MBL Micro-Eco Discussion Group, Fall 2019
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Meeting ID: 547 497 278
Sept. 25: Organizational meeting (Starr 222)
We decided that we'd like to mix types of discussions, whether journal articles, ideas for papers or proposals, research project presentations, practice talks, pipeline development discussions, etc. There is a signup sheet - please grab a date! Already we have:
October 2: Jessica Mark Welch (Lillie 103) -
We'll have any discussion of Microbiome Center Seed Proposal projects that people would like to bring up, and then Jessica would like to discuss figures from her recently submitted manuscript on imaging the microbial community of the tongue dorsum. She'd like input on ways to convert microbial community spatial patterns into useful metrics.
The manuscript is posted on the SSRN (Cell's version of a preprint server) here:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=343839
Oct. 9: Zoe Cardon (Lillie 103)
We'll discuss a developing CZCN (Critical Zone Coordination Network). In prep, you might eyeball this Nature Communications paper by Borer et al.
Borer B, Tecon R, and Or, D. (2018) Spatial organization of bacterial populations in response to oxygen and carbon counter-gradients in pore networks. Nature Communications 9:769. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03187-y
If you are modeling inclined, Borer et al. have also published a more recent paper describing a pore-scale modeling context for exploring implications of soil structure, hydration, and carbon availability on microbial processes at micro scales:
Borer B, Ataman M, Hatzimanikatis V, Or D (2019) Modeling metabolic networks of individual bacterial agents in heterogeneous and dynamic soil habitats (IndiMeSH). PLoS Comput Biol 15(6): e1007127. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007127
Oct. 16: Blair Paul (Lillie 103)
Blair will discuss his current and planned research on targeted genetic variation (and in turn protein evolution/optimization) in multicellular cyanobacteria.
Niu et al. (2019) Expanding the potential of CRISPR-Cpf1-based genome editing technology in the cyanobacteriaum Anabaena PCC 7120. ACS Synth. Biol. 8:170-180.
Wu et al. (2018) Diversity-generating retroelements: natural variation, classification and evolution inferred from a large-scale genomic survey. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(1):11-24.
Oct. 23: Peter Larsen (Starr 222)
Peter will lead a discussion of analysis and computational methods that span scales of biological interations. He suggests taking a look at this paper ahead of time:
Shinde et al. (2019). Pseudomonas fluorescens increases mycorrhization and modulates expression of antifungal defense response genes in roots of aspen seedlings. BMC Plant Biology 19:4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-018-1610-0
Oct. 30: Focus on symbiosis! (Lillie 103)
A number of us across MBL Centers and across institutions are submitting full proposals to the Moore Foundation for their Symbiosis in Aquatic Ecosystems Initiative. Come hear from several of the groups about what symbiotic model system they are trying to develop!
Nov. 6: Anna Maglio (Starr 222)
Nov. 13: Viviana Morillo (Starr 222)
Viviana will tell us about her work with magnetotactic bacteria. She suggests reading ahead of time:
Lin et al. (2018) Genomic expansion of magnetotactic bacteria reveals an early common origin of magnetotaxis with lineage-specific evolution." ISME J 12: 1508-1519.
Nov. 20 Scott Klasek (Lillie 103)
Nov. 27 (day before Thanksgiving - we won't meet)
December 4: Anne Giblin (Lillie 103)
