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Beaches, Trees, and Mysterious Species : A tribute to Evan

Holly Bik August 8, 2012 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…

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Dramatic impacts on beach microbial communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Holly Bik June 6, 2012 18S rRNA Community Ecology Deepwater Horizon DNA Barcoding Fungi Gulf of Mexico high-throughput sequencing Meiofauna metagenomics nematodes Oil Spill plos one

Ironically enough, I was at a meeting about oil spills when the Macondo well blew. The “Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) in Arctic waters” workshop…

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Our badass 454 sequencing reveals awesome deep-sea insights

Holly Bik November 30, 2011 18S rRNA 454 sequencing Community Ecology deep sea eukaryotes metagenomics nematodes

Make no mistake about it — I am shamelessly pimping out our lab’s new paper, written by yours truly. In fact, the title of this…

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