EIsenLab News – Jonathan Eisen's Lab

Obsession with #Badomics words gets covered in the Wall Street Journal

My obsession with #Badomics words got covered by Robert Lee Hotz on the front page of the Wall Street Journal: Heres an Omical Tale: Scientists Discover Spreading Suffix – WSJ.com.

For more on this see my Tree of Life blog here.

Birds, Poop and Roadkill: A Field Guide to Field Guides | Wired Science | Wired.com

Follow up by Wired to the Field Guide story: Birds, Poop and Roadkill: A Field Guide to Field Guides | Wired Science | Wired.com. Thanks to Russell Neches for helping with photos.

Book of Germs: The Quest for a Field Guide to Microbes | Wired Science | Wired.com

See Book of Germs: The Quest for a Field Guide to Microbes | Wired Science | Wired.com. for a story about Jonathan Eisen’s quest for a “Field Guide to the Microbes”.

Is a Field Guide for Microbes in Our Future? Q & A with Microbiologist Jonathan Eisen

An interview with Jonathan Eisen was published on the “Your Wildlife blog”: Is a Field Guide for Microbes in Our Future? Q & A with Microbiologist Jonathan Eisen.

New paper from Eisen Lab – on ” The Genome Encyclopedia of Spacecraft Associated Microbes (GESAM)” project March 13, 2023
New data report paper out from my lab and others. Basically this is a report of genome sequences and some other measures such as MLADIMALDI-TOF) of bacteria isolated by NASA from some of their spacecraft (before they were sent to space). See “Draft Genome Sequences of Spacecraft-Associated Microbes Isolated from Six NASA Missions” https://journals.asm.org/do […]
New paper from Eisen lab and others … on challenges with relic RNA in SARS-CoV-2 environmental surveys April 27, 2022
New paper out from my lab and other labs. Zuniga-Montanez R, Coil DA, Eisen JA, Pechacek R, Guerrero RG, Kim M, Shapiro K, Bischel HN. The challenge of SARS-CoV-2 environmental monitoring in schools using floors and portable HEPA filtration units: Fresh or relic RNA? PLoS One. 2022 Apr 22;17(4):e0267212. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267212. PMID: 35452479; PMC […]
New preprint out from my lab and others about environmental monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 in schools and in part about how difficult this is November 18, 2021
New preprint out on from the Eisen Lab and others. This is from a collaboration between David Coil, Heather Bischel, Karen Shapiro, Randi Pechacek, Roque G. Guerrero, Minji Kim, and Rogelio Zuniga-Montanez (first author) at University of California, Davis. It is about environmental monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 in schools and, well, in part about how difficul […]