Days 4 and 5 of the meeting were a real mix of things including chemistry, evolution, and ‘omics. Also Kevin Bonham took fairly detailed notes throughout the entire conference and put those all online here, worth checking out if you want more detail. Started off the day with Mohamed S. Donia from Princeton University, “Small …
Day 3 of the meeting was virus day! Viruses have often gotten short shrift at these kinds of meeting, especially once 16S rRNA sequencing took over the microbial world. But the balance is shifting back, largely because of metagenomics. First up was Andrew J. Hryckowian from Stanford University “Bacteriodes thetaiotaomicron as a Chassis for Understanding …
Day 2 of Lake Arrowhead kicked off with a nice mix of talks with seemingly a focus on biogeography and spatial resolution of microbial communities which was pretty interesting to see. First was Martin Ackermann from ETH Zurich, Switzerland “A Microscale Perspective on Microbial Interactions”. Introduced topic by talking about the need to understand what’s …
Arrived today for the bi-annual Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics meeting up in the San Bernadino mountains. This is my 4th time at this meeting, and it’s my clear favorite. As in past years, I’ll blog something about the talks each day and will try to do some sort of collection of tweets as well (no …
Only three talks on the last day. First up was Jordan Parker “Microbiome Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) Benefit Students and Faculty”. Great talk about how we need to move from cookbook labs to discovery-based research, talked about the “I Microbiologist” textbook. The challenge is to scale research to class-sized groups. She described the competency-based …
First up today was Rachel Dutton talking about “Horizontal gene transfer in Cheese”. She began by talking about cheese as a great model system for understanding the principles behind microbial community formation. Many replicates, controlled conditions, manipulable etc. After doing initial 16S/ITS survey they cultured representatives of all the dominant genera in the cheeses and …
Esther Singer opened the day talking about “Metagenomics to Reveal Correlations between Switchgrass Ecotypes and their Microbial Communities”. She told a nice story about the ecotype-specificity of the rhizosphere and phyllosphere microbial communities. I was surprised that for some bacteria this was evident even at the phylum level… so big differences. Daria Van Tyne “Changes …
Every two years a bunch of microbial ecology and microbial genomics folks descend upon the UCLA Lake Arrowhead center for a fabulous conference. See this search result for numerous posts here at microBEnet about the meetings past. This year (as in 2012) there is a session on the Microbiology of the Built Environment. But that’s …
The last full day of the Lake Arrowhead meeting was as awesome as the first two. It must have been incredible to watch microbial genomics evolve over the last 20 years that the meeting has existed… a time span that just covers the first ever bacterial genome to the 100’s or 1000’s of genomes that …
Another great day at the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics meeting. The session titles today were “Metagenomics/Pathogens/Antibiotics/Evolution” and “Antibiotic Resistance”. As always, the best summary of the talks can be found in the Storify below. My random notes are here… these are just the things that struck me. Thanks to Surya Saha for the …