This may be of interest to some. I made a Storify of some Tweets by me and a few others from a talk by Jo Handelsman yesterday. ———————– UPDATE December 2018 Storify is no longer in existence. Fortunately we were able to convert the Storify summary to one via Wakelet. Wakelet details Link to the …
J. David Miller posted a great summary of the Microbiomes of The Built Environment session at AIHce Expo 2017. Sounds like a fun session.
A while back I posted scans of some seminars from a while back here and I thought I would restart this activity (which I call retroblogging). I (and I hope some others) find it really interest to go back and see what people were talking about 10, 20, or more years ago. See for example Retroblogging …
Next week, the Lublin University of Technology in Lublin, Poland will host the Healthy Buildings Europe conference. Over 300 scientists, engineers, and professionals will gather to present and discuss building science. The Sloan Foundation is sponsoring workshops at the meeting to bring together leaders in the field and advance the state of the science. A …
I am compiling information about presentations related to MoBE topics at the ASM Microbe 2017 meeting. This may be useful to those attending the meeting in selecting where to go and also to those outside who might be interested presentations on MoBE topics at this meeting. If anyone knows of others, please let me know. …
Just a quick post here about an upcoming anvi’o workshop at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI). While I’ve never used anvi’o myself, I know that people rave about it and the visualizations it produces look really cool. It can be used with metagenomic, genomic, and transcriptomic data. Information below copied from the workshop website. …
On January 24, 2017 we held a 90 minute symposium titled “Microbiology of the Built Environment: Implications for Health and Design” at the National Council for Science and the Environment Conference (NCSE) conference in Washington, DC. Thank you to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for sponsoring this event. The NCSE conference integrates science and policy, …
Coming up in June (June 1-5) in New Orleans. ASM Microbe 2017, the Annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. For more information see https://www.asm.org/index.php/asm-microbe-2017 The meeting should be very good. Hotel deadline is May 17. For sessions on some topics of interest see Antimicrobial Agents and Infectious Diseases Applied and Environmental Science Clinical and …
My course slides are updated for 2017 with a new lecture on acellular life. Lecture 01 (3-21-2017) slides from Kristen DeAngelis Lec02 phylogeny (3-23-2017) from Kristen DeAngelis Lecture 03 (3-28-2017) slides from Kristen DeAngelis Lecture 20 (4-20-2017) slides from Kristen DeAngelis Lecture 22 (4-27-2017) slides from Kristen DeAngelis Lecture 23 (5-2-2017) acellular life slides …
Last call for submissions of the ASM Agar Art Competition See American Society for Microbiology Submission Manager – Agar Art 2017 Submit a photo of your original, microbe- and agar-based art for the chance to win up to $485′ worth of prizes. Top submissions will be showcased online and in a gallery at the American Society …