Rohan Sachdeva
archaeaologist.bsky.social
Rohan Sachdeva
@archaeaologist.bsky.social
Rohan Sachdeva is a computational microbiologist who uses (meta)genomics and an (un)healthy dose of caffeine at the Innovative Genomics Institute.
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Today in Nature Communications, a team of IGI researchers from The Banfield Lab and Pam Ronald's labs uncover a new way to reduce methane emissions from rice by influencing the activity of rice paddy soil #microbes. Read more: https://ow.ly/45j150Y3WsI
January 26, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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With new support from Google.org's AI for Science Fund, IGI's Spencer Diamond, Rohan Sachdeva, Yun Song & Matthias Hess, have launched a new project to develop a #ML framework that can predict #microbiome behavior in animal agriculture. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/y7xctpp7
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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#SynBYSS welcomes 271-6th pioneers:
Sebastien Rodrigue at U Sherbrooke, Rodolphe Barrangou, NAS member & EIC of CRRISPR J at NC State, Yousong Ding at U Florida, Cammie Lesser, Co-EIC of Curr Opin Microbiol at Tufts U, David Burstein at Tel Aviv U & Ivo Gomperts Boneca at Institut Pasteur. Thanks!
January 15, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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Now published in Nature Biotechnology:
go.nature.com/44P7nSm
If you missed it, the TL;DR is in my April thread below
January 6, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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New preprint out: Revealing the pervasive landscape of MGE-host interactions in situ with single-cell genomics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Revealing the pervasive landscape of MGE-host interactions in situ with single-cell genomics
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs), including plasmids and viruses, drive microbial evolution and ecosystem dynamics, yet their distribution, host range, and functions remain poorly understood, especially...
www.biorxiv.org
January 7, 2026 at 10:20 PM