Katherine Xue
@ksxue.bsky.social
Assistant prof at UC Irvine. Ecology and evolution in microbial communities, and occasional writing.
https://kxuelab.com
https://kxuelab.com
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Katherine Xue
@ksxue.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Xue lab at UC Irvine
Ecology and evolution in the human gut microbiome
kxuelab.com
Hi friends new and old! I study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome.🦠🧬💩 I'm thrilled to share that I'm starting a lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! kxuelab.com More about my work below...🧵1/n
The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
July 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding?
Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
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Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
June 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding?
Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative!
Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Scientists, reach out to your local communities about the importance of funding science! Write an op-ed to your local newspaper as part of the #McClintockLetters.
Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.
Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.
Yes! Scientists, let's share our work with the public. Write an LTE/op-ed/ or guest column in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm
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May 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Scientists, reach out to your local communities about the importance of funding science! Write an op-ed to your local newspaper as part of the #McClintockLetters.
Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.
Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.
What a joy to read this beautifully written commentary on our community coalescence experiments! Thank you Alyssa Mitchell and @contaminatedsci.bsky.social for the insightful take and lovely graphical summary.
Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out.
It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly | PNAS
Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly
www.pnas.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a joy to read this beautifully written commentary on our community coalescence experiments! Thank you Alyssa Mitchell and @contaminatedsci.bsky.social for the insightful take and lovely graphical summary.
Microbial ecologists, do you ever want to quantify the stability of a community over time, or the amount of spatial heterogeneity across sites?
Check out FAVA, developed by @maikemorrison.bsky.social. With FAVA, you can quantify compositional variability across many microbiome samples.
Check out FAVA, developed by @maikemorrison.bsky.social. With FAVA, you can quantify compositional variability across many microbiome samples.
1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
March 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Microbial ecologists, do you ever want to quantify the stability of a community over time, or the amount of spatial heterogeneity across sites?
Check out FAVA, developed by @maikemorrison.bsky.social. With FAVA, you can quantify compositional variability across many microbiome samples.
Check out FAVA, developed by @maikemorrison.bsky.social. With FAVA, you can quantify compositional variability across many microbiome samples.
What happens if you introduce 🦠vs 🦠🦠🦠 into a microbial community? Are larger microbial populations more likely to establish?
Check out new work led by @goldmandoran.bsky.social that used experiments and theory to dive deep into this simple question. ⬇️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Check out new work led by @goldmandoran.bsky.social that used experiments and theory to dive deep into this simple question. ⬇️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
March 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
What happens if you introduce 🦠vs 🦠🦠🦠 into a microbial community? Are larger microbial populations more likely to establish?
Check out new work led by @goldmandoran.bsky.social that used experiments and theory to dive deep into this simple question. ⬇️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Check out new work led by @goldmandoran.bsky.social that used experiments and theory to dive deep into this simple question. ⬇️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Hi friends new and old! I study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome.🦠🧬💩 I'm thrilled to share that I'm starting a lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! kxuelab.com More about my work below...🧵1/n
Xue lab at UC Irvine
Ecology and evolution in the human gut microbiome
kxuelab.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Hi friends new and old! I study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome.🦠🧬💩 I'm thrilled to share that I'm starting a lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! kxuelab.com More about my work below...🧵1/n