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Anne Dekas (Caltech) created an eventLogin or register to post commentsThursday, December 17, 2009 - 8:00am at Chandler Dining HallSorry for the late notice, but yes, there will be breakfast tomorrow at journal club! We have a special pre-winter break breakfast, so be there a few minutes early to take advantage.
- Anne Dekas (Caltech) created an eventLogin or register to post commentsThursday, December 3, 2009 - 8:00am at Chandler Dining Hall
We will have breakfast this week.
- Anne Dekas (Caltech) created an eventLogin or register to post commentsThursday, November 12, 2009 - 8:00am at Chandler Dining Hall
No breakfast this week.
- Anne Dekas (Caltech)
I'm still thinking about how fitness was measured in the paper we discussed morning (Barrick et al 2009). I still haven't found an explanation for how they did it, but I did read an interesting approach for measuring fitness in the paper from Chris Marx's lab I just posted. They actually pitted two strains against each other in the same culture to see which could out compete the other: "Briefly, after one round of acclimation, test strains and a reference strain expressing the yellow fluorescent protein Venus were mixed by a 1:1 volume ratio, diluted 1:64 into 9.6 ml of fresh media which were incubated under the conditions described above. The ratios of non-fluorescent cells in mixed populations were measured by passing population sample ... read more
Login or register to post commentsHow much variance exists in the kinetic parameters for growth curves? - Woody Fischer (Caltech) November 9, 2009 Comment deleted - Login or register to post commentsFrom the author's summary: "Effects of mutations can change under different genetic backgrounds or environmental factors, also known as epistasis and genotype-by-environment interactions (G×E), respectively. Though epistasis and G×E are traditionally treated as distinct phenomena, our study of a beneficial mutation highlights their commonality." Comment deleted
- Anne Dekas (Caltech) created an eventLogin or register to post commentsThursday, November 5, 2009 - 8:00am at Chandler Dining Hall
This week we will discuss a paper comparing six E. coli genomes sampled during a 40,000 generation (20 year!) laboratory culture, offering a unique opportunity to investigate genomic evolution and organismal adaptation.
We will have bagels for breakfast courtesy of the GSC.
- Anne Dekas (Caltech) created an eventLogin or register to post commentsThursday, October 29, 2009 - 8:00am at Chandler Dining Hall
There will be no breakfast provided this week. Note that two versions of this week's article are listed. I would recommend reading the Nature Reviews Microbiology version.
- Anne Dekas (Caltech) created an eventLogin or register to post commentsThursday, October 22, 2009 - 8:00am at Chandler Dining Hall
There will be bagels this week.
- Anne Dekas (Caltech) created an eventLogin or register to post commentsThursday, October 15, 2009 - 8:00am at Chandler Dining Hall
For those of you not on the general Caltech geobiology list, sorry for the late notice.
Also, if you would prefer not to receive email notifications when events are created in journalfire, you can change your settings by going to the "my membership" tab on the Caltech Geobiology journalfire homepage.
