Ian Lipkin NYC particularly a hub for travel; smuggling, bushmeat especially a source of imported pathogens #UrbanGenome

Ian Lipkin Novel polyoma virus from n=1 case study after Sandy ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24795478 #UrbanGenome

Ian Lipkin Long Island tick rhabdovirus one of many carried by NE ticks ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24517260 #UrbanGenome

Ian Lipkin 133 rats from NYC, near #UrbanGenome itself - everyone ready for lunch soon? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25316698

Ian Lipkin Kawasaki disease assoc wt wind patterns, tough to profile w/o depleting reagent contaminants ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22355668 #UrbanGenome

Made it through my own talk, hope some interesting tidbits in there! Chris Mason speaking now on a great #metagenomics overview #UrbanGenome

.Chris Mason fantastic talk, faster than I can keep up with, thanks for MBQC shoutout - yay standards! mbqc.org #UrbanGenome

.Chris Mason Accidental headline "Licking subway poles 'probably fine'" kudos to Carl Zimmer for media caution at #ASM2015 #UrbanGenome

.Chris Mason showing the MTA deep-cleaning a station; I'm pretty sure MBTA isn't quite so assiduous... #UrbanGenome

Haven't had a chance to tweet much from #MetaSUB15, but a gem from Haruo Suzuki: subway stations in Japan are cleaned up to 4x daily.

The NYC MTA apparently aims to clean every 2-3wks; when we asked the Boston MBTA about cleaning, their response was, "We don't." #MetaSUB15

16S rRNA gene-based profiling of infant gut microbiota strongly influenced by sample processing & PCR primer choice microbiomejournal.com/content/3/1/26…

the teeming #microbes of our #cities Chris Mason Curtis Huttenhower Jack A Gilbert (he/him/his), @genome_Jane by me @NatureNews bit.ly/1N26vJ6 #urbangenome

.@OMSI is currently running a fantastic exhibit on the #microbiome called Zoo in You!

.@OMSI exhibit designer Vicki Coats was kind enough to show me around, including the industrial-scale giant microbes.

.@OMSI did a great job conveying fun and accurate current science, even in tricky areas like antibiotic usage and microbiome acquisition.

.@OMSI Can I make this my new professional headshot? It's pretty accurate, especially the scale...

.@OMSI Congrats on hosting a great exhibit and getting everyone excited about the human #microbiome! youtu.be/pk6uQVKsk3o

Haven't had an excuse to Tweet lately, but we're looking for a Microbiome Core Director! Senior PhD level position in beautiful Boston working with microbiome bioinformatics, epidemiology, and translational collaborations: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/8010

To Elisabeth Bik and others who might be interested, particularly in the EU: we're organizing an integrative meta'omics course with the Physalia team this April (9-13) in Berlin, sign up if interested! physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh…