Sean Gibbons

@gibbological@mstdn.science
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microbiome science | assoc prof @ Inst. for Systems Bio (ISB) | affiliate faculty at Univ. of Washington BioE and Genome Sciences | eScience Inst. and Applied Micro. Int. fellow | WRF investigator | systems bio of 💩 🦠 | 🧫🧬💻⚕️ | 🏳️‍🌈 he/him
lab websitehttps://gibbons.isbscience.org/
twitterhttps://twitter.com/gibbological

Want to learn how to process 16S microbiome data, conduct analyses, & visualize results?

Want to learn community-scale metabolic modeling?

Want to hear talks from experts on the gut-brain axis?

Register for the 2024 ISB Virtual Microbiome Series!

https://isbscience.org/microbiome2024/

A gut feeling: Microbes and their impacts on our minds

On October 16-18, 2024 ISB will host a virtual course and symposium on the gut-brain axis.

Excited to share that Nick Quinn-Bohmann's recent paper is the July cover-article in Nature Microbiology!

Check it out our paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01728-4

Cover art (attached) by the amazing Sam D'Orazio, in consultation with Allison Kudla at ISB 🤩

This work was co-supervised by @thaasophobia, & we had help from an amazing team of collaborators.

Microbial community-scale metabolic modelling predicts personalized short-chain fatty acid production profiles in the human gut - Nature Microbiology

Microbial community-scale metabolic modelling predicts person-specific short-chain fatty acid profiles and can be used to estimate the impact of dietary, prebiotic and probiotic interventions.

Nature

Happy to announce that my last preprint from the Gibbons Lab at ISB is now out at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.02.578701v1 . In the end it took us almost 5 years to make this work well.

Dietary intake is major factor in many studies but is not easy to measure on a fine-grained level. Our idea was to use metagenomic shotgun sequencing of fecal samples to detect and quantify food-derived DNA.

🐈 ← 💼 Some personal news: Early 2024 I will be joining the faculty of the @medunigraz. It's definitely a bitter-sweet moment leaving the amazing @gibbological lab at ISB, but I am very excited for what comes next and can't wait to work with the great research community in Graz (and Europe). https://www.cdiener.com/posts/meduni-graz/
Some personal news...

It still feels a bit unreal to write this but here it comes. After almost 6 incredible years at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle I will join the faculty of the Medical University of Graz early 2024 as an Assistant Professor in Computational Microbiome Science. My lab will be part of The Diagnostic and Research Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine and will operate within the Austrian Cluster of Excellence “Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health”....

Check out the latest paper from our lab: "Growth phase estimation for abundant bacterial populations sampled longitudinally from human stool metagenomes" in Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41424-1
Growth phase estimation for abundant bacterial populations sampled longitudinally from human stool metagenomes - Nature Communications

Here, the authors present a novel approach for inferring in vivo growth phases of human gut bacteria from metagenomic time series data. These inferences can be used to better-constrain community scale metabolic modeling in the gut.

Nature

I'm excited to announce that the 2023 ISB Virtual Microbiome Series registration site is live!

We will host a 2-day bioinformatic course and a 1-day symposium Oct. 11-13.

This year's theme is 'how the ecology of our guts protects us from pathogens'

https://isbscience.org/microbiome2023/

2023 ISB Virtual Microbiome Series

On October 11 - 13, 2023, ISB will host a virtual course and symposium on how the ecology of our guts protects us from pathogens.

I'm excited to announce that the 2023 ISB Virtual Microbiome Series registration site is live!

We will host a 2-day bioinformatic course and a 1-day symposium Oct. 11-13.

This year's theme is 'how the ecology of our guts protects us from pathogens'

https://isbscience.org/microbiome2023/

2023 ISB Virtual Microbiome Series

On October 11 - 13, 2023, ISB will host a virtual course and symposium on how the ecology of our guts protects us from pathogens.

Island biogeography theory and the gut: why taller people tend to harbor more diverse gut microbiomes. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.08.552554v1?med=mas

Out online now: Spotlight on 'A changing gut virome ecological landscape with longevity'

https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(23)00225-1?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@TWilmanski @gibbological

Special collection of immunology articles from JEM. Happy to see our paper highlighted!
https://t.co/m66ZTYreA9 https://rupress.org/DocumentLibrary/CollectionPDFs/Immunology_Collection_2023_Magazine_WEB.pdf