Bethany Kolody
@science_doodles
Many of you gave me so much encouragement when I posted here earlier about my 10 year long passion project to make a microbial map of the ocean. Pinch me because I can't believe I get to update you that today that research was published in the journal SCIENCE! (@aaas)
🌊 Deep ocean currents help shape the diversity and function of microbial life across the South Pacific Ocean, according to a groundbreaking study led by @JCVenterInst & Scripps Oceanography scientists. More on the study published by @ScienceMagazine. ⬇️ scripps.ucsd.edu/news/study-rev…
🚨 Fresh from the press! We created and analyzed over 100 in vitro cyanobacterial consortia using well-characterized model cyanobacterial hosts to better understand how cyanobacteria recruit and interact with their microbiomes. Check it out: academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…
🥳🥳 Our paper using #metagenomics to explore the core species of stable #cyanobacteria #microbiome communities is now out in the @ISMEJournal!!! Excellent work by @AndrejaKust and company, and collaboration with @BanfieldLab. tinyurl.com/3cs2x6r7
So excited to see this in print!
🥳🥳 Our paper using #metagenomics to explore the core species of stable #cyanobacteria #microbiome communities is now out in the @ISMEJournal!!! Excellent work by @AndrejaKust and company, and collaboration with @BanfieldLab. tinyurl.com/3cs2x6r7
Lifestyle is a stronger predictor of aging and mortality than genetics. A new Nature study of ~500,000 people found: 🎯 17% of mortality variation was linked to lifestyle (exposome). 🧬 <2% of was explained by genetics. Here’s what you need to know 👇🧵 1/10
All probationary employees got fired today, including USDA scientists. Really, @elonmusk !? You let scientists go!? Imagine some of your scientists just started to work at SpaceX got fired. thehill.com/homenews/admin…
Bioinformaticians: Before diving into data analysis, pause. Quality control (QC) can make or break your results. 🧵👇
doubletrouble: an R/Bioconductor package for the identification, classification, and analysis of gene and genome duplications academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…
A cell with 3 nuclei (cyan) videoed through a microscope. Mitochondria (yellow) and the actin cytoskeleton (red) are also shown. #CellBiology
Every week, I see a new study talking about this or that effect of GLP-1 receptor agonists like #ozempic. FINALLY, we have a study evaluating all the outcomes (good and bad) in one dataset. There are some... surprises. 🧵
The MOANA tool is live now, so give it a try! A ready-to-run docker image of the app is available at hub.docker.com/r/bkolody/moan… prokaryotes (16S rRNA amplicons), hub.docker.com/r/bkolody/moan… eukaryotes (18S rRNA amplicons) and hub.docker.com/r/bkolody/moan… reconstructed genomes. Here are the…
Of course, microbial species are unique and their distribution patterns are more nuanced than six spatial cohorts. To address this, I built a tool called the Microbial Ocean Atlas for Niche Analysis (MOANA) which allows you to interactively plot the distribution of any taxa of…