I am running a journal club this quarter at UC Davis on Host Microbiome Co-evolution (see Journal Club at #UCDavis on Co-evolution of Microbiomes and Hosts for more information). It meets Mondays 12:10-1 PM. But I thought I would post here about the course and I would welcome any comments from anywhere, even if you cannot …
Crossposting this from my Tree of Life blog: I am going to be running a journal club this quarter at UC Davis for the Population Biology Graduate Group. The topic is Co-evoution of Microbiomes and Hosts. Meeting time is 12:10-1:00 PM if you want to participate let me know. A link to the Draft Outline …
So – I thought some people here would be interested in this. As someone who has been involved in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s program in “Microbiology of the Built Environment” for many years, I have been trying to get more involved with the built environment crowd. And I have not always been exceptionally successful …
I spent this past summer at the MBL Microbial Diversity course which Jonathan recently posted about. I had heard about the course from a variety of different people and it had been described to me as “life changing” so many times that I knew I had to attend. Between the wonderful staff and the plethora …
Nice article about the MBL Microbial Diversity course and Diane Newman, it’s new director, the in MBL Catalyst Magazine. The full PDF of the magazine is here. I have scanned in the part about the course from my copy of the Catalyst. I hope they don’t mind. The course is, in my mind, one of the …
My name is Katie Dahlhausen and I am A PhD student in Jonathan’s lab. I am crowd-funding a project to study this fascinating koala biology, as well as investigate alternative infectious disease treatment where antibiotics are not a viable option. Want to help out these adorable critters? You can support the Indiegogo campaign here, which …
Just got this announcement by email and I thought it might be of interest: Join the curation effort & enroll in our first workshop! What: Workshop to produce curated 18S rDNA reference database. When: July 19th — 25th, 2015. Where: Vancouver, Canada on the University of British Columbia campus. How much: We will cover the cost of housing, breakfast and …
by Simon A. Hernandez & Nichole A. Broderick Since its launch in summer 2013, the Small World Initiative (SWI) has expanded from a small “Microbes to Molecules” course at Yale University to a multi-institutional (60 institutions in 5 countries) organization with more than 2000 students and alumni. Professor Jo Handelsman and colleagues at Yale pioneered …
After a truly amazing response to the Knight Lab’s Poop MOOC that was offered last fall (19,000 students signed up!), we have decided to offer this course again in On Demand format, which allows more flexibility for those who sign up for the course. Students will be able to access the course from May-December 31, …
Wow – this is really really cool: Hidden Life Forms: Investigating Microbial Diversity on Our Bodies and in Our Homes. The article is by Jennifer Cutraro and it goes through a series of course / learning activities regarding microbial diversity – of homes and of people. It has things like: a warm up activity a pre-activity …