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Sunit Jain

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San FranciscoORCID 0000-0002-5888-3702Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Evolutionary Biology· 1 Immunology· 1 Synthetic Biology· 1

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Organism:human· 1

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Evolutionary BiologyCell Host & MicrobePeer-reviewedOct 1, 2026

High-resolution lineage tracking of within-host evolution and strain transmission in a human gut symbiont across ecological scales

Kimberly S. Vasquez, Daniel P.G.H. Wong, Kent Kotaka…·Kerwyn Casey Huang

The paper tracks lineage evolution and transmission of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron across hosts and ecological scales using genomic barcoding and whole-genome sequencing.

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mousewhole-genome sequencing

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Synthetic BiologybioRxivPreprintAug 20, 2026

Efficient exploration of sequence space enables rapid generation of functional genome editors

Nicholas W. Hughes, Sourab Kulkarni, Grant Goldman…·Muneaki Nakamura

The paper generates functional genome editors by combining deep mutational scanning, structural analysis, and evolutionary mining with a generative protein language model.

DOI 10.64898/2026.08.16.745112

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ImmunologyThe Journal of ImmunologyPeer-reviewedJul 28, 2026

Gut microbial composition modulates food-specific CD4+ T cells in food allergy

Alexa R. Weingarden, Flannery Dahlberg, Caroline N. Broude…·Marc K. Jenkins

This study shows that gut microbial composition affects food allergen-specific CD4+ T cells, leading to differences in food allergy severity between mouse strains.

DOI 10.1093/jimmun/vkag141.381

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