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Koala Poop Microbiome Class: Week 1, plating bacteria

By David Coil   Posted in Knowledge, Teaching, and Communication Training and Courses
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(This blog post was prepared by students enrolled in the Koala Poop Microbiome Class in the Fall of 2016 at UC Davis) Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) are currently threatened by a highly infectious disease known as  Chlamydia pecorum. In response to the growing prevalence of this disease in koala populations, researchers are treating affected koala bears …

Journal Club: Crowdfunding Science

By Katherine Dahlhausen   Posted in Citizen Science Funding Scholarly Communication Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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What is better than Open Access?! Citizen Science AND Open Access! The March issue of JMBE was all that. You have probably already heard of Kittybiome and/or The Koala Project, 2 ongoing projects in the Eisen Lab. Both projects were featured in the paper, “Crowdfunding Campaigns Help Researchers Launch Projects and Generate Outreach”, published in …