The Human Heredity and Health in Africa #AWIGen team was very pleased to collaborate with Ami Bhatt, Fiona Tamburini, Dylan Maghini from the Bhatt Lab at Stanford as part of our ongoing work on the human microbiome in Africa. Thanks to Voke Oduaran for leading the SA work doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Interesting new Nature Communications paper from Ami Bhatt & colleagues studies nonwestern and non-industrialized gut microbiome from rural and urban cities in South Africa, and finds new microbial diversity not represented by existing microbiome databases ow.ly/qcPi30sbYe9

We are excited to share our new preprint extending our analyses of coalescence times on the X chromosome under different types of first-cousin consanguinity. This work was done with Alissa Severson, Shai Carmi , and Noah Rosenberg. doi.org/10.1101/2022.0… 1/7

If the last few days have shown me anything, it's that we *desperately* need to be training scientists to understand the societal and ethical implications of research.

How can we support equitable international research? How can we leverage thoughtful and open collaboration to push the bounds of microbiome research? Read Voke’s commentary for her thoughts and recommendations:

Quantifying bias introduced by sample collection in relative and absolute microbiome measurements go.nature.com/3n1esws

The preprint our our paper "Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa" is out, we think the largest gut microbiome project in Africa to date: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…