A phylogenetic transform enhances analysis of compositional microbiota data (PhILR) Surveys of microbial communities (microbiota), typically measured as relative abundance of species, have illustrated the importance of these communities in human health and disease. Yet, statistical artifacts commonly plague the…
The David Lab is happy to announce that Aspen Reese had her Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) from the NSF Population and Community Ecology Program recommended for funding. Congratulations Aspen!
The David Lab has recently added a new computational graduate student, Firas Midani. Firas is a Computational Biology & Bioinformatics PhD student. Firas will be working to understand the structure and dynamics of human microbiota using machine learning, with partial…