Dan Knights
@KnightsDan
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Data Scientist at the University of Minnesota.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined April 2013
I just offset my family’s annual carbon footprint with TerraPass – check it out: via @terrapass.
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Friends and colleagues, please consider signing and forwarding this petition against Line 3, the plan to cut a new massive crude oil pipeline through indigenous land and waterways
sign.moveon.org
Your administration did the right thing by cancelling the permit for Keystone XL. Like Keystone XL, the Line 3 tar sands pipeline is a threat to our climate and water and violates Native...
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The U of Minnesota Division of Neonatology is hiring an assistant professor with microbiome/multi-omics and mentoring expertise. Know anyone who would be interested?
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RT @ProfMilenkovic: Submit your paper to GLBIO, deadline extended until Feb 5! Accepted papers will be considered for publication in PLOS C….
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Our new germ-free mouse study is out, led by Dimitri Sidiropoulos, @monkey_doc, and Purna Kashyap, showing primatization of mice, and that wild primate microbes reduce obesity in mice.
animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com
Background The gut microbiome harbors trillions of bacteria that play a major role in dietary nutrient extraction and host metabolism. Metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes are associated...
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RT @DarylGohl: @CoreBiome is hiring multiple R&D scientist positions. Join us and our sister companies @Diversigen_Inc and @dnagenotek in o….
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We need to stop eating beef! 80% of deforestation in Amazon caused by cattle ranching.
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Unsustainable cattle ranching
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RT @KatherineJWu: People spend a lot of time poring over nutrition labels. But a quick gut check shows that the trillions of bacterial cell….
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To predict how diet shapes a person’s gut microbiome, researchers came up with a new way to categorize foods.
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Our personalized diet-microbiome study is out in @cellhostmicrobe ! TLDR: our microbes care about actual foods, not just the nutrition labels; people's microbiomes respond differently to similar foods. Thanks 2 @AbbyJohnsonRD @GeneralMills, et al.
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RT @bykriscampbell: Trying to improve upon SIBO measurement in those w/ functional GI disorders like IBS:. This group found the small intes….
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Nature Communications - Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) has been associated with functional gastrointestinal disorders. Here, the authors show that SIBO may be a result of dietary...
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FYI if any students or postdocs with bioinformatics experience (and especially microbiome analysis experience) are looking for a great job in industry, @CoreBiome is hiring:
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RT @MoranYassour: Submit your abstracts to @cshl #microbiome meeting soon! Deadline is fast approaching (May 3). Pls spread the word :) wit….
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Me too!.
I’m super excited for this! So much great science to come 😊.
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FYI @CoreBiome hiring for Sales, Data Engineer, and R&D Scientist, if you know anyone who might be a good fit.
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FYI @CoreBiome is giving away 100 free shotgun metagenomics samples plus extraction and absolute quant of 16S, closing Dec. 1. Spread the word if you know someone who could use this.
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RT @MicrobiomDigest: Just Months of American Life Change the Microbiome.@olgakhazan explains what happens to immigrants' gut bacteria just….
cell.com
Migration from a non-western nation to the United States is found to be associated with a loss in gut microbiome diversity and function in a manner that may predispose individuals to metabolic...
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Really excited to share our findings on immigration and the microbiome, and very grateful to @pvangay, all of our wonderful collaborators, community-based researchers, and community advisory board.
Our paper is out in Cell today: Huge thanks to all of our participants and our wonderful collaborators! @KnightsDan @T_L_Ward @AbbyJohnsonRD @saerobe.
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