Every year for the last few years I have given a talk on the “Evolution of DNA Sequencing” at the “Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics” at Bodega Bay Marine Lab. I just did the talk and thought I would post the slides here. I note – I also added an evolutionary tree of sequencing methods which …
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 …
Nice story worth reading in New York Magazine by Ferris Jabr: Uptown Mice Are Different From Downtown Mice — NYMag. It discusses some work on evolution in urban environments, including a little bit about work starting to be done on gut microbes of rodents and how they might be affected by urban life. Other things of …
In November, 2012, Curtis Huttenhower began work (with funding from the Sloan Foundation) to examine the transmission of human-associated microbes by public transportation surfaces. An article on “Big Data” in the current issue of Harvard Magazine includes a description of Huttenhower’s work in the lead article “Why “Big Data” Is a Big Deal.” After very …
Continuing with blog posts about my class EVE 161: DNA sequence based studies of microbial diversity. Lecture 4 was fun and a bit scary for me. You see, I finally decided to read in detail – and cover in a course in detail – papers that claim that there are not three domains of life. Sure …
Call for participants for a meeting on Evolutionary Biology of the Built Environment. Details copied from the announcement and posted below: The Basics: We need your help. We are organizing the first working group aimed at understanding the evolutionary biology of the built environment–our bedrooms, our houses, our backyards and our cities. This working group will occur June …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of them every day or so. And just going to do this in semi-alphabetic order. Today’s blog: Daniel Wilson’s Blog Author: Daniel Wilson Tagline/Summary: I am an evolutionary biologist and researcher in genetics. I work at the University …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of them every day or so. And just going to do this in semi-alphabetic order. Today’s blog: BacPathGenomics Author: Kat Holt Tagline/Summary: Genomics and evolution of bacterial pathogens Recent Posts: Metagenomics analysis special issue in Briefings in Bioinformatics Phage annotation …
Heads up for what should be an excellent conference: Gordon Research Conferences – 2011 Program – Microbial Population Biology. Topics include a somewhat unusual mix of human microbiome, emerging infectious diseases, and the ecology of algae used as biofuels as well as a variety of other population biology topics.
Last year, iEVOBIO was a fun, interesting meeting for many reasons (not the least of which is that I was the keynote speaker). If you want to learn more about last years meeting check out my blog post: Summary of #iEVOBIO Day 1 #evolution #phylogenetics #informatics #opensource But I note, that meeting was so, well, last …