Data Scientist at the University of Minnesota.
Joined April 2013
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5 Jul 2021
I just offset my family’s annual carbon footprint with TerraPass – check it out: terrapass.com/product/produc… via @terrapass
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26 Jun 2021
Friends and colleagues, please consider signing and forwarding this petition against Line 3, the plan to cut a new massive crude oil pipeline through indigenous land and waterways sign.moveon.org/petitions/de…
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5 Feb 2021
The U of Minnesota Division of Neonatology is hiring an assistant professor with microbiome/multi-omics and mentoring expertise. Know anyone who would be interested? minnesotajobs.com/career/113…
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Dan Knights retweeted
3 Feb 2021
Submit your paper to GLBIO, deadline extended until Feb 5! Accepted papers will be considered for publication in PLOS Computational Biology and PLOS ONE.
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8 May 2020
Our new germ-free mouse study is out, led by Dimitri Sidiropoulos, @monkey_doc, and Purna Kashyap, showing primatization of mice, and that wild primate microbes reduce obesity in mice. animalmicrobiome.biomedcentr…
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Dan Knights retweeted
20 Apr 2020
@CoreBiome is hiring multiple R&D scientist positions. Join us and our sister companies @Diversigen_Inc and @dnagenotek in our quest to improve microbiome measurements and accelerate #microbiome discoveries! careers-orasure.icims.com/jo…
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22 Aug 2019
We need to stop eating beef! 80% of deforestation in Amazon caused by cattle ranching. wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/…
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Dan Knights retweeted
12 Jun 2019
People spend a lot of time poring over nutrition labels. But a quick gut check shows that the trillions of bacterial cells in our bodies couldn’t care less.
My latest for @novapbs
pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/gu…
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12 Jun 2019
Our personalized diet-microbiome study is out in @cellhostmicrobe ! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZD53…. TLDR: our microbes care about actual foods, not just the nutrition labels; people's microbiomes respond differently to similar foods. Thanks 2 @AbbyJohnsonRD @GeneralMills, et al.
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Dan Knights retweeted
Trying to improve upon SIBO measurement in those w/ functional GI disorders like IBS:
This group found the small intestinal microbiota (while difficult to sample) is altered when symptoms are present & changes w/ a symptom-triggering dietary intervention.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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10 May 2019
FYI if any students or postdocs with bioinformatics experience (and especially microbiome analysis experience) are looking for a great job in industry, @CoreBiome is hiring: careers-corebiome.icims.com/…
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Dan Knights retweeted
28 Apr 2019
Submit your abstracts to @cshl #microbiome meeting soon! Deadline is fast approaching (May 3). Pls spread the word :) with Ami Bhatt, @JulieSegre & @polz_martin
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25 Apr 2019
Awesome development to have Rob advising @CoreBiome!
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25 Apr 2019
Me too!
25 Apr 2019
I’m super excited for this! So much great science to come 😊
13 Feb 2019
FYI @CoreBiome hiring for Sales, Data Engineer, and R&D Scientist, if you know anyone who might be a good fit.
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16 Nov 2018
FYI @CoreBiome is giving away 100 free shotgun metagenomics samples plus extraction and absolute quant of 16S, closing Dec. 1. Spread the word if you know someone who could use this.
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Dan Knights retweeted
1 Nov 2018
Just Months of American Life Change the Microbiome
@olgakhazan explains what happens to immigrants' gut bacteria just months after they begin eating an American diet: theatlantic.com/health/archi…
US Immigration Westernizes the Human Gut Microbiome
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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1 Nov 2018
Really excited to share our findings on immigration and the microbiome, and very grateful to @pvangay, all of our wonderful collaborators, community-based researchers, and community advisory board.
1 Nov 2018
Our paper is out in Cell today: goo.gl/uDXpnM! Huge thanks to all of our participants and our wonderful collaborators! @KnightsDan @T_L_Ward @AbbyJohnsonRD @saerobe
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