It has been gratifying to collaborate with Atrandi Biosciences in the development of a novel approach to analyze the genomes of individual extracellular genetic elements, which revealed the abundance of viruses with non-canonical DNA in the ocean:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m excited to share our effort to obtain one of the first estimates of the net rate, in physical time, of lateral gene transfer (LGT) – nature’s own genetic engineering - across a complex, global microbiome:
doi.org/10.1093/isme...

NSF BIO and OCE postdoc fellowships:
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I hope this in-depth comparison of single amplified genomes (SAGs) and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) will help inform data interpretation and experimental design in a broad range of research projects: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Kevin Guay is adding 200 TB to Bigelow Laboratory's HPC data storage, which is very much appreciate by the SCGC team! Just keep this in perspective: that's how much microbial genomic data is stored and used in each cup of ocean water!