@anna_cusco

Researcher at @BigDataBiology Metagenomics | Animal microbiome | Antibiotic Resistance | Nanopore Sequencing

Joined February 2013
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Finally, the results of my postdoc at the @BigDataBiology lab in Shanghai see the light! The work includes my three favorite things research-wise: 🦠 microbiome, 🧬 long-reads, and 🐶 dogs. See our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Capturing global pet dog gut microbial diversity and hundreds of near-finished bacterial genomes by...

Pet dogs are considered part of the family, and understanding their gut microbiomes can provide insights into both animal and household health. Most comprehensive studies, however, relied on short-...

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🧵 We are excited to share our new paper published in @ISMEJournal 🎉 Using rumen microbiota from 2,496 cattle across five countries and multiple breeds, we explored the links between microbial communities, methane emissions, and feed efficiency doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrag1…

Ruminosignatures associated with methane emissions and feed efficiency across geographies and...

Abstract. The cattle rumen microbiota represents a complex and dynamic ecosystem whose organization and relationship to host phenotypes are important for f

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Full text HTML version of the preprint now available too: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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How well do ARG detection pipelines agree when applied to the same data? Spoiler: not very well. In our new preprint, we ran 10 pipelines on 270M microbial unigenes from GMGCv1. The same data can support conflicting biological conclusions!🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

The elusive resistome: a global comparison reveals large discrepancies among detection pipelines

Identifying antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) from metagenomic data is critical for studying antimicrobial resistance across microbial communities and pathogens. However, there is no standardized...

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.@anna_cusco welcomed @S_Ahannach, @Sandra @ssandralizc and @Josiane63293249 and had a rich conversation on collaboration, sisterhood, and #WomensHealth research! Thanks to @tohseenn, Marianna Bergamaschi, Merel van Gogh, and the podcast team. #CitizenScienceMonth 2/2
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NEW #MVIFconversations: Episode 4 is about @Isala_UAntwerp – The power of sisterhood! ▶️ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5Sp… ▶️ Amazon music: music.amazon.com/podcasts/81… ▶️ Apple Music: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… ▶️ YouTube podcast: youtu.be/IsKTzFOs0J0 1/2

Episode 4 - Sarah Ahannach, Sandra Condori & Josiane Kenfack: “ISALA: The power of sisterhood"

MVIF Conversations · Episode

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💫 #MVIF Season 5 💫 Check out the program and feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open: microbiome-vif.org/en-US/how… #MVIF is proudly supported by @illumina @CorundumSB and our non-commercial co-organizing partners @SeeraveF @CUNYSPH
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New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT  microbiomedigest.com/2025/10… • Shanghai dog microbiome / @anna_cusco • microbetag / @haris_zaf • invitation for the #MVIF 42 / @MicrobiomeVIF   & more.   Happy Friday!

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See you at the MVIF 42! Human gut microbiomeMicro-scale spatial metagenomics: revealing high-resolution spatial biogeography of gut microbiomes – Carlotta Pietroni – bioRxiv Animal microbiomeCaptur…

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Anna Cuscó@anna_cusco23 Sep 2025
If you made it this far, thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed it. I am currently looking for my next research adventure. If you have insights on the microbiome/microbial genomics job market in Europe (academia & industry), or want to chat about this work, please reach out.
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September 2025 updates! A focus on Anna's preprint, but several other updates too, including Faith Adegoke joining us to work on AMR and several other preprints bigdatabiology.substack.com/…
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I would like to thank all co-authors: Yiqian Duan, Fernando Gil, Alexei Chklovski, Nithya Kruthi, Shaojun Pan, Sofia Forslund, Susanne Lau, Ulrike Löber, Xing-Ming Zhao, and especially @luispedrocoelho And of course, all the dog owners and the main characters of this story🐶
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If you made it this far, thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed it. I am currently looking for my next research adventure. If you have insights on the microbiome/microbial genomics job market in Europe (academia & industry), or want to chat about this work, please reach out.
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Full thread later, but @anna_cusco 's preprint on the pet dog gut microbiome is now up at @biorxiv_micrbio doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.17.6…
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If you are at #ISMBECCB2025 come listen to me present at 14:40! ismb-schedule.luispedro.org/…
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