Benjamin J. Callahan

Career Trajectory

Research Cluster Map

Direct collaborators. Node size = influence, colour = community, dashed = past collaboration.

• Identify contaminants with decontam on the QIIME 2 Framework

  Microbiology Resource Announcements · 2026-04-27

• Generating, curating, and evaluating <i>trnL</i> reference sequence databases: Benchmarking OBITools3/ecoPCR, RESCRIPt, and MetaCurator

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026-04-10

• Pathogenic bacterial species and the microbiome of cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) inhabiting flea-infested homes

  PLoS ONE · 2026-01-30 · 1 citations

• Assessing contamination in DNA extraction kits commonly used for microbiome researchPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-09-23

• Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-06-20 · 81 citations

• Practical and cost-effective method for the isolation of pollen grains from various sources

  Acta Palaeobotanica · 2025-06-01