Aleksandar David Kostic

The paper develops a comprehensive oral microbiome atlas linking host features like age, disease, and exposures to 1,349 taxa in a 10,000-person US population, identifying 45,757 significant associations.

This study examines the Yanomami skin microbiome, revealing high microbial complexity and novel taxa that challenge the Western-centric view of a healthy skin microbiome.

The paper analyzes complete mitogenomes from 60 Mexican Indigenous groups to reveal demographic history and shared genetic connections.

This study compares microbiome and genome-wide association study predictive power for 13 diseases, finding microbiome indicators outperform genetic variants in disease discrimination.

Aether uses linear programming to optimally deploy cloud resources for genomics tasks, achieving cost savings and efficiency in metagenomic assembly.