Slideshow of Otters at the UC Davis Riparian Preserve

Made a slideshow of the otters I saw at the UC Davis Riparian Preserve yesterday. See

Videos of Talks from the JGI "NeLLi (New Lineages of Life)" Meeting Now Available

Recently the DOE JGI Hosted the "NeLLi" meeting on New Lineages of life.  See agenda here: https://usermeeting.jgi.doe.gov/2021-nelli/2021-nelli-agenda/ 

There were a whole series of interesting talks in this program and now the videos are available on Youtube. 

See Youtube Channel or the embedded video link below.

Wall Street Journal Podcast on the Downfall of uBiome, part 1 and 2

Part 1 of "The Journal" podcast featuring story by Amy Marcus et al on the downfall of uBiome.  Includes interviews with multiple people including myself.

What went wrong at uBiome, Part 1. 

 

Part 2 has now been posted

 

Some recent posts of interests from my lab blog and MicroBEnet

So I have been lax in blogging these days as I spend a lot of time on Twitter. And when I do write blog posts, I don't always post here - I also post blog posts to a few other places including my lab blog and the microBEnet blog. Here are a few moderately recent posts from these places

Lab Blog

• The tale of the blue soy products – from contaminated soy milk to a new publication
• The Benefits (and Occasional Drawbacks) of Integrating Evolutionary and Genomic Studies (talk video and slides)
• New paper from the Eisen lab (with many others) on Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts

microBEnet blog

• Metagenomic Binning / Assembly
• Wanted: Workers for the COVID19 Mass Testing Operations for UC Davis and Healthy Davis Together 
• Compiling Information about COVID19 transmission, masks, filtration, schools, etc.
• Wanted – science driven guidelines for deciding if and how to keep open / reopen schools re: #COVID19