @GarryLewis1111 alongside @Doc_Cook_Phd @judy_malas @saadejumo and others. journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…
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Our weather station was taken out by a controlled burn, right after a flood destroyed our water quality meter. The Mara River ecosystem in Kenya is studying us now. Pic by @1geemipaul
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Officially out - very excited to share! “Emergent simplicity” in microbial ecosystems has long been an appealing idea—but meant different things to different people. As a result, the field hasn't agreed: is it real? surprising? useful? 1/3 doi.org/10.1126/scienc…
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Huge thanks to all the co-authors of these two monumental efforts! Funded by @NSF
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Big picture: large animals don't just move nutrients... they move microbes and restructure food webs from the bottom up. As megafauna decline, we're losing ecosystem functions we've barely begun to describe.
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Two new papers from our group this month! A collaboration across the @ChrisLDutton & @AmandaSubalusky labs at @UF, Frauendorf lab @colgateuniv, Grupstra lab @FloridaAtlantic, and Post lab @Yale ...on how large wildlife reshape ecosystems 🦛🌊🧵 @UF_CLAS @UFBiology @africa_uf
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Have you ever wondered why children starting nursery pick up so many germs? I certainly did, and with a crack team of parent-scientists/clinicians, we set out to answer that question. Is childcare a germ factory or an immune bootcamp? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cm…
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Zeon Systems@zeonsystems
Simulated lab worlds straight from pixels. We scan the lab scene with depth cameras and reconstruct the environment. Each object already has a high-quality mesh in our object library from our mesh scanning system. A localization pipeline places those meshes into a shared coordinate frame, creating a digital version of the lab. This works well for science automation because the environment is constrained: the set of objects is limited, we have accurate models of them, and we don’t need to solve the full open-world perception problem. With this digital lab in place we can: • Drive safe motion planning around real geometry • Track state changes by re-localizing mesh parts (e.g. a lid opening) • Attach objects to the robot when picked so the planner accounts for them and avoids collisions built by @BastotdeHeijden @BlerimAbdullai @TahirMello
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We are excited to present our new study @Nature, led by @DrDrCox and performed in collaboration with the lab of @MaayanLevyPhD, in which we explore the impact of gut-brain axis aging on cognitive decline.
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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For context, this is what the river normally looks like...
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Uh oh...I think we just lost our telemetry unit at the Mara River, Purungat Bridge on the border between Kenya and Tanzania. Water rose six meters in the last few days, and this was the last pic sent....a few hours ago. 😱
ufduttonlab.github.io/mara-river/
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