Bay Area Bioinformatics Group
OK - so in the era of H1N1 it is definitely yucky to have REAL meetings with people, but this "Bay Area Bioinformatics" meetup group seems like a good idea. They have a meetup in Berkeley 11/14 at Cafe Strada. Folks can sign up here: BayBIFX (El Cerrito, CA) - Meetup.comSeems like they are focused on East Bay but want to get Davis, and other people involved ...This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis.

Bay Area Biosystematists Mtg 11/10, #UCDavis, on Community Phylogenetics
Bay Area Biosystematists Meeting: Tuesday, 10 November, 2009at UC Davis, 1022 Life Sciences (LSA)"Community Phylogenetics"Featuring Jean H. Burns of the Center for Population Biology, UC DavisPlus contributions from panel discussants:Paul Fine, Integrative Biology, UC BerkeleyWilliam Cornwell, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley Come and hear about this emerging synthesis of systematics and ecology that promises to transform the way we do both!Schedule and venue: 5:30 - social gathering with beverages and informal pizza dinner: cost ca. $12, to be collected at door, 1022 Life Sciences Bldg. (LSA

Posting Notes from NAS Microbes and Health Meeting here on my blog
I am going to be posting notes on the NAS Meeting on Microbes and Health HereNancy Moran is talking about symbiosesSHowing rRNA tree of lifeBacteria very diverse - in many ways - and very plastic and dynamicAnimals do not do this muchEssential roles of symbionts in animals - many examplesGiving props to Paul Buchner who documented associated involving bacteria buyt had not molecular methods and no culturingThis is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the Univers

More on the PLoS Special Collection on the Genomic of Emerging Infectious Diseases
In case people have not seen in. There is a new collection out from PLoS on the Genomics of Emerging Infectious Diseases. The collection, edited by me and

Genomics Faculty Jobs at the Joint Genome Institute
Just got an email from Eddy Rubin the Director of the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) advertising faculty jobs in genomics at the JGI. Looks like this could be very nice. I have an Adjunct Appointment at JGI and do a lot of work there and am hoping that some great people apply for these jobs ...