Tayte Campbell

PhD Bioinformatics scientist working in industry.
Utah - Missouri - Washington - Arizona - Massachusetts

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

New paper out! One of the main goals of studying microbial communities is figuring out which individual taxa are linked to certain functions. This is a difficult process because microbial communities are complex. 1/4

@PNNLab @EMSLscience @LosAlamosNatLab
https://t.co/LZVu4MoOkV

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

It's been such a long time I don't remember the specific results but the article is linked if you're interested.

Special thanks to Sarah Peterson for resurrecting my old files and data and getting this over the finish line! 4/4

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

Twelve years later and my master's thesis is finally published.

This was the last sequencing run on the university's pyrosequencer before it was retired and replaced with a NextSeq.

https://t.co/pIQCbhuG8d

a thread 1/4

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

Additionally, land managers masticate Piñon and Juniper trees that encroach on arid lands using large grinders at the end of tractor arms, adding another treatment condition we were interested in investigating. 3/4

[Kramer @KramerHolle]

If you're going to penalize a 1-loss Power Conference team for a weak strength of schedule... BYU's SOS is better than Ole Miss and Notre Dame.

If you're going to penalize a team for not having the strongest power ratings (which incorporate prior year's history and recruiting rankings)... BYU's FPI is higher than Oklahoma's.

If you're going to penalize a team for a non-competitive / bad loss... Alabama lost by 14 to a team with a losing record and Miami lost to two unranked teams.

If you're going to use strength-of-record like you indicated you would, BYU's SOR is the second highest of teams 6-12.

BYU also (1) made its conference championship game and (2) if you sum up the wins of the teams it has beaten, it is THIRD in the country. It is hard to win games and BYU has beaten a lot of teams with a lot of wins.

This. Makes. No. Sense.

The @CFBPlayoff should be ashamed of itself. It has literally contorted itself into a pretzel to avoid putting BYU where it should be ranked (somewhere between 6th - 9th).

RT to get the info out there. They need to feel pressure.

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

@lapsang1 @baym It's all part of the chemical warfare going on between microbes. In this case a fungi produces penicillin to wipe out bacterial competition and bacteria develop resistance to it. Even though antibiotics weren't in the clinic the fungi were still producing antibiotics in the wild

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

@80ssinger @MFollowill @Jhlee1286 "He didn't lead with his helmet"... so what part of his body hit the ASU player before his helmet?

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

@osuzack This aged poorly

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

@CFBNerds @Jbooty88 You keep posting this rule but you obviously haven't read it

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

@Boomercrew1 @DStarMarkS @CFBNerds Which part of him hit the ASU player first then?

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

@CFBNerds You conveniently left out the third bullet point in your tweet: leading with helmet to attack the head or neck area which obviously occurred here

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

@miked157 @BookieSlicer @CFPResumeRanks @lh5426 😂😂😂

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

@EvanWeberPhD I feel like this phrase is key:

"But it turns out that almost all Nobel laureates share some connection, however distant, as represented by this sprawling network."

It's like if you go back far enough everybody has the same great, great, great... grandparent

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

I then graduated and @kevinblakephd took over doing a great job with further analysis, identifying conserved sites, and getting the finished product over the finish line.

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

I'm excited to see this paper come out! In this paper, we identified 13 novel antibiotic resistance genes and identified conserved positions important to protein function. Great work @kevinblakephd @d_chong98 !

A thread:

https://t.co/olla4rMBqQ

[Kevin Blake PhD @kevinsblake]

"Behind the Paper" summary of our findings on the sequence-structure-function dynamics of the tetracycline destructase family of antibiotic resistance enzymes, published in Communications Biology.

https://t.co/ukSJRJueHJ

[Tayte Campbell @CampbellTayte]

We acquired 50 of the identified genes and found tet destructase activity in 13 of them. We purposefully tried to get a mixture of genes with high sequence identity as well as stretching for genes that had lower identity to expand the diversity of known tet destructases.