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Eric Alm

@ejalm

prof of biological eng at MIT, co-director center for microbiome informatics and therapeutics, co-founder finch therapeutics and biobot analytics
Cambridge almlab.mit.edu Joined January 2008
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Eric Alm @ejalm
if i had the chance to do another postdoc in comp bio, this is the position i would apply for
Christopher Smillie @cssmillie Jan 6, 2021
The Smillie Lab opens March at @MGHMedicine! We develop methods (wet/dry) to understand microbial life on the human body #microbiome #singlecell #evolution #deeplearning. Hiring grad students, postdocs, and RAs @harvardmed @broadinstitute. Please share! smillielab.org
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Eric Alm @ejalm
delighted to share this work by @Shijie_Zhao and @zheng_wenshan single-cell droplet based genomics for the human microbiome. strain-resolved genomes and HGT networks are among the benefits of this amazing new technology from David Weitz’s lab
bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint Dec 15, 2020
Microbe-seq: high-throughput, single-microbe genomics with strain resolution, applied to a human gut microbiome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv
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Eric Alm @ejalm
so excited to chat with @gibbological about sewage as a tool to improve public health!

in the next 5-10 years, every major city will be using wastewater based epidemiology to improve lives. from covid19 to opioid addiction, the opportunities are endless in this emerging field!
ISB @isbsci Oct 6, 2020
Today's the day. @MIT's @ejalm discusses population-scale #COVID19 tracking using data collected in sewage. (Great video below.) Tickets are only $5 -- register now (townhallseattle.org/event/dr-eric-…) & we'll see you at 6pm PT! @THSEA @gibbological youtube.com/watch?v=ysZsx5…
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Eric Alm @ejalm
this is definitely the best answer to this question that i’ve heard. worth a read if you feel like you’ve hit a ceiling, or even if you feel like you’re falling behind. go back all the way to the beginning
Kareem Carr, Ph.D. Verified account @kareem_carr Sep 1, 2020
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU HIT A "CEILING" IN LEARNING MATH? Somebody asked me this question recently. I defer to the math education experts but as a Harvard student in a mathematical field I do know a little about learning math. 🧵
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Eric Alm @ejalm
i can’t emphasize this enough! but i can try... i’m many areas (like boston) the difference between exponential growth and exponential decay is a delta Rt of 0.05 that’s like testing 50% of the population daily with a test that has only 10% sensitivity.
Sri Kosuri Verified account @srikosuri Aug 29, 2020
SURVEILLANCE👏🏾TESTING👏🏾SERVES👏🏾A👏🏾DIFFERENT👏🏾PURPOSE👏🏾THAN👏🏾CLINICAL👏🏾TESTS.
One is about public health pandemic suppression; other is about clinical triage of patients.
For surveillance as @jhuber would say #FFCE is more important than LoD (frequent, fast, cheap and easy).
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