Hutlab

Meet @orakov.bsky.social!
Askarbek is an academic nomad with research stints in US and Japan. He holds a B.S. from Nazarbayev University, M.S. from Paris-Saclay, and PhD from EMBL. As a postdoc, he studies the female genital tract virome & is developing a viral quantification method using spike-ins.

A huge thanks to the ASM Young Ambassadors program in northern Africa for inviting Curtis to give a keynote talk to kickoff the 4th African Microbiome Day series!

Meet @dongyuwang.bsky.social!

Dongyu earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology and M.Sc. in Data Science. She studied microbial structure–function via multiomics and modeling, and virus–host interactions with Nanopore. As a postdoc, she explores microbial dynamics, coevolution, and human–animal convergence.

Long and Kelsey just won the 2025 Microbiome SMRT Grant for HiFi shotgun metagenomics!! They will collaborate to optimize PacBio-compatible protocols for gut metagenomics, specifically generating high quality long-read data from IBD patients. Congrats to both! 🎉 🎉 www.pacb.com/blog/2025-mi...

Curtis will be presenting at GloMiNe tomorrow! Register to tune in.

A huge thanks to the organizers of the Microbial Dark Matter Symposium for a very successful conference, and for inviting Curtis as a keynote speaker!

Join us at the Microbial Dark Matter Symposium 2025.

We’re honored to welcome Dr. Curtis Huttenhower as our keynote speaker, presenting: “Figuring Out Function in Microbial Communities.”

Aug 28–29 | Laguna Beach, CA

Register now: www.microbial-dark-matter-symposium.com

#MicrobialDarkMatter

Some summer vacation pictures from Hutlab members! Pictures from Curtis's trip to the Yellowstone and Kelsey's trip to the Azores island 🌄🌈

Congratulations to Jordan Jensen from our lab on a recent successful DAC meeting! Thank you to committee members Pardis Sabeti @sabetilab.bsky.social, Marco Jost & John Connor!

Last weekend we went kayaking with the lab!!

Meet the Hutlab!

Chahat is a first year postdoc in the lab working on the microbial signal of colorectal cancer. In his free time, he likes to play board games and play squash

A random Friday in the lab

Whale Watching with the Lab! 🐋

We had a great time at the annual BPH retreat where we spent time discussing how to support each other given the current challenges, and we welcomed our incoming G1 cohort! Thank you to Dyann Wirth for hosting us for such a lovely day!

Welcome Sithija Manage, a fourth-year PhD student in Statistics at Cornell, who joins the lab this summer as a visiting graduate researcher! His work focuses on developing statistically rigorous methods for microbiome data, currently addressing subject-level confounding in PERMANOVA.

Human microbiome pioneer to deliver World Microbiome Day lecture | Penn State University Curtis Huttenhower, professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the Harvard School of Public Health, will deliver a lecture to the Penn State community in honor of World Microbiome Day. T...

Curtis gave a great talk for the World Microbiome Day lecture at Penn State, which was very well attended. Thank you to @psumbiome.bsky.social for organizing!
www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...

⚡🦠I'm very excited to share our latest work on the gut microbiome and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is published in @natmetabolism.nature.com, with @hutlab.bsky.social & @longnguyen.bsky.social!

🔗Check out the paper here:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Kelsey and Guilherme did a great job presenting their work at the ASM meeting in LA!

Home - What is the Microbiome Center Consortium (MCC)? The Microbiome Centers Consortium is a cooperative, inclusive and collaborative network of microbiome centers that aims to accelerate the understanding ...

Curtis really enjoyed meeting with and catching up with what other microbiome centres are up to, at the Microbiome Consortium Meeting - microbiomecenters.org. Looking forward to ASM!

Our lab recently organized a week-long course on Microbiome data analysis using the bioBakery suite. We had almost 60 participants from around the world, eagerly participating and learning. Huge shoutout to Kelsey for spearheading the course and all instructors for teaching fabulously! 🎉

Human microbiome pioneer to deliver World Microbiome Day lecture | Penn State University Curtis Huttenhower, professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the Harvard School of Public Health, will deliver a lecture to the Penn State community in honor of World Microbiome Day. T...

Just one week to go until our #WorldMicrobiomeDay lecture from Curtis Huttenhower @hutlab.bsky.social! Are you registered yet?

Find out more and register here: www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...

not yet!

Comparing the metagenomic performance of stools collected from custom cards and 95% ethanol in epidemiologic studies - PubMed Background Stool cards have been used for microbiome assessment in epidemiological studies. Methods We compared shotgun metagenomic sequencing from 32 participants who self-collected stool samples fro...

Huge congrats to Thomas, Xochitl, Kai and all our collaborators on this brand new publication characterizing the metagenomic performance of stool cards! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40434915/

HILL'S PET NUTRITION AND HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCHER DEEPEN COLLABORATION TO ADVANCE PET MICROBIOME SCIENCE AND INNOVATION /PRNewswire/ -- Ahead of Pet Appreciation Week (June 1-7), Hill's Pet Nutrition, a global leader in science-led nutrition, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of...

Excited to expand our collaboration with Hill’s Pet Nutrition! The new One Health Microbiome Resource (OHMR) shares over 2,000 pet gut microbiomes to advance research at the intersection of animal, human, and environmental health. #Microbiome #PetScience Read the press release - shorturl.at/1Ifgv

Over 600 scientists from around the world participated in the annual HCMPH Microbiome symposium earlier this week. Thank you to the speakers and panelists for their excellent presentations and to everyone who presented posters as well! Here's a write-up on it - hsph.harvard.edu/news/role-of... 🎉

Marina Chen, a PhD student from the lab defended her thesis on Monday. The title of her thesis was "Ecological activities in childcare microbiome". Many many congrats Dr. Chen!!!! 🎉

Qianwen Li, a Masters student in the lab recently defended her thesis and did an amazing job! Congrats Qianwen!

A fantastic talk at AACR by @cibiocm.bsky.social, and Dr. Segata, Gianmarco and Dr. Mingyang Song - all collabarotors of the Hutlab - had a nice meeting together!

Eric and Kelsey were happy to welcome Lab and BST 281 alum Sanjana Kulkarni back to the course this week for a guest lecture on bioinformatics workflows! The lecture included a hands-on demo of QC and taxonomic profiling of human airway sequencing using Snakemake.

HCMPH Symposium | Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health We are delighted to invite everyone to the seventh annual Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center (HCMPH) symposium on May 19, 2025. We are happy to

Our microbiome community workshop has SOLD OUT🎉. Excited to spend a week with all registrants diving deep into microbiome analyses!
However our Microbiome Symposium in May is still open to register for both in-person and virtual attendees. Register at - hsph.me/hcmph2025