First class of ‘08: is everything everywhere? »

Hi gang,
I’ve prepared an overview of several recent studies that attempt to answer this question about microbial communities. The slides are posted on the assignments blog, at
http://micropopbio.org/cooper/2008/01/24/micropopbio-lecture-1/
For your reference, the articles that I refer to in this lecture can be found at:
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/66/12/5448
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/8/2761
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v432/n7018/abs/nature03073.html