Author: Jenna Lang

Jenna Lang is a postdoctorate associate in Jonathan Eisen's lab and studies the seagrass microbiome.

Workshop on Planetary Protection Knowledge Gaps for Human Extraterrestrial Missions (Reverse Contamination)

By Jenna Lang   Posted in Meetings and Talks Space
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This is the third of three posts about the planetary protection workshop I attended at NASA Ames from March 24-26, 2015. The first is here. I mentioned, in my last post on forward contamination, that reverse contamination is the primary concern for Planetary Protection (PP). In this context, reverse contamination refers to the transport of Martian …

Workshop on Planetary Protection Knowledge Gaps for Human Extraterrestrial Missions (Intro)

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reposted from jennomics.com http://www.nasa.gov/ames/events/ppw2015workshop/#.VRMLLJPF8mU I’m at a NASA Ames workshop this week. The goal is to have a discussion about planetary protection with respect to human spaceflight, in particular to Mars, mostly during a “sample and return” mission and a little bit about human habitation on Mars. I’m tweeting with #planetaryprotection. There’s also live streaming here: …

IPython notebook for basic microbial ecology analysis using QIIME

By Jenna Lang   Posted in Bioinformatics
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I’ve gone public with my default QIIME workflow. I hope this will be helpful to some, and I encourage anyone with QIIME skills to read through it to see if I’m missing anything. Brief blog post about it is here: http://jennomics.com/2015/02/20/ipython-notebook-for-basic-microbial-ecology-analysis-using-qiime/ and the notebook is hosted here: jennomics.github.io/QIIMEbyJennomics/