The Microbiology Student Group at UC Berkeley welcomes you to join us for the 17th Annual Microbiology Student Symposium (MSS) on Friday, May 6, 2016 at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. This year, our keynote speakers are Victoria Orphan from Caltech and Micheal Laub from MIT. The MSS provides a forum for students researching …
The 18th Genomic Standards Consortium meeting 12-15 June 2016. Crete Hellenic Center for Marine Research GSC 18 will include 8 sessions. Each session will have a working group which would meet during the workshop and the chair of each session will summarise the conclusions of the working group during the workshop. Workshop participants are encouraged …
The meeting page for the 21st Annual International Meeting on Microbial Genomes at Lake Arrowhead is now up. This has been one of my favorite meetings for many many years (full disclosure – I am now a co-organizer and have been for the last few meetings). Note – the meeting is NOT just about genomes – it …
Just got this email and thought it might be of interest to some: AIA South Atlantic Region seeks innovative speakers and facilitators for presentations to be offered during the 2016 Regional Conference in Wilmington, NC, September 29 — October 1. This conference will provide the highest amount of Continuing Education Units for architect members in …
From Pat Schloss: Hi mothur users, I wanted to let you know that I will be teaching another of my R workshops for microbial ecologists this May. The workshop will run from May 23rd to 25th near the Detroit airport. The workshop is being filled on a first come, first served basis. The workshop is …
The planned Sloan Early Career Workshop in Costa Rica (for which abstracts are due January 30th) has been cancelled due to concerns over Zika virus. The Workshop will be rescheduled… possibly in Chicago or New Orleans. We will post details once everything has been worked out.
(Update: This is probably at the NIST campus in MD… though it doesn’t actually say on their website) NIST is hosting an interesting sounding workshop on “Standards for Microbiome Measurements“. The workshop will be held on April 4-5th 2016 (presumably on the NIST campus in Boulder, CO). Information about the workshop below: Purpose: This NIST-NIAID workshop will seek …
Last week I had the opportunity to present a lecture on the history of DNA sequencing in Jonathan Eisen’s EVE 161 Microbial Phylogenomics course. This lecture uses Elaine Mardis’ excellent review papers on the next generation sequencing methods as a guide (and required reading). You can see videos of both Dr. Mardis and Dr. Eisen presenting lectures on this topic. …
I made a Storify summary of the Tweets from a workshop at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing that I attended on Tuesday on Computational Microbiology (with a big focus on microbiomes). [<a href="//storify.com/phylogenomics/psb16-session-on-microbiomes” target=”_blank”>View the story “#PSB16 session on computational microbiome #microbiomes ” on Storify]
Posting this which I got from the Mothur mailing list Thanks for your continued support of mothur. From first hand experience, I know that PIs tend to be very generous around the holidays. With that in mind, I’m happy to announce that the next mothur workshop will run from February 8 to 10, 2016 near …