Zach Liechty

Studying the human microbiome at the Airforce Research Lab. Formerly plant biologist studying the rice microbiome at UC Davis

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

As usual I will give my x earnings ($426.93) to someone who likes this post! Winner chosen at random on Sunday. For extra fun if the winner follows @joinnoblemobile I will DOUBLE it and if you are a Noble subscriber I will give you TEN times the amount! Good luck! 😀🎉

[Zach Liechty @zliechty]

@pixelpreaching I would!

[Zach Liechty @zliechty]

@CultureCrave Switch 1!

[Zach Liechty @zliechty]

@TwistBioscience Digital PCR. Huge improvement for me over qPCR!

[Zach Liechty @zliechty]

@TheSpaceGal I do research on people deployed long-term on submarines! I study how their microbiomes and metabolites change over time. Very cool to see your experiences on the sub. And my kids still ask for Emily's Wonder Lab, we love the show!

[Zach Liechty @zliechty]

@therealchriswei nausicaä is also my #1! Very much looking forward to The Boy and the Heron

[Zach Liechty @zliechty]

@devkaya @COVIDPoops19 @shitsheaux @Warish73 @PoopScience @lauren_stadler @MarleneKWolfe No problem!

[Zach Liechty @zliechty]

@devkaya @COVIDPoops19 @shitsheaux @Warish73 @PoopScience @lauren_stadler @MarleneKWolfe I haven't done a direct comparison of cost, but I think QIAcube might be more - tips, tubes, spin columns, adapters, and reagent tubes for the QIAcube vs deep well plates and the comb thing for the Kingfisher. Not positive on that though

[Zach Liechty @zliechty]

@devkaya @COVIDPoops19 @shitsheaux @Warish73 @PoopScience @lauren_stadler @MarleneKWolfe Yeah, doing 96 samples on the Kingfisher takes me a day, but 96 samples on the QIAcube takes ~week!

[Daniel McDonald @mcdonadt]

@KnightLabNews (@UCSDMedSchool / @UCSDJacobs) is excited to announce a new release of Greengenes in @NatureBiotech (https://t.co/fwYB8CPd2y). With this release, we provide a single taxonomy and phylogeny unifying 16S and shotgun metagenomic analyses!

A thread (1/n)

[Andrea Watson @awatsontxt]

Delighted to announce the publication of this work from my PhD! We show that metabolically independent microbes associated with human gut “dysbiosis” may not in fact be causal of disease, but instead selected for under stressful conditions. (1/4)
https://t.co/fPa4tq9ZGi

[Zach Liechty @zliechty]

@therealchriswei Not a major Kirby player but Kirby and the Forgotten Lands was amazing! And while overall a very cute game, the finale absolutely terrified my kids lol

[Yunha Hwang @Micro_Yunha]

Can large language models understand genomic sequences and uncover new biology? 🧬🧬🧬 Excited to share a new #preprint with @sokrypton, @ancornman1, and @pgirguis. TLDR: A Large Language Model for genomic sequences! #genomics #AI #machinelearning #NLP
https://t.co/g6FPz5c8bs 1/

[Huiluo Cao 曹慧荦 @hlcao]

Impact of microbial genome completeness on metagenomic functional inference | ISME Communications https://t.co/YwfWVqWTw0

[Gavin Douglas @gavin_m_douglas]

FuncDiv is a new R package that simplifies the computation of “contributional diversity” in microbiome datasets… But what’s contributional diversity? And why should you care? https://t.co/2GuC07xiD1

[Chenxin Li, PhD (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) @ChenxinLi2]

New results from my PhD lab @SundarLab! Overexpression of rice pluripotency factor BBM1 confer somatic embryos by activating auxin biosynthesis. In the zygote, BBM1 is paternally expressed, while its auxin biosynthetic target genes maternally expressed. https://t.co/S9Fxv64ThA

[Dorota Kawa @dorota_kawa]

Check out our latest #preprint! We found that microbes reduce Striga parasitism in sorghum by blocking haustorium formation in Striga and inducing suberization and aerenchyma formation in sorghum roots. @bradylabs https://t.co/5QRlnYBn8F 🧵👇1/9

[Christian Santos-Medellín @cmsantosm]

Our most recent paper on the soil virosphere is just out. And today happens to be my favorite holiday: Día de los Muertos. So here’s a thread inspired by the calavera lithographs of the one and only José Guadalupe Posada.

📰: https://t.co/4MEepn9LGV

[Zach Liechty @zliechty]

@ChenxinLi2 @SundarLab Kyle's in the author list twice, must have made major contributions lol