I don’t even remember exactly how it got started. I know that we had a group of undergrads that joined the lab in Fall 2012. Jenna Lang and I were trying to find a project where we could try having undergrads do a 16S study. I’m not sure how aquariums came up, but somebody had …
I entered the world of 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding as a naïve PhD student around five years ago. Like many people, I had hoped that there would have been others before me that had beaten the path and could guide me through the many pitfalls of this experimental approach. How wrong I was! I became …
In scientific manuscripts, we tell stories of our research, generally in straight-line fashion with clear motivations and results. This type of research is rare (in my experience), with stories, motivations, and applications only realized post hoc. This is the nature of science, and our recent ISMEJ publication is no different. With “16Stimator: statistical estimation of …