Norm Pace gave a talk at UC Davis yesterday on “Metagenomics and the Tree of Life”. I and a few other people posted live Tweets from the talk which I have compiled together via the Storify system. This “Storify” is embedded below. In addition, Lisa Cohen, who was at the talk posted her notes which …
Just got sent this by Katherine Bowman from the Board on Life Sciences. This is really important and if you know of someone who would be good please consider nominating them. Request for Committee Nominations — Microbiomes of the Built Environment: From Research to Application The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are …
So many cool things in this post by Scott Chimileski at Small Things Considered: by Scott Chimileski | Have you ever visited a natural history museum and looked for microbe exhibits? If you have, I’d bet you didn’t find any. In my own searches, I usually see microbes represented only by some species names written …
OK, so they are not actually gigantic bacteria. But this is just really a great idea: The Colosseum becomes a living artwork — powered by its own bacteria | Art and design | The Guardian Now the arena — or rather, the bacteria within it — is becoming a living artwork for the first time, over …
I have been going through old files and notes and scanning some of the more interesting things. One thing I personally find fascinating are notes from talks from a whiles back. So I am going to post some of these notes – in a method I call “retroblogging”. Perhaps I will fake-live-tweet these past talks …
Just announced: @ASM Conference on The Individual Microbe: Single-cell Analysis and Agent-based Modeling March 18—20, 2016 ASM Headquarters Washington, DC. @ASM Conferences are designed to foster interaction and facilitate collaboration between 50 invited participants by having in-depth discussions on a single topic and serving as an incubator for bringing new scientific specialty meetings to the …
A new preprint has come out in PeerJ that presents a simple yet elegant solution to one of the bigger problems in DNA based microbial diversity studies. The authors (Wenke Smets, Jonathan W Leff, Mark A Bradford, Rebecca L McCulley, Sarah Lebeer, Noah Fierer) show how one can use the addition of an internal standard …