Author: Josh Neufeld

Behind the scenes: Microbial biogeography of a university campus

By Josh Neufeld   Posted in .Featured Buildings Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports) Sequencing
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Behind the scenes: Microbial biogeography of a university campus My name is Ashley Ross (@ashanneross) and, during my final year as an undergraduate student in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo, I began to wonder which microorganisms I was contacting on a daily basis while on campus. Every day on my way …

The Making of MetAnnotate

By Josh Neufeld   Posted in .Featured Bioinformatics Methods and Tools Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports) Water Systems
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Blog post prepared jointly by Andrew Doxey (@acdoxey) and Josh Neufeld (@joshdneufeld) The “aquariome” Back in 2013, as part of a project assessing aquarium microbial communities and their role in nutrient cycling, Laura Sauder (graduate student in the Neufeld lab) sequenced a shotgun metagenomic library from a freshwater aquarium biofilter that was installed on this …