Jennifer Fouquier

TL;DR: QIIME 2 development was primarily funded by NSF Awards 1565100 to J.G.C. and R.K.P. and partial support was also provided by the following: grants NIH U54CA143925 and U54MD012388.

TL;DR: QIIME 2 provides new features that will drive the next generation of microbiome research, including interactive spatial and temporal analysis and visualization tools, support for metabolomics and shotgun metagenomics analysis, and automated data provenance tracking to ensure reproducible, transparent microbiome data science.

TL;DR: An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

TL;DR: A study on the impacts of geography, material type, human interaction, location in a room, seasonal variation, and indoor and microenvironmental parameters on bacterial communities in offices finds that offices have city-specific bacterial communities, such that it can accurately predict which city an office microbiome sample is derived from, but office- specific bacterial communities are less apparent.

TL;DR: Despite late-successional dominance by skin- and outdoor-associated bacteria, the most ubiquitous organisms were predominantly gut-associated taxa, which persisted following exclusion of humans, suggesting that bacterial hosts are mostly dormant on BE surfaces.