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Bennett M. Shaw

Broad InstituteORCID 0000-0002-0180-6802Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Organism:mouse· 1

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Adrianne D. GladdeniD· 1 shared Benjamin R. MacadangdangiD· 1 shared Bronwyn L. MacInnisiD· 1 shared Chiara BerrutoiD· 1 shared Christine LorethiD· 1 shared Cora L. WoodwardiD· 1 shared Daniel J. ParkiD· 1 shared David C. HooperiD· 1 shared

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Targeted protein evolution in the gut microbiome by diversity-generating retroelements

Benjamin R. Macadangdang, Yanling Wang, Cora L. Woodward, Jessica I. Revilla, Bennett M. Shaw, Kayvan Sasaninia, Gillian E. Varnum, Sara K. Makanani, Chiara Berruto, Umesh Ahuja, Jeff F. Miller

The paper identifies DGRs in Bacteroides species, showing their role in diversifying adhesive proteins and their horizontal transfer in the gut microbiome.

Science · Oct 9, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

DNA spike-ins enable confident interpretation of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data from amplicon-based sequencing

Kim A. Lagerborg, Erica Normandin, Matthew R. Bauer, Gordon C. Adams, Katherine Figueroa, Christine Loreth, Adrianne D. Gladden, Bennett M. Shaw, Leah R. Pearlman, Erica Seiguer Shenoy, David C. Hooper, Virginia Pierce, Kimon C. Zachary, Daniel J. Park, Bronwyn L. MacInnis, , Katherine J. Siddle

The paper introduces DNA spike-ins to detect contamination in SARS-CoV-2 amplicon-based sequencing and demonstrates their utility in a real-world outbreak investigation.

bioRxiv · Mar 16, 2021 · PreprintMolecular Biology