Lisa Karstens

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#MVIF 38 on Microbiome and Citizen Science
is live n the Pacific time zones 🌏 in less than an hour!⏰

You can still register : cassyni.com/s/mvif-38

Don't miss today's #MVIF 38: A special event on on #citizenscience & #microbiome!

@patrickveiga.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
@waldispuhl.bsky.social Mathieu Almeida, Claudia Cappello, Daniel McDonald Mikayla Borton & Sarah Ahannach.

There's still time to register👉 cassyni.com/s/mvif-38

GitHub - KarstensLab/microbiome_cleaning: Summary of resources for identifying and removing contaminant microbial DNA from sequence-based microbiome studies. Includes examples of studies that have tr... Summary of resources for identifying and removing contaminant microbial DNA from sequence-based microbiome studies. Includes examples of studies that have transparently reported their approach. ...

Karstens Lab @lisakarstens.bsky.social summary of resources to identify and remove contaminated microbial DNA from seq-based microbiome studies here: github.com/KarstensLab/.... Learned this today at Urobiome 2025 @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social

Today/tomorrow Pacific LIVE
& on Wednesday Atlantic REPLAY!

Just register here cassyni.com/s/mvif-36

We can't wait to welcome YOU & #MVIF 36 speakers:
🇯🇵 Nodoka Chiba
🇮🇩 Patsy Tasyana Fitri
🇨🇳 Ruixin Liu
🇦🇺 @aroneys.bsky.social
🇬🇧 Maria Kardakova
🇳🇿 @theoportlock.bsky.social

#openscience #microbiomesky

The Pacific replay for #MVIF is today at 4:30 PM PT.

There's still time to register!

Know #undergrads in Portland interested in summer research?

Let them know about the research opportunity fair @portlandstate Fri Jan 17th 1-3 PM.

I'll be there with @billhersh.bsky.social to chat about our #biomedical #informatics #datascience summer internship!

www.pdx.edu/events/under...

Please join us in celebrating NMDC Champion Lisa Karstens’ recent NIH R25 award! The grant will support a 3-year project to develop teaching materials for early career researchers to gain essential skills in microbiome data science🧪

season 4

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December 10, 2024 General microbiome [COMMENT]The role of pharmacomicrobiomics in HIV prevention, treatment, and women’s health – Swanson, Basting & Klatt Early life Characterization of the Gut and Skin Mi…

Today's #Microbiome digest

microbiomedigest.com/2024/12/09/d...

@elisabethbik.bsky.social
#MicrobiomeSky 🦠

Tomorrow Atlantic replay with live Q&A!

There's still time to register!
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mvif 26

#MVIF 26 program is out! 🤩

⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 Laura S. Weyrich

⭐️ Short talks:
🇨🇳 Ziye Wang
🇺🇸Kate Bowie
🇺🇸Richard Wolff
🇺🇸Ivan Zheludev

More about talks here: www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...

📣Apps for the 2024 Undergraduate Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Summer Internship are due Feb 16th!

More info: bit.ly/ohsu-informatics-interns

What: PAID internships with research in data science & informatics

Where: Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR USA

Image of the Oregon Health & Science University logo Next to a box that reads: Get Hands-on Research Experience! Summer internships: 40 hours per week for 10-12 weeks. All internships are paid. For more information, project descriptions and application: bit.ly/DMICE_Internships

Are you an undergrad or know an undergrad interested in an internship in biomedical informatics / data science?

Join our informational webinar about the OHSU summer internship program *tomorrow* Jan 9th at 1 PM PT.

Info & Registration: bit.ly/DMICE_Internships

mvif 25

We have an early New Year present for you
🎁 the January #MVIF program with
Jennifer Wargo
Nikolay Oskolkov
Sondra Turjeman
Mireia Valles-Colomer

Full program with abstracts: www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...

Registration: hopin.com/events/micro...

✨Happy holidays ✨

An award symbol with the text"2023 - Top Cited Author, American Society for Micorbiology" next to a screen shot reading "Top cited articles" followed by the information for the microshades manuscript.

Exciting!

My group's paper, microshades: An R Package for Improving Color Accessibility and Organization of Microbiome Data, was highlighted as an @ASMicrobiology Top Cited paper!

Congrats @erictleung.bsky.social @katebowie.bsky.social Emory neer and Erin Dahl!

📔 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

⭐That's a wrap! So many inspiring talks!

A huge thanks to all of our speakers and attendees for making the meeting so enjoyable🦠!

And for those who missed it, you can check out the recordings later here ▶️ www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ3...

📢 Remember that you can submit your work for:

🌎Atlantic-first event in January w/ Jennifer Wargo
🌏Pacific-first event in February w/ Laura S. Weyrich

www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...

Third talk for today at #MVIF.24

⭐️Analyzing microbial evolution through gene and genome phylogenies by 🇺🇸 Sarah Teichman

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Second selected talk at #MVIF.24

⭐️ Wastewater sequencing reveals community and variant dynamics of the collective human virome by
🇺🇸 Mike Tisza

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEXT, #MVIF short talks:

⭐️ Gut microbiota manipulation in neurodevelopmental disorders: implication from animal models of infantile epilepsy
by 🇨🇦 Chunlong Mu

Read his research at:
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

Our lineup of #MVIF speakers for today's dive into #microbiome science 🤩

⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 @gilbertjacka

⭐️ Short talks:
🇨🇦@ChunlongMu1
🇺🇸@MikeTisza
🇺🇸@sarah_teichman
🇺🇸@GerrickElias

And thanks to our partners 🧬@Roche and 🔬@QIAGEN for supporting #MVIF!

Excited to share @katebowie.bsky.social's first first-author preprint.

This work investigated the urinary microbiome in a large observation cohort of older men and identified several interesting associations with BPH, age, BMI, and lower urinary tract symptoms.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Poster announcing the CAIRIBU U-RIG research hour for Dec 15th at 3PM ET. U-RIG is a monthly series to facilitate knowledge exchange and spur collaborations in the urobiome and adjacent fields. Speakers were Lisa Karstens, PhD and Jeremy Burton, PhD MSc

Had a great time presenting my group's microbiome / urobiome work today at the CAIRIBU Uromicrobiota Research Interest Group (U-RIG).

U-RIG is a monthly series for knowledge exchange and collaborations in urobiome and adjacent fields. More info/to sign up: cairibu.urology.wisc.edu

SAVE THE DATE!

You can register to the conference for free here:
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