Pleased to announce the publication of our new review paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution – this paper is an overview of high-throughput marker gene sequencing approaches (18S rRNA), aimed at a general audience of biologists and ecologists. If you’ve been searching for a non-technical overview of the current computational pipelines (e.g. you have some imminent data analysis to do), then I highly recommend you give it a read:
Bik, H.M., Porazinska, D.L, Creer, S., Caporaso, J.G., Knight, R. & Thomas, W.K.T. (advance access) Sequencing our way towards understanding global eukaryotic biodiversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2011.11.010
This spring I’ll be doing quite a bit of travel. I’m currently attending the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City until Friday February 24th, and my upcoming trips are as follows:
- March 5-7 – Participant at the 13th Workshop of the Genomic Standards Consortium, Shenzhen, China (hosted at BGI)
- March 12-13 – Invited participant at the NIGMs workshop for Postdocs transitioning to independent positions, Bethesda, Maryland (NIH campus)
- March 18-19 – Panel discussion and invited speaker at the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities annual meeting (ARBF 2012), Orlando, Florida (Disney’s Contemporary Resort)
- April 3-6 – Invited session chair at the Evolution of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, New York (CSH Laboratory)
- April 9-11 – Invited participant at the Advancing Towards Professorship in Biology, Ecology and Earth Systems Sciences workshop (ATPinBEESS), Corvallis, Oregon (Oregon State University)
