Jonathan Eisen's Lab

Bill and Melinda Gates want to give you $250,000 #Vaccines

All you have to do is apply and, well, win … just got this email from the Gates Foundation – definitely worth nominating someone if you think they are doing good work. Once again, the Gates Foundation is helping change the world … Jenny McCarthy need not apply. Here is the email:

Dear Colleagues:

Do you know someone who is improving vaccine delivery in the developing world? Now is the time to nominate that person or group of people for the second annual Gates Vaccine Innovation Award. Time is running out — the deadline for nominations is August 31, 2012.

The Gates Vaccine Innovation Award is open to individuals from any discipline who work on the delivery of vaccines. Candidates from academic institutions, governments, health care facilities, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies may be nominated.

We are looking for ideas, big or small, that have resulted in tangible improvements in immunization coverage in developing countries.

We invite you to nominate individuals or groups of individuals who have achieved significant improvements in the prevention, control, or elimination of vaccine preventable diseases through immunization.

The winning nomination will be recognized with a $250,000 award.

Read about the 2012 Gates Vaccine Innovation Award winner Dr. Asm Amjad Hossain here.

Thank you for your continued support of this important award.

MMMMM: Microbes, Metagenomics, Minnesota, Mississippi, & Morrison

A really cool project is discussed in an issue of the University of Minnesota News: Microbes in the Mississippi : UMNews : University of Minnesota. I found out about it through an automated web search I have running in the background via Google. The news story discusses a project in which scientists from U. Minnesota are sampling the microbes in the Mississippi River using metagenomics. Their data is (apparently) deposited into the IMG database and shared with the world (though I note – no link is provided). This is exactly the kind of new project that cheap sequencing enables … I hope to see many many more like this …

Lab meeting Thursday August 16th

We will be meeting on THURDSAY this week from 1:30 to 3:30 in room 6202 of the Genome Center.
Srijak bhatnagar will be presenting his work.

Amazing video from Louie Schwartzberg / Moving Art "The Beauty of Pollination" #scifoo

I met Louie Schwartzberg at the SciFoo meeting last week. He makes absolutely amazing Nature videos … here is one.

The recursive tree of life – how a Twitter -> Blogger loop was created and broken

Earlier today I wrote a post that went something like this

Still searching for a good way to post a roundup of my twitter conversations to my blog. There don’t seem to be any good systems for doing this on Blogger. So I have, at least this week, created a Storification of my tweets and some of the associated conversations … not ideal probably but still …

I am not sure how it finished because, well, I deleted the post by accident a bit later in the day as you will see.

I do recall I posted an embedded version of this storification.

And this led to some useful responses such as

@phylogenomics emckiernan.wordpress.com seems to have figured out good way using wordpress. Not sure about blogger
— John Hewitt (@jhewitt123) August 12, 2012

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