Michael Yu @michaelkuyu

Computational and systems biologist, with a focus on microbial life. scholar.google.com/citations?hl=e… Chicago, IL Joined August 2013

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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey

2 years ago

I am very happy to report that the years of work we put into studying the ecology and evolution of a single cryptic human gut plasmid is now nicely summarized in a paper that just appeared in @CellCellPress: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Here is a 🧵 to cover some take home messages.

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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey

2 years ago

Now @emily_fogarty11's pre-print is officially out (🎉), I'd like to tell you more about one of the most curious things we (or at least me, my ignorant self) stumbled upon in the human gut microbiome. This is about a cryptic plasmid, called pBI143. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Eric Jonas @stochastician

4 years ago

Most "interdisciplinary" seed funding that I've seen operates on what I'll call the "particle accelerator" model of funding: get a new quantitative person and a new domain person and smash them together at high energy. This makes me a little sad. /1

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Microbiome Virtual International Forum @MicrobiomeVIF

4 years ago

And here a bit of an answers to the biological questions! #MVIF

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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey

4 years ago

I'm very honored to be a recipient of one of the most worthy recognitions I could ever imagine receiving: The #ResearchParasite Award (for secondary analyses of other people's data). I will now continue my goal to get most out of public data as a 'card carrying' parasite :')

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Michael Yu @michaelkuyu

4 years ago

Our new work is out! "The genetic and ecological landscape of plasmids in the human gut", with @emily_fogarty11 & @merenbey Powered by new machine learning and computational methods, applied on a massive collection of microbial genomes and metagenomes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey

4 years ago

Here is our new work on the "genetic & ecological landscape of plasmids in the human gut", in which @michaelkuyu & @emily_fogarty11 shed light on a critical yet poorly-studied aspect of microbial ecology. Looking forward to your comments & criticism! :) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Min Jin Lee @minjinlee11

5 years ago

If the shooter drove to “Young’s Asian Massage” & killed the workers there with zero proof of any illegal business, then his claim of destroying sexual “temptation” arises from 2 words: “Asian Massage” in the business name. In the shooter’s mind: Asian massage = sex.

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Mar Albà @maralbasoler

7 years ago

New preprint from the lab 'Frequent birth of de novo genes in the compact yeast genome' doi.org/10.1101/575837, we show that new genes frequently originate in regions in which both DNA strands are used as templates for transcription. @willblev @jruizorera @LucasBCarey @imimat

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nature @Nature

8 years ago

We were blown away by some of your responses to our recent Tweet about poor mental health in postgrads. It's time the issue was given some proper attention. go.nature.com/2IfRNlP