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Dr. Weimer is one of the Key Researchers on the Impacts of Orchard Grazing on Soil Health, Food Safety, and Pest Control. Read about the program here.
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JGI announces the 2023 Community Science Program Awards. Congratulations to Dr. Weimer and the other 18 recipients!
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Dr. Weimer and DJ Darwin Bandoy join The Conversation with their latest article:
- UC Davis press release on Dr. Weimer and graduate student DJ Darwin Bandoy’s latest manuscript, Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology reveals disease transmission coupled to variant emergence and allelic variation, published in Nature. Read it here
- Dr. Weimer joins UC Davis live to discuss Coronavirus. Q&A session with UC Davis experts on Coronavirus Mutations & Variants
- Dr. Weimer discusses the 100K project on youtube during the Bioinformática UFMG Webinar, July 9, 2020. “100K Pathogen Genome Project: Merging Population Genomics and Machine Learning”
- UC Davis highlights a new paper by Dr. Bart Weimer and graduate student DJ Darwin R. Bandoy, DVM Genome Variation Gives Insight Into Coronavirus Spread,
- What’s in Your Food? Read the article Written by Niina Haiminen for the IBM Research blog regarding the latest paper, Food authentication from shotgun sequencing reads with an application on high protein powders
- Dr. Fabio Soares De Lima, DVM, MS, Ph.D., Diplomat ACT Seminar “Unraveling NGF-β role on reproduction, and host genome-microbiome interactions modulating health and milk production in dairy cows” https://weimermicrolab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Lima-Seminar-Presentation-Announcement.pdf
- Pathogens Travel Award Announced – The editorial team of Pathogens is inviting applications for a Travel Award for two Postdocs and Ph.D. students to support attending a conference in 2019 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/pathogens/awards
- Talking Biotech Podcast – Nitrogen Fixation and Corn – featuring Dr. Alan Bennett http://www.talkingbiotechpodcast.com/154-nitrogen-fixing-and-corn/
- The Wonder Plant That Could Slash Fertilizer Use – An indigenous Mexican corn gets its nitrogen from the air. Read the article’s in Phys Org here: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-corn-variety-nutrients-bacteria-potentially.html and in The Atlantic here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/amaizeballs/567140
- 2nd Annual Ohio Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics Symposium, Wednesday, May 16, 2018 – Thursday, May 17, 2018. You can learn more and register by visiting: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=2151336&
- San Francisco Nanopore Day on Tuesday, March 13th, 2018. 9:45 am – 4;30 pm. This event is free but does require pre-registration. You can learn more and register by visiting: https://nanoporetech.com/events/nanopore-day-san-francisco.
- A paper we were recently involved in titled ‘Human breath metabolomics using an optimized non-invasive exhaled breath condensate sampler’ published in the Journal of Breath Research (JBR) last year has been selected to be part of the journal’s Highlights of 2017 collection. This selection of articles includes some of the best and most influential research published in JBR last year, representing cutting-edge topics in breath analysis related research. Please visit http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1752-7163/page/Highlights-of-2017 to read the Highlights collection.
- Look for our upcoming review in a special issue of Separations – Development of Analytical Methods for Clarification of Biological Phenomena: “Methods and applications of metabolomics for discovery and food safety” by Balasubramanian Ganesan and Bart C. Weimer.
- Our work with the Mars/IBM Global Food Safety Consortium was highlighted in PNAS – Thanks to Carolyn Bean for the great article.
Nature – Pathogens
- Rapid and Integrated Bacterial Evolution Analysis unveils gene mutations and clinical risk of Klebsiella pneumoniae March 25, 2025
- Natural infection of Trypanosoma Cruzi in client-owned-dogs from rural Yucatan, Mexico March 25, 2025
- Zika but not Dengue virus infection limits NF-κB activity in human monocyte-derived dendritic cells and suppresses their ability to activate T cells March 25, 2025
- Combining phylogeography and climate models to track the diversification and spread of Phlebotomus simici March 25, 2025
- Opportunistic bacterial pathogens in bioaerosols emitted at municipal wastewater treatment plants, South Africa March 25, 2025
Nature – AMR
- Emergence and global spread of a dominant multidrug-resistant clade within Acinetobacter baumannii March 21, 2025
- High proportions of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in community-acquired infections, Brazil March 20, 2025
- Metagenomic analysis of the faecal microbiota and AMR in roe deer in Western Pomerania March 18, 2025
- Decoding pathogen evolution to curb antimicrobial resistance March 17, 2025
- Genetic compatibility and ecological connectivity drive the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes March 16, 2025
Outbreaks
CDC
- Case Finding Among and Comprehensive Management of Household Contacts of Persons with Pulmonary Tuberculosis: a Pilot Project — Uganda, 2023–2024 March 20, 2025
- <em>Notes from the Field</em>: Rhodesiense Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) in a Traveler Returning from Zimbabwe — United States, August 2024 March 20, 2025
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