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 […]
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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 […]
Nandita speaks at the ISB symposium
This October, Nandita spoke at the ISB virtual microbiome symposium featuring talks from the field on evolution in commensal gut bacteria on short and long time scales. A link to […]
Ecological stability emerges at the level of strains in the human gut microbiome
We are very excited to share our latest manuscript entitled Ecological stability emerges at the level of strains in the human gut microbiome. To date, there has been an intensive […]
Rapid evolution and strain turnover in the infant gut microbiome
We are pleased to share our latest manuscript on Rapid evolution and strain turnover in the infant gut microbiome. In this paper, we quantify differences in the tempo and mode […]
Welcome Aina and Alex!
We are thrilled to welcome Alex Flynn-Carroll and Aina Martinez Zurita to the lab this quarter. They are rotation students in Bioinformatics and Human Genetics, respectively and are working on […]
Farewell to Daisy Chen
We are very sad to bid Daisy Chen farewell, but excited for her next steps as a PhD student at UCSD. Daisy has been with the lab since its inception […]
Ecological and evolutionary responses of the human gut microbiome during antibiotics
We are happy to share that our collaboration on Longitudinal linked-read sequencing reveals ecological and evolutionary responses of a human gut microbiome during antibiotic treatment is now out in Genome […]
UCLA Hellman Fellow
Nandita was recently named a Hellman Fellow at UCLA! This grant will fund work in the lab on Uncovering the Landscape of Mutations in the Human Gut Microbiome.
Bruins in Genomics summer students
We are excited to welcome Sarah Bald and Anna McDonald to our lab this summer for the Bruins in Genomics program!