Rob Knight

TL;DR: Methods for error correction and classification of metagenomic datasets suggest that the rare biosphere is not as large as previously assumed.

TL;DR: It is shown that balances can yield insights about niche differentiation across multiple microbial environments, including soil environments and lung sputum, and have the potential to reshape how future ecological analyses aimed at revealing differences in relative taxonomic abundances across different samples are carried out.

TL;DR: Fecal material, most likely dog feces, often represents an unexpected source of bacteria in the atmosphere at more urbanized locations during the winter, showing that Airborne bacteria are clearly an important, but understudied, component of air quality that needs to be better integrated into efforts to measure and model pollutants in the Atmosphere.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the prevalence and dynamics of B.1.7 in the United States (US), tracking it back to its early emergence using S gene target failure (SGTF) and SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing.

TL;DR: The view that prefrontal and hippocampal regions are involved in rapid automatic detection and habituation to unexpected environmental events and are key elements of the orienting response in humans is supported.