Claire Duvallet

Claire Duvallet

former grad student in Eric Alm's lab | microbiome, personalized medicine, public health | gender and racial equity in STEM | former Luce Scholar in Cambodia | she/hers

Editorial on meta-analysis for microbiome research is published

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I wrote an editorial on microbiome meta-analyses for Microbial Technology, check it out!

Meta-analysis generates and prioritizes hypotheses for translational microbiome research

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