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

Woohoo 1st time biking to school on her own bike

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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 how we transfer Illumina data at #ucdavis

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This is from the “Tree of Life Blog”
of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
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David L. Weaver Endowed Lectures in Biophysics and Computational Biology

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The University of California, Davis Genome Center

Presents

Professor Cheryl Arrowsmith

University of Toronto

Structural Genomics Consortium

“Structural and Chemical Biology of Epigenetic Regulators”

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Stephen Colbert vs. Santorum on UC/Cal State Education

Thanks to Artologica for this.

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Rick Santorum Speaks from His Heart – California Colleges
www.colbertnation.com

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This is from the “Tree of Life Blog”
of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
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New paper on haloviruses worth checking out

[HTML] Reconstructing Viral Genomes from the Environment Using Fosmid Clones: The Case of Haloviruses

I Garcia-Heredia, AB Martin-Cuadrado, FJM Mojica… – PLoS ONE, 2012
… Metagenomics provide a way to bypass the difficulty of obtaining genomic information about

microbes that are hard to retrieve in pure culture, and sequencing the metaviriome should help
in complementing the genomic information provided by the metagenome [5], [6], [7], [8], [9 …

My ladyfriend is letting me get closer and closer everyday #ILoveHummingbirds

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Robosquirrels. They are being deployed. From #UCDavis. Be very careful.

For more information see these stories

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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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Bonnie Bassler – a true guardian of microbial diversity

Congratulation to her on being named the L’Oreal-UNESCO 2012 Laureate for Women in Science in North America. Below is a little YouTube Video about her in relation to this award:

 

Also Pam Ronald has written a wonderful story about her at her “Tomorrow’s Table” Blog.

Also check out her awesome Ted talk:

 Bonnie Bassler rocks.

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This is from the “Tree of Life Blog”
of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
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PLOTS (publiclaboratory.org) is coming to #DavisCA

DIY Science & Citizen Science & Open Science all rolled into one -PLOTS is coming to Davis, CA & UC Davis.  See  Davis – publiclaboratory.org for more information.

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This is from the “Tree of Life Blog”
of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
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Video of Carl Zimmer’s talk from the DOE-Joint Genome Institute User meeting

I really love this world of sharing and openness in science.  Here is a video of Carl Zimmer’s Keynote talk from the DOE Joint Genome Institute User meeting.

I note – before his talk I took Carl out to lunch.  Since of course I cannot do anything in a standard way, I bought some sandwiches and some drinks and snacks and took him to the top of Mt. Diablo which is nearby Walnut Creek.  Alas, it took a LONG time to drive up to the top and it was very very windy.  And as I started to get a bit queasy from all the turns I think Carl probably was wondering what I was doing.  But the view from the top was nice (even though the firggin’ visitor center and their nice viewing area was closed).  We did see some snow which was also nice.

And then we headed back down, down, down, down, down.  So- I am telling you this because we got back about 1.5 hours before his talk so he did not have much time to recover from the long and windy road.  And yet, I loved his talk.

For his talk I took “visual” notes using my iPad.  I made these using Notability and then it exports as a PDF which was awkward and then I took that an converted to JPGs since Blogger won’t deal with PDFs.

Hope you enjoy the notes.

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of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
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