Posting on behalf of Seth Bordenstein… see the text of the job posting below: Two postdoctoral positions are offered to join the Bordenstein Lab in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. The candidates will join one of two projects. The first project seeks applicants with …
There is a new paper out of possible interest. Source: Stagaman K, Cepon-Robins TJ, Liebert MA, Gildner TE, Urlacher SS, Madimenos FC, Guillemin K, Snodgrass JJ, Sugiyama LS, Bohannan BJM. 2018. Market integration predicts human gut microbiome attributes across a gradient of economic development. mSystems 3:e00122-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00122-17. Abstract: Economic development is marked by dramatic …
This seems likely to be of interest to many – got this via email. New Report: Environmental Chemicals, the Human Microbiome, and Health Risk: a Research Strategy The human microbiome is composed of a great number of diverse microorganisms that inhabit the human body. Until recently, the role of the microbiome in maintaining human health …
Job Description: Two postdoctoral positions focused on 1. systems biology- and 2. molecular-based studies of the human microbiome are available in the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology at the University of California San Francisco in the laboratory of Dr. Susan Lynch. Minimum Requirements: Candidates must have received a PhD in microbiology or a closely …
I have personally been interested in microbial forensics of various kinds for quite a while (I worked at TIGR for many years and was peripherally involved in some of the anthrax DNA sequencing and analysis there). I have even served on various working groups from the US Government discussing the potential for microbes to be …
(This post was written by Roo Vandegrift at the University of Oregon) I was recently asked to spearhead the writing of a review centered around the interaction between the concept of hygiene and our increasingly nuanced understanding of the human skin microbiome for the Biology and the Built Environment (BioBE) Center at the University of …
When most people think about microbes, they think disease. For well over 100 years the medical community’s mantra has been that “the only good bug is a dead bug.” But the functions of the human body rely not only on our own cells, but on the intricate interplay between complex communities of bacteria, archaea, viruses …
Two post doc positions are open at UCSF in the lab of Susan Lynch on Human Microbiome research. One is on studies of pediatric airway disease and the other is on studies of inflammatory bowel disease. Details below: Postdoctoral Position in Human Microbiome Research Job Description: A postdoctoral position focused on studies of the human …
I have to admit I don’t know much about MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) or about Coursera, but the idea does sound pretty intriguing. A new one is starting this fall called “Gut Check: Exploring your Microbiome” that sounds particularly awesome. It’s hosted by Rob Knight and others in his lab, with “visiting” lectures from …
Paper of potential interest to the microBEnet crowd: Phylogenetics and the human microbiome. It is a preprint in ArXiv by Erick Matsen. It focuses on the human microbiome but discusses the history of methods for phylogenetic analysis of microbial communities and it is quite good. Thanks to Erick for posting this to arXiv so that people …