Congratulations to our joint postdoc @wangkaiepi with @MingyangSong3 for getting NIH/NCI K99 Award for studying the interplay between diet, secondary bile acids, and the gut microbiome in the prevention of colorectal cancer https://reporter.nih.gov/search/6K2Q_ZGCMkeL-N_GC8aDXw/project-details/10723195

We are excited to announce the release of our new galaxy servers! http://galaxy.biobakery.org

Please be patient with us as we work through any issues that arise. If you encounter anything please check out or support forums. https://forum.biobakery.org

Welcome Yuxi Liu

Yuxi is joining our lab as a joint postdoc with Daniel Wang! They are interested in linking the impact of genetics on the gut microbiome.

Congratulations to our joint PhD student Marina Chen for a successful Dissertation Advisory Committee meeting last week on her thesis studying host-environment interactions in childcare microbiome!

Tomorrow our lab will be participating in the
@CrohnsColitisFn
walk to help support those impacted by Crohn's and Colitis. Please come join us and show your support!

https://takesteps.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=10800

Our team is looking forward to teaching our annual workshop with Physalia June 12-16th!

This remote workshop is the perfect opportunity for those new to microbiome research or those that are looking to brush up on their computational skills!

Register at
https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/course33/

Congrats to all Harvard graduates!

Zhiji from our lab graduated with a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Health

Her thesis: Mechanistic modeling to assess the relevance of gill membrane permeability to bioaccumulation of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAA) in fish

Welcome to Danyue Dong!

Danyue is a postdoctoral fellow joint appointed with Daniel Wang. She will investigate diet, the gut microbiome, and cognitive decline, and looks forward to making meaningful contributions with brilliant minds!

A big congratulations to Dr. Chloe Mirzayi on a successful dissertation defense. Her work, "Improving Microbiome Research Through Enhanced Reporting and Modeling the Effects of Antibiotic Usage" was exciting and an honor to be a part of!

Thank you to everyone for an amazing HCMPH
Symposium, including but definitely not limited to all speakers, our keynotes Rick Bushman, Joeseph Petrosino, and Nikos Kyrpides, and a big congratulations to Amanda Adams and Amanda Graboski for strong posters, winning our poster awards!

A million thanks to our generous sponsors Corundum Systems Biology, Seres Therapeutics, and PacBio, who helped us keep the symposium free for all participants! We can’t wait to see everyone again for it next year!

It's almost time for the annual HCMPH Symposium! We've reached capacity in person, but we'd love to welcome more attendees virtually. Register for free thanks to sponsorship from Corundum Systems Biology, Seres Therapeutics, PacBio, and others at https://hcmph.sph.harvard.edu/hcmph-symposium

This week we wrapped up spring courses IID209: Microbial Communities and the Human Microbiome and BST281: Genomic Data Manipulation! Thank you to all the students who made both courses awesome to teach and to our amazing guest lecturers!

Calling all Boston-based IBD researchers! Team bioBakery is back at it for this year's Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Take Steps walk on June 3rd! We would love to get know the research community while walking for this amazing foundation. Join our team: https://takesteps.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=10800

We have reached capacity for in person but luckily we have a virtual attendance option! We can't wait to host this exciting symposium next week. Register for free thanks to sponsorship from Corundum Systems Biology (CSB) at https://hcmph.sph.harvard.edu/hcmph-symposium

Today our annual MEWG series wraps up with the final presentation of the year - Smita Gopinath will be giving a talk titled, “Vaginal lactobacilli secrete anti-inflammatory modulators.” We can't wait to see you there!

A review of 324 common R packages for microbiome analysis https://academic.oup.com/proteincell/advance-article/doi/10.1093/procel/pwad024/7147618 #microbiome #rstats #bioinformatics

Team bioBakery is back at it for this year's Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Take Steps walk on June 3rd! We would love to get know the research community while walking for this amazing foundation. Join our team: https://takesteps.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=10800

Welcome to the HutLab Theresa Wilkat! Theresa is a PhD student from German research group miTarget, working on statistical analysis and network-based approaches to the human gut microbiome in the context of IBD. She is looking forward to learning new tools while she is here!

A big Congratulations to two lab members who are taking new positions! Postdoctoral Fellow Andrew Ghazi will be a statistical geneticist at the Center for Computational Biomedicine at HMS and Research Fellow Connor Geraghty will be a senior computational biologist at Merck!

Quite a few lab members and friends have hit milestones! Congratulations to Sena Bae, Kelly Eckenrode, and Xochitl Morgan for 5 years at Harvard, Eric Franzosa for 10 years, and Wendy Garrett for 15 years!!