Four days of microbial phylogeny at #UCDavis #Asgard #Phylogenomics #MAGs

So - I did a guest appearance in a UC Davis Microbiology class run by a colleague / friend of mine - Renee Tsolis and I thought I would just post the details here.

Class: MIB200A - Biology of Prokaryotes

Four days of microbial phylogeny oriented around discussions of papers.  So to do this I picked four topics, really organized around papers.  See below for details.  I have posted the slides though I note they are pretty boring since most of them are just figures / text from the papers.

Class 1: rRNA and the Tree of Life

Papers

• Woese and Fox 1977 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC432104/ 
• Hugenholtz et al. http://jb.asm.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=9733676

Slides

MIB200A at UCDavis Module: Microbial Phylogeny; Class 1 from Jonathan Eisen

Class 2. Phylogeny

• Phylogeny paper by Baldauf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12801728
• Phylogenomics paper by Eisen: https://genome.cshlp.org/content/8/3/163.long

Slides:




Class 3: A New View of the Tree of Life

Paper:

• Hug et al. New view of the tree of life: https://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201648

Slides:

MIB200A at UCDavis Module: Microbial Phylogeny; Class 2 from Jonathan Eisen

Class 4: Asgaard Archaea

Paper:

• Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14447
• Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote-eukaryote interface: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/08/06/726976.full.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Slides:

MIB200A at UCDavis Module: Microbial Phylogeny; Class 3 from Jonathan Eisen

MIB200A at UCDavis Module: Microbial Phylogeny; Class 4 from Jonathan Eisen