I spend a decent amount of my blogging time these days writing posts for microBEnet (the microbiology of the built environment network) which is part of a project funded in my lab by the Sloan Foundation.
Some recent posts that may be of interest are listed below:
- 2015-09-11Another blast from the past: Simple fools guide to PCR v1
- 2015-09-10Gates Foundation seeking proposals on Characterizing and Tracking Antimicrobial Resistance
- 2015-09-09“A diversity of gifts”: article about the MBL Microbial Diversity course
- The White House Webcast on Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing 9/30
- 2015-09-08Another important paper: microbiome studies “strongly influenced by sample processing & PCR primers”
- 2015-09-06Important paper on how biases in DNA extraction can shape inferences from metagenomics (re spore formers)
- 2015-09-05Retroblogging seminar by Norm Pace on Invisible Diversity from 1990
- Retroblogging seminars: notes from talk by Charlie Yanofsky in 1991
- 2015-09-03Empiricist League #16 meeting at Union Hall on The Hidden DNA of NYC
- Stanford Bioengineering, Jr. Faculty Search Announcement
- 2015-09-03Podcast on Antimicrobials and Resistance in the Environment
- 2015-09-02microBEnet journal club: MetaBAT for reconstructing single genomes from complex microbial communities
- 2015-08-31Jed Fuhrman comments on rRNA primers
- 2015-08-30Microbiome informed design – air quality, avoiding filtering, and lichens
- 2015-08-29Interesting and important new paper: Microbial composition of purified waters
- 2015-08-27Clothes May Be A Vector for RSV in NICUs
- Is your spacecraft contaminating the universe?
- 2015-08-26Simple & elegant solution to a big problem in DNA based microbial diversity studies
- From NC State: Citizen Science Effort Highlights How Little We Know About Invisible Life in Our Own Homes
- 2015-08-25Rob Dunn on “The First National Inventory of All Household Life (on a swab)”
- 2015-08-25Thousands of microbes found in house dust – BBC News
- Bacteria in Household Dust Reflect Who Lives There : Discovery News
- Sarah Zhang updates “What I Learned From Sequencing the Bacteria in My Apartment”
- 2015-08-18Don’t diss microbial eukaryotes in human gut by calling them all parasites
- 2015-08-15Call for Abstracts: Indoor Air 2016 @IA2016 in Ghent
- 2015-08-04Ways to do cheap DNA extractions from 1000s of samples?
- 2015-08-03Times-Picayune asks – Did a moldy building kill 4 New Orleans Professors
- 2015-07-31Talk Videos from Healthy Buildings 2015 Europe Session on Microbiology of the Built Environment
- 2015-07-13More on the history of uninformed, risky microbiology of the built environment experiments by US Military
- 2015-07-07Report of Interest on Home Dampness & Mold from Mark Mendell
- 2015-07-02Sensationalist headline from Time on Air Conditioning health risks, but OK story
- Inside Philanthropy covers the BioBE Center and Sloan MoBE Program
- 2015-06-14Yeast Culture Collection Post Doc Fellowship Possibility
- 2015-06-05Round up of Tweets from #ASM2015, no thanks to Storify
- How to choose a metagenomic sequencing strategy – input wanted
- 2015-05-21The White House wants input on the future of microbiome research (by June 15)
- 2015-05-16The kittybiome Project – background and some plans
- 2015-05-15Talk by Michael Fischbach on “Small molecules from the human microbiota”
- 2015-05-13Challenges and Opportunities of Airborne Metagenomics
- 2015-05-09Time Magazine on “Should I Use Antibacterial Soap”
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This is from the “Tree of Life Blog”
of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter.
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This is from the “Tree of Life Blog”
of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter.
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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
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