Slides I have used for "Biodiversity and the Tree of Life" at @ucdavis

I have posted the slides I have used so far in remote teaching for "Biodiversity and the Tree of Life" - aka Bis2C - at UC Davis and I thought I would share them here.

Many of the figures are from "Life v 11" by Hillis et al. which is the textbook we have been using for the class. I have been told in the past by the publishers that this was OK to do so I am assuming it is still OK. Hope there are not too many errors ... for some reason Lecture 10 will not upload - working on it

BIS2C_2020. Lecture 6. The Tree of Life. from Jonathan Eisen

BIS2C_2020. Lecture 7. The Domains of Life. from Jonathan Eisen

BIS2C_2020. Lecture 8. Phylogenetic Diversity of Microbes from Jonathan Eisen

BIS2C_2020. Lecture 9. Form and function from Jonathan Eisen

BIS2C2020 - Lecture 10 - Parasites and Pathogens from Jonathan Eisen

BIS2C_2020. Lecture 11 Viruses and gene transfer from Jonathan Eisen

Lecture 12 - Mutualisms and Microbiomes - BIS2C from Jonathan Eisen

BIS2C_2020. Lecture 13 Organelles and Endosymbiosis from Jonathan Eisen

BIS2C_2020. Lecture 22 Fungi Part 1 from Jonathan Eisen

BIS2C_2020. Lecture 23 Fungi Part 2 from Jonathan Eisen

Today's stay at home activity - virtual tour of the Dali museum

Love that the Dean of the College of Biological Sciences Mark Winey sent out a suggestion to check out this virtual tour of the Dali Museum in his regular message to the college.  And it is pretty cool. Check it out: Visit the museum as you have never done before! | Fundaci� Gala - Salvador Dal�

Another #NatureAtHome project: Never Home Alone:

This is another nice at home activity relating to Nature.  Rob Dunn and colleagues have been running this  Wildlife of Your Homes project in various ways for many years.  And it is easy to participate in it via iNaturalist. Take pics of bugs or other critters in your home and then post them and add them to the iNaturalist project.  See Never Home Alone: The Wild Life of Homes � iNaturalist.

Another #NatureAtHome project: Never Home Alone:

This is another nice at home activity relating to Nature.  Rob Dunn and colleagues have been running this  Wildlife of Your Homes project in various ways for many years.  And it is easy to participate in it via iNaturalist. Take pics of bugs or other critters in your home and then post them and add them to the iNaturalist project.  See Never Home Alone: The Wild Life of Homes � iNaturalist.

Resource for #NatureAtHome: California Academy of Sciences

OK have not been posting much to this blog for a few weeks due to the disruption from the coronavirus but I am going to start posting again when I find things that may be of use for the new world of social distancing, etc.



Today I am posting about the California Academy of Sciences which has a nice page compilation information and resources they have for activities at home: Academy @ Home | California Academy of Sciences



Thanks Cal Academy.

Collecting some of my comments about Sacramento County's poor response to COVID19

Posted this rant on March 9

This does not seem like a good plan: "Sacramento County Announces New Mitigation Efforts COVID-19" https://t.co/5W3Dv4Lqr9 #COVID19 #Coronavirus - especially the plan to shift from containment to mitigation #Sacramento cc: @sacbee_news 1/n pic.twitter.com/dYUwEoUGb1

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 9, 2020

And then another rant

I think the Sacramento plan is problematic - if they are correct that it is time to ditch containment and move to mitigation then why is their mitigation plan among the weakest announced anywhere ? See https://t.co/mHnvLbdGGG https://t.co/mHnvLbdGGG

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And this one

But couldn't you do quarantine for some people but not necessarily for health care workers?

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And then Placer and Yolo County came out with their somewhat more aggressive plan

So #Yolo and #Placer counties have announced that they are also stopping containment efforts. I still think this is a bad idea but at least compared to #Sacramento county these counties are at least pushing the mitigation strategy a bit more strongly. See https://t.co/pbtsOMbmGN https://t.co/ZZlO2NtmFX

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And more

The Sacramento County plan is a joke - 1) containment is still useful in some cases, they should not ditch it 2) their plan for mitigation (reducing community spread) is the most limited of any place I have seen in the country -see https://t.co/ZZlO2NtmFX

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 11, 2020

And this

Brutally behind the curve - Sacramento’s public health leader - Q&A: Sacramento’s top health official on what’s being done to stop the coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/enebtjqNkK

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 15, 2020

And another

So - I went through the #Sacramento County plan for dealing with #COVID19. It is bad. https://t.co/ek99YNBzSw

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And this

Really incredibly important and calls into doubt the inane claims from #Sacramento, #Yolo and other local counties that we have to stop contact tracing and other containment actions https://t.co/qp5rE3uACg

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 11, 2020

And another

Really disappointed in #Sacramento health director’s approach: Sacramento County Health Director Defends Coronavirus Strategy, Says Lack Of Tests Made Containment Impossible - https://t.co/tiWN9gGBkS https://t.co/nqikmcSc67

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 14, 2020

And another

Really great article by @edyong209 about some of the problems with the UK #covid19 strategy and communications; sadly some similar things have been going on here in #Sacramento area https://t.co/jtdVqkfPel

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 16, 2020

My posts about #UCDavis and #Covid19

Going to use this page to keep track of some of what I have been posting about what is going on at UC Davis in regard to the coronavirus.  Will add more later ... but just going to use this to keep track.

February 26

Things blew up at @ucdavis with reports that the 1st community acquired case of COVID19 was at our hospital. I received an email about this that I eventually posted to Twitter (I waited to post until I saw others reporting this)

Email I received earlier today from @ucdavis Medical Center leaders regarding the case of apparently community acquired #COVID19 in #Sacramento at #UCDavis hospital pic.twitter.com/q9qrJq5iWo

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) February 27, 2020

Tons of stories came out over the next few weeks about this and I will add some links to them. But eventually, attention went elsewhere as the 1st large clusters of cases that were detected in the US ended up being in other locations.

March 7.

Actions from UC Davis announced regarding COVID19 was, well, better than nothing but pretty limited.

Announcement from @ucdavis re: #ucdavis #COVID19 #Coronavirus #SocialDistancing:

Will help increase social distancing but not going as far as I would like ... I hope this moves very soon from "recommend" to "require" https://t.co/khnnVCZFeN

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 8, 2020

Important announcement from @ucdavis: not as far as I would like but will help increase social distancing; hope they move from "encourage" to "require" soon ... #ucdavis #COVID19 #Coronavirus #SocialDistancing https://t.co/sqjGXO3fqF

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 8, 2020

March 10. 

UC Davis expanded actions.

Major new actions from @ucdavis regarding #COVID19 #Coronavirus h/t @TLowePower https://t.co/NLOLw2EaH0

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020