Jack T Sumner

oh good - i thought they might’ve changed it *again*

I can barely keep up as it is

…what happened now

Transitions in lung microbiota landscape associate with distinct patterns of pneumonia progression Sumner et al. show that lung microbial ecosystem dynamics associate with clinical outcomes during severe pneumonia infection. Systematic bronchoscopy paired with integrative multiomics reveals that va...

Transitions in lung microbiota & pneumonia

Microbiota states are predictive of pneumonia subtypes & exhibit differential stability & therapy response. Disruptive forces, e.g. aspiration, associated w/changes in gene expression & microbial community
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Omg look at us go 😄 Congrats to you too!!

Excited to share work I led during my PhD - now out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🎉
Using multiomics, we show that microbiome and host expression profiles dynamically shift during pneumonia treatment and track with clinical outcomes 🧪🫁 #MicroSky
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

so i guess im Dr. Jack now - officially defended the PhD 🙂🎉

I'm hiring a lab technician to help me explore some exciting new questions about virus-host interactions! Biochemistry and/or mammalian cell culture experience is desired.

Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3 The bioBakery 3 platform enables improved, integrated, and strain-level analysis of microbial communities from large-scale meta-omic data.

sounds like were diving into metagenomics today elifesciences.org/articles/65088

it’s so weird writing a manuscript/dissertation chapter while listening to rfk testify before congress

SeqCenter? But i think they’re US based…

Schrodinger’s typo: every word exists in a state of misspelling and correct spelling until observed by an independent reader 😂

seriously almost replied w biopython code for manipulating genomic data in GFF format… 😅 i think i need to go touch grass (a pipette)

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Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern (Gift Article) The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

and so it begins (continues)…
🧪

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Proofreading function will have never been so literal!

that’s in my thesis writing productivity hack. subscribe to my patreon to unlock!

In light of the current events, I’d encourage other grad students to try this new productivity routine 🙂

*read news*
*sigh*
*search post-docs in france/italy*
*activate emotional self-regulation*
*repeat*

🙋‍♂️ but finishing my PhD at Northwestern - lmk if you need any STEM/biology expert contacts

Could i be added please? 🙋‍♂️

it’s like making a executive order to stop weather. it’s absolutely ridiculous

I literally almost fell off the treadmill when he did this. Shocking and gross

This looks awesome! Could you include me on pII? 😁

Thanks!

So great. Would love to be added too if there’s still room? 😁

Hi Souvik—thanks for putting these together!

Could you add me to the Gen Micro II starter pack? 😁

ok throwing my obligatory bluesky intro into the pot

Heyo! I’m a systems biologist broadly interested in how ecological and evolutionary dynamics drive molecular innovation & emergent properties. Currently exploring this in the lung microbial ecosystem as I wrap up my PhD at Northwestern 👋🧪

That’s great—thanks!

Jack T Sumner ‪PhD Candidate in Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences, Northwestern University‬ - ‪‪Cited by 17‬‬ - ‪genomics‬ - ‪microbiome‬ - ‪molecular biology‬ - ‪systems biology‬

Hi Erik! Not sure if i’m doing this right, but can you add me to the Science feed? Or biology feed?

scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Jack T Sumner ‪PhD Candidate in Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences, Northwestern University‬ - ‪‪Cited by 17‬‬ - ‪genomics‬ - ‪microbiome‬ - ‪molecular biology‬ - ‪systems biology‬

Hi Eryn! Could you add me? I’m a microbial ecologist (at least sometimes)

scholar.google.com/citations?us...