Posting this email I just got – everyone around #UCDavis should go. YARILKB.
Hi,
After (almost) 11 years working in the Genome Center I am finally moving on and heading back to the UK. Join me for a highly informal ‘Exit seminar’ on my last day (November 20th) where I will reminisce about lessons learned from a decade at the Genome Center (including the challenges of organising foosball tournaments).
There will be cakes!
+ Friday 20th November, 10:00 am. GBSF room 4202.
Regards,
Keith
Real and perceived conflicts of interest are a critically important topic in scholarly activities that I believe has not received enough attention from the scientific community. Right now, disclosures of possible conflicts of interest are handled incredibly very unevenly and poorly by academia and industry and government. Even when people do the right thing and make detailed disclosures, such information is hard to find and ephemeral. There are many things that the community could do to improve the ability to find such information.
One simple step that I believe could be useful would be to link disclosures to universal scholar ID systems. Although there are multiple UID systems for scholars, right now the UID of choice appears to be ORCID. ORCID currently allows scholars to compile information about their education, employment, funding and scholarly works.
**TODAY**
Integrated Genetics & Genomics Graduate Group
Seminars in Genomics & Epigenetics
“The Role of Human Structural Variation in Evolution and Disease”
Megan Dennis
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
UC Davis
Monday, November 2, 2015
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
1022 Life Sciences
Host: Alex Nord (asnord)
(If you would like to meet with the speaker, please contact their host)
Got this today. Seems pretty dubious:
Crossposted from microBEnet
Every year for the last few years I have given a talk on the “Evolution of DNA Sequencing” at the “Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics” at Bodega Bay Marine Lab. I just did the talk and thought I would post the slides here. I note – I also added an evolutionary tree of sequencing methods which I include here as a separate animated gif too.
I note I posted a request to Twitter the day before the talk pointing to last years slides and I got lots of helpful suggestions from people about what to add or change. I included links to Tweets in the talk and thanked those people on the slides. But I would like to thank everyone here too. Published originally on March 10, 2015. Updated 10/20/15 with information below and republished. Finally posted the video of the talk (recorded using Camtasia) to Youtube. It is imperfect (there are a few things I said that came out wrong .. it was late at night). But since it may be helpful to people I am posting it.
Medical Microbiology and ImmunologyFaculty Recruitment Seminar
Peter Uetz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for the Study of Biological Complexity
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
“Protein interaction networks and complexes in bacteria”
Friday, October 30, 2015
MedSci Building 180C (across from Tupper Hall)
12:10 – 1:00 pm
Please contact Karryn Doyle for additional information at kddoyle: 530.752.9401
PUetz Seminar Announcement.pdf
Just got this announcement:
This Thursday’s EVE seminar speaker will be Megan Frederickson from the University of Toronto. Megan studies the evolution of cooperation and cheating in mutualisms, and the consequences of diversity for cooperation. To tackle these topics, Megan uses interactions between insects, ants, and microbes. See her website for more info.
Megan’s talk is titled "Mutualism ecology and evolution: moving beyond cheating," and will be at 4:10 in Everson 176.
If you would like to meet with Megan, please email me (amobrien) to coordinate a time.
There will also be a graduate student lunch at 12:10 in 1017 Wickson Hall, please RSVP (amobrien) if you plan to attend.
Also, as a "trailer" for the talk, check out Megan’s work on Devil’s Gardens featured in BBC’a Life in the Undergrowth, narrated by David Attenborough (first segment of: Intimate Relations).
Here is a quick roundup of the Roundtable discussion I was involved in on Microbiomes in Food and Agriculture run by the IFAL at UC Davis.
A landmark study has illuminated the presence of specific microbes on the ISS strongly suggesting that humans might be on board the spacecraft. In a routine survey of one air filter and more than one (two) of the vacuum bags used to clean the station, the researchers arrived at unexpected results – the amount and type of microbes found on the ISS are in stark contrast to those found on the meticulously scrubbed and disinfected NASA clean rooms* back on Earth. Furthermore, these microbes on the ISS seem to resemble those found in association with humans.
Experts say that if these microbes came from a human, it is entirely possible that they could live on another human. A major worry is that the astronauts and cosmonauts expected to continue living and working now on the ISS might be living with bacteria, which have been known to cause disease in the past. It is therefore now the topmost priority to figure out which pathogens are there and how on (from?) Earth they arrived.
Microbial forensic experts are being called in to analyze the unique “fingerprint” signatures of the microbes left behind, in the hope of identifying the suspects these potential pathogens came from. Preliminary findings have urged officials to focus their search on anyone who has recently eaten space-grown lettuce. Next steps to understanding what is influencing the microbes on the ISS include analyzing the effect of a human breathing, eating, washing hair, sneezing, farting, playing the guitar or performing any other act as might be expected of these hypothesized ISS inhabitants. Due to the limited knowledge of the on-goings of the station, the public is being asked for any information they might know of regarding such activities.
*Designed to eliminate the spread and survival of microorganisms.
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UPDATE: Added a zoomed in version
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Jonathan Eisen's Lab 
