Note from Jonathan Eisen. This is a guest post from Srijak Bhatnagar a microbiology graduate student at UC Davis. Some of the best conferences arguably are the small one. Instead of the grand size and rapid pace, these warm gatherings over a period of few days allows for budding researchers like me to listen to …
Note added by Jonathan Eisen: This is a guest post from UC Davis graduate student Srijak Bhatnagar. So sometime this year I was at ASM 2012. The big’ol conference where who’s who of Microbiology descended on San Francisco. Amidst the rush of hoards of people moving from session to session, lining up along the hallway …
The 15th Workshop of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC15) April 22-24, 2013, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Registration and EasyChair abstract submission website now open. Theme: Standards-enabled Research in Genomics URL: http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_15 The 15th Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC15) meeting will be held at NIH (Bethesda, Maryland) from April 22-24th. This meeting will highlight the utilization of genome …
For a summary and list of talks from the QIMME/VAMPS Workshop, see here. Below are the various presentation videos that I recorded at the meeting. Mitch Sogin talks about the capabilities of VAMPS: Rob Knight talks about the capabilities of QIIME: Sue Huse discusses best practices in marker gene analysis (must-see for new …
Greetings from the 2012 ASM Beneficial Microbes Conference held in beautiful San Antonio (Ill ignore the torrential downpours from Friday for the moment). Despite the more restricted theme, at least compared to the ASM general meeting, the organizers did a great job of inviting a broad variety of speakers. Of course, we heard about insect …
For those wanting to catch up on the workshop discussions that happened last week in Boulder, we’ve pulled together all the tweets into a Storify! Includes coverage of the QIIME/VAMPS bioinformatics workshop, and the subsequent fungal meeting focused on resources for ITS gene barcoding. [View the story “QIIME/VAMPS and ITS fungi #microbenet meetings” on Storify]
(Note: This post will be regularly updated with links to speaker slides and videos of some presentations as that information becomes available) The two-day microBEnet sponsored QIIME/VAMPS workshop just wrapped up yesterday. The goal of this conference was to bring the developers of QIIME and VAMPS together with users from the microbiology of the built …
The dates of May 22-24th were set today at the end of the VAMPS/QIIME workshop in Boulder (more about that later). The dates have been choose to coordinate with ASM 2013, which is in Denver from May 18-21st. Anyone attending ASM should just be able to take a shuttle up to Boulder for the Sloan …
Here are a few of the talks from the built environment session of the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomes meeting (previous blog post here). This session was sponsored by microBEnet. James Meadow, from the BioBE Center. Jason Stajich, part of the MoBEDAC project. Susana Remold from the University of Louisville.
Last night was the Microbiology of the Built Environment session at the bi-annual Lake Arrowhead meeting. This session was organized and sponsored by microBEnet. I recorded some of the talks and will post those videos here after some editing. Here’s a summary of the speakers and the topics discussed. The first speaker was James Meadow …