Absolutely thrilled and honored to receive an @NSF CAREER award from CISE that will support the development of computational approaches for biosecurity & biosurveillance. Special shoutout to the amazing PhD students in my group at @RiceCompSci @Rice_BIOE:

Great day in my life!! Finally defended my Ph.D.! I can’t do this without the guidance of my Ph.D. advisor @traingene and my co-advisor @sedlazeck! I’ll soon join @sedlazeck’s group at as an postdoc focusing on cancer genetics and cancer epigenetics.

Rice University's @traingene and @vyao will be hosting the 2nd annual #RADGenomics Workshop at the #AIHealthConference on October 9, 2023. "Reading, Assembling, Analyzing & Designing Genomic Data." View details at https://t.co/AzWVRlPnMx.

Just over a week to go for JXTX Scholarships for @CSHL Genome Informatics! The application process is lightweight and just needs a short statement of goals in addition to your conf abstract. Please help spread the word!

Our final speaker of #CINEMAParis2023 is Dr. Laurent Moulin from @eaudeparis, talk: “SARS CoV 2 genome monitoring in wastewater by the French OBEPINE network, deciphering the viral dynamics and VOC evolution” Great work on wastewater pathogen monitoring in Paris @lauren_stadler

Day 6 of #CinemaParis2023 is just underway! Great group discussion on relevant research questions for microbiome data led by @kristendcurry. This afternoon will focus on analyzing datasets the participants brought with them & prep for final presentations tomorrow @lauren_stadler

Day 5 of #Cinema2023 was superb! @AlexDilthey and @kristendcurry described techniques for microbiome profiling, then @ZaminIqbal was our invited speaker and gave a great talk on "Using revived 100-year old bacteria and new algorithms to study plasmid evolution" @lauren_stadler

Day 4 of #CinemaParis2023: my former colleague at @institutpasteur, Dr. Sara Vieira-Silva (now Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center in Germany) presenting on gut microbiome, clinical metagenomics and population level studies 🦠🧬@saramavs @lauren_stadler

#CINEMAParis day 3- learning and collaboratively working on environmental microbiome analysis led by @jesethdv ! @traingene @RiceUniversity

Only at #CINEMAParis, live @nanopore sequencing run of a zymo mock microbiome by @Scalene next to lighting talk session🔥 We will dive into bioinformatics methods for environmental and clinical microbiome analysis over the next few days ! (Ps. @Scalene said it was a good run!)

Day 2 of #CINEMA2023 is just getting started at the @RiceUniversity Paris Center!🦉🇫🇷 Today features a full-day, interactive tutorial on microbiome sampling and sequencing 🦠🧬, led by Dr. Joshua Quick (@Scalene), with CINEMA co-director @lauren_stadler moderating todays session

That's a wrap for the first day of CINEMA 2023 ( https://t.co/b8YK4PYGaC) at @RiceUniversity Global Paris Center Dr. Nicola Segata (@nsegata) kicked things off with a wonderful keynote on “Large-scale strain-level computational metagenomics of the human microbiome” On to day 2!

Really excited to see fresh Parsnp at #ASMicrobe , @BKille has been working on some exciting (and long overdue) improvements to Parsnp ( https://t.co/IYSC4mzQj4). More updates soon!

Great talk by @DrRitaColwell at #ASMMicrobe titled "Cholera in the time of climate change" Dr. Colwell covered over 40 years of research on pathogen🦠 surveillance and ended by highlighting recent study on microbiome analysis for wastewater surveillance: https://t.co/ASW6QMEVxw

#ASMicrobe folks if of interest attend my rapid fire talk & poster tomorrow! It focuses on antibiotic resistance detection in wastewater with various approaches! This work is joint first author work with @EstherGeLou2 and great collaboration with the Stadler lab @lauren_stadler

I look forward to attending #ASMicrobe over the next 3 days! Posters/talks from students in my group: antibiotic resistance + nanopore sequencing (@fuyilei96), QuaID (@SapovalNicolae), Olivar (Michael Wang), Parsnp (@BKille), SeqScreen Nano(@AdvaitBalaji), & Squeegee (@beleafsTX)

Excited to share that our paper "Enabling accurate and early detection of recently emerged SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in wastewater", introducing QuaID: a tool for detection of variants of concern in wastewater samples, was published in Nat. Comms https://t.co/SelJKajG3y 1/🧵

2/2: I'm beyond thrilled to have the opportunity to continue the momentum from the past 5 years and have the opportunity to work alongside truly inspiring students, staff and faculty at an institution with strong leadership & commitment to excellence @RiceEngineering @RiceCompSci

1/2: Overjoyed to share that I was promoted to Associate Professor with #tenure at @RiceUniversity! Profound thanks to my amazing lab members, mentors and collaborators. From a PhD student in Barcelona till now, my journey spans 20 years, 3 countries, 5 languages & 8 institutions

Our latest methods paper "Minmers are a generalization of minimizers that enable unbiased local Jaccard estimation" (aka MashMap3) is out with @BKille @erikgarrison @traingene! There's an interesting backstory here 🧵 \

4/4 Bonus! If you are attending this year's #nanoporeconf (London Calling 2023), feel free to check out the MethPhaser talk given by the one and only @sedlazeck: