Blekhman Lab

Lab Resources

Chicago spring
Databases & Software

Blekhman Lab GitHub

github.com/blekhmanlab

Human Microbiome Compendium

Human Microbiome Compendium

An ongoing project to build a dataset of the human microbiome at an unprecedented scale

BiomeHorizon

BiomeHorizon

An R package for visualizing microbiome time series data

Rxivist

Rxivist

A website to sort through bioRxiv preprints and find relevant, trending papers

HOMINID

HOMINID

A program to identify associations between host genetic variation and microbiome composition using machine learning

Links
Lab documents and protocols (lab members only)
Lab Wiki (lab members only)
Data & Code

Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome

Abdill, Graham et al. — Cell, 2025

Assembly of the infant gut microbiome and resistome are linked to bacterial strains in mother's milk

Ferretti, Allert et al. — Nature Communications, 2025

Human milk variation is shaped by maternal genetics and impacts the infant gut microbiome

Johnson et al. — Cell Genomics, 2024

Human Cytomegalovirus in breast milk is associated with milk composition and the infant gut microbiome and growth

Johnson et al. — Nature Communications, 2024

Public human microbiome data are dominated by highly developed countries

Abdill, Adamowicz & Blekhman — PLOS Biology, 2022

Identification of shared and disease-specific host gene–microbiome associations across human diseases

Priya et al. — Nature Microbiology, 2022

Gut microbiome heritability is nearly universal but environmentally contingent

Grieneisen et al. — Science, 2021

Interspecies variation in hominid gut microbiota controls host gene regulation

Muehlbauer et al. — Cell Reports, 2021