None of us are looking for extra work to do, but when invited to write a Perspective for this great paper out of the lab of Andreas Wagner, Jessica Lee (now at Global Viral) and I made time to make it happen. The Research Article…
What a wonderful surprise! I had no idea PNAS was doing a commentary on our paper, and then I found this excellent piece written by Jennifer Farrell and Sam Brown (Georgia Tech). They end their piece hoping that Will Harcombe (now at U. Minnesota) continued…
This past Tuesday, 11/13, Siavash Riazi presented his defense for a PhD in BCB entitled “Mathematical modeling and analysis of gene expression to understand phenotypic heterogeneity and the response of Methylobacterium extorquens to formaldehyde toxicity.” His work was co-advised by Chris Remien (Mathematics) and me,…
Back in 2013, I co-founded KnipBio with Larry Feinberg. KnipBio’s goal is to develop Methylobacterium as an aquaculture feed ingredient that can simultaneously reduce the need for fishmeal-derived protein and provide high-value components and properties. In the past two years, our first publications have come…
In the past months we have had two papers on the E. coli–S. enterica system that Will Harcombe developed, and worked on when he was a postdoc in the lab. One of these (Hynes et al., 2018. Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express) reports the ability…
Eric Bruger and I penned a review (Bruger and Marx, 2018. Current Opinion in Microbiology) that seeks to address the manner in which sequencing technologies have opened the door to whole new questions in experimental evolution. It was a joy to highlight the incredible work…
Well, I guess the blog title says it all… I am thrilled to say that I have accepted a position in Biological Sciences at University of Idaho and will start there in January. In nine short weeks since I first heard from the chair a…
The past month and a half have seen several pieces of good news: Will Harcombe’s paper just came out in PLoS Computational Biology. We are both extremely relieved and proud to have gotten this out, as it represents the first direct test ever as to…