Collections of microbial cultures are critical tools in studying the microbial world around us. I have learned this from personal experience. The DSMZ for example, was absolutely essential to the entire GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project I coordinated via the DOE-JGI. I recommend that everyone out there find ways to support various …
If you work on amplicon based microbial community analysis this is definitely worth a read. Source: A response to “Accuracy of microbial community diversity …” by R Edgar for QIIME users – Announcements – QIIME 2 Forum It is by Greg Caporaso in response to an article by Robert Edgar. I don’t want to get …
I gave a talk last week for the NAS Microbiomes of the Built Environment 2017 (aka #MOBE17) meeting. I posted the slides I used to SlideShare and I am embedding them below. I spent a bunch of time thinking about what I would say at this meeting. I did not want to talk about what …
Yup. Microbes can be beautiful. Check out these pics and more in the WBUR article about “Life at the Edge of Sight” a phenomenal new book from Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter. WBUR article: From Blue Cheese To Dirt, How Beautiful Bacteria Can Be Though the microbes that rule our world are normally too small …
MRSA IN AGRICULTURE AND ZOMBIE EPIDEMIOLOGY WITH TARA C. SMITH – MTM 67 Definitely worth a listen. PS. Yes, the “typo” in the title is on purpose.
The third and final day started with a Keynote talk by Marc Edwards about “MoBE, Public Health and the Flint Water Crisis”. It’s really hard to sum up this talk, I would recommend watching the video if interested. Marc talked about the Flint crisis from their perspective, starting with their pre-existing work on corrosion and …
The first evening of the #MoBE17 meeting was a reception, with a fabulous keynote talk by Ed Yong mainly focused on Science Communication. Ed had a number of tips for interacting with journalists and thinking about how we present stories instead of facts. The quote of the evening was surely “you cannot replace a feeling …
Made a summary via Storify of Tweets for Day2 of the MOBE17 meeting. [View the story “#MOBE17 Day 2” on Storify] Since Storify is disappearing soon, we have converted this Storify into a Wakelet and are embedding it here
I made a summary via Storify of Tweets relating to Day1 of the MOBE17 Microbiomes of the Built Environment 2017 meeting. [View the story “#MOBE17 run up & Day 1 including talk by @edyong209” on Storify]
Well, I am in DC for #MoBE17 and was secretly hoping to get in a Washington Nationals playoff game on Thursday. Heading to DC for #mobe17 and since the #RedSox are out I got out hat for another favorite team – go #Nationals pic.twitter.com/Gx0cpPdBjF — Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) October 10, 2017 And in some sort …