Archived Events


Seminar by Dr. Michael Russell "Green Rust: Precursor mineral to the Banded Iron Formations and the first cells"

Public lecture at 5pm by Dr. Michael Russell (JPL) hosted by CU Center for Astrobiology and Center for the Study of Origins. Details here.


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Kick-off meeting of the Center for Microbial Exploration

This will be the first meeting of the Center for Microbial Exploration - it is open to anyone at CU-Boulder interested in learning more about the center and all the exciting microbial research happening on campus. Representatives from all core faculty research groups on campus will give lightning talks. 3-5pm on Wed, March 20th, 2019 in CIRES Room S274


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Workshop: "Using DADA2 to analyze high-throughput amplicon sequencing data"

Workshop led by Angela Oliverio and Hannah Holland-Moritz (graduate students in the Fierer lab) on implementing a streamlined pipeline for the analysis of high-throughput marker gene sequencing data (based on the DADA2 package). Workshop will be held from 2-4pm in CIRES Rm. S274. For details, see the associated pdf.


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Rocky Mountain Geobiology Symposium at CU-Boulder

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PhD Defense Talk - Tess Brewer (Fierer Lab)

Tess Brewer PhD defense talk in CIRES S274, 9:30am - 10:30am, April 9th, 2019. Title: "Exploring ecological and genomic novelty in soil bacterial and archaeal communities"


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Front Range Microbiome Symposium at CSU

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Monthly meeting of the CME

The next meeting of the CME will be held on Wed, May 8th in CIRES S274 from 3-4:30pm. The 2 speakers will be: 

 - Dr. Se Jin Song (postdoc, affiliated with the McKenzie Lab at CU and the UCSD Center for Microbiome Innovation), Talk Title: "Leveraging comparative analyses of vertebrate gut microbiomes to study convergence"


 - Dr. Kristin Moore (postdoc, Cameron Lab, RASEI), Talk Title: "Chromosome dynamics in polyploid cyanobacteria”


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Front Range Microbiome Student Meet-up

Front Range Microbiome Student Meet-up.  Join us for a day of hiking and socializing with students and post-docs studying the microbiome across the Front Range!

Who: Anyone with interest in microbiome research!

What: A hike on the Mount Sanitas Trail in Boulder, CO followed by lunch/beers at Avery Brewery

When: Saturday, May 25th - meet at the trail head at 10am (or at the brewery around 12-12:30 if you don’t want to hike).

See flyer for details.


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Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology in Estes Park, CO

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Short-Read Sequencing Workshop

The annual DNA Lab Short-Read Sequencing Workshop will take place July 8-19, 2019 at CU Boulder East Campus.  Registration is free and required.  Click here for more details and to register.  Questions can be emailed to Margaret.Gruca@colorado.edu


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