How can we model something as complex as the microbiome in noisy ecological contexts? Out now in EIC Jack Gilbert, our primer on mixed model approaches for characterising drivers of gut microbiome dynamics in wild animals! bit.ly/3Y6ZzXt

Turning lizard poop into data with @sammiefontaine and Yanileth F. López-Tacoaman

If I've taught my interns anything, it's the fundamental need to reward yourself for every work task you complete by getting yourself a little treat. Today my intern Yanileth F. López-Tacoaman informed me that we need to get a pre- and post-work treat because it's Friday #proudmentor

It’s #InternationalRedPandaDay … And just some good news on an upcoming paper with Dr. Candace Williams featuring these little guys and their microbes! What a nice coincidence

lol who did this

The The New York Times will accept heptane but not naphthalene in the spelling bee? RIP to my pangram

📢 Announcing the next set of talks in our WAME STN ESEB virtual seminar series! These talks will explore the importance of the microbiome in conservation with a fab lineup of speakers! April 18th at 15:00 BST (10:00 Eastern, 7:00 Pacific time). See link below 🦠👇

Loading a Oxford Nanopore flow cell with some lizard samples with Dr. Candace Williams! Let’s see what we get!

Absolutely delighted to see this out!!! Here we advocate for an experimental approach to test direct vs indirect effects of microbiome manipulations - a short thread 1/n #holobiont #Kelp #Ecology nature.com/articles/s4152…

Candace Williams just gave a great talk about microbiomes and phytoestrogens in rhinos. 🦏🦠 Dr. Candace Williams

I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be a Smithsonian predoctoral fellow Smithsonian Panama starting this summer! Panama’s been my home away from home since I was a baby intern in 2019. A few weeks til I’m back again catching zards and prepping sequencing libraries!

This incredible woman in science is my mentor! I can't be happier ❤️

The team took a quick break from field work to present at the #BCI100 symposium! Smithsonian Panama

Presented some ongoing research at the #BCI100 conference today! A culmination of nine months with @gsscholars at Smithsonian Panama. Only one month left to catch 'zards, deploy clay models, and sequence some samples 😢🦎.

Jungle sequencing! John Nguyễn setting up a Oxford Nanopore run Smithsonian Panama

Tune in on August 27 to find out what I was doing in the rainforest for a year! I'm first up but you should stay if you want to learn about corals, bats, and more from my awesome cohort members. 🦎🦇🦋🪸🍄🐠🌴🐜

Interpolation of microbiome composition in longitudinal data sets journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

Had a great time at #ISME19 talking about my work in tropical lizards Smithsonian Panama Thanks to everyone who came by and gave me valuable input!!! Off to Kruger!! 🐘🦁🦓

New review out in Functional Ecology ! We explore how omics tools could be used to understand microbiome function in wild systems and highlight key outstanding questions. Fab collaboration with Elin Videvall Xav Harrison @AwfulDodger Florent Mazel Dr Klara Wanelik besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

It's published with a powerful quote from Woese: “Science is an endless search for truth. Any representation of reality we develop can be only partial. There is no finality....only deeper understanding, more revealing and enveloping representations” 2004 🎉science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…