Your help is wanted in this #CitizenMicrobiology project: “BashTheBug – Help us fight antibiotic resistance!”

Just found out about this new Citizen Microbiology project via Andrew Su on Twitter who retweeted a post of Jennifer Gardy’s A neat citizen science project launched today as part of the big TB sequencing consortium -help spot drug resistance https://t.co/rFHsrmdBJk — Jennifer Gardy (@jennifergardy) April 7, 2017 Source: BashTheBug – Help us fight antibiotic resistance! …

Research Topic: MALDI-TOF MS Application in Microbial Ecology Studies

About this Research Topic Recent advancements in high-throughput sequencing, proteomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics has revolutionized the microbial ecology research, and immensely improved our understanding of the microbiome. Metagenomics and other cultivation-independent studies have showed that hundreds of millions of microorganisms populate various ecosystems of the earth, and the majority of these have not yet been …

Standards for Pathogen Detection for Biosurveillance & Clinical Applications Workshop | NIST

Of possible interest: Source: Standards for Pathogen Detection for Biosurveillance and Clinical Applications Workshop | NIST From the email announcement I received: Hosted by NIST and the DHS Science and Technology Directorate August 14th and 15th on the NIST Campus in Gaithersburg, MD One Page Abstracts for talks, lightning talks and posters are now being accepted. Please …

Of possible interest: Special Issue on emerging aquatic microbial and chemical contaminants 

Just a quick post here.  There is a “special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).” that may be of interest.  The issue is on “Emerging Aquatic Microbial and Chemical Contaminants of Concern and Their Impact on Human Health” and it currently has seven papers and apparently more coming. A brief …

DoD Microbiome Symposium – 6-7 April, 2017

We are welcoming anyone who would like to join us online for the DoD microbiome symposium to be held at the United States Air Force from 5-7 April (see schedule below).  The symposium will explore current and future research directions in the human and built environment microbiome that may benefit the DoD, Veterans, and their …

Microbiology Student Symposium at UC Berkeley 4/29/17

Microbiology Student Symposium at UC Berkeley (free & credit as local conf for DE-HMI students) When: April 29th, 2017 9 AM – 5 PM, reception to follow Where: David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Suite 100, Berkeley, CA 94704 Keynote speakers: Bonnie Bassler (Princeton) Edward DeLong (U Hawaii) More info & registration: http://microstudentgroup.weebly.com/2017-microbiology-student-symposium.html

Microbiome Bioinformatics with QIIME 2 workshop, June 21-23 2017 in Las Vegas, NV

Members of the QIIME development group, led by Greg Caporaso, will teach a three-day workshop on bioinformatics tools for microbial ecology. The workshop will include lectures covering basic QIIME 2 usage and theory, and hands-on work with QIIME 2 to perform microbiome analysis from raw sequence data through publication-quality statistics and visualizations. This workshop will …