Christopher L Dutton

Asst Professor of Ecology (Ecosystems & Animals) @UFBiology | Postdoc @UF Biology/Anthropology | PhD @yale_eeb

[Christopher L Dutton @ChrisLDutton]

What in the world just happened? Why were all the fish dead? Here’s a short thread as to how our latest paper, the last of my PhD at @yale_eeb, came to be by starting at the beginning.

[Christopher L Dutton @ChrisLDutton]

I'm a Dutton. The other half of my family is Franklin, as in Ben. @paramountplus drops three hit shows about my "dynasty" and suddenly Google emails me every 20 minutes about suspicious logins. Friends, I run a microbiome lab @UF. There is no ranch. 😁 @UF_CLAS @UFBiology

[Christopher L Dutton @ChrisLDutton]

👀....what an opportunity!

https://t.co/y03cIAitad

[Rasmus Kirkegaard @kirk3gaard]

For years you needed UMIs and similar dark molecular biology magic to get perfect amplicon sequences from @nanopore . With recent accuracy improvements+really clever algorithms that is now changed. Savont unlocks ASVs from low coverage amplicons 🤯🤯🤯
https://t.co/pGmvwHBdzr

[Erik Svensson @EvolOdonata]

Two (!) Assistant Professor positions now open at @lunduniversity in #Sweden!

If you are a quantitative-minded and computationally interested biologist, consider to join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology.

Note: short deadline: May 25!

https://t.co/jDbK2Qt2oj

[Francisco Zorrilla @metagenomez]

After 7 years at Cambridge, EMBL, & ETHZ building + applying computational tools for microbiome science, I'm pivoting to industry. Available Oct 2026 for senior comp-bio roles in Switzerland 🇨🇭 Open to agtech, microbial biotech, AI-for-biology.
Portfolio👉https://t.co/nQYvQ2rGV0

[Jarrad Hampton-Marcell, PhD @j_marcellular]

Excited that our paper analyzing microbiomes and physical fitness has been published in @PhysiologicalG. Led by @GarryLewis1111 alongside @Doc_Cook_Phd @judy_malas @saadejumo and others. https://t.co/gJ990IpQ2h

[Christopher L Dutton @ChrisLDutton]

Our weather station was taken out by a controlled burn, right after a flood destroyed our water quality meter. The Mara River ecosystem in Kenya is studying us now. Pic by @1geemipaul

[Mikhail Tikhonov @mikhtikh]

Officially out - very excited to share! “Emergent simplicity” in microbial ecosystems has long been an appealing idea—but meant different things to different people. As a result, the field hasn't agreed: is it real? surprising? useful? 1/3 https://t.co/nr291bDi5S

[Christopher L Dutton @ChrisLDutton]

Huge thanks to all the co-authors of these two monumental efforts! Funded by @NSF

[Christopher L Dutton @ChrisLDutton]

Two new papers from our group this month! A collaboration across the @ChrisLDutton & @AmandaSubalusky labs at @UF, Frauendorf lab @colgateuniv, Grupstra lab @FloridaAtlantic, and Post lab @Yale ...on how large wildlife reshape ecosystems 🦛🌊🧵 @UF_CLAS @UFBiology @africa_uf

[Christopher L Dutton @ChrisLDutton]

Big picture: large animals don't just move nutrients... they move microbes and restructure food webs from the bottom up. As megafauna decline, we're losing ecosystem functions we've barely begun to describe.

[Dr Charlotte Houldcroft @DrCJ_Houldcroft]

Have you ever wondered why children starting nursery pick up so many germs? I certainly did, and with a crack team of parent-scientists/clinicians, we set out to answer that question. Is childcare a germ factory or an immune bootcamp? https://t.co/9ge5zUFkWu

[Brontë Kolar @BronteKolar]

https://t.co/Lc9wWncmDM