Graduate student Anna Bogdanova has constructed a machine learning model to predict whether a bacterial flagellin is likely to bind to and/or activate the TLR5 receptor in the human gut. She developed FlaPro, a computational pipeline for quantifying flagellins in...
Graduate Student Mirabeau Ngwese analyzed gut microbiomes that he obtained in Gabon for the diversity of soil transmitted helminths (STH) and the microbiome. He generated metagenomes and performed microscopy and qPCR for the STHs. For three of the four STHs,...
New Preprint! Kelsey Huus led the µHEAT (Microbial-Human Ecology And Temperature) study aimed at understanding how the microbiome affects response to vaccine. She assessed 171 healthy people receiving their SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Roughly half had elevated temperature right after the vaccine....
New preprint on BiorXiv! Suzuki et al. show that the gut microbiome can drive phenotypic plasticity in a mammal, that a phenotype can then be selected, and the trait passed to a new host without selection on the host genome....