Lots of news stories about a new paper from Jack Gilbert, Simon Lax, and many others on results of their “Hospital Microbiome” study. I apologize that, since I am co-running a conference for the next two days I just have not had time to read all these stories and the paper and thus do not yet …
I’ve been making art for almost two decades now, most of it inspired by developments in science. But it was impossible for me as an artist, an American, and a proud resident of Washington, DC, not to be affected by the political turmoil of the past year. I’ve been protesting my heart out, and eventually I …
I am compiling information about presentations related to MoBE topics at the ASM Microbe 2017 meeting. This may be useful to those attending the meeting in selecting where to go and also to those outside who might be interested presentations on MoBE topics at this meeting. If anyone knows of others, please let me know. …
Just.a quick post here. Pools are sometimes either not clean enough (and thus contain possible pathogens) or too clean (well, more importantly might have too much of cleaning chemicals like chlorine). Outbreaks of crypto, a parasitic infection linked to pools, doubled from 2014 to 2016, and 4,800 people visited ERs for pool chemical-associated health issues …
Made a little Storify highlighting some posts people have made about the AgarArt contest from ASM [View the story “#AgarArt contest from @asmicrobiology” on Storify]
OK. So money has microbes on it. Not surprising. And when people find out such information they frequently go overboard in the germophobia. See for example these stories from over the years 1999: Filthy Lucre – Paper Money As A Vector Of Disease 2010: Dirty money 1: Expect germs 2010: How Bad Are Germs on Money 2012: …
Just a quick post here about an upcoming anvi’o workshop at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI). While I’ve never used anvi’o myself, I know that people rave about it and the visualizations it produces look really cool. It can be used with metagenomic, genomic, and transcriptomic data. Information below copied from the workshop website. …
Sorry for the headline here but when I saw this news story (British scientists survey infectious bacteria by having people walk outside in socks – The Washington Post). I just could not get Mr. Rogers’ “Who are the people in your neighborhood” out of my head. But with the “people” replaced by “microbes”. Why did this …
So there is a new paper out that is incredibly interesting and has been getting lots of press coverage. The paper was in Nature: Endothelial TLR4 and the microbiome drive cerebral cavernous malformations. Sadly it is behind a paywall, so not everyone out there will have free access to it. But it is available in sci-hub …
Source: NIST Challenge — CosmosID – Exploring the Universe of Microbes This could be interesting. NIST & COSMOS ID and ABRF are conducting a metagenomic sequencing methods challenge. From their site: When using metagenomic methods to assess the content of a complex microbial sample, there are many steps in the measurement process where bias might …