Something to think about: the recent Gibbons et al. (2013) PNAS paper found that *one* site in the English Channel showed a 31.7-66.2% overlap in microbial communities when compared to any one of 356 datasets collected as part of the International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM). That’s a ridiculous overlap! As the paper title suggests, . . . → Read More: Endemic Genomes? Reason #1 to sequence the Deep Sea
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By Dr Bik, on  April 4th, 2013  Leave a comment  Genetics, Habitats, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  16S, archaea, Bacteria, endemic, genomes, genomics, high-throughput sequencing, Illumina, Microbes, rRNA By Dr. M, on March 27th, 2013 3 comments Biology, Crustacean, Ecology, Expeditions, Gadgets & Gear, Hadal & Trench, Microbes, New Research, Opinion & Editorial, Organisms, Special, Vessels and Equipment Bacteria, Cameron, Challenger Deep, exploration, hadal, James Cameron, JAMSTEC, marianas trench, Microbes, Trench When he made his historic solo dive into the Mariana Trench last month, James Cameron brought back images and descriptions of a “lunar like” marine landscape nearly devoid of life.-via National Geographic Returning from humankind’s first solo dive to the deepest spot in the ocean, filmmaker James Cameron said he saw no obvious signs of . . . → Read More: Is Marianas Trench A Lifeless Void?
By Dr Bik, on October 24th, 2012 5 comments Uncategorized bioinformatics, deep sea, DNA, genomics, Microbes, New Species My fellow Deeplings have been barraging the blog with “Best of” and “Top 10″ lists in recent memory. Now its my turn to chime in. Only…I don’t work with actual animals. I work with DNA sequences. I spent my PhD sitting under the microscope, where I vowed never again! Now I work with gigabyte-sized text . . . → Read More: Top 5 scariest species…from, er, DNA?
By Dr Bik, on October 5th, 2012 One comment Pictures and Movies, Reviews genomics, high-throughput sequencing, marine music, metagenomics, Microbes Bringing you some awesome ocean sounds this Friday–nope, not crashing waves or squawking seagulls (boo hiss for vertebrates). These sounds come from MICROBES! Peter Larsen and colleagues at Argonne National Lab (home of the gargantuan Earth Microbiome Project) have turned their huge DNA sequence datasets into music. Listen to the jazzy samplings below (video), and . . . → Read More: TGIF: Some Friday jazz, courtesy of marine microbes
By Dr Bik, on September 13th, 2012 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, New Research economics, energy, genomics, integrated data, Metabolism, Microbes, recession, Temperature This might come as a shocker: I don’t care about metabolism (or bits of floating plastic, or whale sharks, or coral reefs…sorry Deeplings). Its not that I’m not interested – these fields are fascinating and scientifically important. But on a day-to-day basis, when I’m overloaded with data analysis, grant proposals, and a bursting inbox, I . . . → Read More: Capitalizing on recessions with economic booms of data
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 1st, 2012 2 comments Expeditions Antarctica, Cold Dark Benthos, deep sea, McMurdo, Microbes, scientific expedition, Scripps, Tonga Trench Expedition, Trench Looking for vicarious adventure? Check out two new expedition blogs, both of which are underway right now! The Tonga Trench Expedition team The Tonga Trench Expedition is a Scripps Institution of Oceanography student cruise, led by Scripps graduate student/chief scientist Rosa Leon Zayas. (and if anyone out there is looking for a kick-ass female Latina . . . → Read More: Two new expedition blogs: super deep South Pacific and super cold Antarctica
By Dr Bik, on August 8th, 2012 2 comments Microbes, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Uncategorized 18S rRNA, 454, eukaryotes, genomics, high-throughput sequencing, Labyrinthulids, metagenomics, Microbes At the end of May I received some awful news. My former lab manager reached out with an ominous phone call: a high school student I had mentored at the University of New Hampshire had tragically passed away. His name was Evan Dube, and he was attending his first year of university at Bates College . . . → Read More: Beaches, Trees, and Mysterious Species : A tribute to Evan
By Dr Bik, on June 23rd, 2012 Leave a comment Conferences, Microbes, New Research, Organisms archaea, Bacteria, Drinking, eukaryotes, Microbes, microbiology, ocean, viruses [View the story "#asm2012 - A Scientific Feast of Ocean Microbiology!" on Storify] By Miriam Goldstein, on May 18th, 2012 3 comments Microbes, Pictures and Movies Melissa Garren, Microbes, microbiologist, microbiome, TED I am admittedly a huge invertebrate nerd. But there’s a lot more going on in the ocean than can be caught with a plankton net. For this week’s TGIF, check out super awesome Scripps alumna and MIT post-doc Melissa Garren on the glory and the mystery oceanic microbes. By Dr Bik, on May 17th, 2012 3 comments Conservation & Environment, Microbes, Organisms, Vessels and Equipment Bacteria, Ballast, cockroaches, Microbes, microbiome, Seasick California has been a big transition for me. I mean big. Not only am I now living in the sun-drenched utopia I have long pined for (a climate which finally meets my minimum temperature preference of 90F), but I also have leaped into to an entirely new scientific world. I think I’m becoming a microbiologist. . . . → Read More: Microbiology at Sea: A tale of ballast, vomit, and cockroaches
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