Back in September we posted a call for help with our “comprehensive” database of publications resulting from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation program in the Microbiology of the Built Environment. We’ve tried database scanning, begging people for help, public posting, manually digging through Google Scholar, grant reports, etc. Our hope is to use this collection …
This Friday, March 16th at 1:00pm (EDT), the folks over at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will be participating in a reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) on the Microbiology of the Built Environment. The featured experts are Diane Gold, Vivian Loftness, and Jordan Peccia. All three were committee members on the NAS group that …
Sometimes when a paper has many authors and drags on for years the resulting manuscript end up with a bit of a stitched together feel. And in this world of post-peer-review-by-socia-media it’s easy to hear about the flaws after the fact. Our recently published “A microbial survey of the International Space Station (ISS)” had some …
Marc Edwards from Virginia Tech was the winner of this years AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award for his work on the Flint water crisis. The press release from AAAS covers the details pretty well but in short, he was recognized for helping the residents of Flint MI and for pushing back against the establishment. …
Just got pointed to this by Paula Olsiewski. “IAQ Radio” with Radio Joe. Looks like they have a number of interviews with people in the field including Jordan Peccia, Mark Hernandez, Tiina Reponen, and more. Episode #492 is a recent report of the IAQA Annual Meeting and the Sloan-funded “Roadmap Research to Practice”. Worth checking …
So last quarter we wrapped up the third in our series of “Swabs to Genomes” based courses at UC Davis. As with every iteration there was the plan and there was the reality. More on that below. The first version of class this was Swabs to Genomes in abalone which while scientifically awesome, was both …
The first year seminar I have decided to take part in this quarter has introduced me to procedures that are unlike any other labs I have been apart of. I am now a sophomore and had taken General Chemistry along with its corresponding labs throughout last year. Although we aimed for accuracy with measuring our …
When I received an email about research classes offered this fall quarter, I was afraid to register for this class because I did not have any lab experience. However, I figured that it might be beneficial for people who wanted the hands-on experience like me, especially the ones who wanted to learn more about research. his …
I took this class because this was my 1st quarter in Davis and I wanted to get some research experience. Getting involve in research at Davis is pretty competitive and me being a transfer student doesn’t help either, as I have only couple of years left to get a research opportunity compare to students …
Going Through the Untold Part of a Research Lab After receiving an email email about an opportunity to work with Eisen Lab to study the microbiome of nectar, I joined the class because I wanted to better understand what a research experience is like . I did have previous lab experiences from my lower …