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 …
Quick post here. There is a new paper out of interest to the microBEnet community: PLOS ONE: Monitoring Seasonal Changes in Winery-Resident Microbiota. From colleagues of mine at UC Davis it discusses culture independent surveys of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Food and Wine Science Winery at UC Davis. I am running out the door or …
A paper of potential interest to the microbiology of the built environment crowd has just been published: Surface Microbes in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Changes with Routine Cleaning and Over Time. From Nicholas Bokulich, David Mills and Mark Underwood at UC Davis it focuses on rRNA PCR based characterization of microbes (bacteria and fungi) on …
We had an interesting workshop on “Social Media for STEM Research” at UC Davis yesterday that may be of interest to some people. This was sponsored by the UC Davis Advance project and involved some mini presentations and then Q & A with me, Holly Bik (a post doc in my lab at UC Davis …
I spend most of my time working on biology. I like to think I cover lots of breadth within biology and I probably do – microbes, evolution, ecology, human health, pathogens, symbioses, forensics, genomics, bioinformatics, and more. But nothing like really looking at other fields to realize how narrowly focused one is. And that is …