Notes from Searching for Life meeting Dec 2015 #NewLife15

I helped organize this meeting that happened Dec 16-17 in Pacifica, CA. It was mainly organized by people from DOE-JGI and Global Viral. Officially titled "Exploring Diversity of Life."

Tweets from Nancy Moran's talk at #UCDavis on "Two sides of symbiosis" storified

I went to a talk yesterday by Nancy Moran at UC Davis.  Nancy is one of my science heroes.  I have worked on a few projects with her and am just a big fan of her body of work on symbioses.  I have written about her work her on this blog many times before including

• Holy lateral transfer batman; amazing story on fungal to aphid transfer from Nancy Moran
• Sharpshooters, dual symbioses and new ways to sequence a genome
• Why endosymbionts rule - see #PLoS Genetics paper on origin of an alternative genetic code
• Aphid-bacterial symbiosis in more detail, and in the New York Times
• You could call it symbiomics (but please do not)... but whatever name you use, this is $^@#&* so cool.
• World's Smallest Genome of a Cellular Organism?
• Glassy winged sharpshooter symbionts

Anyway - I live tweeted her talk and then tried to "Storify" those tweets but Storify was not working well.  Thankfully  Surya Saha made a storify which I then edited (with his permission).

@phylogenomics's tweets re Nancy Moran's talk at #UCDavis storified bit.ly/111dHgj #symbiosis CC @symbionticism
— Surya Saha (@SahaSurya) June 6, 2013

The storify is embedded below: