Kristopher Kerns, PhD, MPH

President Obama has released a statement: "Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.    "Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes. These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio."

Excited to share our new preprint on the detailed investigation of Type 4 pili in epibiont oral Saccharibacteria! Led by @GrossmanMicrbio from our lab @ForsythResearch, and with @JunLiuLab (Yale), @JMcLean_UW (UW) and @he_xuesong . Check it out: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We’re delighted to announce award of $65,000 pilot grants to 6 @UW research teams engaged in #populationhealth projects ranging from improving the well-being of service providers & children to better management of chronic conditions. Details: washington.edu/populationheal…

A @Nature paper presents the Immune Dictionary and its companion software, which is based on an analysis of in vivo responses to 86 cytokines across more than 17 immune cell types. go.nature.com/47JCq1d

After 10 years of working with Yup’ik Indigenous communities in Alaska, UW SPH professor Donald Chi shares the impact of oral health on public health, especially among rural and remote communities #PublicHealth #IndigenousHealth #OralHealth #HealthEquity rb.gy/8ykkzs

Now online! Ultrasmall epibiont Nanosynbacter lyticus strain TM7x and host bacteria transcriptional activity after initial host parasitism tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @BatbilegBor @he_xuesong @UW_Kris #saccharibacteria #TM7 #Patescibacteria/CPR

The Baker Lab at Oregon Health & Science University is hiring, both postdocs and research assistants. DM me if you know someone who is interested in learning to apply ‘omics and molecular biology to learn how the #micriobiome impacts our health. #microbiology #bioinformatics

Sam Minot is now presenting the Data Core Shared Resource at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Follow along with day two #NextflowSummit live stream here: youtube.com/watch?v=FE3Eey…

Developed by two 19-year-old students, these gloves translate sign language into sound. [📹 LemelsonMIT] "

That feeling when you accidentally throw out your libraries and blame it on the robot…. Happy MonTuesday

@BioMickWatson The horror 😱😱😱

Water fluoridation is a public health measure to reduce levels of tooth decay in populations. What can recent studies tell us about clinical & cost benefits of CWF? A welcome paper on a controversial topic. Free to read here: nature.com/articles/s4141… #PublicHealth #dentistry

The @SeqeraLabs pricing page has just had a small but nice tweak: if you're working in academia, you no longer need to "Contact sales" to get the Professional tier for free - there's now just a simple form to fill out 🥳 cloud.tower.nf/pricing/

#QIIME2 2023.9 is now available! 🎊 Exciting updates include an alpha release of our shotgun #metagenomics distribution (🎉🎉🎉), fully integrated provenance replay within the framework, batched decontam analysis, and more! Thank you contributors!! 🙌 forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-2023…

CHILLS LFG! BOWDOWN GO DAWGS

Healthy young volunteers quit brushing just three of their teeth for three weeks to study gingivitis—but researchers saw microbial ecosystem changes all the way on the other side of their mouths, where they were still brushing and flossing. In PNAS: ow.ly/MZsL50PT8CR

Exciting new work out of the @JMcLean_UW lab!

Exploring host-bacterial interactions? 🦠 Discover our INVADEseq approach @NatureProtocols! nature.com/articles/s4159… We unravel cell-invasive bacteria identities, the host cell types they infect & impact on transcriptional programs in vivo. 🧪🧬 Full text: rdcu.be/dnCkK

Localized microbially induced inflammation influences distant healthy tissues in the human oral cavity dlvr.it/Swvv8F

Wonder what happens when you stop brushing? #gingivitis What about the impact of #inflammation on distant healthy oral tissue sites? Now in PNAS @PNASNews. @UW_Kris jsmcleanlab.com #microbiome #periodontal @UWDentalSchool pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…