Laurence Ettwiller
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Laurence Ettwiller
@ettwiller.bsky.social
Scientist working at New England Biolabs. Tweets and comments represent my personal opinion and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of New England Biolabs.
So happy to share our new study
“A Bait-and-Switch strategy links phenotypes to genes coding for Polymer-Degrading Enzymes in Intact Microbiomes.”
In this work, we discovered novel chitinases directly on microbiome; a study brilliantly led by Dr. Colleen Yancey
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Dream of avoiding carryover contamination in your NGS experiment?
Check out our latest preprint:
🧬 “A Novel NGS-Compatible Enzymatic Strategy Enables Carryover Contamination Removal and Enhances Sequencing Performance” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We estimate that 2–3% of contigs from viral metagenomes originate from genomes in which all canonical cytosines (C) have been replaced by modified bases (elifesciences.org/articles/70021). And that’s just for cytosine. (data from sewage and coastal metagenomes)
July 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It turns out that mSCD-B5 is part of many such enzymes with similar activities.
December 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our study published today on #bioRxiv describe the identification of a deaminase that converts 5mC to T, enabling direct sequencing of the human methylome and genome. This achievement was made possible through a collaborative effort across all departments at #NEB.
December 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM