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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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This is how we transfer Illumina data at #ucdavis

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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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Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive
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Bacterial Candidates: A Closer Look at the Contestants

After nearly ten weeks of learning our way around the lab, collecting samples, isolating organisms and sequencing their 16s ribosomal genes we are finally at the point where we are ready to choose our first candidate organisms for whole-genome sequencing!

The Plan:

  1. Choose candidate organisms
  2. Prepare a DNA library for each organism for Illumina sequencing
  3. Sequence and analyze genomes

Although we have a couple of pilot samples for which we are already preparing libraries, most of our organisms need to be screened for admittance into the elite group of “good candidate organisms.”

So who are these potential candidates?

Where were they found?

And perhaps most relevant to our project, have they been sequenced before?

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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.

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