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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · 5d

Meet @orakov.bsky.social!
Askarbek is an academic nomad with research stints in US and Japan. He holds a B.S. from Nazarbayev University, M.S. from Paris-Saclay, and PhD from EMBL. As a postdoc, he studies the female genital tract virome & is developing a viral quantification method using spike-ins.

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · 12d

A huge thanks to the ASM Young Ambassadors program in northern Africa for inviting Curtis to give a keynote talk to kickoff the 4th African Microbiome Day series!

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · 14d

Meet @dongyuwang.bsky.social!

Dongyu earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology and M.Sc. in Data Science. She studied microbial structure–function via multiomics and modeling, and virus–host interactions with Nanopore. As a postdoc, she explores microbial dynamics, coevolution, and human–animal convergence.

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · 20d

Long and Kelsey just won the 2025 Microbiome SMRT Grant for HiFi shotgun metagenomics!! They will collaborate to optimize PacBio-compatible protocols for gut metagenomics, specifically generating high quality long-read data from IBD patients. Congrats to both! 🎉 🎉 www.pacb.com/blog/2025-mi...

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · 29d

Curtis will be presenting at GloMiNe tomorrow! Register to tune in.

Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tomorrow begins #GloMiNe2025 organized by @microbiotavault.bsky.social & #MVIF

Atlantic session will be open by Gloria Dominguez-Bello & @cpavloud.bsky.social
Pacific session by Safarina Malik & Célio Dias Santos Júnior

Both sessions will be LIVE!

Check the details: cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomi...

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · 29d

A huge thanks to the organizers of the Microbial Dark Matter Symposium for a very successful conference, and for inviting Curtis as a keynote speaker!

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Zymo Research @zymoresearch.bsky.social · Aug 20

Join us at the Microbial Dark Matter Symposium 2025.

We’re honored to welcome Dr. Curtis Huttenhower as our keynote speaker, presenting: “Figuring Out Function in Microbial Communities.”

Aug 28–29 | Laguna Beach, CA

Register now: www.microbial-dark-matter-symposium.com

#MicrobialDarkMatter

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Aug 29

Some summer vacation pictures from Hutlab members! Pictures from Curtis's trip to the Yellowstone and Kelsey's trip to the Azores island 🌄🌈

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Aug 15

Congratulations to Jordan Jensen from our lab on a recent successful DAC meeting! Thank you to committee members Pardis Sabeti @sabetilab.bsky.social, Marco Jost & John Connor!

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Aug 15

Last weekend we went kayaking with the lab!!

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Aug 8

Meet the Hutlab!

Chahat is a first year postdoc in the lab working on the microbial signal of colorectal cancer. In his free time, he likes to play board games and play squash

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Jul 31

A random Friday in the lab

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Jul 21

Whale Watching with the Lab! 🐋

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Jul 18

We had a great time at the annual BPH retreat where we spent time discussing how to support each other given the current challenges, and we welcomed our incoming G1 cohort! Thank you to Dyann Wirth for hosting us for such a lovely day!

Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Jul 11

Welcome Sithija Manage, a fourth-year PhD student in Statistics at Cornell, who joins the lab this summer as a visiting graduate researcher! His work focuses on developing statistically rigorous methods for microbiome data, currently addressing subject-level confounding in PERMANOVA.

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Jul 11

Curtis gave a great talk for the World Microbiome Day lecture at Penn State, which was very well attended. Thank you to @psumbiome.bsky.social for organizing!
www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...

Human microbiome pioneer to deliver World Microbiome Day lecture | Penn State University

Curtis Huttenhower, professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the Harvard School of Public Health, will deliver a lecture to the Penn State community in honor of World Microbiome Day. T...

www.psu.edu

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hanseulkim.bsky.social @hanseulkim.bsky.social · Jul 3

⚡🦠I'm very excited to share our latest work on the gut microbiome and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is published in @natmetabolism.nature.com, with @hutlab.bsky.social & @longnguyen.bsky.social!

🔗Check out the paper here:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Jun 27

Kelsey and Guilherme did a great job presenting their work at the ASM meeting in LA!

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Jun 27

Curtis really enjoyed meeting with and catching up with what other microbiome centres are up to, at the Microbiome Consortium Meeting - microbiomecenters.org. Looking forward to ASM!

Home -

What is the Microbiome Center Consortium (MCC)? The Microbiome Centers Consortium is a cooperative, inclusive and collaborative network of microbiome centers that aims to accelerate the understanding ...

microbiomecenters.org

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our lab recently organized a week-long course on Microbiome data analysis using the bioBakery suite. We had almost 60 participants from around the world, eagerly participating and learning. Huge shoutout to Kelsey for spearheading the course and all instructors for teaching fabulously! 🎉

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One Health Microbiome Center @psumbiome.bsky.social · Jun 20

Just one week to go until our #WorldMicrobiomeDay lecture from Curtis Huttenhower @hutlab.bsky.social! Are you registered yet?

Find out more and register here: www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...

Human microbiome pioneer to deliver World Microbiome Day lecture | Penn State University

Curtis Huttenhower, professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the Harvard School of Public Health, will deliver a lecture to the Penn State community in honor of World Microbiome Day. T...

www.psu.edu

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · Jun 13

not yet!

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · May 30

Huge congrats to Thomas, Xochitl, Kai and all our collaborators on this brand new publication characterizing the metagenomic performance of stool cards! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40434915/

Comparing the metagenomic performance of stools collected from custom cards and 95% ethanol in epidemiologic studies - PubMed

Background Stool cards have been used for microbiome assessment in epidemiological studies. Methods We compared shotgun metagenomic sequencing from 32 participants who self-collected stool samples fro...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · May 29

Excited to expand our collaboration with Hill’s Pet Nutrition! The new One Health Microbiome Resource (OHMR) shares over 2,000 pet gut microbiomes to advance research at the intersection of animal, human, and environmental health. #Microbiome #PetScience Read the press release - shorturl.at/1Ifgv

HILL'S PET NUTRITION AND HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCHER DEEPEN COLLABORATION TO ADVANCE PET MICROBIOME SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

/PRNewswire/ -- Ahead of Pet Appreciation Week (June 1-7), Hill's Pet Nutrition, a global leader in science-led nutrition, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of...

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Hutlab @hutlab.bsky.social · May 22

Over 600 scientists from around the world participated in the annual HCMPH Microbiome symposium earlier this week. Thank you to the speakers and panelists for their excellent presentations and to everyone who presented posters as well! Here's a write-up on it - hsph.harvard.edu/news/role-of... 🎉

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