The Knight Lab develops and uses computational and experimental techniques to ask questions about the evolution of microbial communities.

UCSD
Joined March 2015
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Get your seat to hear @BlaserLab, @gordoisabel1, and @KnightLabNews discussing the latest "Microbiota in Health" discoveries. 👉 Organised by @SymbNET, @IGCiencia and Centro Académico Clínico Católica Luz. 👉Mandatory FREE registration symbnet.eu/agenda/microbiota……
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“The existence of fungi in most human cancers is both a surprise & to be expected. It is surprising b/c we don’t know how fungi could get into tumors…but it is also expected because it fits the pattern of healthy microbiomes…”@KnightLabNews @StraussmanR bit.ly/3MAlXTt
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You are what you excrete? 💩🧬 Is human DNA in faecal microbiome a problem? The answer seems to be yes. Read this News & Views to learn more, by @KnightLabNews and colleagues👇 nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Tickets for CIMM 2023 are available now! Join us March 14 - 16 in San Diego, CA, as we host leading experts to share the latest research into human, animal, and environmental microbiomes. #CIMM2023 eventbrite.com/e/2023-cmi-in…
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On today's @CellCellPress cover, @KnightLabNews & co. release the first-ever mycobiome atlas — mapping 35 types of #cancer and their associated #fungi The study opens the door for using #microbiome fungi as a diagnostic & therapeutic tool Learn more: bit.ly/MycoAtlas
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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: searchcovid.info/dashboards/…
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This was a huge collaborative effort with @josh__levy of @scrippsresearch along with @UCSDHealth @UCSanDiego ReturnToLearn @SanDiegoCounty @SASEAsystem @CAPublicHealth @radychildrens @my_helix (3/3)
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We conducted a ,high-resolution, 295-day wastewater and clinical sequencing effort, in the university campus and the surrounding county and analyzed 21,383 WW and 31,149 clinical samples during this time frame. (2/3)
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Excited to share our latest wastewater sequencing paper out in @Nature where we show early detection of variants through wastewater sequencing and uncover cryptic transmission events not detected via clinical surveillance (1/3) nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Our panel ``One Billion Guns vs One Billion Nucleotides`` at @G4C festival is now online! @szantner @DuvalMagic @KnightLabNews and @waldispuhl discuss the genesis and objectives of #Borderlands Science! @the_MMOS @microsetta @GearboxQuebec @mcgillu youtu.be/NLd9h8PHVoU
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Day 4 for voting on #STATMadness Make sure you get your vote in today for @UCSDMedSchool 'Diagnosing cancer using microbes', MATCHUP 21 OF 32 - Round 1! statnews.com/feature/stat-ma…
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Day 3/6 for voting on #STATMadness Make sure you get your vote in today for @UCSDMedSchool 'Diagnosing cancer using microbes', MATCHUP 21 OF 32 - Round 1! statnews.com/feature/stat-ma…
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Day 2/6 for voting on #STATMadness Make sure you get your vote in for @UCSDMedSchool 'Diagnosing cancer using microbes', MATCHUP 21 OF 32 - Round 1! ow.ly/MC1m50DO91X
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March 4 @ noon: Join @ucsdbiosciences for a Women’s Day event w/ Dr. Rita Colwell, to discuss her research & recently published book, “A Lab of One’s Own—One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science.” Register Here: bit.ly/2ZUepmL #WomenInSTEM #WomensDay
Exciting news! @UCSDMedSchool has been nominated as part of "STAT Madness." Votes are needed now for 'Diagnosing cancer using microbes', starting today! Vote now - Vote often #STATMadness ow.ly/7JMo50DMXw3
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Knight Lab retweeted
Research on Covid-19 dominates the bracket for this year’s #STATMadness, our annual competition in which readers choose the most important biomedical advance or discovery to emerge from U.S. labs in the past year. buff.ly/3krpyoC
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Knight Lab retweeted
Check out the free @HPCwire Fighting #COVID with Advanced Technologies: HPC Roadmap for a Mission Critical, Rapid Deployment Event. Hear @Google, @NIH, @CMIdigest, @Panasas, @Intel, @BIOTEAM, @Quantum Feb.18 11:00-12:30 Pacific. panasas.com/company/events/f…