Tree of Life Runners

More little ditties here

• Harold Varmus was on Science Friday 1.5 weeks ago talking about Open Access. I think he did a fine job, no matter what Evolgen might imply. You can listen to the interview here. Glad Science Friday covered this.
• Just found the blog Evolution Minute. They seem to be trying to represent both sides of the ID vs. evolution debate. Not sure what to make of it yet, but it seems worth checking out.
• New publication available from the American Society of Microbiology. “Uncharted Microbial World: Microbes and Their Activities in the Environment”. Thanks to Dan Drell at DOE for pointing this out.
• Obama shares beliefs about Islam and evolution. Note – in case you missed it. Darwin endorsed him here on my blog.
• Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution drafts go online. Look behind the scenes at Darwin writing his big book.
• Scathing review of ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’ (Ben Stein monkeys with evolution) by Roger Moore.

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen