Norm Pace gave a talk at UC Davis yesterday on “Metagenomics and the Tree of Life”. I and a few other people posted live Tweets from the talk which I have compiled together via the Storify system. This “Storify” is embedded below. In addition, Lisa Cohen, who was at the talk posted her notes which …
Just got pointed to this by Norm Pace and it seems of potential interest: The Carl R. Woese Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is proud to announce THE CARL R. WOESE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM In 1977, Carl R. Woese overturned one of the …
Just got sent this by Katherine Bowman from the Board on Life Sciences. This is really important and if you know of someone who would be good please consider nominating them. Request for Committee Nominations — Microbiomes of the Built Environment: From Research to Application The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are …
I am running a journal club this quarter at UC Davis on Host Microbiome Co-evolution (see Journal Club at #UCDavis on Co-evolution of Microbiomes and Hosts for more information). It meets Mondays 12:10-1 PM. But I thought I would post here about the course and I would welcome any comments from anywhere, even if you cannot …
Crossposting this from my Tree of Life blog: I am going to be running a journal club this quarter at UC Davis for the Population Biology Graduate Group. The topic is Co-evoution of Microbiomes and Hosts. Meeting time is 12:10-1:00 PM if you want to participate let me know. A link to the Draft Outline …
Special Seminar Dr. Norman Pace Distinguished Professor Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology University of Colorado, Boulder Metagenomics and the Tree of Life Tuesday, October 6th, 2015 1.30 pm Genome and Biomedical Science Facility (GBSF) 1005 Host: Jonathan Eisen (jaeisen@ucdavis.edu) For more about Pace’s work see http://pacelab.colorado.edu
So – I thought some people here would be interested in this. As someone who has been involved in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s program in “Microbiology of the Built Environment” for many years, I have been trying to get more involved with the built environment crowd. And I have not always been exceptionally successful …
So many cool things in this post by Scott Chimileski at Small Things Considered: by Scott Chimileski | Have you ever visited a natural history museum and looked for microbe exhibits? If you have, I’d bet you didn’t find any. In my own searches, I usually see microbes represented only by some species names written …
Just got emailed this: The USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center, located on the campus of the University of California, Davis, is recruiting a microbiologist to conduct research on the effect of diet, dietary patterns or specific nutrients on the intestinal microbiota and the relationship of that microbiota to appropriate functioning of the immune system …
Amanda Clack, RICS President Elect tells Womanthology why diversity is a strategy and a source of competitive advantage, not an issue Just got done reading this: Surveying the future for women in the built environment and land: Diversity is a strategy and a source of competitive advantage, not an issue – Amanda Clack, RICS President Elect …