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New postdoctoral position in pathogen ecology
The Bowman Lab has a new position open for a postdoc in viral pathogen ecology. The postdoc will join a dynamic team of experimentalists, ecological modelers, and physical oceanographers working to understand the distribution of and exposure risk to norovirus … Continue reading
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Seeking postdoc in phytoplankton ecology
The Bowman Lab seeks a postdoctoral researcher for a two-year project to investigate patterns in phytoplankton community composition across molecular time series collected at the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and the Cal Polytechnic … Continue reading
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Recent blog post by PhD student Beth Connors
Check out this recent blog post written by PhD student Beth Connors for International Women in Science Day!
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New postdoctoral research opportunity!
Andrew Barton (https://adbarton.scrippsprofiles.ucsd.edu/) and Jeff Bowman (https://jsbowman.scrippsprofiles.ucsd.edu/) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego are recruiting a postdoc to study interactions among marine microbes, inferred from regular genomic measurements and cell images taken at Scripps … Continue reading
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Alignment and phylogenetic inference with hmmalign and RAxML-ng
RAxML is one of the most popular programs around for phylogenetic inference via maximum likelihood. Similarly, hmmalign within HMMER 3 is a popular way to align amino acid sequences against HMMs from Pfam or created de novo. Combine the two … Continue reading
New paper on using machine learning to predict biogeochemistry from microbial community structure
Congratulations to Avishek Dutta for his paper Machine Learning Predicts Biogeochemistry from Microbial Community Structure in a Complex Model System that was recently published in the journal Microbiology Spectrum. I’m really excited about this paper; the study it is based … Continue reading
Lab manager position open!
We’re on the hunt for a lab manager/senior lab technician to take on a variety of key tasks in the Bowman Lab. The position is being advertised at the Staff Research Associate II level and the ideal applicant will have … Continue reading
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New paper on protein adaptations to high salinity and low temperature
Congratulations to Luke Piszkin (now a PhD student in the Biophysics Department at the University of Notre Dame) for the first paper in the lab to be first-authored by an undergraduate! Luke’s paper is titled Extremophile enzyme optimization for low … Continue reading
New paper on detecting successful mitigation of sulfide production
Congrats to Avishek Dutta for his new paper “Detection of sulfate-reducing bacteria as an indicator for successful mitigation of sulfide production” currently available as an early view in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. This was intended to be the second of … Continue reading
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