So … what goes around comes around. In 2003 and 2004, I spent a lot of time discussing and arguing with people about what would be the best strategy for making and sequencing Sanger libraries for metagenomic sequencing for the Sargasso Sea metagenome study coordinated by the Venter Institute (I worked at TIGR at the time and …
Michael Fischbach was at UC Davis today and gave a very interesting talk. A few of us were Tweeting from the talk and I compiled the Tweets via Storify and this is posted below.
From May 13-14 2015 we hosted a “Live/Dead Workshop” here at UC Davis where we basically discussed a number of issues related to the topic of figuring out which bacteria are alive/viable in a given microbial community. This is particularly important in the built environment where we suspect that many (most?) microbes are dead and …
Just heading back (on the train) from the Association of Health Care Journalists 2015 which was in Santa Clara, where I participated in a session on The Microbiome. The session participants: Jonathan Eisen, Ph.D., professor, School of Medicine and College of Biological Sciences, University of California Susan Lynch, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, University of California, …
Spent Sunday and part of Monday in Washington DC at meetings about microbiomes. Sunday was spent at “The Mother Ship” (aka the headquarters of the American Society for Microbiology” for a meeting on microbiomes run by the Kavli Foundation. I made a Storify of the Tweets from the meeting (mostly from myself and Jessica Green). I …
Just a quick post here. A few weeks ago I took part in a session at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas on “The Era of The Microbiome“. The session ended up being basically a discussion between myself and Carl Zimmer that was moderated by Bernat Ollie. Bernat did a great job of getting questions …
I’m currently attending the inaugural conference of the Citizen Science Association… “Citizen Science 2015“. Over 650 participants from around the world have arrived in San Jose to talk about all the various flavors and implications of citizen science. It’s been a fascinating conference so far, not least because there’s very little agreement on what the …
Saw an interesting talk yesterday from Karen Guillemin of the University of Oregon. I made a storification of the Twitter posts from the talk. See it at the end of this post. I note – I think there are some important lessons in the work on germ free animals that could be applied to studies …
We publish a newsletter every month here at microBEnet. And I thought it would be good to also publish to the blog the various summaries and roundups from the newsletter. Past newsletters are archived here. Here are some of the highlights from this latest newsletter. MicroBEnet Blogs A summary of the recent topics posted on microBE.net …
Last week, Holly Ganz from microBEnet organized a workshop on “Animals in the Built Environment”, focusing on the intersections between animal care, building design, and microbial ecology. Participants included zoo staff, shelter architects, engineers, microbial ecologists, etc. More detailed meeting reports will follow, but as a teaser here is the Storify from the meeting: