Excited to share our work on city-wide metagenomic surveillance of hawker centres in Singapore! w/Macadology Several surprising findings here ... see thread medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢Our publication on gut metagenomes of Asian octogenarians is now online in Nature Communications! 🎊 nature.com/articles/s4146… indrik wijaya Niranjan Nagarajan #HealthyAging #GutMicrobiome #AgingResearch #MicrobiomeScience Interesting results in thread 🧵

Hi #EMBOinflammasomes24 fans, here is your next meeting to attend: join us in June 2025 Universität Tübingen Tübingen Germany to celebrate 40 years 🎂of the discovery of the Toll receptor. We’ve got a great line up of speakers, all details 👉innate-immunity-conference.de

Goodbye, Heidelberg! That was an amazing three days on course in one of the prettiest towns in Baden-Württemberg😃

Garden updates from September. Not too bad for a first-time gardener! Grateful for my friends and the harvest.🧡🎃🍁🌽🫛🫘

You do research on #ESKAPE pathogens and consider to start your independent junior research group, in the highly cooperative environment of DZIF (inaktiv) and Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections in #Tübingen? Please send your application or forward to colleagues!

I am super happy my first first-author paper is out (nature.com/articles/s4158…)! There’s even a thoughtful “news and views” along with it (nature.com/articles/d4158…). Here is my summary of our work in 20 tweets:

📣 Postdoc position available in my group at Pitt to study how Klebsiella controls its cell surface and develop new projects. themikelab.com Read more and apply here by Jan 12: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/… Reposts are appreciated! #klebclub #newPI

I'm excited to announce our latest publication! We teamed up with Karthik Hullahalli to barcode Klebsiella and ask basic questions about bacteremia pathogenesis: 1) how are bacteria shared between sites and 2) which host and bacterial factors influence dynamics? nature.com/articles/s4146…

Super thrilled to share our labor of love from the Asian Skin Microbiome Program! Collected >3,500 skin samples, built metagenomic libraries w/ >70 billion reads and >10TB of data to study population heterogeneity in skin microbiome (200 adults, 18 sites) tinyurl.com/mu4ep2bp

We’re excited to share our latest work on plant pathogen effector protein evolution bioRxiv. With Sophien Kamoun and Abbas Maqbool. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Phenotypic heterogeneity (PH) in capsule production across opportunistic pathogens. PH may help explain the transition from #commensalism to #pathogenesis and have important implications in virulence, environmental survival, and horizontal gene transfer. doi.org/10.1128/mbio.0…