talk about microbenet ()
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Talk by Jonathan Eisen about microBEnet for 2013 meeting of the Sloan Foundation program on microbiology of the built environmentTRANSCRIPT
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The Microbiology of the Built Environment Network
http://microBE.net
Jonathan A. EisenUC Davis
@phylogenomics
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microBEnet: Who?
• UC Davis: • Jonathan Eisen• David Coil• Mary Jo Seminoff• Holly Bik• Tom Olson• Russell Neches• Jenna Lang• many undergrads
• Building Ecology Research Group:• Hal Levin
• Other collaborators• Jessica Green• Jack Gilbert, Dan Smith, others at Argonne and U. Chicago• Darlene Cavalier, Wendy Brown, Mark Severance, Summer
Williams
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microBEnet Targets
• Those funded by Sloan Program• Anyone in related fields w/ current or
potential interest in microBE• Stakeholders
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microBEnet Activities
1.Web site/hub 2.Organizing meetings and workshops3.Creating and curating resources4.Social media activities 5.Teaching how to share
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microBEnet Activities
• Ideas wanted
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Future (ideas from 2012 Mtg)
• Host resources that others have that could be helpful to share
• Guest blog posts• Latest papers with background• More targeted workshops to develop
interactions• Undergrad education• K-12 outreach• Public outreach
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Future (ideas from 2012 Mtg)
• Host resources that others have that could be helpful to share
• Guest blog posts• Latest papers with background• More targeted workshops to develop
interactions• Undergrad education• K-12 outreach• Public outreach
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Undergrad projects
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Why Undergrad Projects
• Undergraduate research projects in the built environment
• A form of outreach (blogging, etc)• Develop teaching materials related to the
microbiology of the built environment• Keep our lab in the loop• A touch of useful data
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Reference Genomes
• 7 students• Cultured organisms
isolated from a variety of built environments
• Identify, sequence, assemble, annotate, publish a genome each
• 5 papers published so far in Genome Announcements
• All Data released• Student blog
•Brachybacterium muris (Jonathon Lo):•Microbacterium sp (Zach Bendiks):•Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens (Jennifer Flanagan)•Dietzia sp (Amanda Diep): •Kocuria rosea (Jessica Doctor): •Leucobacter sp (Dakota Bevans, Hannah Holland-Moritz):
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Undergrad Genome Project Blog
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Aquarium Biogeography• 6 students• 16S surveys and
metagenomics in aquariums• Looking at biogeography
and succession
• Using MBE tools• Paper in progress
• Coordinated by Jenna Lang, David Coil, Matt Haggerty
Undergraduates:•Sabreen Aulakh•Alex Alexiev•Akshay Sethi•Andrew Shaver•Jennifer Flanagan•Lakshmi BharadwajHigh School:•Kevin Yang•In collaboration with Kenneth Kubo at American River College
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Saturday, May 25, 13
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Future (ideas from 2012 Mtg)
• Host resources that others have that could be helpful to share
• Guest blog posts• Latest papers with background• More targeted workshops to develop
interactions• Undergrad education• K-12 outreach• Public outreach
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Citizen Microbiology
• Workshop at UC Davis• ASM session (last week)• Multiple projects
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Project MERCCURI
• Sample International Space Station in collaboration with Nanoracks
• Outreach by sampling at various public events
• Collaboration with Science Cheerleaders and Science for Citizens
• Darlene Cavalier, Summer Williams, Mark Severance
• UCD: David Coil, Jenna Lang, Russell Neches, et al.
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Citizen Science
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Crowdfunding/Crowdsourcing
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Future (ideas from 2012 Mtg)
• Host resources that others have that could be helpful to share
• Guest blog posts• Latest papers with background• More targeted workshops to develop
interactions• Undergrad education• K-12 outreach• Public outreach
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Future (ideas from 2012 Mtg)
• Host resources that others have that could be helpful to share
• Guest blog posts• Latest papers with background• More targeted workshops to develop
interactions• Undergrad education• K-12 outreach• Public outreach
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Educate and Inform
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Centralize Information
• Pull in blog posts and news from other sources
• Updates to social media• New papers• Twitter hashtag (#microbenet)
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Monthly Newsletter
• Summary of blog posts
• “Resource of the Month”
• “People Behind the Science” video series… “Project of the Month”
• Recent and upcoming meetings
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Reference Collections
• 102 members• 684 papers• Curated Tags
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Other Information-Related
• Curate and analyze reference collections
• Simple guides• Sloan Program• Wikipedia curation
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Sharing & Publicizing Sloan Work
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Sharing & Publicizing Sloan Work
• Guest blog posts• microBEnet posts• Mendeley• Video interviews• Press• Data sharing• Pre and post publication• Job postings• Networking
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Gaps
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Gaps
• Citizen microbiology• QIIME/VAMPS use• Software Carpentry• Culture collections• Genomes of isolates• How to share• Methods sharing• Other related social media• Alt metrics• Simulated community samples
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Thanks
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation• microBEnet people: Hal Levin, David Coil, Mary Jo
Seminoff, Holly Bik, Jenna Lang, Russell Neches, Tom Olson, et al
• All the undergrads in the lab• Science Cheerleaders and Science for Citizens esp.
Darlene Cavalier, Wendy Brown, Mark Severance, Summer Williams
• Collaborators: Jessica Green, Jack Gilbert, Dan Smith, et al.
• Sloan Funded researchers / labs• Others working in microBE topics • Advice: Rob Dunn, Holly Menninger, Rob Knight,
manyothers
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