On March 12, Biobot put out the call to action to use sewage to map #COVID19 outbreaks and provide real-time data for governments & communities to get ahead of the crisis. 6 months later, we've analyzed ~3,000 samples from over 400 locations in the US. #BetterDataSmarterDecisions

Very happy to share with you this new study from our lab on bacterial translocation from the gut to neighboring adipose, and a fascinating tissue response to the presence of microbial “squatters”. Cell Happy to walk you through, in this thread: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

main source of joy is this guy who frantically guesses what color the paint is going to be

"Since it can identify both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases, the testing can predict if there will be a spike or decrease in the next 4-10 days." Angela Kim reports on Biobot's work in Chattanooga, Tennessee: wrcbtv.com/story/42698754…

In the coming days, it is likely that many people who interacted with Trump or his team this week will report having COVID. Anyone in this cluster should save specimens for sequencing-based epidemiology-- to better quantify the consequences of this administration's recklessness.

How does #COVID19 wastewater epidemiology work? Check out this video from Biobot’s research collaborators Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a great explanation. #BetterDataSmarterDecisions youtube.com/watch?v=ysZsx5…

Honored to have been selected as an NIH New Innovator, alongside an amazing group of scientists: commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator/A…. Did I mention we are looking to grow our team? lieberman.science

so excited to chat with @gibbological about sewage as a tool to improve public health! in the next 5-10 years, every major city will be using wastewater based epidemiology to improve lives. from covid19 to opioid addiction, the opportunities are endless in this emerging field!

Yay! Congrats to #UCLA's on the SwabSeq EUA. Lots of hard work by a big team including Jonathan Flint Leonid Kruglyak Valerie Arboleda MD, PhD 🤷🏻‍♀️ Joshua Bloom Eleazar Eskin - UCLA Computational Medicine Chongyuan Luo Yi Yin 殷毅 et al. fda.gov/media/142802/d…

"Everyone has a voice in the sewer." Hear more from Biobot co-founders Mariana Matus & Newsha Ghaeli in their interview with Michal Lev-Ram at Fortune MPW's Next Gen Summit: fortune.com/2020/10/14/cov…

A great interview with Biobot Analytics

did you know that the reason tattoos remain visible for so long is bc of MACROPHAGES? I thought it was bc the ink stained long-living fibroblasts, but no! dermal macrophages phagocytose the ink and store it in vacuoles, where it is still visible from the surface.

The mystery of Dark Statistics has vexed statisticians for decades. It is hypothesized that as much as 95% of all statistics are dark statistics! These elusive statistics are invisible but we know they MUST exist due to their influence on the visible data.

It's amazing to see our member Biobot Analytics named as Smart Cities Dive's Technology of the Year! Congratulations to Mariana Matus, Newsha Ghaeli, + team! bit.ly/37QUxEv

We're highlighting 'most liked' Tweets from 2020. ICYMI: We love @gibbological's passion for the #microbiome and its influence on human health ISB: ow.ly/tU8N50CyMy0. Hear the full interview here: bit.ly/3oJykiv

delighted to share this work by Jay Zhao and Wenshan Zheng single-cell droplet based genomics for the human microbiome. strain-resolved genomes and HGT networks are among the benefits of this amazing new technology from David Weitz’s lab

if i had the chance to do another postdoc in comp bio, this is the position i would apply for

For nearly a year, Biobot has been providing early warning of #COVID19 outbreaks by looking at sewage samples from communities across the country. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

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 paper on single-cell genomic sequencing of the human gut microbiome is now published in Science! Congrats to all of the amazing authors that I am proud to work with: Wenshan Zheng Eric Alm Peter J. Lu ethan evans Cheng D. david needham and David Weitz science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…