News

All news are listed in reversed chronological order.

Jun 2025

  1. Jun 21, 2025
    Our new paper on the diversity and composition of eukaryotes in the gut microbiome of wild baboons is now published in Animal Microbiome! This work was led by the brilliant Mary Chege, in collaboration with the Alberts, Tung, and Archie labs.
  2. Jun 4, 2025
    Our Review on Genomics of host–microbiome interactions in humans is now online in Nature Reviews Genetics.

Feb 2025

  1. Feb 20, 2025
    The 16S Compendium paper won the cover of Cell!

Jan 2025

  1. Jan 22, 2025
    Our compendium of 168,000 amplicon samples is out in Cell! Excited to have contributed to the article and its graphical illustration

Dec 2024

  1. Dec 18, 2024
    Check out our new preprint on Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons led by Mary Chege

Nov 2024

  1. Nov 15, 2024
    Very excited to see this paper finally out in Cell: Fecal microbial load is a major determinant of gut microbiome variation and a confounder for disease associations
  2. Nov 2, 2024
    Great experience attending CSHL Microbiome! I presented our work on milk and infant gut microbiome, and the talented student Mary Chege presented our work on the eukaryotes in the gut of wild baboons.

Mar 2024

  1. Mar 25, 2024
    Our preprint Fecal microbial load is a major determinant of gut microbiome variation and a confounder for disease associations led by Suguru Nishijima is out on bioRxiv! Check it out!
  2. Mar 17, 2024
    Excited to have been selected among the 12 participants for the 3 weeks-long workshop on Theory of Microbial Symbiosis at the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology
  3. Mar 1, 2024
    Postdoc spotlight article on The Microbiome Center newsletter

Jan 2024

  1. Jan 29, 2024
    Our preprint on breastmilk and infant gut microbiome is now online on bioRxiv!

Dec 2023

  1. Dec 21, 2023
    Our paper, Meconium Microbiome of Very Preterm Infants across Germany, was highlighted as an ASMicrobiology Top Cited paper in 2023
  2. Dec 12, 2023
    Launch of this website.

Oct 2023

  1. Oct 28, 2023
    Our database SPIRE: a Searchable, Planetary-scale mIcrobiome REsource is now published in Nucleic Acids Research.