Dan Knights

I just offset my family’s annual carbon footprint with TerraPass – check it out: terrapass.com/product/produc… via @terrapass

Friends and colleagues, please consider signing and forwarding this petition against Line 3, the plan to cut a new massive crude oil pipeline through indigenous land and waterways sign.moveon.org/petitions/dear…

The U of Minnesota Division of Neonatology is hiring an assistant professor with microbiome/multi-omics and mentoring expertise. Know anyone who would be interested? minnesotajobs.com/career/1138352…

Submit your paper to GLBIO, deadline extended until Feb 5! Accepted papers will be considered for publication in PLOS Computational Biology and PLOS ONE.

Submit today to GLBIO 2021! iscb.org/glbio2021-subm…

@AbbyJohnsonRD @PublicHealthUMN Congrats Abby! So excited for you.

It’s official! I’m excited to share that today I’ve joined @PublicHealthUMN as an Assistant Professor. Looking forward to starting some great new (virtual) collaborations.

Our new germ-free mouse study is out, led by Dimitri Sidiropoulos, @monkey_doc, and Purna Kashyap, showing primatization of mice, and that wild primate microbes reduce obesity in mice. animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

@CoreBiome is hiring multiple R&D scientist positions. Join us and our sister companies @Diversigen_Inc and @dnagenotek in our quest to improve microbiome measurements and accelerate #microbiome discoveries! careers-orasure.icims.com/jobs/search?ss…

We need to stop eating beef! 80% of deforestation in Amazon caused by cattle ranching. wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/…

People spend a lot of time poring over nutrition labels. But a quick gut check shows that the trillions of bacterial cells in our bodies couldn’t care less. My latest for @novapbs pbs.org/wgbh/nova/arti…

Our personalized diet-microbiome study is out in @cellhostmicrobe ! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZD536t8JEYt…. TLDR: our microbes care about actual foods, not just the nutrition labels; people's microbiomes respond differently to similar foods. Thanks 2 @AbbyJohnsonRD @GeneralMills, et al.

Trying to improve upon SIBO measurement in those w/ functional GI disorders like IBS: This group found the small intestinal microbiota (while difficult to sample) is altered when symptoms are present & changes w/ a symptom-triggering dietary intervention. nature.com/articles/s4146…

FYI if any students or postdocs with bioinformatics experience (and especially microbiome analysis experience) are looking for a great job in industry, @CoreBiome is hiring: careers-corebiome.icims.com/jobs/1079/bioi…

Submit your abstracts to @cshl #microbiome meeting soon! Deadline is fast approaching (May 3). Pls spread the word :) with Ami Bhatt, @JulieSegre & @polz_martin

Awesome development to have Rob advising @CoreBiome!

Me too!

FYI @CoreBiome hiring for Sales, Data Engineer, and R&D Scientist, if you know anyone who might be a good fit.

@CoreBiome hiring in sales, data science, and genomics

FYI @CoreBiome is giving away 100 free shotgun metagenomics samples plus extraction and absolute quant of 16S, closing Dec. 1. Spread the word if you know someone who could use this.