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Jonathan Eisen
Evolutionary biologist, professor, and open access advocate at U. C. Davis
All I can say is that as a high risk person, the system for distributing H1N1 vaccine in CA is a disgrace & disaster
Funny - via @DoNotGoGently "Stonemaker argument" Webcomic about evolution, microbiology, etc. http://stonemakerargument.com/6...
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RT @andyfell Anyone with any interest in how science is reported should read this excellent discussion of the p value. http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi...
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Thanks for flagging that, it'll go in my first year statistics course next term :-)
- AJCann
RT @cory_golden: Tweet for bees! #Häagen-Dazs to donate $1 for every tweet containing #HelpHoneyBees to research at UC Davis, til Nov 11.
NYTimes: F.D.A. Fighting False Online Claims About Swine Flu Treatments - http://shar.es/aARM5 #probiotics
Frigid Antarctica is loaded with viruses - msnbc.com - http://shar.es/aARNb #metagenomics
RT @SciPhu RT @genomicslawyer: Op-ed from Jim Watson on what he's learned & avoided (since publishing his genome: http://www.futuremedicine.com/cookiea...
OMG this is the best paper in years - http://isotropic.org/papers... - HT to Jessica Green for pointing this out
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...and here's the presentation of the paper: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Michael Kuhn
it is excellent. I'm not so sure about that part about chicken though.
- Richard Akerman
What a great find!
- Chris Lasher
Certainly seems to refute earlier work by C. Sanders.
- Matthew Todd
Chicken. Chicken chicken chicken.
- Bosco Ho
Rhubarb Rhubarb - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Andrew Lang
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl... This gives links to fill in the back story.
- Chris Lasher
Bay Area Biosystematists Mtg 11/10, #UCDavis, on Community Phylogenetics - http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2009...
Cool - interview of me by @carlzimmer - RT @MicrobeWorld MTS38 An Embarrassment of Genomes: http://www.microbeworld.org/index...
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Downloading now...rather slow download (36MB).
- Neil Saunders
RT @carlzimmer: I talk to Jonathan Eisen ( @phylogenomics ) about weird genomes on my latest podcast http://www.microbeworld.org/index...
RT @mocost Beautiful electron microscopic & computer modelling images from new book by Felice Frankel & George Whitesides http://seedmagazine.com/slidesh...
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Re: Chicken RT @michaelhoffman Don't miss video of the presentation of this work http://www.youtube.com/watch... Also a MeFi post http://www.metafilter.com/61351...
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The Life and Times of Lilly Mendel - new blog from Linda Avey, co-founder of 23 & me & Alzheimer foundation head - http://lillymendel.blogspot.com/
Larry Forney from U. Idaho at #NASMH is talking about the vaginal microbiome
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Here is his home page http://www.sci.uidaho.edu/biosci...
- Jonathan Eisen
Common wisdom - Lactobacilli indicative of good health
- Jonathan Eisen
Also common wisdom - growth of non indiginous organisms suppressed by Lactobacillus
- Jonathan Eisen
Vagina microbiome changes over time in part w/ changes in estrogen levels
- Jonathan Eisen
What he is studying - variation within and between women
- Jonathan Eisen
Example - 410 asymtomatic healthy women - four ethnic groups - self collected swabs - measured pH, history, and then did pyrosequencing of 16s
- Jonathan Eisen
Multiple kinds of core microbiomes among these women
- Jonathan Eisen
Dominated by lactic acid bacteria
- Jonathan Eisen
Suggests that there is strong host selection for which organisms are present - but not clear what the basis for this statement is
- Jonathan Eisen
Consistent w/ Walker's Driver Passenger Model (ecological model)_ which is smilar to keystone species model 0 and that here the keystone species are lactic acid bacteria
- Jonathan Eisen
Vaginal pH and microbial state varies by ethnic group -
- Jonathan Eisen
ok, i read that as "microphone"... nevermind.
- Christina Pikas
Gregor Reid, U. Western Ontario, is waiting for his slides to come up after a PC crash and cracking some brilliant jokes at #NASMH
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'We started this work and nobody was willing to fund it so we paid it ourselves and there will be no acknowledgements at the end'
- Jonathan Eisen
Estimate of over 1 billion urogenital infections per yer
- Jonathan Eisen
He is continuing to crack jokes now that slides are working - definitely worth inviting him to your meetings if you need a comedian
- Jonathan Eisen
Anyway - focus on his talk on vagina microbiome
- Jonathan Eisen
Sequenced Lactobaillus iners genome - pretty small
- Jonathan Eisen
I can see why no one was willing to fund it. Isn't it the NIH Man Microbiome Project?
- Ruchira S. Datta
NIH Microbiome project funding a lot of vagina studies ...
- Jonathan Eisen
but he is not in US
- Jonathan Eisen
Looking at pobiotic lactobacilli for vaginal health
- Jonathan Eisen
Well, the NIH does fund projects outside the US too, no?
- Ruchira S. Datta
But, yeah, it makes sense to prioritize the ones within the US, I guess.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Not sure this is on purpose or not but funny that the oxygen display at Beckman Ctr is next to fire extinguisher http://twitpic.com/o6eiw
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