Richard J. Abdill

The paper analyzes the gut microbiome of South Asian communities to show that urbanization impacts microbiomes differently across communities, with geography and culture playing a stronger role than lifestyle.

The paper integrates 168,484 human gut microbiome samples to reveal global patterns, showing widespread presence of Firmicutes and regional differences in microbial genera.

The paper develops HiDRO, a high-throughput imaging pipeline, to screen the human druggable genome and identifies >300 factors regulating chromatin folding, including GSK3A as a regulator of TAD interactions.

The paper maps lamin-associated chromatin across twelve human cell types, identifying two subtypes with distinct features and developmental dynamics.

The paper assesses the installability and archival stability of computational biology tools, finding many are inaccessible or hard to install, and recommends policy changes to improve these aspects.