Austin Swafford

Dir. of Research @CMIDigest. Helping advance microbiome innovation through public-private partnerships. The views expressed in posts are my own.

[Marcus Fedarko @mwfedarko]

We just published a preprint on EMPress, a project ~3 years in the making! TLDR, it's another interactive tree viewer for web browsers—but with some useful new features for community data analysis, eg integration with ordinations. Plus it can handle trees with over 500k nodes. 🌳

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

CD8 T cells drive anorexia, dysbiosis, and blooms of a commensal with immunosuppressive potential after viral infection https://t.co/0nCRhAhE54

[ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET @victornizet]

Your microbiome sculpts heparin sulfate with bacterial glycosides to determine SARSCoV2 infectivity. Shown in patient samples, experimental infection, and correlated to age dependent susceptibility in large databases. Wow!👀
@Nathan_E_Lewis @KnightLabNews
https://t.co/FwmLKa6b1M

[cameron martino @cameronmartino]

Bacteria modify mucosal layer glycans, altering the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to bind human cells. Mucosal glycan trimming bacteria may play a critical role in non-modifiable predisposing factors for COVID-19 such as age. Pre-print https://t.co/3TZQSWbEGw

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Congratulations as well to our stellar team of co-authors (now that I've tracked most of y'all down on Twitter) @zhuqiyun @MicrobeCarolina @Nena_ITALY @stevewandro @TomaszLabMCB @DirtySci @jadkanbar , Stefan Janssen, and Bob Heaton!
https://t.co/LfnAM1Lemn

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Proud to have our great work out today in @nature led by @multi_omics and @JenyaKopylova of @KnightLabNews and our great team of collaborators from @CMIdigest including @PatelOncology, @DrRanaMcKay, @sandrinemiller and @sejsong!
https://t.co/LfnAM1Lemn

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Congrats @sandrinemiller for the great spot on NBC last night! And to @MicrobeCarolina, the hardworking scientist in the lab segments :-)

[CMI @ UC San Diego @CMIdigest]

If you missed CMI Executive Director, Sandrine Miller-Montgomery, on NBC news last night or today's morning show - we have you covered. Make sure to click the link to see her talk about how a diverse diet benefits your microbes. https://t.co/P1SzMF4QA8 #microbiome #NBC7

[ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET @victornizet]

Congratulations to our outstanding postdoctoral scholar Katy Patras on her new grant from the ⁦@MOMI_CORE⁩ at ⁦@UCSDHealth⁩ to study the potential benefits of breastmilk oligosaccharides in protection against GBS colonization and neonatal infection.

[CMI @ UC San Diego @CMIdigest]

Congrats to 𝗗𝗿. 𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗢. 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻 (Gagneux lab), 𝗗𝗿. 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝘆𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘀 (@victornizet Lab), and 𝗗𝗿. 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹 (Professor at @UCSDMedSchool) on being 2019 𝙈𝙊𝙈𝙄 𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙚𝙨. https://t.co/RNBQvl1237 @MOMI_CORE

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Great article @mcdonadt! With so many claims about the microbiome flying around, this is an excellent starting place for how to approach the #microbiome, with both hope and skepticism. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"- Carl Sagan

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Congrats to @CMIdigest Leadership Team member @racheljdutton
On your NIH New Innovator Award! #microbiome #cheese

[UC San Diego Federal Relations @UCSDinDC]

Three researchers at @UCSanDiego have been selected to receive 2018 NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards. In addition, David Traver from the @UCSDMedSchool , has received an @NIH Director’s Transformative award. https://t.co/3hQ8qPDlo9

[CMI @ UC San Diego @CMIdigest]

Congrats to Pavel Pevzner and Bahar Behsaz for winning the 2018 UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation Grand Challenges Award for the new computational tool to address challenges in natural product discovery! https://t.co/clbnvjxSJl
#microbiome #massspectrometry #award

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Way to go team! @KnightLabNews @CMIdigest

[CMI @ UC San Diego @CMIdigest]

Very proud to announce the official release of this amazing Microbiome tool...
Lets the science expand!

https://t.co/dkm88Hc2g9

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Andrew McCallum on designing a knowledge base for the future built on #DeepLearning and universal schema. #AIHN #AI #MITIBM @IBMResearch

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Rob Knight highlighting the wide range of Microbiome projects including the #AIHN collaboration with @CMIdigest and @IBMResearch, the @americangut, @microsetta , and the newly launched Global Foodomics project led by Julia Gauglitz in the @Pdorrestein1 Lab. #microbiome

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Rob Knight highlighting the predictive power of human genes vs microbial genesal and the dangers of missing microbes. #microbiome #AIHN

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Lisa Amini introducing Rob Knight's keynote talk at #AIHN , highlighting the achievements of @americangut and @earthmicrobiome and the bright future of the @CMIdigest collaboration with @IBMResearch ! @KnightLabNews

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Using @Slidoapp to poll audience input for #AIHN: looks like #microbiome is one of the top trending areas of interest! @IBMResearch @CMIdigest

[Austin Swafford @CMI_Austin]

Lisa Amini speaking about the many #AIHN collaborations between @IBMResearch and universities, including @UCSanDiego ! #AI