Aura Raulo
@auraulo.bsky.social
Junior research fellow at Queens college & biology department @ Oxford University, working on #microbiome transmission dynamics in #socialnetworks of wild mammals.
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You can get an accurate estimate of total bacterial biomass from stool metagenomes by simply normalizing by host read count, without needing any additional measurements.
Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🧵
Metagenomic estimation of absolute bacterial biomass in the mammalian gut through host-derived read normalization | mSystems
In this study, we asked whether normalization by host reads alone was sufficient to
estimate absolute bacterial biomass directly from stool metagenomic data, without
the need for synthetic spike-ins, ...
journals.asm.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
You can get an accurate estimate of total bacterial biomass from stool metagenomes by simply normalizing by host read count, without needing any additional measurements.
Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🧵
Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🧵
Hei kaikki! Minä ja pieni joukko tutkijaystäviä olemme lähdössä elokuussa Turun saaristoon etsimään harvinaisia bakteereita saarten maaperästä. Tutkimusmatkamme on kumivenettä vailla.
Olisiko kellään lainata/vuokrata kumivenettä elokuun ensimmäiseksi viikoksi tutkimusmatkallemme?
Olisiko kellään lainata/vuokrata kumivenettä elokuun ensimmäiseksi viikoksi tutkimusmatkallemme?
July 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Hei kaikki! Minä ja pieni joukko tutkijaystäviä olemme lähdössä elokuussa Turun saaristoon etsimään harvinaisia bakteereita saarten maaperästä. Tutkimusmatkamme on kumivenettä vailla.
Olisiko kellään lainata/vuokrata kumivenettä elokuun ensimmäiseksi viikoksi tutkimusmatkallemme?
Olisiko kellään lainata/vuokrata kumivenettä elokuun ensimmäiseksi viikoksi tutkimusmatkallemme?
Reposted by Aura Raulo
🥁 New publication
Our latest study in collab w/ the Groningen Microbiome Hub team is OUT!
We identified 484 microbial-strain-level associations with 241 host phenotypes, encompassing human anthropometric factors, biochemical measurements, diseases, and lifestyle. And more!
For more details 🧵 ⬇️
Our latest study in collab w/ the Groningen Microbiome Hub team is OUT!
We identified 484 microbial-strain-level associations with 241 host phenotypes, encompassing human anthropometric factors, biochemical measurements, diseases, and lifestyle. And more!
For more details 🧵 ⬇️
Thrilled to share that our manuscript on strain-level gut microbiome variation across diverse populations and human phenotypes is out today in @cellpress.bsky.social
Curious about how strain diversity relates to human traits? Follow this thread! 🌍 (1/n)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Curious about how strain diversity relates to human traits? Follow this thread! 🌍 (1/n)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Global genetic structure of human gut microbiome species is related to geographic location and host health
The human gut harbors thousands of microbial species, each exhibiting significant inter-individual genetic variability. Although many studies have ass…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🥁 New publication
Our latest study in collab w/ the Groningen Microbiome Hub team is OUT!
We identified 484 microbial-strain-level associations with 241 host phenotypes, encompassing human anthropometric factors, biochemical measurements, diseases, and lifestyle. And more!
For more details 🧵 ⬇️
Our latest study in collab w/ the Groningen Microbiome Hub team is OUT!
We identified 484 microbial-strain-level associations with 241 host phenotypes, encompassing human anthropometric factors, biochemical measurements, diseases, and lifestyle. And more!
For more details 🧵 ⬇️
We are organising a art-science symposium on Memory in Complex Systems in a few weeks in Tampere, Finland! The event is free and open to everyobody! Welcome!
April 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We are organising a art-science symposium on Memory in Complex Systems in a few weeks in Tampere, Finland! The event is free and open to everyobody! Welcome!
Reposted by Aura Raulo
Now out in npj Biodiversity: Multispecies relations shape bird-feeding practices
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s441...
