#ISME14 Soren Sorenson: Place the pan-genome into an environmental context - the super-genome <a href="http://www1.bio.ku.dk/english/staff/profile/?id=83514&f=2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www1.bio.ku.dk/english/staff/profile/?id=83514&f=2

#ISME14 Forterre: ancient evidence for viral evolutionary relationships can be observed via protein-structural homology, not a.a. sequence

#ISME14 Forterre: a seed is not a tree and a virion is not a virus. The living manifestation of a virus is a viral factory = 'virocell'

#ISME14 Forterre suggests that HGT of viral DNA replication machinery helped early cellular lineages switch from RNA to DNA genomes

#ISME14 Hol: removal of rare soil microbes in managed ecosystems increases plant productivity, while the reverse is true in pristine soils

#ISME14 Neufeld: Investigations of unclassified (rare) OTUs from next-gen data reveal novel lineages of prokaryotes

#ISME14 Last day to see my poster (biogeography - 27A): 193 billion reads = everything is everywhere (we claim with a nudge and a wink)

#ISME14 Victor de Lorenzo describes the 'logicome'

#ISME14 Victor de Lorenzo: "metabolic anticipation is encrypted in the TOL plasmid"

#ISME14 Steve Giovannoni will talk about minimal genomes in free-living marine microbes, a topic close to my own heart.

#ISME14 Giovannoni: Genome reduction can happen via drift (low N populations) or through selection over eons (for very high N populations)

#ISME14 Giovannoni et al. found lysogenic phages that infect SAR11 - implications for HGT in marine heterotrophs?

#ISME14 Giovannoni: do chemically similar a.a. substitutions change protein function? e.g. translational robustness: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1242296/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1242296/

#ISME14 Dublier: carbon monoxide used as energy source by symbiotic microbes living in eukaryotic worms from marine sediments!

#ISME14 Looking forward to Rob Knight's Earth Microbiome Project talk in the bioinformatics session <a href="http://www.earthmicrobiome.org/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.earthmicrobiome.org/

#ISME14 Quince: Improved clustering methods support the 'enterotype' concept

#ISME14 Quince: "partition sequences into ecotypes using co-occurrence frequencies"

#ISME14 Knight: <a href="http://www.microbio.me/qiime/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.microbio.me/qiime/

!! RT @ryneches Knight: Reanalyzed orig enterotype paper; if u delete the things that came from Illustrator, enterotypes disappear #ISME14