Tag Archives: Jesse Shapiro

Workshop “Resolving Microbial Communities at Strain-level Resolution” a success.

Posted on September 3, 2018 by

At least, that was my distinct impression! As announced on the blog a while back, Nicolas Tromas, Pawel Sierocinski, Daniela Farina and myself hosted a workshop featuring talks and tutorials on cutting-edge metagenomic software aiming to progress from gene-based to … Continue reading →

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Symposium Penryn 28-31 August 2018: Resolving Microbial Communities at Strain-level Resolution

Posted on May 14, 2018 by

I have the pleasure to announce a symposium/workshop to be held here at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus 28-31 August focusing on strain-level resolution metagenomics. Metagenomics involves the high-throughput sequencing of random DNA fragments isolated from microbial communities, followed … Continue reading →

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Paper out: Are pangenomes adaptive or not?

Posted on November 28, 2017 by

I have been interested in bacterial pan genomes for some time: apart from acquiring mutations in genes shared between strains, bacteria are able to pick up genes (via several Lateral Gene Transfer processes), duplicate genes and also lose genes. These … Continue reading →

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