Gregory P Donaldson

@DoctorBou @UCLA @MicrobioUcla @cnsiatucla Thanks! Yes: looking forward to it.

@gp_donaldson @UCLA @MicrobioUcla @cnsiatucla Excited to welcome you here! Let’s get coffee when you’re in town.

Goin back to Cali. Find me at @UCLA @MicrobioUcla @cnsiatucla. I’m recruiting at all levels. You can learn more at our lab website: donaldsonlab.com We have an advertisement up for a technician (SRA) position: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/5998 mimg.ucla.edu/announcement/g…

@wesenerd_ @MicrobiologyOSU Really interesting concept. Congrats to your lab!

I am excited to share the first story from my lab @MicrobiologyOSU. The question: Can/how do bacteria in the gut respond to abiotic carbohydrate nutrients (i.e., no selective pressure)? Spoiler alert, bacteria are amazing and they can!! nature.com/articles/s4158…

I’m very happy to announce that I’ll soon become a Principal Investigator and Group Leader at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in New York (@czbiohub)! I’m really looking forward to this new chapter in my life and I’m incredibly excited to get things moving in the lab. #CZBiohubNY🧵1/

@LGBacteria Shel labs Bactron (actually in my profile photo haha). Hate it. Will go back to Coy for future. Happy to elaborate if you message me.

René J. Dubos was born #OTD. He received a #LaskerAward for his studies of the antibiotic properties of soil bacteria, leading to the discovery of streptomycin. ow.ly/9k2M50HUX9R

We wondered if the host could "tell" which fructans their gut microbes were essentially eating and then choose whether to eat diets that feed their gut microbes.

@mengwu1002 @WUSM_MolMicro This is so exciting! Looking forward to see what you all find next.

I started my lab (sites.wustl.edu/wulab/) at @WUSM_MolMicro, and we are super excited in exploring the intricate interactions among gut microbiota and immune system! We are actively seeking passionate researchers at all career levels to join our dynamic and collaborative lab.

So happy to share that the final peer-reviewed version of our work is now out in @CellCellPress x.com/CellCellPress/…

NanH gives B. frag an early foothold. @buzun_ekaterina @theChuLab show HMOs activate colonization program in a pioneer gut #commensal, Bacteroides fragilis. Orchestrated by NanH, this program mediates fitness & resilience during vertical transmission #secsectitle0015" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cell.com/cell-host-micr…

@jjminich @baym @BioMickWatson Indeed Fig 2 shows that the different pipelines perform more similarly to each other for genus level. I remember a ton of discussion about this when I started grad school, ten years ago.

@baym @BioMickWatson I mean… last time I checked it’s common knowledge (maybe law 😂?) that you should never use 16S to call species level? This figure is very misleading - of course you can’t annotate at species or strain level accurately!

Terrifying plot for those working in microbiome profiling

@KevinWNg Absolutely. I just wanted to push back a little against the “data is the only thing that matters” perspective.

In my favorite papers I cherish the discussion, which sometimes illuminates some truth that was only proven years later. Day to day, i just look at figures, but a lot of the joy Ive had in science is in hearing the very human thoughts of creative, dedicated colleagues.

@Wenhan_Zhu1 @pewtrusts @VI4Research @VUMCResearch @EricSkaar @Mari_Byndloss Thats great! Hope you are doing well.

I am immensely honored to be part of the 2023 cohort! Thank you @pewtrusts for this incredible opportunity to advance the research we are passionate about, and grateful for the amazing support from @VI4Research @VUMCResearch @EricSkaar @Mari_Byndloss.

@Annette294 @Nature @justsaysinmice This paper contains studies in both mice and humans

@Nature @justsaysinmice

Psychological stress is known to worsen the gut inflammation caused by certain bowel diseases. Now scientists have found out why. go.nature.com/3OyUV1E

A stressful start to the week for a junior PI - first student defense 😥 But... congratulations to Dr Alice Kwon 🥳 great job and exciting defense talk @nyugrossman, @NYULH_Neuro You thought we just worked on astrocytes and the brain? Nope!

The Structures of Secretory IgA in complex with Streptococcus pyogenes M4 and human CD89 provide insights on mucosal host-pathogen ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_immuno

@ArzamasovAlex We had a sort of inverse problem before where a reviewer questioned experimental results with knockout strains because our findings didn’t match what database predicted functions were. It made me realize that a lot of the annotation for Bacteroides genomes were unreliable.

Thread on the importance of sanity checks when inferring functions from genomic data. Just finished reading the paper on the CGR2 collection (3324 gut isolate genomes). While it is a great resource of genomic data, some of the results left me puzzled (1/7) disq.us/t/4faenjw

First academic twitter to share my research:) I have been studying the interactions between the gut microbiota and the immune system during my postdoc, particularly in the gut complement system, which has been poorly explored. (1/12)biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@mengwu1002 Very interesting… and huge amount of work. A new dimension for complement.