MARS is now offering longreads! Come to ESB lobby at noon tomorrow to hear about our nanopore applications.

Next week! UConn MCB microbiome symposium. Registration is still open. mcb.uconn.edu/microbiology...

🦠🧪I've had a student from a Nigerian university contact me for 16s sequencing. She's naturally concerned about cost including the exchange rate and shipping. I'd love to be able to send her contact info for a Nigerian (or at least African) sequencing that can do 16s for her. Suggestions?

Another workshop on the books. My brain is just as squishy at the end as always. 4 packed days of mothur and R. @uconnmars.bsky.social

I have truseq libraries from phenol:chloroform extracted bacteria. Test run way underclustered (top 180k, bottom 500k) so i think I may have carry over pci. Illumina tech support said start over, no way to clean. But that can't be right?? I have beads, pcr cleanup kits, and amicon. What to use? 🧪🦠

Last call for my intro to microbial ecology workshop. No command line experience is needed. I'll show you how to use bash and mothur for sequence qc and otu clustering, then we move to ecological statistics in R. Next week mars.uconn.edu/workshops/

Towards estimating the number of strains that make up a natural bacterial population. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

@cbcuconn.bsky.social is offering 2 virtual #bioinformatics training workshops in Jan! Genome Assembly (Jan 8-11) and Genome Annotation (Jan 22-25). 1/2 days, real instructors, real data examples! Learn more & register here: bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/

Wonderful BlueSky: We are looking for graduate students and postdocs who could benefit from intense exposure to all-things-microbial at the 2024 Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Consider applying / reposting. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

MARS is a certified Nanopore sequencing provider! Contact us now for any standard libray preps. Stay tuned for details about our custom 16S/18S/ITS/CO1 long amplicons. We'll be offering this service on a per sample basis-no need to fill a flow cell yourself. Prelim data and pricing in Jan!

MARS is a certified Nanopore sequencing provider! Contact us now for any standard libray preps. Stay tuned for details about our custom 16S/18S/ITS/CO1 long amplicons. We'll be offering this service on a per sample basis-no need to fill a flow cell yourself. Prelim data and pricing in Jan!

We can help you get into eDNA! Come talk to us about what you want to look for and where.

Periodic reminder that there is a feed for the reading list I post attached to #jcampubs focused on environmental microbiology with some marine science thrown in! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Want to try looking at methylation in your bacteria?

Bacteria can maintain rRNA operons solely on plasmids for hundreds of millions of years www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

If you want community structure, do 16s. If you want functional profiling, do (meta)transcriptomics. This is more evidence that my refusal to help people run their (v4) 16s through a functional prediction tool was scientifically valid. Anyone using these tools should know their data and the tool.

Happening soon! I'll be talking about MARS remotely because I didn't want to bring my central CT cold down to the shore. I'm still available for meetings this afternoon just via video chat.

@uconn.bsky.social Avery Point. @dnakendra.bsky.social will be on your fine campus next Wed (Nov 8) to give the Marine Science brownbag at noon. Come see me talk. Let me know if you want to meet afterward. I'm planning on staying as late in the afternoon as people want to meet.

@uconn.bsky.social Avery Point. @dnakendra.bsky.social will be on your fine campus next Wed (Nov 8) to give the Marine Science brownbag at noon. Come see me talk. Let me know if you want to meet afterward. I'm planning on staying as late in the afternoon as people want to meet.

More evidence of Impact Factor Mania journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

@uconnscs.bsky.social wanna try it?

Phables: from fragmented assemblies to high-quality bacteriophage genomes academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs

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The littles have yet another cold, so we're having a quiet day watching volcano documentaries (4yo's current obsession). Found a cool one about axal seamont from opb, then it autoplayed this amazing piece on soil microbial ecology in space. 🧪🦠 watch.opb.org/video/space-...

Yes! Talk to us before you start your experiment. We can bring in UConn Stats Consulting too for all your modeling needs that are beyond my experience.