@mercaptan

Microbioinformatician, public health, metagenomics, enterics

 Atlanta, GA
Joined February 2009
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RStudio is now a pretty big company, and while everyone contributes to its success, many folks don't get to see the impact they have on the data science community. I want to help my less public-facing colleagues understand just how appreciated their work is, and I need your help.
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Why a SARS-CoV-2 variant that's 50% more transmissible would in general be a much bigger problem than a variant that's 50% more deadly. A short thread... 1/
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Confirming that all mistakes in nucleic acid molecular biology can be traced to use of the Nanodrop
Dr. Angela Rasmussen
@angie_rasmussen27 Dec 2020
Hold up. The accidental low dose in the AstraZeneca trial was because Oxford insisted that NANODROP was more accurate than qPCR?! Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha reuters.com/article/us-healt…
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CDC listening to partner PHLs at #AMD2Day2019 @CDC_AMD #StaphB
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Pizza! #AMD2day2019 #staphb #aphlcdcbioinformatics @APHL
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Charles Chiu giving the plenary at day one of #AMD2Day2019
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Hah, data dump! @BethMarieMole at @arstechnica has some great microbiome coverage too. arstechnica.com/science/2019…

High-tech toilet seat monitors your heart as you sit on the can

Everybody poops. Cardiologists are counting on it.

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Christin H.@chanigan29 Aug 2018
Great talk by @APHL @CDC_AMD fellow, Julie Shay at #ICEID2018 on her work building a bioinformatics tools for sub typing salmonella from stool.
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Timothy Jones from TNDPH citing @AleishaReimer and her metagenomics and CIDTs paper at #ICEID2018
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The Culture Independent and Metagenomics Subtyping crew at #ICEID2018 @APHL @CDC_AMD
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Thanks to Celine and @AleishaReimer for the metagenomics shout out #ICEID2018
Christin H.@chanigan26 Aug 2018
WGS has made huge impact in both outbreak detection and food surveillance. Wonderful talk by Celine Nadon here at AMD precon #ICEID2018 @APHL @CDC_AMD
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This is horrible. How long before scientists can develop a vaccine? cbsnews.com/news/measles-cas…

Measles cases skyrocket in Europe, killing dozens

Over 41,000 cases of measles were reported in the first half of 2018 – more than all of the previous year

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PacBio
@PacBio9 Jun 2018
Visit Lee from @CDCgov now at his #ASMicrobe poster 1080 'Kraken with Kalamari: Contamination Detection' to learn about Kalamari, a database containing 250 PacBio closed genome assemblies for quantifying potential contamination abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4…
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Fecal Aliquot Straw Technique wins my Best Figure One Award microbiomejournal.biomedcent…

Fecal Aliquot Straw Technique (FAST) allows for easy and reproducible subsampling: assessing...

Microbiome - Convenient, reproducible, and rapid preservation of unique biological specimens is pivotal to their use in microbiome analyses. As an increasing number of human studies incorporate the...

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Good point xitter.cf/KermitTheFrog/status/9…
Kermit the Frog
@KermitTheFrog1 Feb 2018
As both an eagle and a patriot, Sam Eagle still hasn't decided who to root for in this weekend's Big Game. I'm rooting for the commercials.
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Whoo! new character limits! xitter.cf/MeCookieMonster/status…
Cookie Monster
@MeCookieMonster8 Nov 2017
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MS bioinformatician job open in my group in #AntimicrobialResistance #bioinformatics asmcareerconnections.org/job… #publichealth #ASMNGS

POSITION Job Opening in LOCATION - American Society for Microbiology Career Connections

A new

asmcareerconnections.org
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Engelthaler’s talk about TB AR dynamics across time series highlights power of pop. genetics analysis for public health microbio #ASMNGS
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