Katie Hinde gave two talks at UC Davis this week. The focus of them was different but connected to the general topic of mammalian milk and there was some discussion of microbes in each talk. I live Tweeted both of them and then wanted to capture the Tweets. Since Storify is dead, that is no …
So a few weeks ago I got an email telling me Storify was going away. Dear Storify Customer, Thank you for contributing your stories to the Storify community. Unfortunately, Storify.com will no longer be available after May 16, 2018. While product end-of-life is a part of the overall product life cycle, we understand that this could impact …
I have heard lots of good things about this course: Explorations in Data Analyses for Metagenomic Advances in Microbial Ecology (EDAMAME) Workshop EDAMAME is an intensive, hands-on course in microbial metagenome analyses, covering workflows from raw sequence analysis through to multivariate statistics and ecological interpretation. Next year’s course will be June 24-30, 2018 at the …
I am hoping to find a system for everyone in my lab to use which would serve as lab notebooks for everyone and allow both written materials to be uploaded and also allow a mixture of different electronic materials such as bioinformatics workflows, pictures, videos, data files, etc. I have dug around a bit and …
A post of interest from Noah Fierer. Let’s say a microbial ecologist wants to identify which bacteria are active in a given environmental sample at a given point in time. For example, you may want to determine which bacteria are active in a desert soil after a large rainfall event. This is often done …
Just got this email and thought people might be interested: Hi mothur friends, Throughout 2018, I will offer 6 workshops on mothur and programming in R for microbial ecologists. Please see the Workshops page on the wiki for more information on what each workshop will cover. The dates are: February 5-7: R April 2-4: mothur …
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 …
INDOOR AIR 2018: Submit Extended Abstracts or Full Papers by January 15, 2018!INDOOR AIR 2018 is the 15th edition of the flagship conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ). It will be convened in Philadelphia, PA on July 22-27, 2018, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The conference website can be …
I am getting ready for my “EVE161” class on Sequence based studies of the diversity of microbes. For more about past versions of the class see here: https://www.microbe.net/eve161/. Anyway – I am working on the reading for the class and I am looking for a good, recent, open access review of molecular phylogenetic methods. Any recommendations …
I get a lot of emails from people asking for advice on some aspect of the methods used in microbiome studies. In most cases, I probably do not know the ideal answer. In addition, even when I do know the answer it would be useful to the community to have this posted publicly rather than …