Asst Professor of Ecology (Ecosystems & Animals) @UFBiology | Postdoc @UF Biology/Anthropology | PhD @yale_eeb
USA, East Africa
Joined May 2018
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Christopher L Dutton retweeted
NEWs.
Happy to share MicGeo's benchmark work on "Functional #metatranscriptomics of the #rhizosphere: towards an understanding of metabolic processes of the microbial carbon pump"
Led by Julian Ruggaber. Congratulations.
#carbon #microbiome #crop
academic.oup.com/femsec/arti…
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
our goal as a science robotics company is simple: deploy as many robots as quickly as possible into the real world to do valuable science.
one of the first pieces of advice @daltonc gave us during YC last year was to bet on models getting better.
that was a very good bet.
today, we’re starting to see the payoff with code-as-policy for robots.
if you want a robot in your lab, or want to work on deploying robots into labs, reach out.
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
We have found it much more useful to treat the LLM as a programmer operating inside a robotics system, rather than as the robotics system itself.
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
New job alert! We’re looking for computational biologists to do some analysis and application of tools/workflows we’ve built @ArcadiaScience and help make them more useful for a broader set of users.
Looking to hire several people to start ASAP, so apply now (or please pass along if you know someone who might be a good fit)!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/arc…
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⭐️Postdoc position available⭐️
Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives beneficial host–microbe symbioses.
Interested in host–microbe interactions?
Apply: t.ly/M0K3k
[email protected]
Please share! #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
We've spent the last year building a layer that lets any model run experiments in the physical world on robots.
Now we want you to try!
Join us for a 24h AI x Science hackathon in SF.
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
New Research: The gut microbiome in early life predicts malaria susceptibility frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #FrontiersIn #CellularInfectionMicrobiology
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
For years you needed UMIs and similar dark molecular biology magic to get perfect amplicon sequences from @nanopore . With recent accuracy improvements+really clever algorithms that is now changed. Savont unlocks ASVs from low coverage amplicons 🤯🤯🤯
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
Two (!) Assistant Professor positions now open at @lunduniversity in #Sweden!
If you are a quantitative-minded and computationally interested biologist, consider to join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology.
Note: short deadline: May 25!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/job…
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
After 7 years at Cambridge, EMBL, & ETHZ building + applying computational tools for microbiome science, I'm pivoting to industry. Available Oct 2026 for senior comp-bio roles in Switzerland 🇨🇭 Open to agtech, microbial biotech, AI-for-biology.
Portfolio👉franciscozorrilla.github.io
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
Excited that our paper analyzing microbiomes and physical fitness has been published in @PhysiologicalG. Led by @GarryLewis1111 alongside @Doc_Cook_Phd @judy_malas @saadejumo and others. journals.physiology.org/doi/…
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
Officially out - very excited to share! “Emergent simplicity” in microbial ecosystems has long been an appealing idea—but meant different things to different people. As a result, the field hasn't agreed: is it real? surprising? useful? 1/3 doi.org/10.1126/science.adr1…
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
Have you ever wondered why children starting nursery pick up so many germs? I certainly did, and with a crack team of parent-scientists/clinicians, we set out to answer that question. Is childcare a germ factory or an immune bootcamp? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
Simulated lab worlds straight from pixels.
We scan the lab scene with depth cameras and reconstruct the environment.
Each object already has a high-quality mesh in our object library from our mesh scanning system. A localization pipeline places those meshes into a shared coordinate frame, creating a digital version of the lab.
This works well for science automation because the environment is constrained: the set of objects is limited, we have accurate models of them, and we don’t need to solve the full open-world perception problem.
With this digital lab in place we can:
• Drive safe motion planning around real geometry
• Track state changes by re-localizing mesh parts (e.g. a lid opening)
• Attach objects to the robot when picked so the planner accounts for them and avoids collisions
built by @BastotdeHeijden @BlerimAbdullai @TahirMello
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
We are excited to present our new study @Nature, led by @DrDrCox and performed in collaboration with the lab of @MaayanLevyPhD, in which we explore the impact of gut-brain axis aging on cognitive decline.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
Introducing Eubiota: A multi-agent AI framework for autonomous discovery in the human microbiome. 🧬🤖🧫
👇 Explore the platform:
eubiota.ai/
Eubiota doesn’t just chat: it plans, uses tools, verifies evidence, and drives end-to-end discovery—from hypothesis to wet-lab validation.
Eubiota achieved 87.7% accuracy on mechanistic reasoning (vs. GPT-5.1 77.3%).
But we went further. We used Eubiota to drive 4 discoveries with experimental validation:
✅ Gene Discovery: Identified the uvr-ruv stress axis by screening 1,945 genes & 10K papers in hours (on 2 GPUs) 🧬⚡
✅ Therapeutics: Designed a microbial therapy that reduced colitis inflammation 🦠💊
✅ Antibiotics: Engineered a cocktail that kills pathogens but spares commensals 🎯🛡️
✅ Metabolites: Discovered novel anti-inflammatory molecules from large human data 🥗🧪
📄 Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
💻 Code: github.com/lupantech/Eubiota
Try the live app to start your own discovery:
🎮 App: app.eubiota.ai/
Huge thanks to fantastic co-lead @YifanGao15, our incredible PIs @james_y_zou @LabSonnenburg, stellar advisors Kerwyn Casey Huang, @YejinChoinka, and the excellent team! 👏
#Eubiota #Microbiome #Inflammation #AI4Sci #AgenticAI #Agent
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
Applications are now open for our next class of Pivot Fellows! This unique opportunity allows researchers to pivot and apply their talents and expertise to a new field in #math or #science: simonsfoundation.org/2026/03…
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Just over 1 hour left for #GatorNationGivingDay... Help us fund a summer of fieldwork for @UF students through WILDS: givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/…
What was your most formative experience as an undergrad? For me, it was doing field ecology and discovering a career path I love. Help us give those experiences to other undergrads with #GatorNationGivingDay by making a donation to WILDS: givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/…
Christopher L Dutton retweeted
What was your most formative experience as an undergrad? For me, it was doing field ecology and discovering a career path I love. Help us give those experiences to other undergrads with #GatorNationGivingDay by making a donation to WILDS: givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/…
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Large-scale metagenomic analysis reveals host genetics shapes microbiomes in wild freshwater fish gut and skin: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/fullte…
