•  Dr. Weimer and DJ Darwin Bandoy join The Conversation with their latest article:
  Where coronavirus variants emerge, surges follow – new research suggests how genomic surveillance can be an early warning system. 
• UC Davis Press Release on Dr. Weimer and graduate student DJ Darwin Bandoy’s latest manuscript, Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology reveals disease transmission coupled to variant emergence and allelic variation, published in Nature.
• Q&A session with UC Davis experts on Coronavirus Mutations & Variants.  Dr. Weimer joins UC Davis live to discuss Coronavirus.
• “100K Pathogen Genome Project: Merging Population Genomics and Machine Learning”  Dr. Weimer discusses the 100K project on youtube during the Bioinformática UFMG Webinar, July 9, 2020. 
• Genome Variation Gives Insight Into Coronavirus Spread, UC Davis highlights new paper by Dr. Bart Weimer and graduate student DJ Darwin R. Bandoy, DVM
• What’s in Your Food?  Read the article Written by Niina Haiminen for the IBM Research blog regarding the latest paper, Food authentication from shotgun sequencing reads with an application on high protein powders
• Dr. Fabio Soares De Lima, DVM, MS, Ph.D., Diplomat ACT Seminar “Unraveling NGF-β role on reproduction, and host genome-microbiome interactions modulating health and milk production in dairy cows” https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.31/lju.6a9.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Lima-Seminar-Presentation-Announcement.pdf
• Pathogens Travel Award Announced – The editorial team of Pathogens is inviting applications for a Travel Award for two Postdocs and Ph.D. students to support attending a conference in 2019 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/pathogens/awards
• Talking Biotech Podcast – Nitrogen Fixation and Corn – featuring Dr. Alan Bennett http://www.talkingbiotechpodcast.com/154-nitrogen-fixing-and-corn/
• The Wonder Plant That Could Slash Fertilizer Use – An indigenous Mexican corn gets its nitrogen from the air. Read the article’s in Phys Org here: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-corn-variety-nutrients-bacteria-potentially.html and in The Atlantic here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/amaizeballs/567140
• 2nd Annual Ohio Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics Symposium, Wednesday, May 16, 2018 – Thursday, May 17, 2018.  You can learn more and register by visiting: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=2151336&
• San Francisco Nanopore Day on Tuesday, March 13th, 2018.  9:45 am – 4;30 pm. This event is free but does require pre-registration. You can learn more and register by visiting: https://nanoporetech.com/events/nanopore-day-san-francisco.
• A paper we were recently involved in titled ‘Human breath metabolomics using an optimized non-invasive exhaled breath condensate sampler’ published in the Journal of Breath Research (JBR) last year has been selected to be part of the journal’s Highlights of 2017 collection. This selection of articles includes some of the best and most influential research published in JBR last year, representing cutting-edge topics in breath analysis related research. Please Visit http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1752-7163/page/Highlights-of-2017 to read the Highlights collection.
• Look for our upcoming review in a special issue of Separations – Development of Analytical Methods for Clarification of Biological Phenomena: “Methods and applications of metabolomics for discovery and food safety” by Balasubramanian Ganesan and Bart C. Weimer.
• Our work with the Mars/IBM Global Food Safety Consortium was highlighted in PNAS – Thanks to Carolyn Bean for the great article.