NIH Fogarty Global Health Equity Fellow, Stanford University & University of the Witwatersrand
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Dylan Maghini retweeted
The preprint our our paper
"Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa" is out, we think the largest gut microbiome project in Africa to date:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Despite 84% of the world's population residing in low- and middle-income countries, these populations are vastly underrepresented in gut microbiome research. Here, we expand the microbiome atlas of Africa through a study of 1,800 women in four countries. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Dylan Maghini retweeted
Quantifying bias introduced by sample collection in relative and absolute microbiome measurements go.nature.com/3n1esws
Curious how to sample large gut microbiome cohorts and minimize sample handling bias? Want to incorporate absolute abundance measurements into your studies? Check out our manuscript on measuring taxonomic bias introduced by sample collection methods.
nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
While most studies use relative microbial measurements, excellent prior work has used absolute quantification to infer the directionality of changing microbial abundances. Using these methods, we identified how absolute microbial composition changed across storage methods.
Check out our paper for more details, including our specific recommendations for storage kits depending on your study design, and details on our use of qPCR for absolute quantification!
nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
How can we support equitable international research? How can we leverage thoughtful and open collaboration to push the bounds of microbiome research? Read Voke’s commentary for her thoughts and recommendations:
Underrepresentation of global populations in biomedical research has become a glaring challenge for implementation science with implications for precision medicine. rdcu.be/cWvDE 1/ @shazeZA @DylanMaghini @SBIMB1
Dylan Maghini retweeted
If the last few days have shown me anything, it's that we *desperately* need to be training scientists to understand the societal and ethical implications of research.
Dylan Maghini retweeted
We are excited to share our new preprint extending our analyses of coalescence times on the X chromosome under different types of first-cousin consanguinity.
This work was done with Alissa Severson, @ShaiCarmi , and @NoahARosenberg.
doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.05.4…
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Dylan Maghini retweeted
Interesting new @NatureComms paper from Ami Bhatt & colleagues studies nonwestern and non-industrialized gut microbiome from rural and urban cities in South Africa, and finds new microbial diversity not represented by existing microbiome databases
ow.ly/qcPi30sbYe9
Dylan Maghini retweeted
The @H3Africa #AWIGen team was very pleased to collaborate with Ami Bhatt, @Fiona_Tamburini, @DylanMaghini from the Bhatt Lab at Stanford as part of our ongoing work on the human microbiome in Africa. Thanks to @V3ed for leading the SA work doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-2…