Day 2 of #NeLLi17: From New Lineages of Life To New Functions
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Interesting discussion of data vs. metadata started at #NeLLi17 & continuing
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Research Topic: MALDI-TOF MS Application in Microbial Ecology Studies
About this Research Topic Recent advancements in high-throughput sequencing, proteomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics has revolutionized the microbial ecology research, and immensely improved our understanding of the microbiome. Metagenomics and other cultivation-independent studies have showed that hundreds of millions of microorganisms populate various ecosystems of the earth, and the majority of these have not yet been …
Day 1 of #NeLLi17 – From New Lineages of Life To New Functions
I made a Storify of Tweets from Day 1 of the “From New Lineages of Life to New Functions” meeting. See: #NeLLi17 – From New Lineages of Life To New Functions Day 1 (with images, tweets) · phylogenomics · Storify. [View the story “#NeLLi17 – From New Lineages of Life To New Functions Day 1” …
Standards for Pathogen Detection for Biosurveillance & Clinical Applications Workshop | NIST
Of possible interest: Source: Standards for Pathogen Detection for Biosurveillance and Clinical Applications Workshop | NIST From the email announcement I received: Hosted by NIST and the DHS Science and Technology Directorate August 14th and 15th on the NIST Campus in Gaithersburg, MD One Page Abstracts for talks, lightning talks and posters are now being accepted. Please …
Of possible interest: Special Issue on emerging aquatic microbial and chemical contaminants
Just a quick post here. There is a “special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).” that may be of interest. The issue is on “Emerging Aquatic Microbial and Chemical Contaminants of Concern and Their Impact on Human Health” and it currently has seven papers and apparently more coming. A brief …
DoD Microbiome Symposium – 6-7 April, 2017
We are welcoming anyone who would like to join us online for the DoD microbiome symposium to be held at the United States Air Force from 5-7 April (see schedule below). The symposium will explore current and future research directions in the human and built environment microbiome that may benefit the DoD, Veterans, and their …
Reading: The Quest To Grow Cities From Scratch – Thoughts?
So I just discovered this article that was published a few weeks ago at Co.Design. See The Quest To Grow Cities From Scratch | Co.Design by Meg Miller. It certainly is interesting, thought I confess it is out of my main areas of expertise so not sure about the plausibility or reasonableness of some of the possibilities …
Microbiology Student Symposium at UC Berkeley 4/29/17
Microbiology Student Symposium at UC Berkeley (free & credit as local conf for DE-HMI students) When: April 29th, 2017 9 AM – 5 PM, reception to follow Where: David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Suite 100, Berkeley, CA 94704 Keynote speakers: Bonnie Bassler (Princeton) Edward DeLong (U Hawaii) More info & registration: http://microstudentgroup.weebly.com/2017-microbiology-student-symposium.html
Microbiome Bioinformatics with QIIME 2 workshop, June 21-23 2017 in Las Vegas, NV
Members of the QIIME development group, led by Greg Caporaso, will teach a three-day workshop on bioinformatics tools for microbial ecology. The workshop will include lectures covering basic QIIME 2 usage and theory, and hands-on work with QIIME 2 to perform microbiome analysis from raw sequence data through publication-quality statistics and visualizations. This workshop will …