Do we need to watch what we spray? A summary of our recent review on the potential dangers of phage biopesticides. Guest post by Sean Meaden, PhD student at University of Exeter working on phage-Pseudomonas syringae-plant host interactions. It seems barely a week goes by without mention of the dangers of antibiotic resistance in popular news stories. … Continue reading Guest post by Sean Meaden
Guest post over at Dynamic Ecology
Jeremy Fox, Meghan Duffy and Brian McGill recently invited me to write a guest post over at their fabulous blog, Dynamic Ecology. If you're interested in why I think microcosm experiments are so amazingly cool, go check out the post here. Also, later this week I will finally be posting my review/recap of this year's … Continue reading Guest post over at Dynamic Ecology
Why I dropped out of psychology and became an evolutionary biologist, Part II: Evolution is happening, and it matters.
At about the same time that I was getting very frustrated by my psychology courses, I was taking an Evolution lab course (taught by the ingenious Janis Antonovics) where the theories I had been reading about first began to take shape. It was my first taste of why evolution mattered to me and also of … Continue reading Why I dropped out of psychology and became an evolutionary biologist, Part II: Evolution is happening, and it matters.
Your body is a microbeland
Some people think of their bodies as a temple, others as a wonderland. Me, I think of mine as a petri dish. I am a long-term experiment on microbial community dynamics – with plenty of drama! Love stories, betrayal, war and peace. You name it; it’s going on in here somewhere. We all think we’re … Continue reading Your body is a microbeland
Koskella Lab at UC Berkeley 