Days 4 and 5 of the meeting were a real mix of things including chemistry, evolution, and ‘omics. Also Kevin Bonham took fairly detailed notes throughout the entire conference and put those all online here,  worth checking out if you want more detail. Started off the day with Mohamed S. Donia from Princeton University, “Small …

Day 3 of the meeting was virus day!  Viruses have often gotten short shrift at these kinds of meeting, especially once 16S rRNA sequencing took over the microbial world.  But the balance is shifting back, largely because of metagenomics. First up was Andrew J. Hryckowian from Stanford University “Bacteriodes thetaiotaomicron as a Chassis for Understanding …

Day 2 of Lake Arrowhead kicked off with a nice mix of talks with seemingly a focus on biogeography and spatial resolution of microbial communities which was pretty interesting to see. First was Martin Ackermann from ETH Zurich, Switzerland “A Microscale Perspective on Microbial Interactions”.  Introduced topic by talking about the need to understand what’s …

Arrived today for the bi-annual Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics meeting up in the San Bernadino mountains.  This is my 4th time at this meeting, and it’s my clear favorite.  As in past years, I’ll blog something about the talks each day and will try to do some sort of collection of tweets as well (no …