The Weitz group at Georgia Tech has an open postdoctoral position available in modeling virus-microbe interactions and dynamics. Applications are encouraged from physicists, applied mathematicians, mathematical biologists, bioengineers, theoretical ecologists and computational biologists. The postdoc position is supported by a multi-institution grant from the Simons Foundation. The postdoc will lead efforts to develop models of virus and microbial dynamics in the …
Metagenomics approach for genetic inventory of microbes to identify, quantify, document, and archive broadest spectrum of potential terrestrial contaminants during the spacecraft assembly process. The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) provides early-career and more senior scientists the opportunity to share in NASA’s mission, to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we …
I am starting to compile a list of academic microbiome “centers” of various kinds from around the world. What I am looking for is entities that are more than just one or two labs – a center or a major program project or such. Any examples would be appreciated. Here are a few but I …
I have personally been interested in microbial forensics of various kinds for quite a while (I worked at TIGR for many years and was peripherally involved in some of the anthrax DNA sequencing and analysis there). I have even served on various working groups from the US Government discussing the potential for microbes to be …
Just found out via Twitter about a cool new grant that was awarded: Congrats to Kyle Bibby @kylejbibby on this NSF grant!#microbenet @SloanFoundation https://t.co/x1slHgygdT — Paula Olsiewski (@polsiewski) March 1, 2017 Through a five-year, $500,000 CAREEER Award from the National Science Foundation, a civil and environmental engineering research group at the University of Pittsburgh’s …
Hi All I’d just like to highlight a job we are advertising, to lead the bioinformatic (sequence+variation) analysis of 100,000 M tuberculosis genomes which we are sequencing (WGS), ~50,000 of which will be phenotyped for 12 drugs, and the remainder for some subset. Note the deadline is very soon – Monday 6th March! This project …
Another quick post here. There is a really nice article about small cheese makers and their microbiology work in the New York Times by Larissa Zimberoff. The laboratory at Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont is part of a new effort by American producers to better understand the microbial players in their craft. Source: Small Cheese …
Call for Papers: MoBE 2017 Special Issue of BioMed Central’s Microbiome Journal (Submission Guidelines) We invite submissions of MoBE papers highlighting recent research and emerging hot topics along the theme of “MoBE Research to Applications” for our peer-reviewed MoBE special issue. Publishing charges are sponsored by the MoBE meeting and BioMed Central’s Microbiome Journal. This special issue will be available by October 1st, …
I have been tracking #actuallivingscientist postings on Twitter compiled those by people doing microbiology. Actual living microbiologists. [View the story “These are actual living microbiologists #actuallivingscientist #microbiology #microbes #microBEnet” on Storify]
This may be of interest to some here. I made a Storify of the Tweets from the “Future Proofing Law” symposium that was at UC Davis yesterday and the day before. There were multiple biotech. themed sessions and presentations as well as discussions of many topics connected to microBEnet in various ways such as open …
