by Roo Vandegrift | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
We do a lot of Illumina-based metabarcode sequencing here at the BioBE center. Sequencing is getting cheaper, and the amount of data you can get from a sequencing run continues to increase, but not at the same rate: it is now becoming more and more common to sequence...
by Roo Vandegrift | Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last week, the staff of the Biology and the Built Environment Center presented cutting-edge science from the Center and beyond to a group of interested practitioners. The Design Champs webinar series is intended to communicate new scientific advances in the field of...
by Roo Vandegrift | Aug 15, 2017 | Meetings, News
In July, one of our own, Dr. Roo Vandegrift, went to the annual Mycological Society of America (MSA) meeting, held just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, in the college town of Athens. He went to learn what others in the field are up to, and present work from the BioBE...
by Roo Vandegrift | Jan 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Reblogged from MicrobeBE.net. (This post was written by Roo Vandegrift, at the University of Oregon) I was recently asked to spearhead the writing of a review centered around the interaction between the concept of hygiene and our increasingly nuanced understanding of...
