Tag Archives: Jesse Shapiro

Paper Out: Does Diversity Beget Diversity in Microbiomes?

Posted on December 29, 2020 by An Bollenessor

A collaboration I was lucky to be involved in led by Jesse Shapiro and PhD student Naima Madi (University of Montreal, although Jesse has now moved across the road to McGill) and with Carmen Lia Murall and Pierre Legendre has … Continue reading →

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

Posted on September 3, 2018 by An Bollenessor

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 An Bollenessor

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 An Bollenessor

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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