Professor at UC Davis
Work: evolution, ecology, function & phylogenomics of host-microbiome systems; #openscience;
Other: #birds; baseball; T1D
Lab phylogenomics.me
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Professor at UC Davis
Work: evolution, ecology, function & phylogenomics of host-microbiome systems; #openscience;
Other: #birds; baseball; T1D
Lab phylogenomics.me
Pics jonathaneisen.smugmug.com
Links linktr.ee/jonathaneisen
TED go.ted.com/6WPm
Jonathan Andrew Eisen is an American evolutionary biologist, currently working at University of California, Davis. His academic research is in the fields of evolutionary biology, genomics and microbiology and he is the academic editor-in-chief of the open access journal PLOS Biology. .. more
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Keynotes by @aphillippy.bsky.social & @mydennis.bsky.social
Co-organized by @olgaanczukow.bsky.social, @christinebeck.bsky.social & Mark Adams
✈️ Trainee travel awards
📝 Abstracts due March 3
🥼 Optional wet-lab training session
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Topics span cancer, rare and common disease, transcriptomics, genome evolution + more
📍 Farmington, CT | 📅 May 11 – 14
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
States that joined after Puerto Rico:
• Oklahoma — 1907
• New Mexico — 1912
• Arizona — 1912
• Alaska — 1959
• Hawaii — 1959
Yet somehow this is still news to folks.
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It took them 2 hours to extract the DNA, about 30 minutes to start the PCR, and another hour to purify and QC the product (using previous days run).
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We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
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By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4a6mycK
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a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny
b) improving representation of the Global South in public data
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(thread 1/n)
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Fitting a mechanistic model to 450 species from allthebacteria.org suggesting fast vs slow gene exchange (i.e. amount of MGEs) is a major differentiating factor, correlated with phylogeny rather than lifestyle