This is Jane Carlton’s talk at MoBE 2017 and the topic was “A city view: ATM’s, parasites and wastewater”. 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!
Marc Edwards from Virginia Tech University has been regarded as the best speaker from MoBE 2017. He speaks about Public Health and the Flint Water Crisis. 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 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 …
Just a quick post here to say that Dr. Jenna Lang, formally of the Eisen lab at UC Davis, will be on Science Friday tomorrow, 12/8/17 talking about our work examining the microbiome of the International Space Station. She expects to be on at around 12:40pm PST. The publication is here, and we’ve compiled …
The UN continues work on focusing on dangers of overuse of antibiotics. See the Guardian article below about a new effort from the UN in this regard. Source: Overuse of antibiotics in farming is a major new threat to human health, says UN | Society | The Guardian
Jordan Peccia from Yale University announces the upcoming Gordon Conference. 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!
Betsy Pugel speaks about tiny houses: planetary protection-focused materials selection for spaceflight hardware surfaces. 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!
This is a short clip of Rita Colwell from the panel discussion about the myth and reality of MoBE manipulation. This was recorded at MoBE 2017 in Washington D.C. If you’re interested, check out all of the other speakers from MoBE 2017 on our YouTube channel!
Here is a Q&A session for a panel discussion about Charting MoBE Research Priorities. The panel consists of Jordan Peccia, Amy Pruden, Rachel Adams and is moderated by Jonathan Eisen. 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!
Of potential interest – new paper from the Banfield Lab – thanks to Elisabeth Bik for pointing me to this on Twitter. Preterm infants exhibit different microbiome colonization patterns relative to full-term infants, and it is speculated that the hospital room environment may contribute to infant microbiome development. Here, we present a genome-resolved metagenomic …