Christy Grettenberger

The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/

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Oh no! Won't someone please think about the paperwork!??!

oof, yeah (or write permits for NFS lands probably)

We just submitted a manuscript for review with a "we can't get our data approved in NCBI so please believe us that we will upload it" apology note in the methods section. 😐 (which is so minor compared to what other folks are dealing with)

Digging into the rise of mammals A new study of mine has just been published in the Journal of Anatomy! The paper is open access, courtesy of UC Davis, so it is free to access and read for all. You can find it here. The paper is p…

A new paper of mine just came out in the Journal of Anatomy! Learn more about Conoryctes and why the insides of its bones are important on my website. Or, check out the open-access paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Digging into the rise of mammals
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I'm happy to announce the latest release of the GlobDB, available at globdb.org.

The GlobDB is a database of "species dereplicated" microbial genomes, and as of release 226 contains twice the number of species-representative genomes (306,260) than the latest GTDB release.

I love all of this but especially that you've made anvi'o databases (I may or may not have been contemplating how long it would take me to do that for the GTDB database this week).

oooh, I like this! I like MRA too (its such a smooth publication process). @titus.idyll.org might also have some ideas on where else folks publish this type of work.

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Doing a lecture on why it's important to be good at science communication/why it's important to communicate science in plain English on the day when we find out that there's Whooping Cough on campus.

oooh this will be a fun one to add to my "living or not living" lecture in geobiology

Congrats to all elected as new fellows of AAAS including from @ucdavis.bsky.social:

Dawn Sumner, Dario Cantù, Huaijun Zhou, Frederic Chedin, Stephanie Hampton, Raissa M. D'Souza, Simona Ghetti, and Alexander Aue.

Trump memo to halt federal funds triggers confusion and constitutional questions Washington is scrambling to interpret a new Trump administration memo that appears to halt funding for many programs. The impact of the short memo, released Monday, is causing widespread confusion.

NPR also had a nice piece on it this morning. I think this is the "print" version of that www.npr.org/2025/01/28/n...

NSF cancels grant reviews to comply with Trump EOs Scheduled review panels for National Science Foundation grant applications are on pause until Feb. 1. Some researchers believe the pause may be connected to the new administration’s anti-DEI crusade.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... this article may be helpful (in the middle to bottom). As I understand it, this is proposal review and outgoing awards (I *assume* if the money is in hand already, you can continue you work, but that is an assumption on my part)

Major, major congratulations to my colleague Joanne Emerson for receiving the PECASE! This prestigious award is recognition of amazing early career faculty who developed the most compelling and innovative NSF CAREER grants!

Joanne's lab pioneers the field of soil viral community ecology 🤩 🧪🧫

Illumina Whole Genome Sequencing - SeqCenter, LLC The Illumina WGS pipeline is a common workhorse for many downstream applications and is our most popular service. Keeping scaling in mind, our packages are sized per sample and state the minimum total...

SeqCenter is the place in Pittsburgh - I've had really good luck with them and find them to be pretty affordable especially for the turn-around time (2 weeks) www.seqcenter.com/service/illu...

I think Writing Science in Plain English by Anne Green has a decent chapter or two on this. I can't find my copy now but the very last of these slides from the Dessimoz lab suggests that my memory is at least somewhat true (lab.dessimoz.org/teaching/rqb...)

You should get a text when yours is received and counted! (though maybe If you mail it later in the cycle it may be after the race is "called" - especially in CA - but it still counts)

Physiology, Not Nutrient Availability, May Have Limited Primary Productivity After the Emergence of Oxygenic Photosynthesis The evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria was a transformative event in Earth's history. However, the scientific community disagrees over the duration of the delay between the origin ....

Do we brag on this thing (or did we leave that behind in the other place)? Because Dawn Sumner and I wrote what I think is a pretty cool perspective on why we should consider ecology and evolution when discussing early oxygenic photosynthesis and the GOE. tinyurl.com/mwsdras5

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subsurface microbial dark matter folks must feel especially called out.

(though as far as I know, no parasitoid wasps down there)

This is such a cool story! Congrats on the preprint!! 🎉

It's a good thing when your trainees say that "it's the healthiest lab environment I've ever been in" (and yes, one of them told me that).

Grad Studies Announces the Recipients of the 2024 Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award Commitment. Passion. Empathy. These descriptors were just a few of the plaudits the winners of the 2024 Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award received in their nomination letters. “[This profe...

Hey cool: I received a 2024 Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award here at UC Davis!

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Woohoo! So happy that it is good news for you!

Oh no! Feel better!

My in-laws (from WA) watched this on YouTube in preparation for their visit- my husband took them out to see it in person (reviews were that you were funny - they liked the raccoon bit)

Today, I cemented my PI status - I had to ask the postdoc in the lab next-door if she could please teach me how to use my autoclave.

Thanks! I may have to give it a try!

Following up on this - what primer sets are you/folks using for nearly full length 16S these days? I am really temped by it but the "standard" 27f and 1492r seem to miss a lot.

Last year in a moment of similar panic, I turned to chatGPT

Are you a doctoral student? Want to explore how Earth and life dance together? 🧪⚒️🌎🔬🧬💃 Join us next summer in Italy and at Penn State! Dates and info for the 2024 International Geobiology Course here: t.co/nv3Ooy88Vn