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http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/ - Blog of Jonathan A. Eisen, evolutionary biologist, Open Access advocate, Professor at UC Davis and Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS Biology. For more information see my Lab Home Page .
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Reminder - - UC Davis Alumni and brilliant microbiologist Bonnie Bassler will be giving one of the HHMI Holiday Lectures on Science as a WebCast. Anyone can watch Dec 3 and 4th. She will be talking with Baldomero Olivera and the topic(s) will be "Exploring Biodiversity: The Search for New ...
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Just got this email announcement: Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Single Cell Genomics Center (SCGC) at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. The goal of SCGC is to make single cell genomics more accessible to the broad scientific community and to ...
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Just got this in my email with a comment to feel free to disseminate it widely. So here goes: Open letter from the Academic Council to the University of California community We are the Academic Council of the University: we are the chairs of the ten campus divisions, as well ...
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The Bay Area Biosystematists present: "The use of genetic data to delineate management units for California fishes" John Carlos Garza Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA and Dept. of Ocean Sciences, UC Santa Cruz As lead of the Molecular Ecology and Genetic Analysis (MEGA) Team, Dr. ...
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California Academy of Sciences
Just got this email from the National Science Foundation saying that NSF is looking for more grants relating to responses of organisms/ecosystems to climate change. The Divisions of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) and Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) in the Directorate for ...
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Last week I asked for people to post suggestions for bad new omics words as candidates for my "Worst new omics word award". And there were some great ones posted there by MAT kinase (physiomics, orfeomics), Mr. Gunn (degradomics, though he noticed it was already suggested), anonymous ...
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In honor of Charlie D. I am posting one of my favorite Darwin items. I got this from Ebay years ago. It is a Darwin card - about 3 x 5 cm. From Ogden's Cigarettes, much like baseball cards. Also see my previous "Favorite Darwin thing" - a post card from 1900 or ...
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Charles Darwin
Kudos to mBio the recently announced new open access journal from ASM. I posted a little bit about it a few days ago. There was some back and forth in the comments w/ people involved in the journal and, impressively, they have already modified some sections of the web site to clarify some of the ...
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For crying out loud, I am still getting crappy spammy mail from various "Bentham Open" journals. The most annoying part to me of Bentham Open is that they try to make it seem that anything published in an Open Access journal is better than anything published in a non Open Access journal. While I ...
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Blogger in need of material while taking a little break for medical reasons needs help. Seeking bad new "omics" words to give " Worst New Omics Word Award " to. Junkome from PZ Myers already under consideration. Please post suggestions here. Previous winners are material degradomics ...
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Nice little story in Nature News about the need to sequence "neglected" microbes. Biologists rally to sequence 'neglected' microbes : Nature News Quotes me and a few others. Love the fact that it quotes Steven Giovannoni in support of this notion: "The broad brush strokes of microbial ...
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OK - now this is really going viral. The slingjaw wrasse video from Peter Wainwright's lab at UC Davis (which I wrote about here ) has now made it to ESPN. See the SportsNation web site: Weird Web Stories: Monday, Nov. 16 - SportsNation - ESPN And on Twitter SportsNation says The slingjaw ...
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Just got this in an email announcement from the President of ASM ASM’s first broad-scope, online-only, open access journal, mBio™ will begin accepting submissions in January 2010 in preparation for launch in May 2010. mBio™ will offer rapid review and publication of the best research in ...
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And the bad omics words just keep getting worse. This one really takes the cake. A story from BBC News Online ( Sniff test to preserve old books) discusses how "Researchers report in the journal Analytical Chemistry that a new "sniff test" can measure degradation of old books and historical ...
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OK I am now a bit blown away by twitter. Last week I posted a tiny teeny itsy bitty entry on twitter : "Peter Wainwright showed this crazy slingjaw wrasse video in our class at#UCDavis yesterday: http://tinyurl.com/ybqv429 " The video indeed is awesome: And then a few others ...
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1000 Complete Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes in Genbank. Big MileStone. Good day for a microbial genome party. This whole thing is amazing to me. I moved to TIGR in 1998 in order to get in early on the "genome sequencing revolution" as we called it then. We were amazed when the 10th genome ...
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OK - so in the era of H1N1 it is definitely yucky to have REAL meetings with people, but this "Bay Area Bioinformatics" meetup group seems like a good idea. They have a meetup in Berkeley 11/14 at Cafe Strada. Folks can sign up here: BayBIFX (El Cerrito, CA) - Meetup.com Seems like they are ...
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Bay Area Biosystematists Meeting: Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 at UC Davis, 1022 Life Sciences (LSA) "Community Phylogenetics" Featuring Jean H. Burns of the Center for Population Biology, UC Davis Plus contributions from panel discussants: Paul Fine, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley William ...
