Got the following job posting over e-mail that might be of interest to folks: Postdoc in extremophile community eco-evolution A postdoctoral research position in microbial eco-evolution is available in Dr. Mark Urban’s laboratory at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. The postdoc will join a NASA-funded astrobiology project to explore how immigration, rapid …
This could be of use to many people: Source: GraftM: a tool for scalable, phylogenetically informed classification of genes within metagenomes | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic Large-scale metagenomic datasets enable the recovery of hundreds of population genomes from environmental samples. However, these genomes do not typically represent the full diversity of complex microbial …
OK I could not help it with the alliteration, since I just had to top the headline in the NY Times. Source: Dogs Do Their Duty for Science – The New York Times The article is about the work of Jane Carlton (full disclosure – I used to work with her at TIGR) and their …
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This meeting should be awesome (no bias here – just one of the external coorganizers). April 5-6, 2017 – Marriott Hotel, Walnut Creek, CA The workshop aims to foster discussions centered on how to capture, define, quantify, and functionally characterize microbial and viral diversity. It focuses on experimental innovations, computational advances, and other technological developments that will enable researchers to …
Just got back from the Pacific Symposium in Biocomputing. The meeting had some aspects that may be of interest to various folks. Electronic proceedings of the meeting are here. I talked in a session on functional predictions. I was asked to do this at the last minute so I made my slides by hand. Here …
In a recent story published in Cell this week, I walk through my own life and career, to deliver the message that humans are changing their own microbial communities as well as those in animals and in the environment, and that health research needs a substantial dose of an evolutionary, ecological and anthropological perspective …
Andrew Moeller gave a talk at UC Davis Tuesday on “The evolution of the human gut microbiome”. He is a post doc at UC Berkeley working in the Nachman lab. I did not have a working computer so – gasp – I took notes with paper and pen. The talk was quite interesting and I thought …
So – I am teaching in BIS002C – Biodiversity and the Tree of Life again at UC Davis. And I thought it might be of interest to share (and get feedback on) some of what I am teaching for this course. Quick summary – this is the third course in an Intro Bio series …
The meeting page for the 21st Annual International Meeting on Microbial Genomes at Lake Arrowhead is now up. This has been one of my favorite meetings for many many years (full disclosure – I am now a co-organizer and have been for the last few meetings). Note – the meeting is NOT just about genomes – it …