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τ-SGA: synthetic genetic array analysis for systematically screening and quantifying trigenic interactions in yeast [journal]
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Elena Kuzmin, Mahfuzur Rahman (Ph.D. student), Benjamin VanderSluis (research specialist), Michael Costanzo, Chad L Myers (professor), Brenda J Andrews, Charles Boone
Nature Protocols
Comparing host module activation patterns and temporal dynamics in infection by influenza H1N1 viruses [preprint]
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Irina Nudelman, Daniil Kudrin, German Nudelman, Raamesh Deshpande, Boris M Hartmann, Steven H Kleinstein, Chad L Myers (professor), Stuart C Sealfon, Elena Zaslavsky
Student-focused development of a next-generation centrifuge force microscope [preprint]
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Kassidy J Tompkins, Elijah T Berscheid, Nitin Venkatesh, Adamek J Andrew, Aaron P Beckman, Mark A Esler, Andrew C Evans, Blake A Everett, Mohamed Houtti (Ph.D. student), Hyunwoo Koo, Lauren A Litzau, Andrew T Nelson, Tyler M Peterson, Taylor A Reid, Robert L Evans, Wendy R Gordon
Effects of diet-modulated autologous fecal microbiota transplantation on weight regain [journal]
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Ehud Rinott, Ilan Youngster, Anat Yaskolka Meir, Gal Tsaban, Hila Zelicha, Alon Kaplan, Dan Knights (professor), Kieran Tuohy, Francesca Fava, Matthias Uwe Scholz, Oren Ziv, Elad Reuven, Amir Tirosh, Assaf Rudich, Matthias Blüher, Michael Stumvoll, Uta Ceglarek, Karine Clement, Omry Koren, Dong D Wang, Frank B Hu, Meir J Stampfer, Iris Shai
Gastroenterology
Saliva testing is accurate for early-stage and presymptomatic COVID-19 [preprint]
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Abigail J Johnson, Shannon Zhou, Susan L Hoops (Ph.D. student), Benjamin Hillmann (Ph.D. student), Matthew Schomaker, Robyn Kincaid, Jerry Daniel, Kenneth Beckman, Daryl M Gohl, Sophia Yohe, Dan Knights (professor), Andrew C Nelson
Shared and disease-specific host gene-microbiome interactions across human diseases [preprint]
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Sambhawa Priya, Michael B Burns, Tonya Ward, Ruben AT Mars, Beth Adamowicz, Eric F Lock, Purna C Kashyap, Dan Knights (professor), Ran Blekhman
The biophysical basis of protein domain compatibility in ion channels [preprint]
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Willow Coyote-Maestas, David Nedrud, Antonio Suma, Yungui He, Kenneth Matreyek, Douglas Fowler, Vincenzo Carnevale, Chad L. Myers (professor), Daniel Schmidt
Wild primate microbiomes prevent weight gain in germ-free mice [journal]
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Dimitrios N Sidiropoulos, Gabriel A Al-Ghalith, Robin R Shields-Cutler, Tonya L Ward, Abigail J Johnson, Pajau Vangay, Dan Knights (professor), Purna C Kashyap, Yibo Xian, Amanda E Ramer-Tait, Jonathan B Clayton
Animal Microbiome
Accurate and Efficient KIR Gene and Haplotype Inference from Genome Sequencing Reads with Novel K-mer Signatures [journal]
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David Roe (BICB Ph.D. student), Rui Kuang (associate professor)
Frontiers in Immunology