Join us for our monthly meeting in the CIRES Fellows Room (CIRES S274) from 3-5pm.

Join us for the first CME meeting of the school year!  We will be having two speakers:

Dr. Pacifica Sommers, "Microbial biogeography and community assembly of Antarctic cryoconite holes”

Dr. Cresten Mansfeldt, “Learning from ecology: Identifying the fate of trace organic contaminants in municipal activated sludge”

 

We'll be meeting from 3-5pm in the CIRES Fellows Room (CIRES S274).

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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Fall 2019 Geomicrobiology course taught by Dr. Seb Kopf (GEOL/ENVS/MCDB 4185 / GEOL 5185). See flyer for details.

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

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”

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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