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

Visual notes from Brian Stevenson talk at #tedmed

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Visual notes from Teresa Menocino at #tedmed

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Some pics from the Kennedy Center ore #tedmed

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Am hoping #tedmed security at the Kennedy Center lets me in w/ my friends

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Am hoping #tedmed security at the Kennedy Center lets me in w/ my friends

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Amazing – Renaissance Hotel in DC has decorated lobby w/ giant microbes #tedmed

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Reynoso Task Force Update

Dear UC Davis Community,

The task force looking into last November’s pepper-spray incident has made tentative arrangements to share its findings at a campus forum this Wednesday, April 11 at 3:30 pm in Freeborn Hall.

Plans for Wednesday’s public meeting will be confirmed after a hearing Tuesday morning in Alameda County Superior Court, at which a judge is expected to approve an agreement allowing the task force report to be released.

More information is available in this announcement from the UC Office of the President: http://news.ucdavis.edu/download/201204/Task_force_announcement_4.9.12.pdf

Updated information will be provided as it becomes available.

–Office of University Communications

Crowdsourcing some facts for my upcoming #Tedmed talk on #microbes on #humans

OK all I am looking for some help here is finding out some latest pieces of information about the microbes that live in and on people for my Tedmed talk next week Some things I could use

  • 1. What is the number of species of microbes found on one person across their entire body (gut, skin, mouth, etc)? 

  •  2. What is the number of species of known human pathogens (that are microbes) 

  •  3. What human ailments are now thought to be possibly caused by disturbances in the microbiome? 

  •  4. How many viruses (kinds and numbers) are found in the human microbiome? 

  •  5. What is a good source of open (e.g., creative commons) images of the microbes found in / on people? 

 I am going to post these each as a comment below so people can respond to each one … Thanks
UPDATE 6/4/2012 – Embedding the talk I gave for TEDMED

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Genetics Seminar on April 9, 2012: Dr. Brandon S. Gaut

Genetics Seminar

“The molecular diversity of adaptive convergence in E. Coli”
Speaker: Dr. Brandon S. Gaut

University of California, Irvine | Professor and Chair, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Monday, April 9, 2012
4:10 PM

1022 Life Sciences

Host: Jeffrey Ross- Ibarra

Woohoo 1st time biking to school on her own bike

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