News (updated 2026.02)

• Pre-print “Attomolar fecal cytokine profiling reveals gut immune dynamics and disease states”
• Our recent TMLR paper was deemed top 10% of journal papers that year and will now be presented at ICLR 2026 as part of the Journal to Conference track. See you in Brazil!
• “Learning ecosystem-scale dynamics from microbiome data with MDSINE2” now published in Nature Microbiology!
• MGB press release on ChronoStrain “How a Scientist Followed Curiosity (and Love) to Build an Innovative Tool to Track Changes in the Gut Microbiome”
• “Longitudinal profiling of low-abundance strains in microbiomes with ChronoStrain” now published in Nature Microbiology!
• “On the stability of gradient descent with second order dynamics for time-varying cost functions” now published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research!
• Pre-print “Regret analysis: a control perspective”
• Dan MacDonald received the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Learn more here
• Two new Postdocs have joined the Lab. Welcome Dan and Utkarsh.
• Podcast interview of Travis on The Microbe Moment
• Interview of Travis People in Control - IEEE Control Systems Magazine
• NIH R35 grant: “Machine learning and control principles for Computational Biology”
• Pre-print “Learning Microbial Dynamics at Ecosystem Scale”
• NIH R21 grant: “Tracking the microbiome: purpose-built machine learning tools for tracking microbial strains over time”
• NSF MTM2 grant: “MTM 2: The rules of microbiota colonization of the mammalian gut”
• Research Highlight from Harvard: Bug Buddies - Engineered bacteria create friendlier microbial neighborhoods