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2026
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2025
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2023
New paper from Eisen Lab – on ” The Genome Encyclopedia of Spacecraft Associated Microbes (GESAM)” project original ↗
13 Mar 2023
2022
New paper from Eisen lab and others … on challenges with relic RNA in SARS-CoV-2 environmental surveysoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2022
2021
New preprint out from my lab and others about environmental monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 in schools and in part about how difficult this isoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2021
10 Nov 2021
2 Oct 2021
The Benefits (and Occasional Drawbacks) of Integrating Evolutionary and Genomic Studies (talk video and slides)original ↗
20 Jul 2021
New paper from the Eisen lab (with many others) on Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbiontsoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2021
New collaborative paper out: Air versus Water Chilling of Chicken: a Pilot Study of Quality, Shelf-Life, Microbial Ecology, and Economics original ↗
2 Mar 2021
New preprint from the lab (in a collaboration with many others at UC Davis): SARS-CoV-2 detection and genomic sequencing from hospital surface samples collected at UC Davisoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2021
2020
New article out from the Eisen Lab: Isolation and sequence-based characterization of a koala symbiont: Lonepinella koalarumoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2020
TODAY at @ucdavis – Clarissa Nobile on “Candida albicans biofilms: Importance, regulation, and a serendipitous discovery”original ↗
19 Feb 2020
Valentine’s day is for the microbiome: at @ucdavis 2/14 – Peter Turnbaugh “”Eating for Two Trillion: Reciprocal Interactions between Diet and the Human Gut Microbiome”original ↗
7 Feb 2020
Tomorrow at @ucdavis Corrie Moreau “Piecing Together the Puzzle to Understand the Evolution of the Ants: Macroevolution to Microbiomes”original ↗
15 Jan 2020
2019
4:10 today at @ucdavis: Deanna Beatty on Effects of local management on coral survival, microbiomes, and defenses toward a thermally-regulated bleaching pathogenoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2019
11/6 at @ucdavis: Alice B. Popejoy on “Diversity Measures in Genomic Medicine: Examining Race, Ethnicity and Ancestry in Precision Health Research and Clinical Practice”original ↗
4 Nov 2019
Today at @ucdavis: Brenna Henn “Improving inference of genetic architecture and selection with African genomes”original ↗
29 Oct 2019
21 Oct 2019
3 Oct 2019
New preprint from the Eisen Lab: Characterization of the mycobiome of the seagrass, Zostera marina, reveals putative associations with marine chytridsoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2019
At @UCDavis 8/6 – Richard Jefferson Hormones and the Holobiont: Origins and some implications of hologenome theory.original ↗
2 Aug 2019
24 Jul 2019
23 May 2019
Today at @ucdavis: Dennis Montoya ““Computational reconstruction of the tissue cellular microenvironment””original ↗
16 May 2019
At @ucdavis May 16 – Dennis Montoya on “Computational reconstruction of the tissue cellular microenvironment”original ↗
14 May 2019
At @ucdavis today: Judith Butler – Scholars at Risk: What Are the Obligations of Universities?original ↗
16 Apr 2019
New preprint from Eisen Lab: Genomes from Bacteria Associated with the Canine Oral Cavity: a Test Case for Automated Genome-Based Taxonomic Assignment original ↗
19 Mar 2019
New publication from Cassie Ettinger (aka @casettron) and others: Fungi in the Marine Environment: Open Questions and Unsolved Problems original ↗
6 Mar 2019
Article about Natascha Varona on her work on coral microbiomes and her blending of science and artoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2019
New paper from the Eisen lab on MAGs from two thermal pools in Kamchatka (great work led by Laetitia Wilkins @M_helvetiae and Cassie Ettinger @casettron) original ↗
3 Mar 2019
Today 2/4/19 at @ucdavis: Tim Kellier, Syngenta, “HI-Edit: Disrupting Crop Breeding via Simultaneous Haploid Induction & Genome Editing”original ↗
4 Feb 2019
New preprint from the lab on “Network analysis to evaluate the impact of research funding on research community consolidation”original ↗
2 Feb 2019
1 Feb 2019
At @ucdavis 2/1 Dog diversity as a natural experiment in cognitive and behavioral evolutionoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2019
Today at @ucdavis: John Ioannidis – Reproducible and Useful Research: Building Trust in our Scienceoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2019
23 Jan 2019
New faculty search for “Assistant Professor in Quantitative Biological Sciences” @ucdavis w/ major emphasis on Contributions to Diversityoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2019
2018
Davis Science Café: Moshe Rosenberg “There is Life After Cheddar: The Discovery and Evolution of Cheese”original ↗
8 Nov 2018
At @ucdavis today: Dr. Alison Rabosky “The origin & evolution of sociality in lizards: Kin, fitness, & parasites”original ↗
19 Oct 2018
10/24 @ucdavis: Patrick Shih – Revisiting the early evolution of photosynthesis with new molecular biology approachesoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2018
At @ucdavis today: Susan Lynch on “Canary in the Coalmine: The Neonatal Gut Microbiome and Childhood Atopy and Asthma”original ↗
5 Oct 2018
Faculty Job at @UCDavis in Behavioral Evolution or Ecology in the Dept of Evolution and Ecologyoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2018
13 Sept 2018
New preprint from lab: There and back again: metagenome-assembled genomes provide new insights into two thermal pools in Kamchatkaoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2018
Today @ucdavis: Victoria Morgan “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Terrestriality: Exploring Life History Transitions in Land Crabs”original ↗
12 Jun 2018
Today @ucdavis: Suzanne Noble “Phenotypic and Genetic Plasticity in a Human Fungal Pathogen”original ↗
1 Jun 2018
At UC Davis 6/4: Stephen (Fringy) Richards “Genomic Innovation within the Phylum Arthropoda”original ↗
1 Jun 2018
Today at @UCDavis: Seemay Choi on “From bacteria to ticks: lessons in antimicrobial defense”original ↗
30 May 2018
Thu 5/31 at UC Davis: Rachel Sollman on Spatial capture-recapture: a flexible framework to study wildlife populationsoriginal ↗
30 May 2018
New lab paper: Effects of preservation method on canine (Canis lupus familiaris) fecal microbiotaoriginal ↗
23 May 2018
Tomorrow at @ucdavis: Raquel Peixoto on “Marine probiotics: increasing coral resilience to bleaching through m icrobiome manipulation”original ↗
17 May 2018
Wired article on preprints: Scientists Are Subverting Formal Publishing. Well, Some of Themoriginal ↗
16 May 2018
5/18 at @ucdavis: Kristen Beck on “Large scale analysis of food ingredient metatranscriptomes reveals insights about hazards and food quality”original ↗
16 May 2018
Today @ucdavis: Dr. Emilia Huerta Sanchez “Archaic introgression, D-statistics and the contributions of female programmers”original ↗
10 May 2018
Today @ucdavis: Prof. Janelle Burke from Howard University “An evolutionary exploration of plant sexual systems”original ↗
3 May 2018
At @UCDavis 5/7: Holly Bik “Biodiversity and Evolution of Microbial Metazoa: Linking Molecules with Morphology i n the –Omics Age”original ↗
1 May 2018
Undergrads Marcus Cohen and Adrienne Cho present at the UC Davis Undergrad Research Conferenceoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2018
At @UCDavis 5/14: Dr. Emmanuel Saez: Colleges and Intergenerational Income Mobility in Americaoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2018