Birding while ill ...
OK so am pretty sick with bronchitis and such. But I had to get out. So I went for a brief birding outing, mostly in my car (I walked around a bit here and there). I went to Yolo Bypass and then drove briefly around rural Davis on the way home.I posted some of the pics to iNaturalist.See https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/phylogenomics/2019/12/15Posted the best pics to Smugmug. See here -------- This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -------- (Source: The Tree of Life)
Source: The Tree of Life - December 15, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

Pics from Trip to Panama
So I went to Panama last week for a couple of meetings about microbiomes. More on that later.I just wanted to post some links to the pics I took on the trip. Pics mostly taken with a Nikon D500 with a Nikon 200-500 mm lens.Inaturalist Entries:December 2, 2019: https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/phylogenomics/2019/12/2December 3, 2019: https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/phylogenomics/2019/12/3December 4, 2019: https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/phylogenomics/2019/12/4December 5, 2019: https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/phylogenomics/2019/12/5December 6, 2019: https://www.inaturalis...
Source: The Tree of Life - December 11, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

Thanking a lot of people - all the Acknowledgement sections from all my papers
This article was written using the Authorea scientific writing platform.The authors would like to thank the Coronado Pop Warner Islanders for initial collection of the sample and participation in Project MERCCURI, as well as Kris Tracy who assisted in the etymology of the proposed species name.The 16S rRNA sequence analysis was performed under the MiSeq Com- petition MkIIm by New Zealand Genome Limited and with the assistance of Patrick Biggs (NZGL) for MiSeq sequence processing. We thank Alex- ander Forrest for the loan of the Brancker CTD. We are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. W...
Source: The Tree of Life - November 28, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

Slides for talk: Marine Host-Microbiome Interactions: Challenges and Opportunities
Posted slides for a talk I gave at Scripps Institute for Oceanography last week.Marine  Host-Microbiome Interactions: Challenges and Opportunities fromJonathan Eisen -------- This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -------- (Source: The Tree of Life)
Source: The Tree of Life - November 26, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

Pics from trip to San Diego / La Jolla / Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Just posting a slideshow with my pics from a trip to San Diego a few days ago. I have posted the best pics to SmugMug ... -------- This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -------- (Source: The Tree of Life)
Source: The Tree of Life - November 23, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

My talk for the @ucdavis Advance Awards Symposium
I gave a talk Thursday as part of the UC Davis Advance Awards Symposium in Sacramento. I am crazy busy right now so don't have a lot of time to write here about the talk but I did post about it to Twitter in a long thread.Here are the slides for the talk:Jonathan Eisen talk for 2019 ADVANCE Scholar Award Symposium fromJonathan EisenHere is the first Tweet in a long thread I posted annotating the slides.Posted slides from my talk for the@ucdavis "2019 ADVANCE Scholar Award Symposium" - talk was about#microbiomes#manels and the people who have inspired me to work on#STEMDiversityhttps://t.co/mKBHq43kZX#ucdavis#STEMDiversity ...
Source: The Tree of Life - October 26, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

NYTimes article on "Why Do Parents Keep Hearing About the Microbiome?" by Christina Caron
Nice article by Christina Caron in the NY Times: Why Do Parents Keep Hearing About the Microbiome? - NYT ParentingIt discusses a few related topics and has a bit on my earlier posting about Dove's microbiome marketing.See my original post here: If a body wash falls in the forest, is it gentle on the microbiome? -------- This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -------- (Source: The Tree of Life)
Source: The Tree of Life - October 19, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

Best pics from trip to NYC
I went on a short trip to New York for a Bat Mitzvah of my best friend's daughter. I brought my camera, a Nikon D500 (and the 200-500 mm lens) and I took some pics, mostly of birds, while I was there. Here are some of the better ones. -------- This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -------- (Source: The Tree of Life)
Source: The Tree of Life - October 16, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs