Microorganisms:
It takes 38 minutes for the E.coli genome to replicate. Yet, E.coli can bo coaxed to divide in a much shorter time: 20 minutes. How is this possible? Larry poses the riddle and provides the solution. The key is that...
Posted on May 11, 2008 4:11 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Considering this I am kinda baffled by this. There is tons of microbial metagenomics and genomics in PLoS journals....
Posted on May 7, 2008 9:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Brendan Bohannan, Richard W. Castenholz, Jessica Green and their students and postdcos at the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Oregon are currently doing a Journal Club on the PLoS ONE article The Sorcerer II Global Ocean...
Posted on February 20, 2008 6:53 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My friend Franz, who runs a delightful blog Mikrob(io)log (in Slovenian) alerted me that the team of undergraduates from the University of Ljubljana won the iGEM 2007 at MIT the other day. They did it for the second year in...
Posted on November 5, 2007 11:31 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Journal Clubs are a popular feature on PLoS ONE papers. There were several of them in the spring. Now, after a brief summer break, the Journal Clubs are going live again and they will happen on a regular basis, perhaps...
Posted on October 2, 2007 1:54 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here is an example of perfect science blogging. It starts seemingly innocuously, with a quiz: Monday's Molecule #30, where you are supposed to figure out what the compound is. Then, after a couple of days, there is a post that...
Posted on June 17, 2007 10:05 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Researchers Uncover Protection Mechanism Of Radiation-resistant Bacterium: Results of a recent study titled "Protein Oxidation Implicated as the Primary Determinant of Bacterial Radioresistance," will be published in the March 20 edition of PLoS Biology. The study, headed by Michael J....
Posted on March 21, 2007 9:57 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Today is a big day on Plos-Biology for the Oceanic Microbial Diversity Genomics. Last night they published not one, not two, but three big papers chockfull of data. Accompani\ying them are not one, not two, not three, not even four,...
Posted on March 14, 2007 9:42 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A-ha! Finally! Now I understand the connection between Creationism and the overall anti-sex sentiment of the Fundamentalists! New reseaarch shows that E.coli swim upstream due to the Design of their flagellum! And where do they swim from and swim to?...
Posted on February 3, 2007 2:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Look through your blog's archives since November 16th. Have you written something about microorganisms? Viruses, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista? Basic biology, medical aspects or ecology of microorganisms? If not, can you write one today or tomorrow? Or perhaps you vividly remember...
Posted on December 12, 2006 12:32 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The supply in the USA is apparently not very safe....
Posted on December 8, 2006 12:30 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A brief history of antibiotics and the resistance to them, resistant TB and resistance to Triclosan (antibacterial soap)....
Posted on October 21, 2006 11:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you are not a North Carolina blogger you may have skipped over this earlier post in which I mention, among else, that a new blog was started right there and then, at the Blogger MeetUp. Now, the blog is...
Posted on October 11, 2006 5:30 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Paramecia Adapt Their Swimming To Changing Gravitational Force: The researchers placed a vial with pond water and live paramecia inside a high-powered electromagnet at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Fla. The organisms are less susceptible to a...
Posted on September 20, 2006 4:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jenna was having fun with the microscope....
Posted on September 11, 2006 7:28 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Fifth in the five-part series on clocks in bacteria, covering more politics than biology.
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Posted on September 8, 2006 10:51 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Fourth in the five-part series on clocks in bacteria.
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Posted on September 8, 2006 9:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The third installment in the five-part series on clocks in bacteria.
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Posted on September 7, 2006 9:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A microbiological metaphor for the blogosphere - are we just part of a celular slime mold?
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Posted on September 6, 2006 10:57 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Second post in a series of five (from April 05, 2006):...
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Posted on September 6, 2006 9:56 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hypotheses leading to more hypotheses.
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Posted on September 5, 2006 10:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
First in a series of five posts on clocks in bacteria.
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Posted on September 5, 2006 9:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A post about malaria and about teaching...
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Posted on September 4, 2006 10:50 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The first in a series of posts on circadian clocks in microorganisms (from February 23, 2006)......
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Posted on September 4, 2006 9:54 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week (Monday to Friday), at least in terms of reposting stuff from my old blogs (but hopefully also a couple of new posts), the theme will be Microorganisms. In preparation for this, you may want to check my recent...
Posted on September 3, 2006 1:14 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Writing a chronobiology blog for a year and a half now has been quite a learning experience for me. I did not know how much I did not know (I am aware that most of my readers know even less,...
Posted on July 4, 2006 9:59 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
