Nancy Rabalais’s team has been able to process some of the data and issued a press release on this year’s bottom water hypoxia. As I mentioned in the last post, the zone of hypoxia was actually two zones, which you can see below. The total estimated square mileage of bottom water at or below 2 […]
Storify on nucleic acid extraction methods
Let’s face it. There are a lot of different ways to skin a microbe, and get the DNA and RNA out for whatever purposes you might deem necessary or useful. If you ask one or two people you’ll get one or two answers. What if you ask more than a thousand? Here is some insightful crowd-sourced […]
Recent Collaborative Thrash Lab SAR11 research
There are some exciting developments in the world of SAR11 microbiology, and I’d like to take a moment to summarize recent research I’ve been involved in. All three papers have come out this year in The ISME Journal. The final main project of my postdoc with Steve Giovannoni was a characterization of a deep-water subclade of […]
Last #LSUCompBio seminar of the semester
I’m giving the final #LSUCompBio talk for this semester (so I won’t be live tweeting it, most likely) tonight at 5:30 in LSA A101. The title of my talk is “We’re not in a petri dish anymore: pulling back the curtain on microbial genomics using cultivation-independent techniques.” The talk will be broadcast live and archived […]
