Sam Degregori

PhD, NSF PRFB Fellow | Comparative microbiome research across the tree of life | Knight Lab

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

Culmination of my PhD work finally published! Fish gut microbiomes are more similar to mammalian gut microbiomes than you think. https://t.co/RPHUwXirqn
@jordanmcasey @NinaSchiett

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

https://t.co/1VXk7TkFcO

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

Check out our new preprint on a project that was 6 years in the making. The largest aggregation of animal gut microbiome data to date, from insects to humans, demonstrating how public microbiome data can be used to better understand host-microbe evolutionary dynamics.

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

I'll be presenting on gut microbiome diversity throughout animal evolution at (virtual) MVIF 50 - with keynote talk by Dr. Julie Huber on 01 June 11am PST // 02 June Tokyo time https://t.co/fGIBKQWOG7. Totally free to join! Hope to see you all there.

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

@Liv_Boeree WIld we get this before GTA 6

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I gotta hand it to Anthropic, announcing Mythos but keeping it from the public due to “security reasons” is top notch advertising.

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

Microbiome as well

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Only single cell sequencing of the all these post docs will reveal why

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

My first work on humans! we aren't so bad of a species to study after all. TLDR: C. acnes, the most dominant human skin microbe likely came from the environment rather than being conserved through hominid evolution -- https://t.co/KIEtl9dTRf

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

@MarioNawfal Yes and 80% of hedge funds can't beat the SP500 but still "want more money".

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

Our first Gut Microbiome Tree of Life Project publication! We compiled ~200 gut microbiome datasets to showcase gut microbiome diversity across the tree of life and discuss ecological considerations. Big thanks to the Amato and the Knight lab. https://t.co/IQX8gRf1Qz

[Dr Jordan Casey @jordanmcasey]

New publication by @poopomics:

We show a similarity between coral reef fish and mammalian gut microbiomes, driven by carnivory and herbivory. Gut microbiomes may be shaped by dietary preferences across the vertebrate tree of life.

https://t.co/NV2KVBp5pb

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

@JWoodelius "Oh was that my Nature paper?"

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

@JWoodelius tidyverse answers come up faster on google for me...

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

@giomdal “That shouldn’t take too long right?”

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

@JWoodelius Why is ggplot default so bad. Its like it was designed for mobile or something and on a normal laptop its so tiny

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

@ZoeRuben1 @VegaThurber ing. Especially for 16S. I would focus on doing differential abundance analyses to pick out what taxa are related to what treatments and see if there is a biological pattern that can explain them as a start. 16S is great for this type of exploratory work.

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

@ZoeRuben1 I would look at all of @VegaThurber’s work. I vaguely remember this program that can bin things as pathogenic or commensal (Bergey’s Manual? It should show up in some of the coral microbiome papers) but as mentioned earlier people are starting to move away from this type of binn

[Sam Degregori @poopomics]

@EcoEvoEvoEco This is just like saying “an individual trait is useless you need to look at the whole population” .. well ya obviously thats what ecology is all about