Jonathan Eisen
Prof @UCDavis; Guardian of Microbial Diversity #OpenScience #STEMDiversity #RedSox #Barca phylogenomics.me May the Microbes be Ever in Your Favor ✴️💥🥜⚙️🔆
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EukRef: Phylogenetic curation of ribosomal RNA to enhance understanding of eukaryotic diversity and distribution
Environmental sequencing has greatly expanded our knowledge of micro-eukaryotic diversity and ecology by revealing previously unknown lineages and their distribution. However, the value of these data is critically dependent on the quality of the...
Alumnae Of Christine Blasey Ford's High School Circulate Letter Of Support
Ford's allegations against Brett Kavanaugh are "all too consistent with stories we heard and lived while attending Holton," they wrote.
A conserved bacterial protein induces pancreatic beta cell expansion during zebrafish development
A previously undescribed protein produced by certain resident intestinal bacteria induces zebrafish pancreatic beta cell expansion.
Jonathan Eisen
Guillemin at #LAMG2018: discussing this @elife paper elifesciences.org/articles/20145 found that germ free animals had defects in pancreatic & beta cells development & that some bacteria could restore this defect
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The Gut Microbiome: Connecting Spatial Organization to Function
Tropini et al. review our understanding of the principles governing the localization
of the gut microbiota, and spatial relationships between bacteria and their hosts.
They also discuss emerging directions that will enable progressing from the...
Jonathan Eisen
Tropini at #LAMG2018: showing some figures from this paper cell.com/cell-host-micr… pic.twitter.com/68SUa9AN15
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Carolina Tropini
Jonathan Eisen
Next up at #LAMG2018 Carolina Tropini carolina.tropini.org from @stanford on “Connecting Gut Microbiota Biogeography to Function”
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Deciphering microbial interactions in synthetic human gut microbiome communities
The ecological forces that govern the assembly and stability of the human gut microbiota remain unresolved. We developed a generalizable model‐guided framework to predict higher‐dimensional consortia from time‐resolved measurements of lower‐order...
Jonathan Eisen
Venturelli at #LAMG2018: discussing this recent paper on a synthetic 12 member community msb.embopress.org/content/14/6/e… and comments that extended this to bigger communities is not feasible
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Ophelia S. Venturelli | Faculty | Biochemistry | UW-Madison
Contact and research information for UW-Madison Biochemistry Faculty member Ophelia S. Venturelli
Jonathan Eisen
Venturelli at #LAMG2018: her lab biochem.wisc.edu/faculty/ventur… is working on how microbial interactions change as a function of space and time
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How studying chicken butts cracked the inner workings of our immune system
Children were dying, and pediatrician Max Cooper couldn’t understand why. They had plenty of plasma cells, which he knew produced antibodies, but his patients who were suffering from a rare hereditary disease called Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome were...
Researcher calls on NIH to retract statement about alcohol and cancer risk
A health expert called on the NIH to change information on one of its websites to more accurately reflect scientific findings about the risk of alcohol.
How Kittens Go From Clueless to Cute
Newborn kittens are a huge challenge for shelters, so they’re working on ways to help them flourish.
Ten Quotes From MacArthur Fellows on Creativity – MacArthur Foundation
On Thursday, October 4, we’ll announce the 2018 class of MacArthur Fellows, talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality…
Another “more germs than a toilet seat” study and resultant media explosion
I’m torn between wanting to ignore this story and wanting to attack the media reports on the study. I think I’ll compromise on a minimum set of complaints. Firstly, the paper itself (…
Jonathan Eisen
New #microBEnet blog post: Another “more germs than a toilet seat” study and resultant media explosion
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A Dinosaur Bone That’s Full of Life
The discovery of modern microbes in a deeply buried fossil complicates an already heated debate in paleontology.
Diversity and Inclusion from a young age
Frontiers for Young Minds shares experiences from authors on what Diversity and Inclusion in peer review means for them - Peer Review Week 2018
Urban wildfires bring lingering worries about what's in the ash and air
For weeks, smoky, unhealthy air from large wildfires has plagued much of the West Coast and beyond. What's the public health impact of an increase of urban wildfires, in which homes and other structures burn? Special correspondent Cat Wise meets...
1st annual CMI International Microbiome Meeting (CIMM) w/ a great #STEMDiversity statement & plan
There is a microbiome meeting of potential interest to folks: the 1st annual CMI International Microbiome Meeting (CIMM) in San Diego. From the meeting site: On behalf of Dr. Rob Knight, the Cente…
Jonathan Eisen
New #microBEnet blog post: 1st annual CMI International Microbiome Meeting (CIMM) w/ a great #STEMDiversity statement & plan
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Brad Peacock Diagnosed with Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
Houston Astros pitcher Brad Peacock is the latest Major League Baseball player to be diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease. Per Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle , Astros manager A...
Jonathan Eisen
Another @mlb player w/ Hand, Foot and Mouth disease bleacherreport.com/articles/27953… via @BleacherReport
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Grass Fire Burns 500 Acres In Solano County
The fire raced through hundreds of acres in just a few hours but no injuries were reported.
Closed access review of the MoBE field
Very torn about this. On the one hand “Microbiology of the Built Environment” by Jack Gilbert and Brent Stephens is a great summary of the current status of the field. On the other h…
Hog Farmers Scramble to Drain Waste Pools Ahead Of Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence is heading toward a part of North Carolina where pigs far outnumber people. Farmers and environmentalists are worried about the fate of hundreds of open-air manure lagoons.