Some good news to start the day! Our work on the diversification of avian influenza viruses in different hosts has been published. This was a collaborative effort with ⁦Dr Susan Shriner⁩ ⁦Koelle Lab⁩ ⁦CDC⁩!Congratulations all! #viruses mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/3…

Excited to share our article presenting the @globalmicrobiom initiative and releasing our first batch of data and results! This work highlights how microbiomes acquire new functionality based on host lifestyle. Cell. . sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our new paper with Mathilde Poyet just came out! It’s about the gut microbiome, industrialization and horizontal gene transfers - check it out: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Fresh from the Eric Alm lab.

A spectacular study by Fatima Aysha Hussain and Javier Dubert showing how evolution of phage resistance in environmental microbes is driven primarily by mobile elements, not receptor mutations as seen in the lab co-evolution studies It was a pleasure watching it develop over the years!

Thank you so much for having me!

What do minute-scale nutrient fluctuations do to bacterial growth? How do bacteria deal? A cartoon on our initial thoughts, and a paper on what we came to learn! rdcu.be/cmHpA

A new look at what drives acquisition of tRNA genes in phage - congrats to first authors Joy Yang and Wenwen Fang! Degradation of host translational machinery drives tRNA acquisition in viruses cell.com/cell-systems/f…

This is a really amazing work by my incredibly talented brother, performing single cell ribosome profiling with their new method scRibo-seq. Able to profile primary mammalian cells that are so rare it'd be impossible with any other method. Very cool work. Congrats to all authors!

So very excited to finally share our paper on phage-driven evolution of wild bacteria out​ now in Science Magazine! Huge props and thanks to my entire lab family and dream team, esp. my partner in crime Javier Dubert and my mentors @FredoLeRoux Martin Polz science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Some very exciting news...our website is LIVE!! eeid-2022-emory.org #EEID2022

A postdoctoral position is available in our lab in either computational biology or molecular genetics (or ideally experience in both) to work on bacteria-phage interactions. Please email [email protected] with a CV and a brief description of your expertise if interested.

I am so proud of this work! It’s been more than 5 years in the making. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this! Thread coming up shortly! #LoveVirology #flu biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am thrilled to share my PhD work MIT Microbiology PhD Program MIT Biology Boston Children's out today at Science Magazine. 1/ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The Lowen Lab is recruiting post-docs! Join us at Emory University, Atlanta, to do exciting fundamental virology on influenza A viruses. Major research areas include viral evolution, transmission and virus-virus interactions.