Anna Cuscó

Finally, the results of my postdoc at the @BigDataBiology lab in Shanghai see the light! The work includes my three favorite things research-wise: 🦠 microbiome, 🧬 long-reads, and 🐶 dogs. See our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

💫 #MVIF Season 5 💫 Check out the program and feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open: microbiome-vif.org/en-US/how-to-s… #MVIF is proudly supported by @illumina @CorundumSB and our non-commercial co-organizing partners @SeeraveF @CUNYSPH

New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT  microbiomedigest.com/2025/10/02/oct… • Shanghai dog microbiome / @anna_cusco • microbetag / @haris_zaf • invitation for the #MVIF 42 / @MicrobiomeVIF   & more.   Happy Friday!

If you made it this far, thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed it. I am currently looking for my next research adventure. If you have insights on the microbiome/microbial genomics job market in Europe (academia & industry), or want to chat about this work, please reach out.

September 2025 updates! A focus on Anna's preprint, but several other updates too, including Faith Adegoke joining us to work on AMR and several other preprints bigdatabiology.substack.com/p/bdb-lab-sept…

I would like to thank all co-authors: Yiqian Duan, Fernando Gil, Alexei Chklovski, Nithya Kruthi, Shaojun Pan, Sofia Forslund, Susanne Lau, Ulrike Löber, Xing-Ming Zhao, and especially @luispedrocoelho And of course, all the dog owners and the main characters of this story🐶

Finally, the results of my postdoc at the @BigDataBiology lab in Shanghai see the light! The work includes my three favorite things research-wise: 🦠 microbiome, 🧬 long-reads, and 🐶 dogs. See our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Full thread later, but @anna_cusco 's preprint on the pet dog gut microbiome is now up at @biorxiv_micrbio doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

If you are at #ISMBECCB2025 come listen to me present at 14:40! ismb-schedule.luispedro.org/?speaker=Luis%…

A comment I wrote for you is now online at @NatureComms: nature.com/articles/s4146… Oh, oh, it says "time travel will likely remain forever off the table in our universe" with a citation (poor scientist's click-bait 🥲).

Out in @NatureBiotech: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. doi.org/10.1038/s41587… A 🧵

@Armandsbonastre @olga_francino Poster today, on Wednesday, yes!

@olga_francino @anna_cusco Today?

If your are at #FEMS2025 conference in Milan, and are interested on dog microbiome, long-read metagenomics or both, come tomorrow to my poster (113.16P in Area B) and let's chat!