Super excited to share that I'll be joining @Caltech as an Assistant Professor of @CaltechESE @CaltechEAS starting Jan 2023. My lab will focus on integrating wet-lab and computational biology approaches to develop microbiome biomarkers for human and environmental health.

Smruthi Karthikeyan describes her research as "harnessing the power of microbes for human and environmental health." https://t.co/qP2osPUpvQ

@KnightLabNews (@UCSDMedSchool / @UCSDJacobs) is excited to announce a new release of Greengenes in @NatureBiotech ( https://t.co/fwYB8CPd2y). With this release, we provide a single taxonomy and phylogeny unifying 16S and shotgun metagenomic analyses! A thread (1/n)

Gift Supports a New Generation of Environmental Scientists at @Caltech https://t.co/8th2u2Nbdt @smruthi_karthik

During the 2022–23 academic year, Caltech recognized three faculty with leadership chairs for distinguished administrative positions and 13 faculty with named professorships for early career and tenured faculty — the Institute's most distinguished award. https://t.co/EyF3nBMHhZ

My new lab @Caltech @CaltechESE @CaltechEAS is hiring a #postdoc. The lab is a highly interdisciplinary environment. Candidates with a background in environmental microbiome engineering and computational biology(multi-omics), reach out! Salary: 70-72k. https://t.co/sBV86S9h83

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Perfect timing for #CROI2023! Results from @SASEAsystem were just published in @LancetRH_Americ. We learned that wastewater monitoring can detect COVID-19 in schools with 95% accuracy (despite the fact that yes, we know, not everybody poops at school) 💩 https://t.co/YgRFtDztRO

Happy President's Day! 🥳Tune in to the latest episode of Women in Science on @GradSWEUCLA YouTube Channel featuring our esteemed guest, Prof. Smruthi Karthikeyan @smruthi_karthik from @CaltechESE! Check out this insightful discussion! 🤩#WomenInScience https://t.co/dKH4ELWafQ

The #COVID19 pandemic has illustrated the value of analyzing wastewater to understand and track human disease spread, evolution, and outbreak risk. A new #SciencePerspective describes approaches that can help expand and improve this type of surveillance. https://t.co/LJ1n2gyWNV

"Wastewater sequencing–based analyses have enabled early detection of emerging variants, variant prevalence estimates, identification of the impact of specific mutations on pathogen fitness, and characterization of the mutational processes that lead to variants of concern" (2/2)

Our perspective on wastewater sequencing for COVID-19 and beyond is out in @ScienceMagazine. Joint effort between @KnightLabNews @UCSanDiego @UCSDHealth and @scrippsresearch @josh__levy (1/2) https://t.co/4b5h2sTp71

The essentiality of wastewater surveillance "Core component of infectious disease monitoring, providing a variant-specific, community-representative picture of public health trends that captures previously undetected spread and pathogen transmission links"

Congrats to all involved in this multi-omics Earth Microbiome Project manuscript ! @earthmicrobiome @LukeThompson @SnehaCouvillion @AskerBrejnrod @zhuqiyun @cameronmartino @jamietmorton @smruthi_karthik @EspositoMeliss1 @boeckerlab @bittremieux @yoshikivb @anupriya_trip @mcdonadt

Excited for this latest iteration of the Earth Microbiome Project to finally be published. Standardized multi-omics of Earth’s microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity

OUT NOW: A multi-omics view of Earth's microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity by @ShroomScience @earthmicrobiome @KnightLabNews & co

I spent my summer getting to know three rising stars in science. First up, @smruthi_karthik, who figured out a way to use wastewater testing to get ahead of COVID-19 outbreaks.

Next week, the Nobel Prizes will be announced. This week, we’re recognizing 10 rising stars in science. Find out who made our list. #SN10 🧵

Honored and humbled to be among this group of EC scientists in this year's @ScienceNews SN10. Huge thanks to @KnightLabNews @UCSanDiego and the wonderful collaborators making the wastewater effort possible. Look forward to starting the the next chapter @Caltech @CaltechESE

A recent study at @UCSanDiego suggests that wastewater surveillance could be used to detect emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants when they first appear in an area, @JoSolisM reports. https://t.co/m3NfvVe1HE #MedicalNews

We are now monitoring monkeypox in San Diego wastewater as well as a part of our SEARCH collaboration with @scrippsresearch @UCSDHealth @KnightLabNews @SDCountyHHSA @UCSanDiego Link: https://t.co/FmzckHh7Ea