Welcome Aina, Michael, and Peter!!!
We are extremely fortunate to have a stellar group of three PhD students joining the lab this year: Aina Martinez Zurita, Michael Wasney, and Peter Laurin. Welcome Aina, Michael and […]
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Welcome BIG summer students!!!
We are trhilled to welcome our summer Bruins in Genomics interns!!! Julianna Perez is a rising senior studying Computer Science at Arizona State University. She is also pursuing a minor […]
Evolutionary Dynamics of the Infant Gut Microbiome
We are thrilled to share that our paper entitled ‘Rapid evolution and strain turnover in the infant gut microbiome’ is now out in Genome Research! We find that the infant […]
Garud lab at PEQG!
This was our first time attending a conference in-person as a group! Mariana, Jon, Ricky, and Nandita all presented posters on our work in the lab.
Enrichment of hard sweeps on the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster
Recently Mariana Harris and Nandita Garud posted a preprint on hard and soft sweeps on the X versus autosome of D. melanogaster! Here is the abstract! The characteristic properties […]
Microbiome source tracking using single nucleotide variants
Recently Leah Briscoe, Eran, Halperin, and Nandita Garud posted a preprint to bioRxiv on source tracking in the microbiome with single nucleotide variants. In short, remember when this happened? We […]
Community diversity is associated with intra-species genetic diversity and gene loss in the human gut microbiome
We are thrilled to share our latest preprint, Community diversity is associated with intra-species genetic diversity and gene loss in the human gut microbiome. This was a fun collaboration with […]
Evaluating supervised and unsupervised background noise correction in human gut microbiome data
We are thrilled to share that our paper on Evaluating supervised and unsupervised background noise correction in human gut microbiome data is finally out in PLoS Comp Bio! In this paper, […]
Microbial Evolution: An overlooked biomarker of host diet
Nandita recently had the pleasure of writing a persective on a recent paper by Dapa et al. on the evolutionary dynamics of gut microbiota in response to diet. Dapa et al’s […]
Welcome Michael Wasney!
We are thrilled to welcome Michael Wasney to our group for his rotation this quarter! Michael is a recent graduate from the University of Chicago and is a first year […]