Congratulations to Brittany Petros for defending her Honors Thesis last week! Great job Brittany 🎉🎉

REMINDER 🚨 Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center (co-directed by Wendy Garrett & Curtis) will host its annual symposium on May 18 at Harvard T.H. Chan School
@hsph.harvard.edu. The theme will be 'Translating the Microbiome'. Poster abstracts are due April 1. Register : hsph.me/hcmph2026

Great work! Congrats Jason, Surya and team!

Wishing farewell to the awesome Amrisha Bhosle as she transitions to a new role! You have been such an integral part of the lab. Thank you for all the memories and keep in touch!

HCMPH Symposium | Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health We are delighted to welcome everyone to the eighth annual Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center (HCMPH) symposium. As microbial community science

REMINDER 🚨 Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center (co-directed by Wendy Garrett & Curtis) will host its annual symposium on May 18 at Harvard T.H. Chan School @hsph.harvard.edu. The theme will be 'Translating the Microbiome'. Poster abstracts are due April 1. Register : hsph.me/hcmph2026

Eric @efranzosa.bsky.social presented Jordan's BAQLaVa project at the HVP meeting last week!

Hello, thank you for your interest in the workshop! The website for it is not up yet, but we will announce it soon on our Bluesky. Stay tuned to this space for that!

The annual HVP meeting is underway and several folks from the lab are at NIH representing the lab!
More info at - commonfund.nih.gov/humanvirome

Microbiome Times Forum Microbiome Times Partnering Forum: Meet Your Next Collaborator Connect with decision-makers spanning the global microbial ecosystem to propel dealmaking and innovation 500+ expected attendees from ov...

Thank you to the Microbiome Times forum for organizing a wonderful conference in Copenhagen, and for inviting Curtis!
More info - www.microbiomeforum.com

Announcing WAAFLE 1.5 WAAFLE 1.5 has been updated to utilize the chocophlan.v202210_202403 SGB database, which is compatible with all bioBakery 4 tools utilizing SGB pangenomes (e.g., MetaPhlAn4 and HUMAnN4, see details Me...

Announcing WAAFLE 1.5! Now compatible with SGB-level taxonomy and the ChocoPhlAn 4 gene family database. Includes a new BLAST database, updated SGB pangenome taxonomy, and speed/reliability improvements. WAAFLE now integrates smoothly with other bioBakery 4 tools.
forum.biobakery.org/t/announcing...

HCMPH Symposium | Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health We are delighted to welcome everyone to the eighth annual Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center (HCMPH) symposium. As microbial community science

IMP ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center (co-directed by Wendy Garrett & Curtis) will host its annual symposium on May 18 @ Harvard T.H. Chan School @hsph.harvard.edu. The theme is 'Translating the Microbiome'. Poster abstracts are due April 1. Register : hsph.me/hcmph2026

A big thanks to the University of British Columbia Department of Microbiology and Immunology @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social for hosting Curtis for a talk on some of the latest developments in the lab!
mbim.ubc.ca/events/semin...

FORM | Wellcome Leap: Unconventional Projects. Funded at Scale. NEW $50M Program Foundations of a Resilient Microbiome APPLY NOW We are pleased to announce the selected performers.Kiran Raosaheb Patil, University of CambridgeLaurel...

🎉 Excited to share that Hutlab, collaborating with Laurel Gabard-Durnam @ NEU has been awarded a Wellcome Leap FORM grant! We will explores how early-life gut microbiome dynamics shape infant neurodevelopment and long-term brain health.
Learn more wellcomeleap.org/form/ #Microbiome #Neurodevelopment

Congrats to Yujia for passing her qualifying exam!!

We are excited to be joining the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) program @ NCI. Our work will develop methods to detect cancer-associated viruses and microbial variation from metagenomes, revealing previously hidden contributors to colorectal carcinogenesis. R21 kicking off! 🎉🎉

A big thanks to The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics at @mitpress.bsky.social for hosting Curtis for a talk on the endogenous human virome!

Eric @efranzosa.bsky.social and Kelsey from the lab started teaching BST 281 - Genomic Data Manipulation, a couple weeks ago! It covers genomic sequence analysis, high throughput data analysis and cool topics that are currently of importance in the field 🧑‍🎓

Fun time at Time Out market!

Huge thanks to everyone who took BST272 (Computing Environments for Biology) this year! It’s an intense few weeks as intro to working at the terminal, and we hope folks build on it in courses like BST281. This was our first year integrating AI into the curriculum—thanks for all the great feedback!

Aaaaand this one is from Curtis!

Boston recently had its biggest snow of the season so far. Here are some snow pictures from Hutlab members! ❄️🌨️🐶

Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome - Nature A metagenomic survey of babies attending the first year of nursery detected extensive baby-to-baby microbial strain transmission, pointing to social interactions in infancy as crucial drivers of infan...

🥁 NEW

Our study on infant gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @nature.com:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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MSPCA-Angell This holiday season, Baby Duff received the gift of… poop! Baby Duff recently underwent his third fecal transplant to help manage his chronic intermittent diarrhea, which he has suffered from since....

MSPCA-Angell with FMT for cats!!
www.facebook.com/mspcaangell/...

MaAsLin 3: refining and extending generalized multivariable linear models for meta-omic association discovery - Nature Methods MaAsLin 3 is a comprehensive and flexible framework for microbiome association studies with expanded toolsets of statistical models, tests and types of inference.

MaAsLin 3: a comprehensive, flexible framework for microbiome association studies. @hutlab.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to Yehoon Jo @yehoon.bsky.social who finished his PhD lab rotation in the Hutlab last semester and is joining the lab as a PhD student! 🎉

Congratulations to Sagun Maharjan @sagunmaharjann.bsky.social for graduating with a Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Tech while working at the Hutlab!

Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025 The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and ...

Congratulations to Curtis and Eric Franzosa from the lab for being featured in the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers of 2025 (in both Biology/Biochemistry and Microbiology categories)! clarivate.com/highly-cited... 🎉

Happy holidays from the Hutlab!! 🎉☃️

A huge thanks to Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social , @cam.ac.uk and Dr. Nic Walton for organizing a two-day Data Workshop to address data and computing challenges across the group. Chahat gave a presentation of his work, and Curtis led a session on best practices for use of AI/ML!

Huge thanks to Curtis for spending some time with us here in Happy Valley - if you missed his talk, you can check it out here on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/andhyvSyt6c?...