Who: Susan Holmes (Stanford Univ.)
When: Thursday, Nov 12, 4:10pm,
Where: MSB 1147, UC Davis
What: Analyzing data from perturbation experiments: the case of the human microbiome.
Category: Misc.
At #UCDavis 11/13: Matthew Barber on “Blood and Iron – Evolutionary Conflicts t Host-Microbe Interfaces”
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YARILKB: Assemblathon to Zykovich: an A-Z that reflects a decade at the UC Davis Genome Center
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
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Improving Ability to Identify Possible Conflicts of Interest of Scholars 1: Adding a Disclosure Field to ORCID
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.
I therefore propose that ORCID add a new category: DISCLOSURES. What would be included here? Well, I don’t know exactly but would include things like board membership, stock in companies, funding not listed elsewhere, any other significant relationship with a group, and more. Sure this could get messy. But I think we need to do more to make it easier to share and find information that could be a actual or potential conflict of interest.
Something like this:
If anyone knows of other tools for doing this I would love to hear about them.
//storify.com/phylogenomics/system-for-disclosures-for-academics/embed?border=false//storify.com/phylogenomics/system-for-disclosures-for-academics.js?border=false[View the story “System for Disclosures for Academics” on Storify]
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Today at #CUDavis: MEGAN DENNIS: The Role of Human Structural Variation in Evolution and Disease
**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)
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Today in SPAMMY Journal Editorial Board Invitations
Got this today. Seems pretty dubious:
ARC Journals of Immunology and Vaccines (AJIV) – Editorial Board Invitation
Dear Dr. Eisen JA,
We introduce ourselves as ARC Publications PVT LTD (Academician’s Research Center) is a premier international, open access, publisher with Hyderabad, India as its head quarters diffusing across the globe covering European, Western and Asian nations. Our primary objective is to publish quality research that undergoes a thorough scrutiny process while giving creative freedom to the researcher.
This is to bring to your kind notice that we are in the process of recruiting eminent people as Editorial Board Members for our ARC Journals of Immunology and Vaccines (AJIV). It is an Open Access, Academic, Peer-reviewed, quality journal that publishes unbiased original research in the field of Immunology and Vaccination. We cordially invite you to take the role as Editorial Board Member to be part of our Journal.
We would request you to submit a manuscript or a two page Editorial article to encourage our journal as we would like to release our first issue with our Journal Editorial Board Member’s articles. We request you to invite your colleagues/ Expertises/ Students to publish your the scientific/ research work with us.
Kindly send us your Resume, Bio data and Photograph for our Editorial office purpose. Your Resumes and Manuscripts could be submitted at editor_ajiv@arcjournals.org.
Thank You.
AJIV – Editorial Office
ARC Publications PVT LTD
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Evolution of DNA sequencing talk 2015 version
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.
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At #UCDavis today: “Protein interaction networks and complexes in bacteria”
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
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Today at #UCDavis: Megan Frederickson on “Mutualism ecology and evolution: moving beyond cheating”
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).
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Storify of the IFAL Roundtable on Microbiomes in Food and Agriculture
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.
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