This is Lisa Brenner speaking on the topic of “Mental Health and the Microbiome of the Built Environment.” This was recorded at the MoBE 2017 symposium in Washington D.C. If you’re interested, check out all of the other speakers from MoBE 2017 on our YouTube channel!
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 …
This is a short clip of Ilana Brito speaking on the “Myth and Reality of MoBE manipulation” panel discussion. This was recorded at the MoBE 2017 symposium in Washington D.C. If you’re interested, check out all of the other speakers from MoBE 2017 on our YouTube channel!
Amy Pruden gives a talk about “Towards Prebiotic/Probiotic Control of the Microbiome in Built Water Systems.” This was recorded at the MoBE 2017 symposium in Washington D.C. If you’re interested, check out all of the other speakers from MoBE 2017 on our YouTube channel!
David Mills talks about microbiology of food production built environments: dairies and wineries. This was recorded at the MoBE 2017 symposium in Washington D.C. If you’re interested, check out all of the other speakers from MoBE 2017 on our YouTube channel!
Genome-resolved metagenomics is the process of recovering de novo genomes belonging to individual organisms present in a community using DNA extracted from the whole community. These genomes are sometimes referred to as MAGs (metagenome-assembled genomes), and are recovered by associating assembled contigs together in “bins” in a process known as genome binning. As opposed to …
This is a very short clip answering the question about use of a spray-probiotic after a hurricane to possibly prevent rot. This was recorded at the MoBE 2017 symposium in Washington D.C. If you’re interested, check out all of the other speakers from MoBE 2017 on our YouTube channel!
So a number of years ago our lab embarked on Project MERCCURI (let’s not talk about the tortured acronym). This complex and citizen science-based collaboration (website here) has been a fascinating journey. It’s ranged from getting to watch a rocket launch in Florida, to discovering/describing a new bacterial species, to our most recent publication… the …
Thanks to rapid and relatively inexpensive techniques, anything that can be swabbed, scooped and sequenced is fair game for bacterial community analyses. And, microbiome-mania aside, we are still discovering incredible things about the invisible microbial world everyday. Fellow microBEnet author David Coil has suggested that it is timely to collate the wealth of information that …
Just heard about this course from a former undergraduate in our lab who spoke very highly of the opportunity. “GEOBIOLOGY 2018 An International Training Course in a Rapidly Evolving Field”. Takes place during summer 2018 at Caltech. Information from the website below. Now entering its 15th year, the International Geobiology Course is an intense, multidisciplinary …