Scientist working at the intersection of immunology, microbiology and genomics. Associate Professor @PennVet. Tech. Dir. of CHMI. Tweets are my own.
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31 May 2024
Excited to announce the beta release of our new MicrobiomeDB R package! This package is intended to be companion to our @microbiomeDB website and provides convenient, programmatic access to all of our curated 16S and shotgun metagenomic datasets. #microbiome #rstats #dataviz
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Feb 26
Truly insane tweet by the paper formerly known as the Washington Post, which is now offering a "view from nowhere" take on the lunatic fabulist who made a video series trying to prove that Erika Kirk murdered her husband.
Right-wing influencer Candace Owens released the first episode of a new video series focused on the widow of Charlie Kirk.
The series promises to unearth secrets from Erika Kirk’s past relevant to her stewardship of the powerful conservative nonprofit. wapo.st/3MweU2x
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Daniel Beiting retweeted
2 Oct 2025
Check out our new paper in @MolSystBiol: Transcriptomic profiling of shed cells enables spatial mapping of cellular turnover in human organs embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…
We combine spatial and shed cell transcriptomics to reconstruct dynamic turnover maps of digestive tract tissues.
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Feb 19
Go and work with Sebastian in his new Cryptosporidium lab in Switzerland!
Feb 19
🚨 Postdoc position 🚨
I’m moving back to Switzerland this summer to launch my lab at the University of Zurich and am recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow (start: late 2026).
Details & application:
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/po…
Please share!! 😊
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Feb 19
In a couple of months, my lab will have a postdoctoral position available for a computational biologist. The project will focus on bacterial population genomics with strong focus on MGE dynamics. Please get in touch if you feel qualified (martin.f.polz@univie.ac.at) or repost.
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Jan 28
Great to share a seminar trip with Dan @hostmicrobe to Korea and KNU.
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Jan 15
So Chris and I were quite pleased with our #Cryptosporidium meeting in Philadelphia ... but we clearly can't compete with Mattie and Adam. This looks spectacular, make sure to sign up for Crypto2026! @ParaFrap @TrendsParasitol @BSPparasitology @AmSocParasit @parasitesrule @ASTMH
Registration and abstract submission is now open for the 2nd Biennial Cryptosporidium Meeting is now open. Deadline April 1st: eventbrite.co.uk/e/2nd-bienn…
Submit your abstract by Feb 15th. See you in Edinburgh May 24th-26th, 2026!
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16 Dec 2025
Thanks to @nvidia's pilot program, looks like a slick little DGX Spark is going be in the lab stocking this holiday season. Looking forward to using this device to fine tune AI tools for single cell data exploration. @NVIDIAAIDev #NVIDIAGrant
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22 Nov 2025
Congrats to Rui and Andrew from the lab, who took home not one, but TWO prizes from the @UPenn_I3H's hackathon! Well done.
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8 Oct 2025
Cryptosporidium genetics really works! Latest cross explains why tb drug failed in crypto clinical trial. Widespread genomic heterogeneity at the type II NAD(P)H dehydrogenase locus predisposes Cryptosporidium to clofazimine resistance @millseba biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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16 Jun 2025
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full email below
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7 May 2025
Due to the #trumptarrifs, @Illumina announces surcharges on all consumables (5%), instruments (2-9%) and services (3.5%). A big hit to labs that are already struggling to do genomics work in an environment with severely reduced federal funding
bit.ly/3GHu6GE
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18 Mar 2025
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at @Columbia & academic career... 1/🧵
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19 Mar 2025
Very excited to team up with @MichaelEMann to host @PeterHotez at @pennvet this evening for a public lecture on vaccination in a time of rising anti-science rhetoric and policies.
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Daniel Beiting retweeted
21 Nov 2024
Fun personal note: shoutout to @hostmicrobe for sparking my interest in single-cell analysis. Much progress since @MBLBoP 2022, but it all began one summer evening in the lab exploring parasite single-cell data. Inspirational teacher :)
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21 Nov 2024
Loving the vibe over at Bsky🦋!
More science. Less cesspool.
Starter packs make it easy to connect with colleagues
If ur new to🦋, I thought this article was a nice breakdown of why it might be a platform that is better/different than this place
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12 Nov 2024
Packed house today at the final workshop of the year for our GEMINI series. Andrea Stout and AJ Lucy from the @PennCDB microscopy core are teaching students to use @FijiSc software for quantitative analysis of imaging data. #DataScience #dataviz
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12 Nov 2024
We started the GEMINI series to help students learn to use a wide variety of software tools for analysis of common datatypes in biomedical research. You can learn more about this effort here:
gemini-series.netlify.app
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24 Oct 2024
Farming a single Atlantic salmon can require killing and processing over 1,000 wild school fish like anchovies — critical prey for sea lions, sea birds, penguins, and whales.
Cool to see journalists visualize their own interpretations of our data:
ALT The amount of wild-caught fish to feed farmed fish, by species Chart: Kenny atórrelela/Vox • Source: Roberts et al. (2024)
24 Oct 2024
Fish farming is supposed to give overexploited oceans a break. But a new study finds that it may be taking way more fish out of oceans to feed farmed fish than previously thought. New story of mine up on Vox today, replete with new charts: vox.com/future-perfect/37956…
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