The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, creates an urgent
need for identifying molecular mechanisms that mediate viral entry, propagation, and tissue …

One of the most widely employed methods in metagenomics is the amplification and
sequencing of the highly conserved ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes from organisms in complex …

… the early stages of my scientific career, and for encouraging me to apply to MIT just like
his previous student Chris Smilie had! I would have never applied to MIT if it wasn't for Mark. …

Novel sequencing technologies are rapidly advancing studies of microbial community structure
and diversity. Sequencing platforms like the Illumina Genome Analyzer II (GAI1) and the …

In the version of this article initially published, in the second paragraph of Results section “Teff
phenotypes over time,”“Tcra and Tcra genes” should have read “Tcra and Tcrb genes.” In …

… Thank you to members of the MIT Biology and CSBi entering classes of 2009, especially
Vikram Agrawal and Chris Smilie. Thank you also to my friends Robert Rogers, Jonathan Loch, …

Additional impacts are associated with impacts on localised fragments of woodland and
heathland habitat, and where the proposed scheme would result in potential fragmentation of …

Natural selection shapes bacterial evolution in all environments. However, the extent to which
commensal bacteria diversify and adapt within the human gut remains unclear. Here, we …

This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial with
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… We thank members of the Alm lab for helpful discussions and Kevin Roelofs, Xiaoqian Yu,
Zhenrun Zhang, Chengzhen Dai, and Chris Smilie for comments on the manuscript. This work …