Microbes, Evolution, Stats, Physics
North Carolina, USA
Joined August 2015
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Benjamin Callahan retweeted
Our latest: The taxonomic resolution of 16S sequencing doesn't stop at the species level when using modern long-read techniques. Serovars from 16S...
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Benjamin Callahan retweeted
Love that @bejcal called using data only in the original paper “a crime against data” - make it findable & usable so it has many lives/uses! #NMDC #ASMicrobe
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Excited to finally share our work showing the diversity of Gardnerella in the vaginal microbiome!
When I started this project a few years ago, all Gardnerella was considered a single species. Here we add to the rapidly expanding knowledge of the diversity of this genus.
Did you know: It is not rare for every known genomospecies of Gardnerella (all 14!) to be present in a vaginal microbiome sample? And how ecologically different are these Gardnerellas?
Our latest preprint, led by Hanna Berman:
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Benjamin Callahan retweeted
STAMPS @ MBL is back in 2023! Jul 19-29 in Woods Hole ☀️🏖️💻
STAMPS has trained thousands of microbial ecologists (of all stripes!) in the bioinformatic and statistical analysis of microbiome data 🌟🧠🦠
Join us for #STAMPS2023 and be one of them! 😻🥳📈
Benjamin Callahan retweeted
Calling all students and microbiome professionals! Join the IMMSA Bioinformatics Working Group to address "How do we define how accurate a microbiome profile is?" forms.gle/TAA39T1fLxrCMAFw8. Meeting will be on zoom Thursday Nov 10, 2022 at Noon eastern time!
Benjamin Callahan retweeted
Our researchers aren’t just solving problems, but also sharing their expertise with early-career scientists!
Yesterday, @bejcal and @buchler_nicolas gave a fantastic seminar to our postdocs on the skills and importance of peer reviewing!
Benjamin Callahan retweeted
This manuscript addresses the mixed and inconsistent findings related to the associations between the vaginal microbiome and preterm birth in current literature. 1/
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The Nucleic Acid Observatory project at MIT is hiring an experimental scientist to help lead our efforts to develop an environmental metagenomics monitoring system to detect catastrophic biothreats
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Congrats to CVM's Dr. Ben Callahan (@bejcal), Assistant Professor of Microbiomes and Complex Microbial Communities, on being awarded the American Society for Microbiology's Microbiome Data Prize!
ASM is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 ASM Awards and Prize. The awards recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to advancing the field, their careers and their institutions. Read the press release for more information: asm.social/Ln
Benjamin Callahan retweeted
New preprint alert! 🚨🥳😻
When we first put out the “MWC model” paper, there was a lot of concern about how negatively impactful the problem of unequal detection efficiencies in microbiome taxonomic profiling is.
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Benjamin Callahan retweeted
Post Doc position available in the Meiklejohn Lab at #NCState focused in #forensicbiology. Please RT! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/15696…
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An open-rank tenure-track faculty position in Bioinformatics (defined broadly) at @NCState is now open. I'll say personally that the BRC has been a great home for that last four years with many fantastic colleagues.
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I'm hiring two mid-career microbiologists to join my team at NIST. Please spread the word. #NISTmicrobiome usajobs.gov/job/625527000
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Do you wonder what #eDNA is made of and how it persists? So did we, check out our preprint. We welcome feedback. Thanks team COVID project! @lynseyrharper @mauvisseau @KleyerHannah Bob Hanner and Michi Sanders! doi.org/10.22541/au.16363839…
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This study from our Population Health & Pathobiology department & @LGenomics describes & validates LoopSeq, a commercially available synthetic long-read sequencing technology that generates highly accurate long reads from standard short reads.
Read Below!
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Benjamin Callahan retweeted
In nearly exactly one week, I'll be giving a 15m talk at the IMMSA quarterly webinar on new approaches to account for taxonomic bias in microbiome experiments
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The Hawkes lab has 2 #postdoc positions available to work in (1) soil microbial ecology, C cycling, and global change (jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/15122…), and (2) plant-microbe interactions and wheat resilience (jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/15095…). Please RT!
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The Genetics and Genomics Scholars Program at NCSU is recruiting PhD students!
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.@bejcal: number one plea for publishers is to remove formatting requirements at initial submission; plenty of nods and agreement from other panellists @highwirepress webinar. #FreeFormat @wileyinresearch is here for that :) authorservices.wiley.com/aut…