Bryan Merrill

Bioinformatics Scientist @NuancedHealth, @LabSonnenburg and @StanfordBiosci alum (views my own)

[Bryan Merrill @bryan_d_merrill]

I’m excited to announce that a project I’ve worked on in @LabSonnenburg in @StanfordBiosci to better understand the diversity of the human gut microbiome is now available on @biorxivpreprint! 🧵 1/12 https://t.co/pstqRZXt9g

[The Carter Center @CarterCenter]

Thank you for the love! We've received thousands of heartfelt birthday messages for President Carter, and it truly means the world to us! Watch some of our favorites below then share your own warm wishes, stories, or birthday greetings here: https://t.co/EDvBvQzInE #JimmyCarter99

[Antonio Camargo @apcamargo_]

The peer-reviewed geNomad manuscript is now in @NatureBiotech Big thanks to all involved and the reviewers for making this happen!
https://t.co/PevuZioP73

[Nikos Kyrpides @kyrpides]

Very proud of @jgi ‘s new tool #geNomad to identify #plasmids and #virus, developed by @apcamargo_ and team including @simroux_virus and @MicrobiomeData. New era for #MGE discovery. https://t.co/bopMfcWN3D

[Stefano Mangiola @steman_research]

🎉🧹 The #tidyomics ecosystem is official!

Into #omic data analysis? Spanning #Seurat @Bioconductor #SCE, #SE, #GRanges, #Citometry?
Now, just use #tidyverse !

Co-led with @mikelove and @TonyPapenfuss @WEHI_research #singlecell

The preprint https://t.co/jGEy2BVj5C

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision, it’s time to redouble our efforts.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

[Matt Olm @MattagenOlmics]

Excited to see our @CellCellPress Resource article out in print today: "Ultra-deep sequencing of Hadza hunter-gatherers recovers vanishing gut microbes." https://t.co/VSpX0i0LaS . This article presents a deep dive into the impact of industrialization on the gut microbiome (1/5)

[Aashish Jha @nepaliaashish]

M Carter, @MattagenOlmics, @bryan_d_merrill and @GutBugs2 team members have generated a fantastic resource for the metagenomics community. Data available publicly. Use the data responsibly. Lots of novel insights yet to emerge from this dataset. Glad to make a small contribution.

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

Out now in @CellCellPress:

Ultra-deep sequencing of Hadza hunter-gatherers recovers vanishing gut microbes

By Matthew Carter, Matthew Olm, Bryan Merrill, Erica Sonnenburg, Justin Sonnenburg & colleagues

@MattagenOlmics @bryan_d_merrill @LabSonnenburg

https://t.co/g2Nsab1rip

[Paul Bollyky @bollyky]

Excited to share our work using phages to identify bacterial pathogens in sepsis. Because phages are highly specific for their bacterial hosts, they offer strain-level resolution that could enhance cell free DNA diagnostics
https://t.co/J6GKwNeDVh

[Lei Dai @leidai_CAS]

Our collaboration with Yingfei Ma's group on gut phage culturomics is published in Cell Host&Microbe! The Gut Phage Isolates Collection (GPIC) expands the diversity of cultured gut phages and provides a valuable resource for human microbiome engineering.
https://t.co/ulVv8lwvXt

[Michael Fischbach @mfgrp]

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent immune response against a distant tumor. @yerinchen led the charge w/ help from @DjenetBousbaine, @VeinbachsA, @BelkaidLab. @ScienceMagazine 1/26
https://t.co/bgW3C7CJgh

[Rebecca Gellman @RebeccaGellman]

My first first-author paper is out on biorxiv! Are you curious about how diet influences which bacteria thrive in our gut microbiome? Check it out here: https://t.co/g3K4YzzVOL. Quick summary (and a dance version!) below 1/

[Antonio Camargo @apcamargo_]

Do you need to identify viruses or plasmids in sequencing data? geNomad can help you with that 😃

🚨 Preprint alert!

[Yue Clare Lou, Ph.D. @ClareLou9]

🚨‼️🚨Our strain-resolved approach in assessing well-to-well contamination is finally out in
@MicrobiomeJ

https://t.co/aJcuLiV8XZ

[Nandita Garud @nanditagarud]

Really pleased to share that our paper on Community diversity is associated with intra-species genetic diversity and gene loss in the human gut microbiome is now accepted at eLife. This work is co-authored with Naima Madi, @daisywchen, @_rwolff, and @bjesseshapiro (1/n)

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

For people asking how to help.🙏 Thank you.

I can recommend this campaign by @tphilanthropy. It’s an established US NGO with a track record and on the ground presence. I know their work.

Devastating. So many millions affected in harsh winter conditions.
https://t.co/BlOJhNvkOO

[Bryan Merrill @bryan_d_merrill]

@apopetosis @Stanford No, that's awful! This happened to us (and several friends) a few years back, when we lived in an EV lowrise. Housing let us occupy a nearby unit while they did repairs AND gave us free dining hall meals for a week. You deserve no less!

[Bryan Merrill @bryan_d_merrill]

@MahaYusuf1 @Princeton Congrats, Maha!

[Emily R Smith, ScD MPH @DrEmilyRSmith]

Our new work is out in @GlobalHealthBMJ today. This is the work of dozens of teams across 12 countries. Here we show the clear excess risk associated with COVID-19 in pregnancy. Here’s what we found and how we did it.🧵

https://t.co/v4y2oPIsut