Congratulations to Dr. @ChristineTataru who successfully defended her dissertation, "Harnessing Heterogeneity in Human Gut Microbiomes"! We're so proud of this huge accomplishment!

Masters student @AcetylCoAlex will be presenting her thesis defense titled "Medium-chain fatty acid reduced in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder rescues behavioral phenotypes in a mouse model" next week on June 7! We're so proud of you Alex!

Do you ever with you could do a meta-analysis without... actually doing a meta-analysis? We've made GutMicrobiomeEmbeddings (GMEmbeddings) to transform your 16s ASV count table into an "embedding space" which summarizes the American Gut Project's ~15,000 samples. A🧵

Congratulations to our Research Assistant, former undergraduate researcher, and one of the very first David Lab members Austin Martin on his acceptance to medical school at @OHSUSOM! We're all very proud of you Austin!! 🎉🎉🎉

A huge CONGRATULATIONS to Priyanka Singla, M.S.! Priyanka successfully defended her Master's thesis titled "Investigating the Impact of Gut Microbiota on Rodent Behavior and their Interaction with Enteroendocrine Cells" this morning. We are so proud of you, Priyanka!