Microbial Community Data Visualizations survey …
Just a quick post here. Meg Pirrung from University of Colorado is conducting an online survey about data visualizations in microbial ecology as part of her PhD thesis work. From a post of her’s on...
View ArticleConclusions not totally convincing but hand microbiomes worth considering in...
So – just was reading this paper: Healthcare Workers’ Hand Microbiome May Mediate Carriage of Hospital Pathogens. Basically, they showed that the microbiome on health care worker’s hands was...
View ArticleCongrats to Gwynne Mhuireach on new grant to study people, plants, microbes...
Just a quick post here. Found this news story (from Nov 18) doing some Google Searchers: UO student gets EPA grant to study health link between plants, people – Portland Business Journal. It...
View ArticleHumans living underground – doesn’t look like fun, but interesting topic for...
Heard this story on NPR yesterday: ‘A Universe Beneath Our Feet': Life In Beijing’s Underground : NPR. It discusses the growing trend in Beijing for people to be living in apartments / basements...
View ArticleCongrats to Jack Gilbert, one of the “40 under 40″ in Chicago
I generally try to avoid any type of discussion of the age of researchers and I also generally never ask people about their age. But this time it is in a story so I think it is OK to mention: Jack...
View ArticleHealthcare Design discusses design issues relating to hospital acquired...
Just a quick post here pointing people to an article of possible interest: Healthcare-associated Infections Keep Industry On High Alert. In the article Sara Marberry discusses some issues relating to...
View ArticleYour Wild Life Releases Home Microbiome Data Set for Visualization
Nice article on the Your Wild Life blog: Your Wild Life – A Whole New Way of Doing Citizen Science, Maybe. It discusses a collaobration between Your Wild Life and Holly Bik on visuliazation data from...
View ArticleNew microbiome tools just keep coming – fun times – hard to keep up
So many new tools and methods in microbiome and microbial community studies and it is just really hard to keep up with them. Here are some that have caught my eye recently: PLOS ONE: IM-TORNADO: A...
View ArticleGenomic data sharing via BitTorrent, part 2 – BioTorrents to BitTorious
As someone who uses sequence data for most of my research, I am continually happy with the fact that sequencing continues to get cheaper and easier and faster and bigger and better and more and more...
View Article11+ things everyone needs to know about microbes
Well, I made a list. I had written up text justifying everything on this list but I think it is better to just publish the list and then discuss. Any additional suggestions or comments would be...
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