Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Phase II

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image credit The Human Microbiome meeting was awesome... Here's a 16S phylogeny of bacteria that live in the human airway: here's ...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Uptake specificity as a tool for microbiome research

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image credit Sorry for neglecting you, blog. So Rosie and I are headed to the Human Microbiome Meeting here in Vancouver in just over a wee...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Sequence submission, ho!

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link Hi blog! Long time, no update… On Thursday, I submitted 91 genomic DNA samples to our local genome centre (center for you American re...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

It's more delicious because it's more nutritious

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I think I got somewhere with my degenerate sequencing data... possibly even discovered something unexpected. The first thing I had to do wa...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Direct uptake specificity measurements

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So I got a bit distracted from our plans with the Genome BC dough, since I got some more sequencing data! Woo! I'll return to the desi...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

How to spend some dough?

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We have some money to spend (kindly provided by Genome BC) for identifying recombination tracts in individual transformants, where donor gen...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The anticipation is palpable...

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We’re resubmitting a grant soon, in part of which we propose to measure the specificity of DNA uptake in H. influenzae for the “USS motif”,...

Hi blog!

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So I’ve returned to work after a 3.5 week vacation to Bali! Woo! Time to catch up on some long non-blogging. But before that... Here’s w...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Manuscript plans?

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So I’m a bit over one year into my postdoc. What have I got to show for myself? Well, plenty of work, but not any papers, or even written ...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Degenerate Uptake: Pilot Study

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Something to blog about! (Wow; it's been over a month... sorry to my three loyal blog readers.) I’ve gotten around to doing a pilot-scal...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Mining some old array data

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So in an effort to re-examine some of the lab’s old array data, I made a fairly simple R script to plot the change in expression of competen...
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Friday, April 2, 2010

SNP densities

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So I’ve been writing yet another grant, which has been distracting me from blogging (this isn't supposed to be a monthly blog, but this ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Chromosome "Position Effect"

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I got some data for the transformation frequency at five different markers. They varied. This isn’t anything ground-breaking; reports of ...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Repression of competence induction by purines

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My illustrious colleagues have been re-examining some of the lab’s old data regarding the repression of competence by purines. The work has...