My Kwashiorkor microbiome paper with Michelle Smith, Tanya Yatsunenko, et al. was published in Science today.

My article with Omry Koren, Antonio Gonzales and others describing a large meta-analysis of enterotypes in the human gut appeared in PLoS Computational Biology. It is included in their "most viewed" list.

My article with Yatsunenko et al. on a global survey of human gut microbiota is out in Nature.

The two Human Microbiome Project articles are out in Nature, and featured on the cover. (Press: NPR, The New York Times, The BBC, The Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, University of Colorado, etc.).

Article on the University of Colorado's BioFrontiers Institute web page.

I have accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the BioTechnology Institute at the University of Minnesota, to begin Fall of 2013.

See a photo of my graduation-day Knighting ceremony, performed by my advisor Rob Knight.

My Ph.D. dissertation was chosen for the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado (not given every year).

My talk at the 2012 International Human Microbiome Congress was featured in Nature News

Wu et al. Science paper listed in the "Runners Up" for Science Breakthrough of the Year.

Mosquito attractiveness paper recommended by the Faculty of 1000.

Yogurt consumption paper with McNulty et al. was the cover story in Science Translational Medicine.

PLoS Journals list our mosquito attractiveness paper first on the card advertising their microbiome content.

My PNAS paper with Jeff Werner et al. on bioreactor communities was declared a "must read" by the Faculty of 1000.

My paper on mosquito attractiveness with Neils Verhulst et al. received extensive media coverage from NPR, Scientific American (podcast), Discover Magazine, MSNBC, and others.

My Science paper with Gary Wu et al. was featured by Science Daily, Penn Medicine News at UPenn, in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology's Year in Review.

Coverage of my recent PNAS paper with Jeff Werner et al. by Discovery.com, Beer Universe, Cornell Chronicle and Daily Sun, and Science Daily.

My other recent Science paper was covered in "Your gut microbes are what you eat", Science News.

Knights et al. Cell Host & Microbe paper featured on Cell Host & Microbe's Most Read Articles.

Microbial Biogeography of Public Restroom Surfaces featured by NPR, Scientific American, and WebMD, among others.

MIENS paper featured on Nature home page, discussed in Nature Reviews Microbiology editorial: Context is key for sequence data.

National Public Radio's "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!". January 17, 2009. I was the expert source in the "Bluff The Listener" segment. [episode]

The Today Show. I had a great time doing this piece. They were very friendly. They gave me 1 minute and 30 seconds to solve as many cubes as I could. [video]

Discovery Channel's "The Daily Planet". The 2003 Rubik's Cube World Championship was held in Toronto, Canada. I won. [video]

ESPN SportsCenter. A brief clip on ESPN just after the 2003 World Championship. They call me "Dan Knight." [video]

That's Incredible. In 2002, "That's Incredible" held a reunion show. They invited me to represent one of the fads from the 1980s. [video]

Hartlaub, Peter. The San Francisco Chronicle, "Call it Neo-Cubism": August 03, 2003. [article] [photos]

Botchford, Jason. The Toronto Sun, "Cubists Aren't Puzzled": August 25, 2003. [article]

Brian Eule. Middlebury Magazine. "The Cubist", Spring 2004. [article]

The Big Breakfast. My first TV appearance, in London, in 1999. Erno Rubik was on a rare media tour in the United Kingdom. After the taping of this show was finished, Rubik's public relations invited me to travel with them for the rest of the week. Erno Rubik solved my cube. [video]

CBS Evening Magazine. This is one of my favorite pieces. Produced by Dave Stoelk. [video]

The Ellen Show. They had the audience scramble 200 Rubik's Cubes, and then I tried to solve as many as possible in about 45 minutes. They were brand new cubes, which means that they were (a) stiff, and (b) not the same color scheme that I used. Therefore my goal was simply to solve at least 100. [video]