From the bird-feeding section of
@helsinkirats.bsky.social w/ @informedbirds.bsky.social @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social
A short thread:
1/8
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s441...
From the bird-feeding section of
@helsinkirats.bsky.social w/ @informedbirds.bsky.social @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social
A short thread:
1/8
March 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Now out in npj Biodiversity: Multispecies relations shape bird-feeding practices
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s441...
From the bird-feeding section of
@helsinkirats.bsky.social w/ @informedbirds.bsky.social @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social
A short thread:
1/8
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s441...
From the bird-feeding section of
@helsinkirats.bsky.social w/ @informedbirds.bsky.social @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social
A short thread:
1/8
Now out in npj Biodiversity: Multispecies relations shape bird-feeding practices
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s441...
From the bird-feeding section of
@helsinkirats.bsky.social w/ @informedbirds.bsky.social @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social
A short thread:
1/8
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s441...
From the bird-feeding section of
@helsinkirats.bsky.social w/ @informedbirds.bsky.social @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social
A short thread:
1/8
March 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Hallituksen kriteerit luonnontilaisista ja vanhoista metsistä eivät hidasta luontokatoa suomalaisissa metsissä. Suojelupäätösten tulee perustua tieteeseen. Näin lausuimme vanhojen metsien kriteereistä viime kesänä. Hallitus pitää aiemmat kriteerit kritiikistä huolimatta. yle.fi/a/74-20148157
Yle näki lopulliset kriteerit vanhojen metsien suojeluun – kova kritiikki ei näytä kääntäneen hallituksen päätä
Hallitus ei ole muuttanut ikää ja kuolleen puun määrää koskevia rajoja, joiden perusteella vanhat metsät valikoidaan suojeluun.
yle.fi
March 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Hallituksen kriteerit luonnontilaisista ja vanhoista metsistä eivät hidasta luontokatoa suomalaisissa metsissä. Suojelupäätösten tulee perustua tieteeseen. Näin lausuimme vanhojen metsien kriteereistä viime kesänä. Hallitus pitää aiemmat kriteerit kritiikistä huolimatta. yle.fi/a/74-20148157
Here's a great idea for a gift to self or others:
Through Finnish natural heritage foundation, you can buy old-growth boreal forest of pristine bog land to protection. It's a no-nonsense charity that uses 100% of donations in buying land back to nature
luonnonperintosaatio.fi/en/
Through Finnish natural heritage foundation, you can buy old-growth boreal forest of pristine bog land to protection. It's a no-nonsense charity that uses 100% of donations in buying land back to nature
luonnonperintosaatio.fi/en/
Home - Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation
Through the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation, every friend of nature can personally be part of the work for the conservation of old-growth forests.
luonnonperintosaatio.fi
February 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Here's a great idea for a gift to self or others:
Through Finnish natural heritage foundation, you can buy old-growth boreal forest of pristine bog land to protection. It's a no-nonsense charity that uses 100% of donations in buying land back to nature
luonnonperintosaatio.fi/en/
Through Finnish natural heritage foundation, you can buy old-growth boreal forest of pristine bog land to protection. It's a no-nonsense charity that uses 100% of donations in buying land back to nature
luonnonperintosaatio.fi/en/
This is my absolute favorite piece of recent research and I'm hyped to see it out!
So amazing to see how human microbiomes live within the ecological landscape structured by a social network of one single village! Ecosystems nested within social sytsems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
So amazing to see how human microbiomes live within the ecological landscape structured by a social network of one single village! Ecosystems nested within social sytsems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks - Nature
An investigation into the relationship between network structure and gut microbiome composition among people living in 18 isolated Honduras villages reveals that strain-sharing can be mediated by...
www.nature.com
January 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is my absolute favorite piece of recent research and I'm hyped to see it out!
So amazing to see how human microbiomes live within the ecological landscape structured by a social network of one single village! Ecosystems nested within social sytsems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
So amazing to see how human microbiomes live within the ecological landscape structured by a social network of one single village! Ecosystems nested within social sytsems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...