Lots of fun writing this with the Rachel Rock age, sex, and microbes!

My postdoc Joseph Matheson and I were sending off my former undergraduate student Minkyu Kim to graduate school at USC and giving him some advice over a beer. I thought it might be useful to share.

The heroic efforts of Cecilia Noecker with a big lift from the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network mass spec team!

Peter Turnbaugh and colleagues UC San Francisco show that even mild cases of COVID can have long-lasting effects on gut microbes. #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Work by Peter Turnbaugh UC San Francisco and colleagues published in #mBio shows how the gut environment controls bacterial degradation of the dyes in processed foods and drugs. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Flora has a microbiome too! Enjoy this inspired team-up with art by Rachel Rock and poem by Margaret Alexander, PhD (she/her) #MicrobeArt2023 #InternationalMicroorganismDay

A double-header out now with our amazing clinical collaborators UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr Erin Van Blarigan Sor Piawah Than S. Kyaw, PhD looking at the microbiome in cancer survivors sciencedirect.com/science/articl… and with respect to health disparities mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/1…

Congrats to Veronica Escalante whose paper dissecting the ways in which gut bacteria try to escape the off-target effects of a common statin is out today onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mm…

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Science is Fun! is back after a long hiatus. I interview my UC San Francisco neighbor, PI of Mukherjee Lab about how pathogenic bacteria are great tools to discover how human cells work. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

Celebrate the holidays with more Science is Fun! Dr. Susan Fisher UC San Francisco explains the wonders of the placenta. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

"Dad Life!" Is about to go double platinum 😭😆🤣 I'm dead (Sound Up)

This week on Science is Fun! Lewis Lanier UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr details the discovery of a new type of immune cell dubbed the "natural killer cell” and why they're so unique and fascinating. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

This week I'm joined by Jay Levy UCSF School of Medicine, who co-discovered HIV. He talks about this fascinating history and the current challenges in this area. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

This week on Science is Fun! syn bio prof Kole Roybal UC San Francisco shares the exciting progress in immune cell therapies for cancer: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

Dr. Ron Krauss UC San Francisco UCSFChildrensOakland is an expert in cholesterol – on #SIF he explains why nutrition is so complex and how diet advice is often oversimplified: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

Stephen Hauser UC San Francisco is a #multiplesclerosis pioneer and author of "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries.” On #SIF he shares a remarkable career inspired by a childhood at the boxing ring: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sci…

Nice article on using CRISPR to engineering the microbiome: the-scientist.com/engineering-th…