Aspen Center for Physics summer workshop on “Physical Principles Governing the Organization of Microbial Communities.”

This could be interesting – a workshops this summer at the Aspen Center for Physics. June 3 – June 24 Physical Principles Governing the Organization of Microbial Communities. Organizers: Kerwyn Casey Huang, Stanford University Rachel Dutton, University of California San Diego Alvaro Sanchez, Yale University Jeff Gore*, MIT Nearly every environment on earth is populated …

The cheese microbiome as a model. system continues to yield useful results

The “cheese microbiome” as a model system continues to yield useful results.  Model systems for microbiome & microbial ecology studies are really important and it is great to see how this system has continued to develop.  This is worth a look. The search for lively bacterial communities led Rachel Dutton, a microbiologist at UC San …

Work of Rachel Dutton on a fascinating human-made microbial ecosystem – cheese rinds

Earlier this week I saw a fascinating talk by Rachel Dutton on the microbial communities in cheese rinds.  Rachel is currently a Bauer Fellow at Harvard University and for the last few years she has been studying microbial communities in cheese rinds.  She was at UC Davis on Monday to give a talk and it …