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Aug 13, 2019

Legionnaires’ Disease Cases Traced To Hot Tub At A Fair in North Carolina

Well, I generally am not overly germaphobic but I also avoid public hot tubs like, well, a disease caused by Yersinia pestis. Thus this story seemed confirmatory for me. However, upon closer examination is seems like the hot tub connection here may simply be cases where people walked by the hot tub display at this ...

Journal Club: “Pre- and post-sequencing recommendations for functional annotation of human fecal metagenomes”

Network analysis of the Sloan-funded MoBE program publications

Space Station conditions are selective but do not alter microbial characteristics relevant to human health

Request for feedback on amplicon primer selection for 16S rRNA gene surveys

Journal Club: “Pre- and post-sequencing recommendations for functional annotation of human fecal metagenomes”

Request for feedback on amplicon primer selection for 16S rRNA gene surveys

Job Posting: Microbial Ecology and Evolution at University of Toronto Mississauga

Assistant Professor – Microbial Ecology and Evolution – 1902892 The Department of Biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment in Microbial Ecology and Evolution, at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing July 1, 2020, or shortly thereafter. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Biology or closely related ...

Postdoc at UC Davis in metagenomics bioinformatics

Job Opportunities: EPA postdocs in a variety of fields

Postdoc on deep sea microbiome analysis in Rio de Janeiro

Post doc job on the impact of cover crops and row-middle management in citrus

Research England Funded Hub for Biotechnology in the Built environment

Man-made microbial resistances in built environments

Space Station conditions are selective but do not alter microbial characteristics relevant to human health

The report from Kaunas: ISES-ISIAQ 2019

Backyard lab sequencing party: MinION “fieldwork”

Tweets from Participatory Science session at #ASMicrobe

Fungi and bacteria and lice, oh my! These are some of Rob Dunn’s favorite things.

Legionella Report Release Webinar: August 14th, 11AM EDT

New wastewater anammox project

Journal Club: “Pre- and post-sequencing recommendations for functional annotation of human fecal metagenomes”

This is a pre-print that just came out from several UC Davis colleagues. I actually think the title is a bit misleading because these recommendations are a lot broader than just human fecal metagenomes. Definitely worth a read! Abstract below: Background Shotgun metagenomes are often assembled prior to annotation of genes which biases the functional ...

Network analysis of the Sloan-funded MoBE program publications

Legionella Report Release Webinar: August 14th, 11AM EDT

A different suite: distinct fungal communities in water-damaged homes

Closed access review of the MoBE field