Evan Qu
@quevan.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the MIT Microbiology Program (co2020). @Lieberman Lab @contaminatedsci.bsky.social. I study the ecology and evolution of skin microbes, like this one -> 🤏
Excited to share my preprint describing a new microbiome analysis method, PHLAME, for detecting strain-level associations in difficult sample types. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This work was done with my great coauthors and my amazing advisor @contaminatedsci.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This work was done with my great coauthors and my amazing advisor @contaminatedsci.bsky.social
Intraspecies associations from strain-rich metagenome samples
Genetically distinct strains of a species can vary widely in phenotype, reducing the utility of species-resolved microbiome measurements for detecting associations with health or disease. While metage...
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February 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Excited to share my preprint describing a new microbiome analysis method, PHLAME, for detecting strain-level associations in difficult sample types. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This work was done with my great coauthors and my amazing advisor @contaminatedsci.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This work was done with my great coauthors and my amazing advisor @contaminatedsci.bsky.social
Reposted by Evan Qu
Ever wondered about the origin of the bacteria that call our faces home? 🤔 Our new preprint dives into the fascinating dynamics of the human facial skin microbiome (FSM) and explores the natural history of important microbiome species on people at high resolution. 🧫🧵
Highly-resolved within-species dynamics in the human facial skin microbiome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.10.575018v1
Highly-resolved within-species dynamics in the human facial skin microbiome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.10.575018v1
Human facial skin microbiomes (FSMs) on adults are dominated by just two bacterial species, Cutibact
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January 11, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Ever wondered about the origin of the bacteria that call our faces home? 🤔 Our new preprint dives into the fascinating dynamics of the human facial skin microbiome (FSM) and explores the natural history of important microbiome species on people at high resolution. 🧫🧵