Dear all, As a reminder, please nominate your best of your last several blog posts (or comments) for formal evaluation. Feel free to edit or append if you see fit. I read all of your work, but appreciate focusing on your best efforts for a grade. For this next week, in light of dissecting the [...]
Entries from February 23rd, 2012
Upgrade
February 21st, 2012 · No Comments · General
Dear all, In response to your valuable feedback today, I’ve upgraded a key feature of the site today: the syllabus. Instead of the old, messy, not-quite-up-to-date table, I’ve changed it to a public Google Doc Spreadsheet, which you can also click directly to and download for your own. All links through Spring Break should be [...]
Reap what we’ve sown
February 17th, 2012 · No Comments · General
Dear all, This weekend, please read as many of your classmate’s blogs as you can, commenting upon at least two of them. I encourage you to make connections and add content (links, shared points, images, new ideas, etc). As individuals, you’ve already done a nice job of considering where your favorite bacterial species/lineages/strains came from, [...]
MLST and the species question
February 8th, 2012 · No Comments · General
Dear class, Tomorrow (thursday) we’ll be working on a computer laboratory that tackles “the species question” head-on. The lab is here. I’ll bring paper copies, but feel free to download and complete on your computer. Before we begin I’ll complete the last few slides of my lecture on the challenges of developing a theory of [...]
Assignment2
February 2nd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Assignments, biogeography
Hi guys, Keep up the great work! Announcements: no lab next Thursday, but bring a laptop if possible to Thursday class @ 11. Further instructions to follow. For blogging next week: if you were studying Sulfolobus biogeography (or something like it), where would you go next? Use the follow-up paper by Whitaker et al. as [...]
