2026
May – Our CUPID-seq protocol is out on bioRxiv! CUPID-seq uses two rounds of unique dual indexing to enable highly multiplexed amplicon sequencing. Check out our Bluesky skeetorial to learn more.
2025
August – Our collaboration with Hosung Bae and Cholsoon Jang is out on bioRxiv! Congratulations to graduate student Ana Espeleta, who led the analysis of microbiome changes in khk knockout mice on a high-sugar diet.
April – It’s not a joke! the Xue lab launched on April 1 at UC Irvine. Zot zot zot!
February – Congratulations also to collaborators Maike Morrison and Noah Rosenberg, who developed a new statistic, FAVA, to quantify compositional variability in microbial communities! Check out the paper in PNAS.
February – Congratulations to Doran Goldman and co-authors, whose work investigating the effect of initial population size on colonization outcomes was published in PNAS! Check out the paper and the commentary by Alyssa Mitchell and Tami Lieberman.
Xue lab at UC Irvine 