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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

Come join us in Boston for this year's HCMPH Symposium on May 19th! This year's theme is "microbiome in food systems", however, any and all microbiome research is welcome! Register here - hsph.me/hcmph2025

Had fun playing Taiko last week! Thanks to Curtis for bringing it to lab meeting 😃

A warm wave to Dr. Prooksa Ananchuensook, a transplant hepatologist at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, who is currently a research fellow with Dr. Long Nguyen and working with our lab to understand the connection between the microbiome and chronic liver diseases.

It was a great honor to share our work at @gmfhx.bsky.social GMFH2025 and to receive the Abstract Prize.
It was also a enjoyable experience learning new insights and connecting with old and new friends.
Grateful for the support from my mentors, colleagues and collaborators. @hutlab.bsky.social

Welcome, Dr. Emily Green, a new postdoc joining our HMAC group.

Emily completed her PhD in Microbiology at UConn and a postdoc at the USDA, where she focused on environmental microbiomes, including insects, soil, plants, and nematodes. We are excited to have her in the lab!

We are looking forward to seeing everyone in June at our annual microbial multi-omits workshop. We still have limited availability but registration is going fast!

huttenhower.sph.harvard.edu/biobakery2025/

Earlier this month Curtis attended the CGC Grand Challenge Summit, representing both the OPTIMISICC and PROSPECT teams. OPTIMISTICC is several years into their investigation of the CRC microbiome, and PROSPECT is just launching their consortium to investigate early-onset CRC. @cancerresearchuk.org

We are still accepting registrations for this event! Please come join us and hear about cutting edge microbiome research.

The lab and our close colleagues had a great time presenting works and getting feedback at the latest Keystone. Thank you and we look forward to the next one.

@keystonesymposia.bsky.social

A small reminder about or workshop this June. Still lots of time to sign up and we look forward to meeting you!

Come join us in Boston for this year's HCMPH Symposium on May 19th! This year's theme is "microbiome in food systems", however, any and all microbiome research is welcome!