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The stinky microbiome of stinky tofu

Posted on January 10, 2018 by WeimerMicroLab

Contributed by Poyin Chen Having just returned home from a two week trip to Taiwan, my mind is still on all of the delicious Taiwanese food I am now suddenly deprived of—particularly stinky tofu. And what better way to ease … Continue reading →

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Congratulations Narine Arabyan, PhD

Posted on January 10, 2018 by WeimerMicroLab

Narine Arabyan finished her PhD in the Weimer Micro Lab in October 2017! She will be moving to a fantastic position as a Post-doctoral NIH Fellowship – National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program (NBBTP) Fellow in January 2018. Narine’s dissertation was titled, … Continue reading →

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UC San Diego Earth Microbiome Project with 27,000 samples

Posted on January 10, 2018 by WeimerMicroLab

Contributed by Nguyet Kong The Earth Microbiome have collected more than 27,000 samples from all around the world. They have analyzed the microbes and microbiomes and recently published a paper in Nature. The director for the Center for Microbiome Innovation, … Continue reading →

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Thinking beyond library construction

Posted on January 10, 2018 by WeimerMicroLab

Contributed by Carol Huang We have recently introduced a newer version of the Nanopore sequencing device, MinION MK 1B into the laboratory. It’s a portable, real-time sequencing device. The Nanopore MinION sequencing platform has great advanced features. Upon reach objectives, … Continue reading →

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CLC Genomics Workbench as a Tool Next Generation Sequencing Data

Posted on January 10, 2018 by WeimerMicroLab

Contributed by Nguyet Kong CLC Genomics Workbench was designed to assist with many different Next Generation Sequencing bioinformatics applications from RNAseq, Transcriptomics, Metagenomics, Epigenomics and de novo assembly. The CLC Genomics Workbench is a user-friendly software that is easily used by … Continue reading →

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Where are the receptors?

Posted on January 10, 2018 by WeimerMicroLab

Contributed by Poyin Chen The first step in bacterial interaction with host cells is host recognition, followed by host adhesion. All of these initial interactions take place at the host cell surface; however, we have only scratched the surface of … Continue reading →

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A new class of antimicrobial found in human mother’s milk

Posted on January 10, 2018 by WeimerMicroLab

Contributed by Nguyet Kong A study from Vanderbilt University found that mothers milk doesn’t just give babies nutrients, but the sugars help protects them from bacterial infections, making this a new class of antimicrobial. Mother’s milk is consisting of different … Continue reading →

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The gut, the belly, the gastrointestinal tract, the second brain?!

Posted on August 8, 2017 by WeimerMicroLab

Contributed by Poyin Chen Our gastrointestinal (GI) tract has the largest concentration of nerves, second only to the brain. Additionally, the vagus nerve runs through our GI tract. It wasn’t until recent years that researchers began to seriously consider the … Continue reading →

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Streptococcus might provoke colon cancer

Posted on July 25, 2017 by WeimerMicroLab

Contributed by Nguyet Kong In a recent PLOS paper, researchers from Texas A&M found a bacterium, Streptococcus gallolyticus might lead to colon cancer by assisting with tumor growth that might cause more cancer-related deaths. Streptococcus has been known that there … Continue reading →

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Herpesvirus Latency Bacterial Protection

Posted on July 11, 2017 by WeimerMicroLab

Contributed by Azarene Foutouhi Herpesviridae is a large family of Herpesviruses which are named for their tendency to result in recurrent infections. After clearance of lytic infections, these viruses enter latency, a mechanism which allows them to resist elimination and … Continue reading →

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