🌟 We finally have a brand new lab webpage, with blog-style articles describing our work, and exciting *open positions* in culturomics and metagenomics!
Please spread the word 🙏
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We are organizing an intense 10-day summer school for new PhD/master's students in computational genomics & metagenomics at IISER Pune (July 18th-27th, 2026) - please do spread the word! https://t.co/HMDn7RWWnb
HERRO has been published in @Nature !!
https://t.co/zZFSuYvXq7
This achievement is a result of the great work by @domstanojevic, with contributions from @DehuiLin, @sergeynurk, and @PaolaFlorezdeS
We are entering the era of high-quality genome assemblies supported by AI. This is just the beginning.
Finally out in @naturemethods 🎉 Our work with @ywan_wan's lab shows that signal alignments from direct RNA @nanopore sequencing can reveal structural heterogeneity in RNA. Huge implications for RNA therapeutics!
Read all about it here: https://t.co/ZRGNwA9Dg7
Excited to share our latest preprint on host–microbiome interactions in skin recovery following barrier disruption.
https://t.co/urPlPmeHzM
Human skin—the body’s largest organ—is constantly exposed to insults, yet how it recovers remains poorly understood. [1/8]
@NiranjanTW
🎇Very excited to share our perspective piece calling for higher standards for reports on microbial detection in cancers! It was great to put this together with some of the leaders in the field including @StevenSalzberg1@barjammar@rafalab@minghao_chia: https://t.co/jrOdV31lnI
A key message is the need for extensive controls (particularly sampling controls) which can be missing in some studies. We also highlight the need for orthogonal validation beyond just sequencing based detection: https://t.co/LX6aqIG3Sv
Are you still relying on quality values to do QC for genome sequencing data? What if there was an ultra-fast method that does not need quality values or alignments to genomes?
If this sounds interesting, check out our latest preprint w/ @zhenhao_gu:
https://t.co/w6UqsW8NzV
I'm happy to share this free link to our new paper on the perils of trying to find microbes in human cancers, which appeared today in @NatureCancer. Co-authors include Nobel laureate @barjammar and ancient DNA expert Eske Willerslev: https://t.co/grpN52GrpQ
I forgot to mention here that we have Hi-C data for >100 gut metagenomes (thanks to @PhaseGenomics) which was crucial for assigning phages to their hosts!
Thrilled to share our labor of love over the last 5 years!
Leveraging long-read metagenomics we identified several previously unknown phage families that are highly prevalent in the human gut microbiome. Lead by @hanrong_chen [1/5] https://t.co/O2P0gw8NZO
Interestingly, many of the highly prevalent phage families have diverse Firmicutes hosts. They seem to frequently have temperate lifestyles, but are also spontaneously induced from their hosts! [4/5]
Say hello to Heliusvirales, Astravirales and Suryavirales! These are the first TEM images of members of these highly prevalent gut phage clades. Genomic characterization identified many interesting features that could explain their ability to infect diverse hosts. [5/5]
Our new paper on high-throughput isolation of Bifidobacterium just got published! A very nice adventure starting with the supervision of Hai, a talented intern, and a nice collab with our BSight expert @isaacyueyuan ! Stay tuned for more isolation and Bifido work! :)
Thrilled to share our high-throughput Bifidobacterium isolation work!
Now out in https://t.co/JVN00fXHND
By integrating a single-cell dispenser into a culturomics workflow, we accelerated the isolation of individual bacterial cells, allowing robust strain-level resolution.