Heavy wood chipping to limit weeds this year. Also, gonna fert like crazy to reduce the chance of the carbon in the wood sucking up all my nitrogen.

We have mentored 33 undergrads in our lab at GT. 11 have gone on to PhD programs. I consider this among the most impactful things I’ve ever done!

Plus, undergrads are awesome. They’re great lab citizens. They also provide key mentoring training for grad students and postdocs.

May I present to you my agar art of the structure of green fluorescent protein (GFP), painted with bacteria genetically engineered to express the protein! #meta

Thanks Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 for the E. coli and Nick Coleman for the super bright free use GFP! #fuGFP #SciArt

Agree. Only thing increasing exponentially in AI is the amount of compute we’re pouring into it.

I hope we learn we can’t progress meaningfully beyond GPT4 class models regardless of how much compute we throw at it. At least for a few decades. It’d be better for the world.

Andrei Sourakov Copidosoma floridanum. Amazing case of polyembryonic parasitism (which would be very cool to study from a developmental perspective...)
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2018/08/copido…

My lab put this up on the door to the student office. Not gonna lie, I teared up a bit when I first saw it.

This is such a fun workshop, really friendly group of people and it's great community building-- QBioS students & faculty come together to plan it each year, it's such a nice tradition :) worth looking into for those in the Atlanta area!

Fuck him up Socrates. RIP

The first phase of mutations in an experimental #evolution project impacted multiple traits, while later mutations were more specific, impacting individual traits🧬

These findings suggest a transition from early, wide-reaching mutations to more targeted ones🎯

#science #bio

Now published:

'Phage predation, disease severity, and pathogen genetic diversity in cholera patients'

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Check out the Science Magazine podcast to hear co-senior author Eric Nelson talk about the twists and turns of our study:
science.org/content/podcas…

Attention all 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀 and 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀, we are looking for PhD students! Your skills can be highly useful in answering fundamental questions in 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

IndiaBioscience.org

Extremely Slow Growth in the Seabed

by Roberto — Estimates are that, at the global scale, there are more microbial cells – maybe 5 x 10^29 – in the seabed than in the water column above. These cells are not just near the seafloor, many of...

Read more > tinyurl.com/4suucdzf

Congrats to AI at Meta on Llama 3 release!! 🎉
ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llam…
Notes:

Releasing 8B and 70B (both base and finetuned) models, strong-performing in their model class (but we'll see when the rankings come in @ lmsys.org :))
400B is still training, but already encroaching

MCB colleagues Nicole King and Matt Welch elected to AAAS--two amazing scientists and colleagues.

Some of the coolest work in the field. And a very nice/supportive PI!

If I were looking for a lab to join, this would be at the top of my list.

Excited to announce our lovely new website showcasing the experimental evolution work with Myxococcus xanthus, a social and predatory soil bacterium. It's a great resource for anyone interested in microbial ecology/evolution or social evolution: myxoee.org