Research Blog
Research updates, data snapshots, and analysis summaries from my PhD work.
Why treating decomposition as a set of discrete stages loses critical information, creates artificial group boundaries, and misrepresents the biology — and what the field has tried to do about...
March 2026 in microbiome research: spatial transcriptomics goes microbial, gut-brain aging gets a mechanistic map, and food allergen severity turns out to be a microbiome problem.
Why 16S relative abundances behave differently from regular numbers, what breaks when you treat them like normal data, and which analytical tools are designed to handle the constraint.
What V3, V4, and V3-V4 actually mean, why the choice of variable region shapes what you see in your data, and how to pick the right one.
Comprehensive analysis of fungal communities across rabbit carcasses, gravesoil, and associated necrophagous insects reveals distinct mycobiome signatures and decomposition-stage dynamics.
Comparing paired-end versus forward-only ITS1 processing reveals substantial differences in read retention and ASV detection for fungal mycobiome analysis.
A preliminary survey of forensically relevant Diptera near CSU Fort Collins campus using commercial bait traps during summer 2025.
COI identification of forensically-relevant blow fly species using a Nanopore MinION yields interesting results.