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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A Scientific Feast of Ocean Microbiology – notes from the #asm2012 conference in San Francisco
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View More A Scientific Feast of Ocean Microbiology – notes from the #asm2012 conference in San FranciscoThe Sea We’ve Hardly Seen
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.…
View More The Sea We’ve Hardly SeenMicrobiology at Sea: A tale of ballast, vomit, and cockroaches
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…
View More Microbiology at Sea: A tale of ballast, vomit, and cockroachesIn the oceans, aliens lie hidden and waiting
The real title of the paper is “Multiple self-splicing introns in the 16S rRNA genes of giant sulfur bacteria”. But who’s going to fall out of…
View More In the oceans, aliens lie hidden and waitingChallenger Deep: What we can learn from a single, half core of mud
James Cameron’s descent to the Challenger Deep – we have adventure, intrigue, and a great story for the media. But we also have an amazing…
View More Challenger Deep: What we can learn from a single, half core of mudBig text files can tell you how the ocean works
…because “High-throughput sequencing confers a deep view of seasonal community dynamics in pelagic marine environments”, however appropriate a title, seems far too dry and technical…
View More Big text files can tell you how the ocean worksThe Circle of Life (and how Jellyfish screw it up)
Mufasa was right. We’re all intertwined. Whether we humans like to admit it or not, every action by a living organism on Earth has repercussions. …
View More The Circle of Life (and how Jellyfish screw it up)Predicting Microbial Communities in the Deep-sea
I recently reported on the awesomeness of high-throughput sequencing technologies, and commented on their huge potential for transforming the way biologists do business. (Seriously, people,…
View More Predicting Microbial Communities in the Deep-seaMetagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceans
If you’ve ever talked to me in person for more than 5 minutes, I’ve probably mentioned the !#$%*ING AWESOMENESS of high-throughput sequencing. Frankly, I’m a…
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