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Ran Blekhman

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Professor of Medicine at @UChicago. Decoding the human microbiome. https://t.co/v7TIGaAfYu

Chicago Katılım Kasım 2012
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These are challenging times for science, but I'm happy to share a bright moment: our work is on the cover of Cell today! We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe
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The new issue is out👉cell.com/cell/current Featuring an engineered Newcastle disease virus that selectively and safely lysed tumors in refractory cancer patients, the identification of rhodoquinone as a mammal mitochondrial electron carrier, and a metagenome-informed metaproteomics approach unravelling the interplay between the host, gut microbiome, and diet to identify disease biomarkers. 📷credit: SciStories⁠

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We're searching for the next Director of the Duchossois Family Institute at UChicago The most exciting leadership role in microbiome science right now: lead faculty, cutting-edge cores, an FDA-approved facility for microbiome therapeutics Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/182203
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AI has huge promise for genomics -- but it has consistently failed at microbiome-based prediction. My new post on why simple models keep winning, where deep learning actually earns its place, and where the field is headed. blekhman.substack.com/p/ai-keeps-fai…
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I've been hearing from more and more people who received peer reviews that were clearly written by AI. It's frustrating, and no one knows what to do. I have some thoughts. blekhman.substack.com/p/so-your-pape…
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Work led by Katja Della Libera and Beth Adamowicz in my lab, in collaboration with Francesca Luca's lab at UChicago
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Our new paper, where we use metabolic modeling to show Fusobacterium grows faster in colorectal tumor microenvironments, and use computational + experimental approach to find specific metabolic pathways driving host-microbiome interactions in cancer biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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Breast milk isn't just nutrition – it delivers live bacterial strains that colonize the infant gut and persist for months. Our new paper, where we used metagenomics to track bacterial strains in 195 mother-infant pairs over the first 6 months of life: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…
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Due to the shutdown, NIH cancelled >370 study sections, impacting >24,000 applications Rescheduled meetings will only discuss 30-35% of applications, have simplified summary statements (no narrative paragraph), and a new category - "competitive but ND" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…
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3. Specific microbes like Bifidobacterium adolescentis (influenced by dairy intake) directly affected metabolic gene expression.
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🧬 🦠 🏙️ Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host? Excited to share our new paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Elated to share that the Weinstock lab just got its 1st R01!! We are SO grateful to the hardworking NIH staff for tirelessly pushing to get those last NOAs out
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Garden of the Phoenix in Hyde Park is a gem
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